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. Subject experts with no Wikipedia background can sit down with experienced Wikipedians and get lots done: see the Kauri Dieback Wikiblitz for an example.

This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland offices of Bauer Media Group, publisher of the magazines The Listener, North and South, and New Zealand Woman's Weekly (amongst many others) and will focus on those magazines, their archives and photo libraries, Wikidata presence, and important contributors and articles.

• Saturday 27 July 2019, 10:00 am – 3:00 or 4:00 pm NZST
• Bauer Media Centre, Shed 12, CityWorks Depot, Wellesley St West, Auckland
• There are Bauer guest carparks outside the entrance and we can let people into the staff garage for parking.
• Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely.

• 10.00: meet and greet, account creation for newcomers, intro to Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata
• 12.00: Lunch/coffee break
• 14.00: Coffee break
• 15.00–16:00 or so: Finishing up, depending on energy!

This Wikiblitz is a training and participation workshop for Bauer Media staff, but Auckland Wikipedians are invited to attend to help and supply some editing expertise. Just add your name to People Attending.

In person

Remotely

• Ambrosia10
• DrThneed
• Schwede66

• Laptop and power cord. A laptop is MUCH better than an iPad for editing Wikipedia. The venue will have wifi.
• Bauer are supplying coffee, tea and fizzy water, and will shout us a round of flat whites/long blacks etc from their friendly neighbourhood café, The Botanist.

1. 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.
2. Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
3. Photos for Commons and Wikipedia need to be free of any copyright, or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

• This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
• How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
• Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz

Note that because of Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules, Bauer Media staff can't edit articles about themselves, their employer, or their co-workers. They're free, however, to list corrections and make suggestions, supply sources and citations, add photos to Commons, fill out Wikidata and so forth, and make it as easy as possible for other editors to improve those articles.

Wikipedia

• North and South
• The Listener
• Metro
• New Zealand Women's Weekly
• Adding info from recent publications to articles with Noted references: for example, a recent article on the black stilt.
• Improving the Voyager Media Awards 2019 page

Listener:

• Books & Culture Editor Russell Baillie
• Art Director Derek Ward
• Senior Writers
  • Donna Chisholm,
  • Diana Wichtel (Auckland),
  • Sally Blundell (Christchurch)
• Chief Sub-editor Geoff Cumming
• Sub-editor Nick Russell
• Entertainment Editor Fiona Rae
• Political Columnist Jane Clifton
• Assistant Art Director Shane Kelly
• Senior Designer Richard Kingsford
• Digital Producer Ryan Holder
• Editorial Assistant Lauren Buckeridge

These people do not have existing Wikipedia pages and should because of their notability:

• Michael Cooper, prolific wine writer
• Clare de Lore, feature writer, journalist (stub - I couldn't find much online, DrThneed)
• Peter Griffin, technology journalist and commentator
• Jane Clifton, political columnist

Commons

• Magazine covers where there's no secondary copyright issues with photography
• Photos relevant to Wikipedia articles
• Mugshots of magazine staff and contributors (by the copyright holder)

Wikidata

• Items for all the magazine titles, with a reference for date established etc, lists of their editors with start and end dates, and so forth
• Items for major contributors, including a mugshot
• Items for important articles published in each title, especially ones likely to be extensively cited

People in need of Wikidata items:

• Michael Cooper, prolific wine writer
• Peter Griffin, technology journalist and commentator
• Jane Clifton, political columnist
• Russell Baillie, Books & Culture Editor
• Fiona Rae, entertainment editor
• Virginia Larson
• Joanna Wane
• Caroline Courtney
• Mike White

Sorted:

• Sally Blundell (Q65951653)
• Donna Chisholm (Q64484424)
• Pamela Stirling (Q65951634)

• Expanded New Zealand Listener (Q15846578), Metro (Q6824453), and New Zealand Woman's Weekly (Q7015827) wikidata items, adding ISSN identifiers & social media links etc. Ambrosia10 (talk) 23:06, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Added wikidata items for Audrey Argall (Q65951621) founding editor of the NZ Woman's Weekly, Ola Rudman (Q65951640), Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:39, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Uploaded image of Hedda Dyson, editor of the NZ Woman's Weekly, sourced from the National Library to Wikicommons & reused in her Wikipedia article and in Wikidata item Hedda Dyson (Q5362829). Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:57, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Uploaded magazine mastheads for The Listener and North & South and added to articles
• Lots of information and suggestions for improvement and additional articles added to Talk:North & South (New Zealand magazine) (this would keep a team of Wikipedians busy for a while!)
• Uploaded images of journalists to Wikimedia Commons and added links to them in North & South talk page
• Completed list of winners for 2019 Voyager Media Awards, created stub for Clare de Lore, added awards to Donna Chisholm. Added press freedom info to North & South page (but could be expanded heaps). Created Jo Seagar DrThneed (talk) 03:56, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Photo uploads of Whanganui and Ernst Plischke buildings by photographer Ken Downie (as well as a very nice pic of a Honda CB350 motorcycle, now the Wikipedia article photo. His Massey House photo now illustrates a list article on the German WP.
• Added publications to Ichiro Kawachi page
• Added info and links from Noted articles and citations to Dame Anne Salmond, Dick Frizzell, George Hudson, Napier, Rhema Media, Simon Dickie, Warren Cole, Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, and Ross Collinge

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  Hedda Dyson
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  Joanna Wane
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  Virginia Larson
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  Caroline Courtney
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  Pat Booth
• Mike White
  Mike White

Many thanks to Jenny Nicholls of North and South for making this event happen, and Bauer Media for supporting it.