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) (not pictured)
• -- David Palmer aka cloventt (talk)
• Ratso56 (talk) (not pictured)
• Aerohydro

Apologies

• MurielMary (talk) - will arrive late

What have we been up to?

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  Cloventt, MurielMary, Giantflightlessbirds, and Aerohydro at the meetup in Foundation. Alexeyevitch and Ratso56 not pictured.

  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: 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 I've started working 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

• 26–29 April: City Nature Challenge, involving public walks and light trapping, as well as iNaturalist photography
• 4–5 May: Open Christchurch festival, a good opportunity to photograph architecturally-significant buildings
• Coordinate Me is a Wikidata campaign in May, focussed on adding coordinates to Wikidata items. There are prizes!
• 18 May: Art Gallery Edit-a-thon (event page coming soon)

Outcomes and tips

• See 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. We shouyld all read the Talk page and think about what we could do to help. Cloventt offered to look at the pre-European settlement section based on Harry Evison's book. Alexeyevitch noted that he will focus on improving the Culture and entertainment section of the article including: theaters, festivals, music, and parks.
• It looks like Kaiapoi pā needs to have its own article. Mike to search for a Ngai Tahu publication on the siege.
• XKCD used to have a store with Citation Needed stickers with a clear backgound for pasting onto essays etc. Maybe we could organise our own.
• Use of macrons for Māori loanwords (like Māori) is well established under Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand) for articles written in NZ English (you need to include the {{use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}} in the page though).
• Can we get a better cityscape of Christchurch than this rather small photo from 2015?
• We learned about the pipe trick
• Typing just three tildes (~~~) puts only your username, four tildes adds a date/time stamp.
• We should get our meetups on the list here: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
• And on the list of Christchurch Libraries events
• Possible venues for WikiCon events: Catylyst, above a cafe and pub, would fit 20; New Brighton Library (depending on conference rooms); and Halswell Library.
• Does anyone know who User:Soundsold is, who attended the last Christchurch Art Gallery edit-a-thon? It would be nice to invite them again.
• Another Ara meetup, perhaps after work on the week of the 29th, is on the cards
• Don't forget to join WANZ for just $5 everybody!

Next event

• 12 May, same time and venue

Sugggestion: we book a meeting room at the library, so that we are not using a table in the cafe without buying suitable quantities of food and drink. It's awkward to be using their space for free without spending much money there. Also, if we book a room, the get together will appear on the library "what's on"/"events" listings. Thoughts? MurielMary (talk)