An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. We have two focus areas for this meeting:
- 1. Built heritage. We will (probably) have a guest from Heritage New Zealand that evening. We will be editing articles of Christchurch heritage buildings or starting new ones. We will learn how to do that, and how to work with photos.
- 2. Stuff.co.nz and possible editathon/editing priorities
Date: Monday, 18 November 2019
Time: 7:00 pm onwards
Location: Smash Palace, 172 High Street
Smash Palace at 172 High Street will host us in their ground floor room. We have access to their data projector so if we want to learn from one another, we can project a 'how to'.
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Attending
- Schwede66
- Podzemnik
- MurielMary
- Hortuschristchurch
Unable to come
- Some introductory words by one of the organisers
- Some words from a heritage expert
- Discussion with stuff.co.nz representative
- A quick 'how to edit Wikipedia articles' and then we are off.
Experienced Wikipedians are there to help those who are new.
- Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads. There is one spare computer you may use if you don't have a laptop, but BYO if you can.
- Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to the heritage buildings you're interested in.
- Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.
- If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
- The more you prepare, the more you'll be able to get done. You may want to read up on avoiding common mistakes, but Wikipedia has a "don't bite the newbies" policy, and we'll be there to troubleshoot.
- Have a think about topics you'd like to work on; do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an expert; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can help improve Wikipedia. The best candidates for Wikipedia articles are buildings that are "notable". In Wikipedia terms, "notable" usually means they're been covered in a number of reliable independent sources, such as news, books, authoritative websites, or newspapers. We can assume that Category I buildings are inherently notable.
- If you want to bring photos along and add them to Wikipedia, they need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. (What's Creative Commons?) If not, you must be the creator/copyright holder – ask us if you're not certain what's allowed, and we'll help. We will ask you who holds the copyright for all your photos, so make sure you know!
- Gordon talked about his work on Hackthorne Gardens, which is a little-known heritage building in Christchurch. He learnt how to upload his photos to Commons of the building and its reconstruction work. MurielMary is looking at finding sources to write an article on the house.
- Schwede talked about his communications with Heritage NZ and the possible collaborations e.g. Wiki Loves Monuments; and the possible projects e.g. using a spreadsheet to create WikiData items on all 5700 heritage listings in NZ. At this stage Heritage NZ is not able to share the summary texts describing their heritage listings.
- Created Template:QuakeStudies as Heritage New Zealand deletes register records from their website once a building gets removed from the register (mostly due to demolition), and UC QuakeStudies has archived most of those.
- Tuesday 3 December, 7pm meetup with Giantflightlessbirds at Smash Palace. Janine from stuff.co.nz will also come along.