An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Everybody's welcome, new or experienced.

There'll be table top signage to show where we are!

Date: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Time: 7pm onwards
Location: Welles Street, Christchurch CBD

Venue edit

Welles Street; there is free WiFi.

Attendees edit

Add your Wikipedia username if you have one. Tip: you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

Apologies edit

  • Herewhy

Agenda items edit

  • Round the table – what's everyone up to?
Ratso: involved in open government partnership and interested in Wikidata position on government entities
Schwede: working on list of King's and Queen's Counsel in New Zealand (total of around 300 people). Also missing articles from the DNZB.
MurielMary: working on a list of notable Asian women from a previous Women in Red contest.
  • The city council is inviting ideas for events for the heritage festival this year. The focus is telling stories - seems very appropriate to have a Wikipedia writing event within the festival! https://ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/heritage/heritagefestival MurielMary (talk) 09:06, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Planning discussion for the Art+Feminism editing workshop planned at the Christchurch Art Gallery: 1pm-5pm on Saturday 19 June
Ratso to work on a list of NZ artists with works in the Chch Art Gallery that do/don't have WD and WP records for participants to work on. (Annie Gibb Barker/Stephanie Buckhurst - two different people?)
MM to create a WP page for the event
HM to create an Eventbrite event and share link with MM to create FB event on the WP NZ public page
Marketing to: galleries (HM), Fine Arts School and Art History at UC (HM), Art and Design at Ara (MM), high school art teachers (MM), Friends of the Art Gallery.

Outcomes edit

Next event/keeping in touch edit

  • Tuesday 15 June, 7pm at Salut Salut