Colleagues and students at Ara Institute of Canterbury meet monthly to share knowledge and ideas about the Wikimedia movement. If you'd like to join us, get in touch with Podzemnik or MurielMary.
MM has started a list on the talk page of the Ara article which other editors can add ideas to. It would be useful to also add links to any online resources about them and their achievements, and also something which mentions that they are an Ara graduate/staff member. If you’re not sure whether the person is notable enough for a biography on Wikipedia, take a look at the general notability guidelines (link below) and any specific guidelines which apply (e.g. academic, or athlete, or creative professional etc). Feel free to add people to the list, with sources, and then discuss on the day whether they are notable enough.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Notability_(people)
The list of Ara people on the article is growing! The editing of this page is producing some useful discussions about notability and referencing on WP. We could also discuss the upcoming 1Lib1Ref project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref FYI, Wikimedia Australia is offering drop-in sessions to offer support for this project, and New Zealand librarians are welcome to join them: Tuesday 18 May at 12noon; Thursday 20 May at 2pm; Tuesday 25 May at 12pm; Thursday 27 May at 11pm; Tuesday 1 June at 12pm; Thursday 3 June at 2pm. Links to the meetings are on the Wikipedia Aotearoa NZ public facebook page under "events".
Note from the session:
8 participants
One participant created a Wikipedia account and edited an article to add more details and citations.
6 participants
4 participants
As Mike happened to be in Christchurch, he joined the session and introduced himself and his recent projects. He answered some questions about using templates and infoboxes in articles, and then showed us the WikiShootMe tool. This is a web-based tool that shows Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles, and Commons images with coordinates, all on the same map: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiShootMe We could use this tool at a future meeting to identify places on the Ara campus which are lacking photos e.g. buildings or sculptures.
Please bring a camera or a phone!
Colleagues and students at Ara Institute of Canterbury meet monthly to share knowledge and ideas about the Wikimedia movement. If you'd like to join us, get in touch with Podzemnik or MurielMary.
MM has started a list on the talk page of the Ara article which other editors can add ideas to. It would be useful to also add links to any online resources about them and their achievements, and also something which mentions that they are an Ara graduate/staff member. If you’re not sure whether the person is notable enough for a biography on Wikipedia, take a look at the general notability guidelines (link below) and any specific guidelines which apply (e.g. academic, or athlete, or creative professional etc). Feel free to add people to the list, with sources, and then discuss on the day whether they are notable enough.
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Notability_(people)
The list of Ara people on the article is growing! The editing of this page is producing some useful discussions about notability and referencing on WP. We could also discuss the upcoming 1Lib1Ref project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref FYI, Wikimedia Australia is offering drop-in sessions to offer support for this project, and New Zealand librarians are welcome to join them: Tuesday 18 May at 12noon; Thursday 20 May at 2pm; Tuesday 25 May at 12pm; Thursday 27 May at 11pm; Tuesday 1 June at 12pm; Thursday 3 June at 2pm. Links to the meetings are on the Wikipedia Aotearoa NZ public facebook page under "events".
Note from the session:
8 participants
One participant created a Wikipedia account and edited an article to add more details and citations.
6 participants
4 participants
As Mike happened to be in Christchurch, he joined the session and introduced himself and his recent projects. He answered some questions about using templates and infoboxes in articles, and then showed us the WikiShootMe tool. This is a web-based tool that shows Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles, and Commons images with coordinates, all on the same map: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiShootMe We could use this tool at a future meeting to identify places on the Ara campus which are lacking photos e.g. buildings or sculptures.
Please bring a camera or a phone!