Hi LeadSongDog,
Yes that is an article that is part of the press list that the Black Lunch
Table has generated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Press
Again, not a huge fan of using refs to justify an outreach initiative. Plus
would it be necessary to use this ref to justify including Wikidata entries
as BLT? I guess I am confused as to the need to reference things, where to
reference things, and how that would work exactly. References to establish
notability on Wikidata seems like a nightmarish requirement with the
current interface. I would much prefer to use established identifiers via
VIAF and other sources to establish notability.... It builds notability on
top of established library science canons, and provides disambiguation,
etc. Sorry I'm obsessed with this stuff, so I digress....
I am not sure an authority control item -- I understand this conceptually
but what form does it take in practical terms? -- will provide a solution
to the problem these various outreach efforts are requiring.
An authority control item for each editathon might be a large set of "dirty
data" on Wikidata, wouldn't it? I think the idea was to use something
lightweight, already existing, and efficient to provide a SPARQL
query/Listeria task list -- and not impinge on existing metadata
significantly.
Having a Wikimedia project-centered maintenance (for lack of a better word)
property might be a solution, too. But I think this is the issue that came
up in the main discussion and why catalog was suggested by consensus,
because a maintenance project for the WikiWorld would be a somewhat big
step organizationally to implement, I think? Apologies, I defer to Gerard's
expertise and knowledge-base on this.
Best,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:45 AM, LeadSongDog <leadsong(a)webname.com> wrote:
Erika,
You might consider using
https://www.artsy.net/article/
the-art-genome-project-why-are-all-the-black-artists-
sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria as a ref. There must be something
usable there.
From what I've seen it seems that BLT is principally a series of informal
meetings, only some of which pertain to the editathons. Each meeting has
distinct constituency and subject. As such, each could in principle get its
own authority control, as for a convention. The individual artists
attending may often already be so described, but as they may edit
pseudonymously one must be careful to avoid outing.