Dunedin Performing Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Sat 10 July 2021.
What's it about? edit
In the Wikipedia Category:Theatre companies in New Zealand there are only two Dunedin theatre companies and neither are currently active. This editing workshop event aims to fill this gap by celebrating the artists and creators of Dunedin by adding information on Wikipedia. The event will also celebrate alumni from Allen Hall at the University of Otago who have influenced the New Zealand performing arts industry.
This edit-a-thon is for all editing levels – learn about how you can help by editing Wikipedia articles or feel free to use the resources and get started right away.
This event is part of the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.
When and where edit
Date: Sat 10 JUL, 2021
Time: 10:30am - 4:00pm NZST
Location: Hocken Collections - Seminar room, 90 Anzac Ave, Dunedin. Phone: 03 479 8868
- This is a free workshop with lunch, coffee and snacks provided
- Please register your interest: lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
We welcome you at any time. There will be a short introduction at 10.30am.
Goals:
- Add current performing arts companies and Allen Hall alumni to Wikipedia.
- Increase biographies of women and people of colour on Wikipedia to address the existing bias.
Under COVID Alert Level 2 or higher the group will meet via video conference call.
People edit
The event is being coordinated by Lisa Maule. She is a theatre practitioner who also loves knowledge and research, and who felt motivated enough to increase performing arts information on Wikipedia to apply for a grant.
Attending
Remote participation
- Many thanks for any contribution you make.
- Please add articles you are working on and your username on this project page under 'Articles for creation' so we can avoid edit conflicts.
- Technical difficulties have prevented us at the face to face edit-a-thon from connecting on-line - apologies - no microphone. The intention was to have an online link open through Jitsi for collegial support - check the chat for timings: https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
Preparation edit
- Create a Wikipedia account beforehand: best not to wait until the day to do it. Here's the form. 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; it's best not to use your real name.Here's some advice on picking a username.
- Join the Dashboard for the event that can be found here.
OPTIONAL
- Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
- If you add photos to Commons so they can be used Wikipedia, they'll 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).
Articles to develop edit
Please look at our list of articles to develop on google drive Project information Dunedin 4 Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.
Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.
Some short entry level articles ready to expand are:
Dunedin Fringe Festival
Arthur Meek
Playhouse Theatre, Dunedin
Prospect Park Productions NZ
Suitcase Theatre
Dunedin Athenaeum/New Athenaeum Theatre
Allen Hall
Lisa Warrington
Ake Ake Theatre Company (currently in "user space" ie not live)
afterburner (currently in "user space" ie not live)
Cindy Diver - started
Hilary Halba - started
Jenny Wake - started
Other relevant pages
Fortune Theatre, Dunedin
Wikidata edit
Ambrosia10: I've started researching academic articles about Māori theatre in Google Scholar and realised there is a bit of a hole in Wikidata. A lot of these articles and academic authors researching & writing about theatre in New Zealand aren't in Wikidata. So I'm planning on working on adding scholarly articles covering this topic to Wikidata and linking them to their authors. Example: Decolonising theatre and ensemble training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu Theatre https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19443927.2020.1839943. I'm likely to "wikidatafy" content in those articles as well, using them as references to inform wikidata items and adding more detail to various wikidata items. - Ambrosia10 (talk)
Outcomes edit
The dashboard for the event recorded six new editors adding 27 references to Wikipedia between them and a total of 2,017 words. The comments after they had learnt the basics and started editing related to how accessible they found doing it, there was motivation amongst many in the group to continue to meet as a way of progressing the articles they are interested in. With the experienced editors overall including Wikidata the edit-a-thon added 47.4K words, 4 commons uploads, 239 references, across 51 articles that includes 15 new Wikidata articles.
New articles: Cindy Diver, Kilimogo Productions, Hilary Halba, Jenny Wake
Expanded articles: Arthur Meek, Fortune Theatre, Dunedin, Vanessa Alexander, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Playhouse Theatre, Dunedin, Southern Comedy Players, Hocken Collections, Makerita Urale, Rangimoana Taylor, Pineapple lumps, Dunedin Theatre Awards,
Article created from a redirect: Terry MacTavish
Other articles created in preparation or published after the event: Suitcase Theatre, Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute, Allen Hall Theatre, Prospect Park Productions NZ, afterburner
What to bring edit
- Laptop and power cord. The venue has free wifi.
- Resources that can be cited in Wikipedia if you have any - media clippings, books etc
Schedule edit
10.30am – Welcome and introductions
11.00am – Overview of Wikipedia and project demonstrations
11.15am – Adding to Wikipedia articles / editing
- - new people finish setting up accounts with coordinator, then start editing
- - experienced editors choose topic and begin
- - new people finish setting up accounts with coordinator, then start editing
12.30pm – Group session to review questions and discoveries
12.45pm - 1.45pm LUNCH
1.45pm – Editing in pairs or individuals with help from coordinator as required
3.30pm – Group session to summarise achievements
4.00pm – Finish
Useful links edit
- 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
- A nice explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos by Harry Chapman
Training aids and resources / getting started edit
Please create an account before you arrive with an anonymous user name
- An introductory video on editing - the first 4 minutes to set up an account are good: – How to Edit Wikipedia (47:44)
- This includes
- How to create and set up your account (00:00)
- Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
- Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
- Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
- Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
- A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)
- This includes
- Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour
- The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"
Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference edit
All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.
The video conferencing meetup is a replacement for the in-person meetup if required.
Social events edit
If you want to join organiser Lisa Maule and others for a social trip to see a performance get tickets:
- Fri 9 July: The Guest House - a theatrical journey of divination by Ake Ake Theatre. 5:30pm - 6:30pm at Aramoana Castle. Book tickets for The Guest house
- Sat 10 July: Struggling with lentils- an immersive theatre installation by Talking House and The School of Performing Arts. 7:00pm at Allen Hall Theatre. Book tickets for Struggling with lentils
Future Meetups edit
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Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project edit
For more information about the overarching project see Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project. Add yourself as a participant for sporadic updates.
Past Meetups edit