Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/26

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The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

• Foundation Cafe, ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library
• Sunday 14 April 2024
• 10:00–midday

Useful links

• Join the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand user group
• Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand on Facebook
• The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large project (WP:AoWPAL)
• Wikiproject New Zealand in Wikipedia and Wikidata
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board

Attendees

Add your Wikipedia username if you have one. Tip: in Source editing you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Alexeyevitch^(talk)
• -- David Palmer aka cloventt (talk)
• Ratso56 (talk)

Apologies

• MurielMary (talk) - will arrive late

What have we been up to?

• Alexeyevitch^(talk) – Not much from me on-wiki... traveled around Japan. Me and User:Marshelec (and other individuals who are interested) are proposing we get the Christchurch article up to good article status. The lede should be rewritten. WP:UNDUE on the March 15th incident may apply. And I've uploaded a few images with an open license to Commons.
• I've been looking at draft biographical articles on women at AfC (Articles for Creation) and approving/declining/editing as appropriate. And after hearing about the upcoming Chch Art Gallery editathon, I wrote a new article on a NZ artist whose work is in the gallery: still a stub: Lynne Zylstra. Interested to hear the story about [[1]] and will put this on our Facebook page. MurielMary (talk) 12:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
• Still working on Victoria Square, Christchurch. Currently working on the Armagh Street Bridge. Also investigating the etymology of "Kaiapohia" as a name for the Kaiapoi pā. -- David Palmer aka cloventt (talk) 22:09, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
• Giantflightlessbirds: The Wikipedian at Large project had its first official meetup in Christchurch this year, the beginning of a monthly series in the central library Tūranga. There's an edit-a-thon coming up on May 18th in the Christchurch Art Gallery, focussed on the Ink on Paper exhibition artists and works. I made notes on how I think we should model exhibitions. Collaboration with the Biology Department of the University of Canterbury to release historic photos of the Cass area is ongoing, and in April collaborations begin with Christchurch Libraries and the Canterbury Museum entomology collection. The Critter of the Week project project was reorganised after an online meeting of volunteers with the creation of a list of weekly tasks. I presented at Auckland Wikicon on 24 March on "How to be a Wikipedian in Residence/at Large" (slides) and gave a presentation to the Entomological Society of New Zealand on entomology and Wikipedia; this turned out to be relevant to the rediscovery of the Frosted Phoenix. I contacted the photographer and (after explaining copyright law, Creative Commons, and iNaturalist's incompatible default settings), convinced him to change his photo license so the image could be used on the moth's Wikipedia page. This is the beginning of an education project working with iNaturalist NZ. At the urging of User:Ambrosia10, I then blogged my workflow for convincing people to change their photo licences.

Upcoming events

• Art Gallery Edit-a-thon 18 May (event page coming soon)
• https://openchch.nz/

Outcomes and tips

• Link to yesterday's Wellington meeting: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 13 April 2024
• Discussed upgrades to the Christchurch article, following Marshelec's useful analysis of work needed. Cloventt offered to look at the pre-European settlement section based on Harry Evison's book.

Next event

• 12 May, same time and venue unless people would like to change it