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Mayor Mark Blumsky juggling; a 1996 photograph by City Council photographer Neil Price

Alfred Brandon, soon to be Mayor of Wellington, c.1890

This project page records Wikimedia initiatives carried out by the Wellington City Archives (herein Archives). Projects were initiated by New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Giantflightlessbirds in December 2018. The Archives have a large collection of undigitised photos; many of these are historic photos in the public domain, and there are several decades of photos by City Council photographers. Under NZ law, copyright of photos by Council staff rests with the Council, and the Archives are authorised to release these under a Creative Commons license.

• Neil Price • current Team Leader Photography and Video, official Wellington City Council photographer for some years
• Alister K Bristow • History Librarian at the Wellington Public Library • between 1951 and 1963 took some 3000 images at the request of Council departments
• Mark Graham, Mark Tantrum • Some photography

Mayors of Wellington

To Do Done

• Check Wikipedia's Mayor of Wellington City listing for accuracy
• Check Commons Category:Mayors_of_Wellington for info and completeness – Mark Blumsky missing a photo?
• Upload photos taken by City Photographer Neil Price
• Upload other photos as needed from public domain sources, or scanned from City Yearbooks
• Create categories for any mayors lacking them.
• Link each Mayor in Wikidata to their Commons category so infoboxes work.
• Have some publicity photos of the current mayor authorised by the comms team for release under a CC license

#	Name	Term of Office		Commons cat?	Pics	Added	Notes
-	George Hunter	1842	1843	No Yes	1
-	William Guyton	1843		No Yes	1	1	Uploaded better scan
1	Joseph Dransfield	1870	1873	No Yes	1
2	Charles Borlase	1874	1875	No Yes	1
3	William Sefton Moorhouse	1875		Yes	4
4	William Hutchison	1875	1877	No Yes	1
(1)	Joseph Dransfield	1878	1879	—	—
5	George Allen	1879		No Yes	1	1
(4)	William Hutchison	1879	1881	—	—
6	George Fisher	1881	1885	Yes	6
7	Arthur Winton Brown	1885	1887	No Yes	1
8	Samuel Brown	1887	1888	No Yes	1
9	John Duthie	1888	1890	Yes	2
10	Charles Johnston	1890	1891	Yes	1		Portrait with Blavatsky? Fixed
(7)	Arthur Winton Brown	1891	1892	—	—
11	Francis Bell	1892	1893	Yes	6
12	Alfred Brandon	1893	1894	No Yes	1	1
13	Charles Luke	1894	1895	No Yes	1
(6)	George Fisher	1895	1896	—	—
(11)	Francis Bell	1896	1897	Yes	6
14	John Blair	1897	1899	No Yes	1
15	John Aitken	1899	1905	Yes	7	1
16	Thomas William Hislop	1905	1909	Yes	4	1
17	Alfred Newman	1909	1910	Yes	2
18	Thomas Wilford	1910	1912	Yes	6
19	David McLaren	1912	1913	Yes	3
20	John Luke	1913	1921	Yes	3
21	Robert Alexander Wright	1921	1925	Yes	1
22	Charles Norwood	1925	1927	No Yes	1
23	George Troup	1927	1931	Yes	0	2
24	Thomas Hislop	1931	1944	Yes	3	1	Bad scan
25	Will Appleton	1944	1950	Yes	6
26	Robert Macalister	1950	1956	Yes	1	4	Need more
27	Frank Kitts	1956	1974	Yes	6	12
28	Michael Fowler	1974	1983	Yes	3	1	Just 1 portrait
29	Ian Lawrence	1983	1986	Yes	2		Cropped version of group shot
30	Jim Belich	1986	1992	Yes	2		Cropped version of group shot
31	Fran Wilde	1992	1995	Yes	3
32	Mark Blumsky	1995	2001	Yes	0	4
33	Kerry Prendergast	2001	2010	Yes	5		Two cropped
34	Celia Wade-Brown	2010	2016	Yes	15		Three good
35	Justin Lester	2016	present	Yes	8	3	Most terrible

• 
  George Troup
• 
  Mayors in 1928
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  Wellington mayoral chain
• 
  Justin Lester

Botanic Garden

Preparing to significantly improve the Wellington Botanic Garden's Wikimedia presence in preparation for its 150th anniversary in 2019, and a BioBlitz in April 2019.

To Do

• Create To Do list on Talk page
• Add info from Heritage NZ listing
• Use Winsome Shepherd's book to generate rough article outline
• Have Ayla add no-known-copyright Botanic Gardens photos to the Flickr gallery under CC BY 4.0
• Locate Gardens photos by Neil Price
• Organise bulk upload of historic photos to Commons, categorise appropriately

Wellington City Archives article

To Do Done

• Establish notability of archives from clippings file of media coverage
• Take Commons photos
• Sort Commons categories to distinguish categories for photos OF the Archives and IN the Archives
• Create Wikidata item
• Create Commons institution template
• Create Start-class article
• If more sources are available, upgrade to C-class article Requested reassessment

Misc

• Check Suzanne Aubert article: possibility of expanding Wellington section with Archives images
• Ask WCC comms to post images from the 2000 unveiling of the Kupe statue and ask for IDs for people
• Possible use of Wikidata for public database of Wellington architects and buildings, such as the town hall