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Welcome! The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and East of Borneo are hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. |
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 When: Sunday, March 9, 2014, 11am - 6pm Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 250 S. Grand Ave. 90012 (downtown LA). We'll be working outside on the plaza. What to bring: Your laptop, power adapter, and any reference materials you'd like to work from or share. Focus: Meet up with online art magazine East of Borneo at MOCA for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to build a more accurate and diverse online history of art in Southern California. This third meetup in their Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon series will focus on the 30 years since MOCA’s inception—L.A. art of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Participate for as little or as long as you like. Beginners welcome! This is MOCA's first edit-a-thon, and the museum is really excited to engage the Wikipedia community! Come meet their museum staff and learn some mad technology, research, and Wiki skills in the process! As always, you do not need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor in order to attend. But if you are, please consider volunteering your expertise to this or any future Unforgetting L.A. meetup by contacting StaceyEOB(talk) FYI, PBS will likely be coming to film part of this event in the morning. I assume you can make arrangements if you don't want to be on camera, but just wanted to give you all a heads up. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:37, 3 March 2014 (UTC) Website: unforgettingLA.com/MOCA ♦ Twitter: @unforgettingLA ♦ Facebook: event page |
Background
editSince July 2013, Unforgetting LA is a series of Wikipedia edit-a-thons to build a more accurate and diverse history of art in Southern California. It is a project of East of Borneo, an online magazine of contemporary art and its history as considered from Los Angeles. We meet 3-4 times per year at local galleries, museums, and nonprofit art spaces.
RSVP
editPlease add your name if you plan to attend:
- Stacey Allan StaceyEOB (talk) 06:15, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
- Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:40, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- Chris Troutman (talk) 22:42, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
- Alexander Keefe Aakeefe (talk)
- Penny Richards (talk)
- Planning to take the Metro from the South Bay, and back, if anyone wants to join me.Penny Richards(talk)
- Won't be able to make it in person, alas! But able to work remotely!
- Kadelman (talk) 02:45, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
- Marilyn Nix Marilyn Nix (talk) 06:16, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
- Will try to make it. ----Sue Maberry (talk) 17:40, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
- Bridget Kane Bridgetkane (talk) 06:15, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
- mark me down as an official maybe :) --Maigonokaze (talk)
- Made the time! Wadewitz (talk) 04:55, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
To-Do
editFor a full list of potential articles to create or improve during this edit-a-thon, see Wikipedia:Meetup/LA/EOB#Worklist.
Results
editArticles in progress:
- Robert Alexander (artist)
- Judie Bamber
- Jennifer Bolande
- Andrea Bowers
- Nancy Buchanan
- Eugenia Butler, Sr., art collector and gallerist
- Dorit Cypis
- Alonzo Davis
- Ken Gonzales-Day
- Stanley Grinstein
- Dorothea Grossman
- Richard Grossman (pianist)
- Richard Hawkins (artist)
- Robert Heinecken
- George Herms
- Karin Higa
- Miwon Kwon
- Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
- Ron Miyashiro
- Rebecca Morris
- Alexis Smith (artist)
- Zelma Wilson
- Fanny Bullock Workman - copyedited
Resources
editStart here:
- Unforgetting L.A.: Getting Started / Basic Policies
- Unforgetting L.A.: Artist page template (copy and paste!)
- Unforgetting L.A.: Art History Resources Online
When in doubt:
- Notability Guidelines for Artists & Creative Professionals
- Notability Guidelines for Organizations
- Conflict of Interest policy
- Image Use Policy
- Article Naming & Disambiguation
- Wikipedia Markup Cheatsheet
Tutorials:
- Basic tutorial
- More detailed tutorial
- Wikipedia Adventure - a silly but easy and effective tutorial!
- Citing sources video tutorials (about two minutes each, very helpful) ------------>