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Foundation Cafe, Tūranga

The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together, get advice, get collaborations started. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

  • Foundation Cafe, ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library (OSM, Google Maps)
  • Sunday, 12 January 2025
  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Attendees

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Apologies

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  • Alexeyevitch(talk) - Inconvenient timing... I look foward to meeting later this year

What have we been up to?

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  • I've been doing an awful lot of traveling in Nov. – Dec. 2024 (I'm back in Christchurch now). I've also been pushing thru and expanding a number of articles. Alexeyevitch(talk) 07:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've started a short contract with Ashburton District Council (see the Wikiproject), which will involve some book digitisation, a large photo upload, and at least one photo excursion to Ashburton – anyone keen is welcome to attend. I've also been preparing for the start of the Wikipedian at Large project on Banks Peninsula, with a field trip to Little Akaloa, drawing up lists of plants and animals to cover, and compiling a reading list (some of which could be digitised in Wikisource). We've also been approached about running an edit-a-thon to support the March 2025 Science NZ Awards. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 08:46, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Been quite busy, those who attended last weekend's virtual meetup will have already heard. Most of it is Chch realted too! Did a xmas day GA review for Metrosideros bartlettii; from that decided to GA nominate Kaiapoi Pā; did some wikidata gardening on articles I've worked on in the past, mostly to get location data up to date; discovered an app called "Teleport" by HDREye for taking Streetview-style 360º photos, and also that Commons supports 360º photo spheres (see this photo I created of the inside of Barnett Park Cave in Redcliffs); did a big-ish tidy-up of the Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch article using Ned Bohan's excellent (if a little optimistic) recent history of the cathedral; also have gotten into Wikisource in a big way, starting with a verification of "Mein Kampf" and "Reminisces of Earliest Canterbury", and now I have embarked on transcribing "The Story of Christchurch, New Zealand" (1916) by Henry Wigram. I am almost halfway through the initial proofread, but I will have to slow down as off-wiki stuff is beginning to pick up again now. I've also been in touch with the CCC library with an eye towards getting a copyright release for "The Evolution of a City" (1948) by (Jean) Patricia Morrison to also add there, or at least collaborating with them on other possible local history book digitisations (no reply from them yet). Book preservation is very satisfying, and a great way to force myself to read a book much more closely than I otherwise might. David Palmer//cloventt (talk)
  • Sketched out the tabs on the Wikipedian at Large project on Banks Peninsula project page Herewhy (talk)
  • Have had a break from all things computer-based over the festive season and now interested in sorting out a couple of areas: 1., finding a list of suffrage memorials in New Zealand to cross check against my article List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage 2., figuring out what happened to the website for the Women of Influence Award and also updating the links in my article New Zealand Women of Influence Awards to the Internet Archive (thanks to advice from Cloventt). MurielMary (talk)

Upcoming events

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  • Day trip to the Okains Bay Waitangi celebrations, the largest in the South Island (see the report from the 2024 one). Leaving from Christchurch first thing on Thursday 6 February, kai at the hangi, seeing marae, museum, and waka launch, as well as demonstrations of historic arts and crafts. An opportunity to photograph the bay and its buildings (WikiShootMe map), and improve Wikidata and related articles. We can car pool or meet there; add your name if you're keen.
    • Giantflightlessbirds
  • Mike is also organising a Commons photo field trip to Ashburton on Sunday 23 February. Departing Christchurch 11:00 (car-pooling), a picnic in the Ashburton Domain, shooting various historic places in and around Ashburton (WikiShootMe target map), working in the heritage archives, and heading back about 4:00 pm. He'll be approaching WANZ about catering and petrol vouchers. Anyone interested please add your name here and we'll coordinate transport.
  • WikiCon 2025 is in Christchurch, Fri 16 – Sun 18 May: don't forget to register here.

Outcomes and tips

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  • A welcome to Glenmillernz, visiting from Ashburton, who demonstrated the Wikipedia app for Android (also iPhone), which has a Places feature on its home page mapping nearby Wikipedia subjects.
  • Cloventt demonstrated Wikimap, which shows Commons photos and Wikipedia articles on a street map, and Giantflightlessbirds demo'd WikiShootMe, which shows these as well as any Wikidata items with and without attached images. Both good tools when exploring an area and figuring out what to work on.
  • MurielMary was working on the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards article, but discovered the official web page recently disappeared and the domain name had lapsed. We were able to use the Internet Archive's wonderful Wayback Machine to find old archived versions of the website, and Cloventt demonstrated how to add the archived URL and the date retrieved to a Wikipedia citation. Note that anyone can sign up for an account at the Internet Archive to search for material and can install browser extensions that can immediately archive the page your looking at, and see older versions.
  • Glenmillernz showed us the pretty sparse article about Lauriston, New Zealand, and we discussed how every place in the NZ Geographic Board Gazetteer is notable and should have an article; even a crossroads with a derelict pub could have been the home of a poet or artist at some point.
  • Giantflightlessbirds sang the praises of Wikisource (Banks Peninsula Wikisource, Ashburton Wikisource projects), using the current Handbook of Precious Stones project as an example. Why do Wikisource? Getting important reference publications online with searchable text, making them available a properly-transcribed eBooks, letting people read them on an ereader and adjust font and size (all hard to do with a scanned PDF).
  • MurielMary wanted to know where we could find a list of every women's suffrage monument in New Zealand.
  • The possibility of an official WANZ-funded drone – the Wikidrone – to help with Banks Peninsula photography was discussed. Better than chartering a small plane to do an aerial photography tour of the Peninsula, which was Mike's suggestion. We do need to track down open-licensed aerial photos of Banks Pensinsula though, both Whites Aviation and more recent.
  • The book Inside Wikipedia by Paul Thomas was examined, and we agreed it would be a good idea to order a box of books and have them available at the conference as giveways (with a bookplate sticker), give them out to new editors, and use them as textbooks for Wikipedia training. Mike to pursue this.

Next meetups

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  • Sunday 16 February (6:00 pm)
  • Sunday 9 March (10:00 am)
  • Sunday 6 April (6:00 pm) – note Daylight Saving ends that day
  • In May we have Christchurch WikiCon


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