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

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:45 AM, LeadSongDog <leadsong@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.