A Wikiblitz is a type of Edit-a-thon where volunteer Wikipedia editors tackle one particular task together: improving a single article, fixing a whole category of pages, or uploading a whole photo collection. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided.
This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland Museum, and will focus on adding spectacular photos of specimens from the Land Vertebrates collection to Wikipedia. The Museum has just finished photographing the land vertebrate (bird, mammal, reptile) specimens in its care, and there are many Wikipedia pages lacking a good photo of these species – particularly New Zealand animals.
The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part.
Auckland Museum has free admission for Aucklanders: if you're coming from out of town, contact Mike at mikegiantflightlessbirds.com or 027 4477081 so he can escort you in.
This wikiblitz will focus on the collections of Auckland Museum found in Wikimedia Commons; you can see the Images from Auckland Museum here.
User:Hl introduced us to CropTool, very handy for creating cropped images of museum photographs of eggs for use in native bird articles. We also discussed Pattypan and Flickr2Commons.
A gallery of some of the photos attendees worked on:
Photos were added to the following articles:
Edits | Files in use | Files uploaded | Items created | Items improved | New editors | Pages created | Pages improved | 7 day retention |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
17 | 11 | 131 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
There will be a newspaper photographer present. If you don't want your photo in the paper, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one.
Many thanks to Adam Moriarty and Hugh Lilly at Auckland Museum for making this event possible.
A Wikiblitz is a type of Edit-a-thon where volunteer Wikipedia editors tackle one particular task together: improving a single article, fixing a whole category of pages, or uploading a whole photo collection. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided.
This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland Museum, and will focus on adding spectacular photos of specimens from the Land Vertebrates collection to Wikipedia. The Museum has just finished photographing the land vertebrate (bird, mammal, reptile) specimens in its care, and there are many Wikipedia pages lacking a good photo of these species – particularly New Zealand animals.
The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part.
Auckland Museum has free admission for Aucklanders: if you're coming from out of town, contact Mike at mikegiantflightlessbirds.com or 027 4477081 so he can escort you in.
This wikiblitz will focus on the collections of Auckland Museum found in Wikimedia Commons; you can see the Images from Auckland Museum here.
User:Hl introduced us to CropTool, very handy for creating cropped images of museum photographs of eggs for use in native bird articles. We also discussed Pattypan and Flickr2Commons.
A gallery of some of the photos attendees worked on:
Photos were added to the following articles:
Edits | Files in use | Files uploaded | Items created | Items improved | New editors | Pages created | Pages improved | 7 day retention |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
17 | 11 | 131 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
There will be a newspaper photographer present. If you don't want your photo in the paper, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one.
Many thanks to Adam Moriarty and Hugh Lilly at Auckland Museum for making this event possible.