Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/National Gallery of Art Called to Create Edit-a-thon

National Gallery of Art Called to Create Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Mary Lee Bendolph, Quilter

Join us and help to edit and create Wikipedia articles about artists to be featured in the National Gallery of Art's upcoming Called to Create exhibition. Training will be provided for new Wikipedia editors. Laptops are required.

Lunch will be provided at no cost.

Please note that the public portion of the edit-a-thon will take place IN-PERSON.

When

Friday, September 23 (private)

11am - 1pm

Saturday, September 24 (public)

10:30am - 3:00pm EDT

Registration

Register 9/24

Schedule

September 24 only

10:30AM - Welcome, Roger Lawson housekeeping

11:00AM - Training: How to Edit to Wikipedia (Wikimedia DC)

12:00PM - Editing

Ongoing - Lunch

2:00 - Tour with Harry Cooper, senior curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art

3:00 - Close

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Safe Space Policy

• Safe Space Policy

Presentation

Called to Create National Gallery of Art Edit-a-thon slide deck

Suggested Article Work List and Sources

IMPORTANT: Read before beginning

• Use this Google sheet to reserve the article you plan to edit.
• The articles are listed from lowest to highest grades. Read more about there grading system here
• Red links = Articles to be created
• Blue links = Existing articles needing improvement
• Additional details about what works are feature in the exhibition can be found here.
• Suggested article edits or additions: Add that artist's work is in the NGA collection if it is not already included. Use the sources provided or others as references. You can even include the specific piece and that it was featured in the Called to Create exhibition.

Existing articles

Stub

• Mary L. Bennett[1][2]
• Sally Mae Pettway Mixon[3][4]
• Missouri Pettway[5][6] (Created 9/23 at NGA staff event)

Start

• Flora Moore[7][8]
• Irene Williams[9]
• Sue Willie Seltzer[10][11][12]
• Hawkins Bolden[13][14][15]
• Georgia Speller[16][17]
• James Thomas (blues musician)[18][19]

C

• Mary Lee Bendolph[20][21]
• Thornton Dial[22][23]
• Thornton Dial, Jr.[24][25]
• Ronald Lockett[26][27]
• Joe Minter[28][29]
• Mose Tolliver[30][31]
• Purvis Young[32][33]
• Lonnie Holley[34][35]
• Nellie Mae Rowe[36][37]
• Joe Louis Light[38][39]
• Henry Speller[40][41]
• Bessie Harvey[42][43]
• Royal Robertson[44][45]

B

• Quilts of Gee's Bend[46]

GA

• Souls Grown Deep Foundation[47]
• Mary T. Smith[48]

Article for creation

IMPORTANT: Before you begin, use this Google sheet to reserve the article you hope to create.

• Lucy P. Pettway[49][50]

Additional Resources

• Online Catalog
• All NGA Library Databases
• African American Visual Arts Database (archived version)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online (AKL) (On-site use only)
• Oxford Art Online (on-site only)
• Who’s Who in American Art (on-site only)
• Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (Project MUSE, on-site only)
• International Review of African American Art (Art & Architecture Source, on-site only)

Wikimedia

• Wikimedia movement
• Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
• Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
• Wiktionary, a dictionary
• Wikibooks, educational textbooks
• Wikinews, news articles
• Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
• Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
• Wikiversity, educational material
• Wikivoyage, a travel guide
• Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

• Wikipedia:Username policy
• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:Core content policies
• Wikipedia:General notability guideline
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources
• Wikipedia:No original research (Examples of Original Research)
• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary sources

Wikimedia Affiliates

Wikimedia movement affiliates model

Chapters

Wikimedia chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects in a specified geographical region (in most cases, a country). Like the Wikimedia Foundation, they aim to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". There are currently 39 chapters, with at least one on every inhabited continent., i.e. Wikimedia DC

Wikimedia thematic organizations

Thematic organizations are incorporated independent non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work focused on a specific theme, topic, subject or issue within or across countries and regions. i.e., Wikimedia Medicine.

User groups

Wikimedia user groups are intended to be simple and flexible affiliates that are an alternative to chapters and thematic organizations - which require more formal requirements. User groups are highly valued as equal players in the Wikimedia movement, i.e., Art+Feminism

WikiProjects

• Search all WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine

Quick Editing Tips

• Help:Getting started
• Wikipedia:Your first article
• Help:Referencing for beginners
• Creating Redirects with Visual Editor
• Creating Redirector with Source Editor
• Using categories
• Cheatsheet for Wiki markup
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Tools, Resources

• Track Wikipedia Page Views
• Wikimedia Statistics
• Wiki Education Foundation
• Wiki Ed Foundation's online training modules
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

For Wikimedia DC Use

User rights management

Special username creation

Attendees 9/23

• Elenustika (talk) 15:10, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• sarahobender (talk • contribs) 15:10, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
• econterms (talk) 15:12, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• NOLA Bee (talk) 15:14, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• Nacho Fries (talk) 15:15, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• Ancyba (talk) 15:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• 73.132.161.16 (talk) 15:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• AHS8788 (talk) 15:22, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• Wikimamies (talk) 15:28, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• Cambridge63 (talk) 15:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

• LibrarianSYAD (talk) 16:28, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Attendees 9/24

• NOLA Bee (talk) 14:33, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• LibrarianSYAD (talk) 14:34, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Altreparole (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• CalledCreate (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Waomsi (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Heartcenterededitor (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• KDPenso (talk) 14:58, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Carolmarylou (talk) 14:59, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Pygmyluck (talk) 15:14, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Nacho Fries (talk) 15:34, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

• Zeroandones (talk) 16:07, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

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