Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/September 2018 Report
Appearance
- A post-conference week based at Otago Museum, with accommodation funded by the Dodd-Walls Centre at Otago University, to meet and plan for April's Dunedin residency. I also gave a public talk and a presentation to Museum staff, and organised a lunchtime meetup of Dunedin Wikipedians
- Resident for the rest of September at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare research. The largest project was uploading over 1000 Des Helmore illustrations to Commons, involving extensive spreadsheet cleanup and later Visual File Change editing. I also ran staff training and gave presentations on Wikipedia
- Continued to spend Tuesday afternoons at Auckland Museum, and had meetings and training sessions with staff
- Assisted at the NZ Fashion Museum edit-a-thon, creating and DYK-ing Trilby Yates
Meetings
[edit]- 3 Sep: Emma Burns and Kane Fleury at Otago Museum, planning the activities taking place in April
- 3 Sep: Paul Hoskin, Dodd-Walls Centre, planning events in April with them
- 4 Sep: Nat Fosdick, planning kakī Wikiblitz in April
- 6 Sep: Kelly and Anna Pendergrast, Antistatic, to plan Wellington Edit for Equity events
- 6 Sep: Harald Schwefel, Dodd-Walls Centre, to plan possible event and seminar
- 7 Sep: Taylor Davies-Colley and Ian Griffin to plan future Dunedin events
- 17 Sep: Thomas Buckley, Landcare, re stick insect Wikipedia work needed
- 18 Sep: Creating species stubs for plants; Auckland Museum staff
Presentations
[edit]- 4 Sep: How Wiki Works • Public (35 attended) • Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin
- 5 Sep: Wikipedia for Outreach • Otago Museum staff (25) • Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum, Dunedin
- 12 Sep: How Wiki Works • Massey University (Albany) staff and students (15) • Massey Albany Campus, Auckland
- 13 Sep: Wikipedia for Outreach • MPI Entomology • Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland
- 14 Sep: Wikipedia for Outreach • NIWA, DOC, Council (10) • NIWA, Hillcrest, Hamilton
- 14 Sep: How To Do Wikipedia • Hamilton Junior Naturalists Club (18) • Rose Gardens, Cobham Drive, Hamilton
- 18 Sep: Wikipedia for Journalists • Bauer Media staff (16) • Bauer Media, 90 Wellesley St, Auckland
- 20 Sep: Wikipedia for Outreach • Landcare Research staff (20) • Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
- 26 Sep: How Wiki Works • Auckland comms people (6) • AUT, Level 16, WO Building, 56 Wakefield Street, Auckland
- 26 Sep: Café Scientifique: Wikipedia • Public (45) • Horse and Trap, 3 Enfield St, Auckland
Workshops
[edit]- 11 Sep: Creating a Species Stub (biology staff presentation) • Auckland Museum
- 20 Sep: Biograds Wikiblitz • Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Rd, Auckland • Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/Landcare_1
- 23 Sept: NZ Fashion Museum Edit-a-thon • Betty Wark Room, Ellen Melville Centre, 1 Freyberg Place, Auckland • WP:NZFM2
- 25 Sept: Des Helmore pictures Wikiblitz • Galbraith's Alehouse, 2 Mt Eden Road, Grafton, Auckland • Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/Wikiblitz 2
Meetups
[edit]- 7 Sep: Dunedin lunchtime meetup • Otago Museum
- 16 Sep: Auckland Wikipedians Meetup • Mezze, 9 Durham St E, Auckland • WP:AUCK9
Media coverage
[edit]- Ezepue, Ebele. (5 Sep 2018). "Wikimedian visits". Manawatu Guardian.