Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/Johannesburg 2018

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Black Lunch Table
@ Bridge Books, Johannesburg

View from the Top of Africa building - Ponte City Apartments on the centre (4611826497)
When and Where
Date:	Friday, July 27, 2018
Time:	10am - 3pm
Address:	Bridge Books 95 Commissioner Street, Between Loveday and Rissik Johannesburg, South Africa

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host our FIRST overseas edit-a-thon focusing on important but underrepresented South African visual artists of African descent 10am-3pm time on Friday, July 27, 2018 at the Bridge Books at 95 Commissioner Street between Loveday and Rissik. A training session will be held at the beginning, but help is available throughout the event.

A photographer will be taking free portraits for Wikipedia and for open source use!

Please bring your laptop. The more, the merrier! Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project at Bridge Books will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives and works of South African visual artists of African descent and related subjects. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 10 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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About the Bridge Books

Bridge Books is a unique bookstore in downtown Johannesburg. We believe in supporting African writers and in finding as many ways of getting books into the hands of as many readers as possible...

...We're also busy setting up the African Book Trust, a non-profit that gives African books to libraries and schools across South Africa. If you're a librarian, school teacher, or community group and you'd like to see how you can get books (for free, we'll even send them to you), please get in touch. If you're a reader and you'd like to know how to get our books through your local library, we can help with that too...

More here.

Event details

• Date: Friday, July 27, 2018
• Time: 10am - 3pm
• Location:
  
95 Commissioner Street, Between Loveday and Rissik, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
  • Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
  • Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
• What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
• Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable #BridgeBooks #wikipedia
• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
• Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

• Presentation / overview
• Editing time
• Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for editathon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
• For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

• Image Guide
• Where to find them.
• Dos and Donts
• Asking an artist for images.

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on important New York area visual artists of the African Diaspora who are under-represented on Wikipedia. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

• Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
•   denotes Infobox is needed

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

• Suggested Name Here
• Thokozani Mthiyane
• Steve Kwena Mokwena
• Malcolm X Jiyane

Johannesburg related artists

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!
Below are visual artists of Black African descent who intersect with Johannesburg:

• David Koloane
• Glow Makatsi
• Zanele Muholi
• Nelson Mokamo
• Motsamai Thabane
• Mo Editions
• Mary Sibande
• Dineo Seshee Bopape
• Kagiso Patrick Mautloa
• Serge Nitageka

