Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/30

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 4 August 2024
• 10:00–midday

Note

This is a slightly hastily-organised and semi-official meetup. Mike has found himself called away to do important Wiki-business. So to carry the torch I will be sitting in the Foundation cafe for 2 hours doing Wikipedia stuff on my laptop. If anyone wants to come along for a chinwag about Wikipedia you are welcome to join me. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)

UPDATE I have caught some horrible bug so won't be able to attend after all.

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 (* ~~~)

Apologies

• MurielMary (talk) - sorry, out of town
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk) Sorry, en route to Wikimania in Poland
• Alexeyevitch^(talk) - not in good health, I will attend next month.
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 20:13, 3 August 2024 (UTC) UPDATE I have caught some horrible bug so won't be able to attend after all.

What have we been up to?

• Nothing directly related to Christchurch, but I did take a golden opportunity to capture the voices of some notable people for the Voice Intro Project, which is a cool thing Mike mentioned at a previous meetup. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• I came across a facebook post (I think from Canterbury Museum) about an early aviator, Aroha Clifford, and wrote an article about her life (tragically short!). MurielMary (talk) 12:15, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
• Aside from preparing for Wikimania, I have been working on some new projects that came out ofnthe Wikipedian at Large work: one of them is a Wiki drive with the University of Canterbury biology department, to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Zoology/Botany merger. With the help of the head of department we've drawn up a list of notable faculty which will be the target of an edit-a-thon later this year. Still trying to organise a Chch architecture edit-a-thon for next month, and working currently with several National Science Challenges to get their people and research into Wikipedia/Commons/Wikidata. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:58, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
• Notably, the Foveaux Strait has reached GA status and I'm currently waiting for someone to start reviewing to start on the Opawa article. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 05:55, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Next event

• 1 Sep 2024 6:00 pm at Pedal Pusher, Addington