Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/September 2018 Report

Students working at the Des Helmore Wikiblitz
New Zealand Fashion Museum editathon participants
Rhopalimorpha obscura, a stink bug illustrated by Des Helmore
  • 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