South African-affiliated artists

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

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This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Gender	Occupation	Place of birth	Residence
Adam Madebe	male	sculptor visual artist	Bulawayo	Johannesburg
Andrew Ntshabele	male	visual artist painter		Moruleng South Africa Johannesburg
Athi-Patra Ruga	male	artist	Mthatha
Beauty Ngxongo	female	artist weaver		Hlabisa
Berni Searle	female	photographer video artist filmmaker	Cape Town
Blessing Ngobeni	male	artist video artist	Limpopo	Johannesburg
Bronwyn Katz	female	visual artist sculptor	Kimberley
Bukhosi Mzikayise Nyathi	male	visual artist painter	Zimbabwe	South Africa Johannesburg
Cinga Samson	male	painter visual artist	Cape Town
David Koloane	male	curator painter artist	Alexandra
Dineo Seshee Bopape	female	artist	Polokwane
Dumile Feni	male	painter sculptor	Worcester
Dumisani Mabaso	male	visual artist musician printmaker	Soweto	Northern Cape Kimberley
Durant Sihlali	male	artist	Germiston
Esther Mahlangu	female	painter visual artist	Middelburg	Johannesburg
Gabi Ngcobo	female	curator artist	Durban	Johannesburg
Garth Erasmus	male	visual artist painter musician	Uitenhage	Gqeberha Cape Town
George Pemba	male	painter	Gqeberha
Gerard Sekoto	male	painter musician	Botshabelo
Glow Makatsi	trans woman	artist activist	Ficksburg	Johannesburg South Africa
James Webb	male	sculptor curator designer	Kimberley
Johannes Phokela	male	painter	Soweto
Justin Davy	male	visual artist exhibition curator video artist performance artist	Cape Town	Cape Town
Kabelo Kim Modise	male	printmaker visual artist		Namibia Botswana South Africa
Kagiso Patrick Mautloa	male	visual artist	Ventersdorp
Koyo Kouoh	female	curator exhibition curator	Douala
Laduma Ngxokolo	male	knitter	Gqeberha
Layziehound Coka	male	painter visual artist	KwaZulu-Natal
Lionel Davis	male	visual artist community organizer activist	Cape Town
Lucas Sithole	male	sculptor	Springs
Madi Phala	male	visual artist teacher	KwaThema	South Africa Cape Town
Mary Sibande	female	artist performance artist	Barberton
Mohau Modisakeng	male	contemporary artist	Soweto	Johannesburg
Moshekwa Langa	male	visual artist photographer drawer video artist	Bakenberg
Nelson Makamo	male	painter visual artist		South Africa Johannesburg
Neo Ntsoma	female	photographer	Mahikeng	Johannesburg
Nicholas Hlobo	male	artist textile artist	Cape Town
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum	female	artist animator	Mochudi	Johannesburg Baltimore
Peter Clarke	male	writer poet painter graphic artist illustrator visual artist	Simon's Town	Cape Town
Phumzile Khanyile	female	photographer	Soweto
Robin Rhode	male	photographer graphic designer graphic artist performance artist video artist visual artist	Cape Town
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga	male	visual artist sculptor performance artist		Limpopo South Africa
Sandra Brewster	female	visual artist art educator community organizer multimedia artist	Toronto	Pickering Port of Spain St. Norbert, Winnipeg Cape Town
Santu Mofokeng	male	photographer	Soweto
Sarah Summers	female	filmmaker visual artist		Cape Town
Sethembile Msezane	female	artist	KwaZulu-Natal
Sokhaya Charles Nkosi	male	visual artist	Durban
Solomon Omolayo Omogboye	male	visual artist painter	Lagos	South Africa Johannesburg Nigeria
Sophie Peters	female	painter visual artist		South Africa
Thabiso Phokompe	male	painter visual artist	Soweto	Brooklyn South Africa
Thandiwe Msebenzi	female	photographer artist	Cape Town
Themba Khumalo	male	painter visual artist	Johannesburg
Thenjiwe Nkosi	female	visual artist painter video artist	New York City	South Africa Johannesburg
Tracey Rose	female	artist photographer performance artist	Durban
Tyrone Appollis	male	poet	Cape Town
Velile Soha	male	visual artist printmaker	Cape Town	South Africa Cape Town
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa	male	ufologist writer artist	Union of South Africa
Willie Bester	male	sculptor painter	Montagu
Zanele Muholi	non-binary	photographer social activist video artist	Umlazi	Umlazi
Zolile Petshane	male	artist		South Africa
Zwelethu Machepha	male	painter printmaker visual artist	Johannesburg
Zwelethu Mthethwa	male	photographer painter visual artist	Durban

End of auto-generated list.

Wikipedia editing resources

Where to start...

Add an Infobox! Adding images! Rules on Visual Art, Murals, Graffiti and Sculpture are different! Follow instructions to upload your images here... Create or update Wikidata! Wikidata is central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others. Go to Wikidata Read Wikidata's Introduction! Search for the person or subject If none exists, you can 'Create a new item' Look at another similar item to follow format... for example human female instead of female animal. To add a field, click 'Add Statement' Wikidata + AuthorityControl Create or update Authority Control! Update Wikidata using Virtual International Authority File (VIAF.org) Go to VIAF.org Search for person (last name, first name) At bottom of page, where it says History of VIAF, expand section. See Werner Herzog example Add each listed Authority to Wikidata if its info is not already populated in Wikidata Add {{Authority control}} after External links section above Categories Refresh Wikipedia page Click here for many more editing resources

Outcomes

Extended content
Alphabetical by first letter denotes Infobox added  Pages improved Pages created Sandbox articles started Wikidata items improved Wikidata items created Wikimedia Commons images uploaded

Metrics

Extended content
Outreach Dashboard Articles Created: Articles Edited: Total Edits: Editors: Words Added: Article Views: Commons Uploads:

References

External links

• The Black Lunch Table
• Black Lunch Table – Wikipedia meetup page

Attendees

• Fishantena (talk) 08:23, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
• JeshL (talk) 09:56, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
• Newdawn82 (talk) 09:57, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• PalesaMatjele (talk) 10:08, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• Ofentse111 (talk) 10:35, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• Thulimlambojames (talk) 10:51, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• 41.13.40.15 (talk) 12:47, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

• Heathart (talk) 10:30, 29 July 2018 (UTC)