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. We can move to a table space in the library when everyone has arrived.
David Palmer//cloventt(
talk) Unfortunately caught a cold.
What have we been up to?
MurielMary (
talk): Not much editing, mostly thinking about and discsussing plans for the Christchurch WikiCon in May 2025. Have confirmed dates and venue: 16 to 18 May 2025 at Ara Institute of Canterbury. More info to come, but at this stage please save the date and let other editors know. Looking forward to the editathon next Saturday.
Alexeyevitch(
talk): I have been doing a lot of work this month (primarily on Wikipedia), Marshelec, Gadfium and I have been making improvements to
Foveaux Strait, it was a small start class article before and is now on its way to a GAN, it is already a good exampler of what a "good strait article" should be in my opinion. Did some work (mostly improving refs and re-arranging content) on the
Southern giant petrel article which is now B-class. And the
Haast's Eagle has potential to be a GA (IMO).
David Palmer//cloventt(
talk) Working on the
Christchurch article mostly. Been spending some time in the
WP:GAN space getting a feel for the process of reviewing an article for Good Article. Started work on
Draft:Kaiapoi Pā as its own dedicated article split from
Kaiapoi. Started the ball rolling on a proper Christchurch TaskForce under WPNZ with the help of Marshelec. Trying to arrange childcare for the editathon on the 18th.
Upcoming events
Coordinate Me is a Wikidata campaign in May, focussed on adding coordinates to Wikidata items. There are prizes!
We have three copies of Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture: a walking guide by John Walsh to give away to local Wikipedians keen to inprove articles on Christchurch architecture.
I'm interested in helping improve
Haast's eagle to GA status, as that's one of my areas of expertise and I know some of the researchers concerned, have most of the publications etc — as well as more photos and sketches. This would be a great resource if we do it right, and it gets
around 700 views a day, more than any book or article about Harpagornis has ever had. —
Giantflightlessbirds (
talk) 22:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hey there, I am interested likewise to get this up to GA but there is still some way to go because I feel like the prose isn't engaging, but good progress has been made so far. Also... if your interested feel free to start the review on the
Foveaux Strait article. Alexeyevitch(
talk) 23:42, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Suggestion that we talk to local history groups: one that meets in the library, attached to UC, and inviting Geoffrey Rice.
Kate Sheppard House gives public local history talks and might be interested in a talk on womens' history in Wikipedia, perhaps with follow-up training
Potential for making more use of the Featured Picture platform in both Wikipedia and Commons, for photos that are useful for articles (the former) or technically excellent (the latter).
How to convince a professional photographer to donate photos? First, offer to create an article about them, with a donated headshot (if sufficient sources exist). Then ask about photos of one specific thing, encouraging them to donate less-valuable, "dud" pics. Ask for a single good photo for an article without one and nominate it for featured picture, notifying them when it goes on the home page. Finally, ask about all their photos. If they do donate, make sure there's a follow-up event to deploy the photos, and do publicity.
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. We can move to a table space in the library when everyone has arrived.
David Palmer//cloventt(
talk) Unfortunately caught a cold.
What have we been up to?
MurielMary (
talk): Not much editing, mostly thinking about and discsussing plans for the Christchurch WikiCon in May 2025. Have confirmed dates and venue: 16 to 18 May 2025 at Ara Institute of Canterbury. More info to come, but at this stage please save the date and let other editors know. Looking forward to the editathon next Saturday.
Alexeyevitch(
talk): I have been doing a lot of work this month (primarily on Wikipedia), Marshelec, Gadfium and I have been making improvements to
Foveaux Strait, it was a small start class article before and is now on its way to a GAN, it is already a good exampler of what a "good strait article" should be in my opinion. Did some work (mostly improving refs and re-arranging content) on the
Southern giant petrel article which is now B-class. And the
Haast's Eagle has potential to be a GA (IMO).
David Palmer//cloventt(
talk) Working on the
Christchurch article mostly. Been spending some time in the
WP:GAN space getting a feel for the process of reviewing an article for Good Article. Started work on
Draft:Kaiapoi Pā as its own dedicated article split from
Kaiapoi. Started the ball rolling on a proper Christchurch TaskForce under WPNZ with the help of Marshelec. Trying to arrange childcare for the editathon on the 18th.
Upcoming events
Coordinate Me is a Wikidata campaign in May, focussed on adding coordinates to Wikidata items. There are prizes!
We have three copies of Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture: a walking guide by John Walsh to give away to local Wikipedians keen to inprove articles on Christchurch architecture.
I'm interested in helping improve
Haast's eagle to GA status, as that's one of my areas of expertise and I know some of the researchers concerned, have most of the publications etc — as well as more photos and sketches. This would be a great resource if we do it right, and it gets
around 700 views a day, more than any book or article about Harpagornis has ever had. —
Giantflightlessbirds (
talk) 22:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Hey there, I am interested likewise to get this up to GA but there is still some way to go because I feel like the prose isn't engaging, but good progress has been made so far. Also... if your interested feel free to start the review on the
Foveaux Strait article. Alexeyevitch(
talk) 23:42, 11 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Suggestion that we talk to local history groups: one that meets in the library, attached to UC, and inviting Geoffrey Rice.
Kate Sheppard House gives public local history talks and might be interested in a talk on womens' history in Wikipedia, perhaps with follow-up training
Potential for making more use of the Featured Picture platform in both Wikipedia and Commons, for photos that are useful for articles (the former) or technically excellent (the latter).
How to convince a professional photographer to donate photos? First, offer to create an article about them, with a donated headshot (if sufficient sources exist). Then ask about photos of one specific thing, encouraging them to donate less-valuable, "dud" pics. Ask for a single good photo for an article without one and nominate it for featured picture, notifying them when it goes on the home page. Finally, ask about all their photos. If they do donate, make sure there's a follow-up event to deploy the photos, and do publicity.