Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Black History Month Edit-a-thon

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon presented with support from Wikimedia DC

When

February 4, 2025 - 2pm-4pm

Where

Virtual

Description

Join us for CAH's Black History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon and help to close the Wikipedia racial gap by creating and editing biographies about Black artists and performers with connections to the arts and humanities in DC.

All are welcome and training will be provided for new Wikipedia editors. This event is presented with support from Wikimedia DC.

Please note that editors may not edit or create Wikipedia articles about themselves, their families, their organizations, or their employers.

Registration

Register

Event Dashboard

Dashboard coming soon

Safe Space Policy

Safe Space Policy

START HERE

Step 1:

• Create a Wikipedia username if you don't already have one (top right) and log-in
• Already have an account? Simply log-in (top right)
• Usernames are public. You do not have to use your real name.

Step 2:

• Check-in for this event using the blue button below. This helps us to track editing progress during the edit-a-thon.

1) Select 'Check in'

2) Scroll down on the page that follows and click 'Publish changes'. DO NOT ADD TEXT TO THE FIELD.

Your username will automatically be added to the list of attendees.

Articles to create or edit

Instructions

1. Reserve an article using this Google sheet
2. Return here to this page and select your article's link. Red=New draft articles, Blue=Existing articles
3. Use the sources next to each article to find information. Write the article's text in your own words and cite these or other sources as you write.
4. For new articles, start by adding a 'References' header at the bottom. Return to the top and start writing. Publish as you go to avoid losing your work.

Tip: Open this event page in multiple tabs. You will need it quite often (mostly for sourcing) and it's easy to close inadvertently.

Please DO NOT create or edit articles about yourself or anyone with whom you have a financial, familial, or close-personal relationship. For more, see WP:COI.

SAMPLE stub (short) article. Aim to create an article that is about at least this length. Stubs don't need to be long.

For creation

• Draft:Scurlock Studio - Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]
• Draft:Floyd Coleman, Art historian, educator, and painter, - Sources:[6][7][8]Interview: Add to external links
• Draft:Wallace X. Conway - Sources:[9]

See also: Afro-American artists; a bio-bibliographical directory. To access, borrow from Internet Archive. Scroll to page 60SI artist file. Add to external links section

• Draft:Smith-Mason Gallery - Sources:[10][11][12][13] [14]
• Draft:Kenn Simpson - Sources:[15][16]

See also: Afro-American artists; a bio-bibliographical directory. To access, borrow from Internet Archive. Scroll to page 257

• Draft:Daniel Freeman (photographer) - Sources:[17][18] [19]See page three for cause of death[20]
• Draft:Harrison E. Benton, Jr. - Sources:[21][22][23]Portrait by Benton in Commons
• Draft:American Theater (Washington, D.C.) - Sources:[24][25]
• Draft:William D. Nixon, Architect - Sources:[26][27][28][29]
• Draft:Roach Brown - Sources:[30][31]

See also: Contemporary Black American playwrights and their plays : a biographical directory and dramatic index: Borrow book from Internet Archive. See page 74

• Draft:D. Michael Cheers - Sources:[32][33]
• Draft:TNT Tribble - Sources:[34][35] [36]
• Draft:Sandra Butler Truesdale, historian - Sources: [37][38]
• Draft:Akili Ron Anderson - Sources:[39][40][41]
• Draft:Tsedaye Makonnen - Sources:[42][43]
• Draft:Frank Smith (artist) - Sources:[44] [45]
• Draft:Club Bali - Sources:[46] [47][48][49]
• Draft:Thurlow E. Tibbs Jr. - Sources:[50] [51][52]
• Draft:Nekisha Durrett - Sources:[53][54][55]
• Draft:Noochie - Sources:[56][57][58]
• Draft:Anthony A. Anderson - Sources: [59][60][61]
• Draft:Sam "The Man" Burns - Sources: [62]
• Backyard Band - This currently redirects to an article about the band's founder. Replacing a redirect is trickier than creating a new article. Ping Ariel for additional instructions if you'd like to work on this article. - Sources: [63][64]
• Draft:Be'La Dona - Sources: [65]
• Go-Go Museum - Sources: [66][67][68]

Existing articles

• Lillian Evanti - To do: Expand lead paragraph
• Richard W. Dempsey - To do: Expand. Add that work is in DCCAH Art Bank. Link to SI Archives in external link section
• Martha Jackson Jarvis - To do: Lead paragraph is way too long. Move some content to article body. Remove puffery and unnecessary text.
• Winnie Owens-Hart - To do: Expand lead paragraph. Add references where they're missing and improve exisiting ones.
• Joyce Wellman - To do: Add infobox and add that she was a member of the Where We At artist collectiVE.[69]
• Brandon Dixon
• Chuck Brown
• Jeffrey Wright
• Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi
• Rare Essence
• Belle_da_Costa_Greene

Attendees

• Tygiordano (talk) 19:28, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• Meleager91 (talk) 19:36, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 19:44, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• Annaarchitect (talk) 19:46, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• AWayoLife0 (talk) 19:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• Madame Fierc (talk) 03:02, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

• Yumnaimam (talk) 17:35, 11 February 2025 (UTC)