Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 20

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On 20 May 2023, the New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject and the University of Auckland are collaborating on an edit-a-thon focusing on improving content on New Zealand women in architecture.

Auckland War Memorial Museum is hosting an in-person edit-a-thon for the event, at the same time as an online edit-a-thon for participants across Aotearoa and abroad, and an in-person event in Dunedin hosted by User:DrThneed.

Auckland in-person Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon 20 May 2023

• Date: Saturday 20 May 2023
• Official start: 1:00PM (lunch provided from 12:00PM - meet Museum staff at the Auckland Museum Library, Level 2 near Robin Morrison Road Trip exhibition, to be taken to the lunch venue)
• Location: Research Library at Auckland Museum, on Level 2 at the south end of the building

Suggested activities

• Join the A+W NZ WikiProject Walking Tour & Edit-a-thon from 10:00AM, photographing notable buildings and design features in the central city associated with women in architecture
• Create articles for women on the suggested article list
• Add sources to pages that already exist on New Zealand women architects
• Add content from Elizabeth Cox, ed. (2022). Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Auckland: Massey University Press. ISBN 978-1-99-101634-8. OCLC 1347021085. OL 39960346M. Wikidata Q117788223.
• Create Wikidata items for notable New Zealand women architects, or for notable buildings designed by women
• Enrol in the Dashboard, which will track edits made during the edit-a-thon

Meetup Code of Conduct

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement. No food is to be taken through the galleries or into the Library, only water in bottles may be consumed in the space. A light lunch will be provided in a separate room. Please bring your own device with you, there are power outlets in the library if you would also like to bring your charger.

Future Meetups

Double check the Wikipedia:Auckland Meetup page to confirm when the next meetup is happening.

Join the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

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Attending

• Dactylantha (talk)
• Stitchbird2 (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• Prosperosity (talk)
• GButtersnaps (talk)
• Made-of-moments (talk)
• WanderingRocket (talk)
• Thurad01 (talk)
• SpicyMandarinCake (talk)
• Bouwerc01 (talk)
• RedCoatDamselfly (talk)
• Wvalarch (talk)
• Mistressbuilder (talk)
• Catalunimuni (talk) 02:51, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
• RakiuraLin (talk)

• AppleCaledonia (talk)

Unable to come or participating remotely

• MurielMary (talk)
• Pakoire (talk)

You are welcome to join an online editing video conference hosted by user:Pakoire where we will meet at the beginning of the day 10.00am (NZST), with Auckland at 1.00pm (NZST) and at the end of the day 4.00pm (NZST).
To register for the link and more information: https://women-in-architecture-edit-a-thon-online.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new

Agenda and Notes

• 12.30pm Lunch
• 1.00pm Introductions - say 'hi' to those joining in online and around Aotearoa, and divide into workgroups
  
• 1.30pm Workgroups - upload images / introduction to Wikipedia / creating articles / expanding content
  
• 3pm Closing round - find out achievements from the in-person and online groups

Outcomes

Shared outcomes with the Dunedin meeting and online participants:

New articles

• Clare Athfield
• Cecile Bonnifait
• Elizabeth Cox (historian)
• Jackie Gillies (architect)
• Dorita Hannah
• Margaret Munro
• Lindley Naismith
• Anna Plischke
• Renate Prince
• Jane Rooney
• Megan Rule
• Alison Sleigh
• Felicity Wallace
• Louise Wright (architect)

Expanded pages

• Architecture + Women NZ
• Christina van Bohemen
• Jacky Bowring
• Justine Clark
• Julia Gatley
• List of New Zealand architects
• National Association of Women in Construction (New Zealand) Excellence Awards
• Nancy Northcroft

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• TBC , same time, same place