Submissions:2025/Black Lunch Table Meetup: Building Community and Closing Gaps Together
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2025.
Title:
- Black Lunch Table Meetup: Building Community and Closing Gaps Together
Type of session:
- Lunch Meetup
Session theme(s):
- Missing pieces, Future of Wikipedia
Abstract:
We propose a casual Lunch (LUN) or After-Hours (AFT) meetup designed specifically for Black participants at WikiConference North America. Facilitated by Black Lunch Table (BLT), this gathering will serve as a space for community-building, peer connection, and shared reflection on the content and contributor gaps that persist across Wikimedia projects. We'll share updates from our work increasing coverage of Black artists on Wikipedia, including our traveling photo booth initiative, and introduce an emerging vision for WikiClub, a low-lift, interest-based editing model designed to support sustained engagement, peer learning, and cultural knowledge production. This meetup offers a space for informal conversation, joy, and strategy among Black editors and allies committed to making Wikipedia more representative and expansive.
Author name(s):
Wikimedia username(s):
- Rpeters97, Salix1999
Affiliated organization(s):
- Black Lunch Table Wikimedians
Estimated length of session
- As an informal session over or during lunch 30 minutes to one hour seems acc
Will you be presenting remotely?
- I will present in-person
Okay to livestream?
- Do not livestream
Previously presented?
- As a lunch meeting we have not presented in this format but have brought the work of Black Lunch Table to many partners arts and educational institutions.
Special requests: