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Greymouth Wikipedia Meetup edit

Plaque on a library table commemorating it opening in 1957

Grey District Library, 18 Albert St, Greymouth
Saturday 30 January 2021
1:00–4:00 pm
Tea and (good) coffee supplied, bring something to share for afternoon tea

This is a meetup for volunteer Wikipedia editors who want to get advice, collaborate, and assist others. Editing Wikipedia, WikiCommons, and Wikidata is great fun and socially worthy; while there's enormous amounts of advice and information available online on how to do it, nothing beats chatting with other human beings and getting some help and inspiration. During the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project it became clear that the coverage of the Coast on Wikipedia was pretty poor. The way to solve this is to get West Coast people empowered to tell their own stories, and for this we need a support structure and access to expertise and resources. These meetups are part of that.

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Reminder of the Aotearoa Wikimedia User Group meeting on Sunday 31 Jan: Aotearoa Online Meetup 8
Because of the low turnout, this became a planning meeting for the organisers, and set the next meetup date. We covered the following:
Improving the Grey District Library article, where User:Burkespass has a conflict of interest. There was very little mentioned in the history books we pulled from the library collection (although they're a gold mine of other Wikipedia material), but we found a 2009 account of the library's history in Kete West Coast by a former librarian. Liz suggested it could be brought up to date and offered to the local paper to publish, which would make it a reliable source. The Library could certainly take a bunch of interior and exterior photos and upload them to Commons.

One of the few photos of a West Coast mayor, a blurry shot cropped from an official Governor General photo. The GG photos are an invaluable source of images, even though they're technically not very good, because they're released under an open Creative Commons licence.

Mayor of Greymouth is very lacking in photos, both of historical and contemporary mayors such as Barry Dallas (Barry Dallas (Q4864150)). This would be a good local wikipedian project.
Also a need for photos of the 2018 History House Museum pop-up space, and any future one.
Greymouth High School's centenary is coming up in 2023, and it has boxes of archives apparently. It would be great to significantly improve that article. And Greymouth Main School has no article at all.
Showed the Luminaries Project (all foreign-language editions now in WIkidata); work needed on The Luminaries and Eleanor Catton.
Went through the final report for the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project
Talked about West Coast newspapers and what would be required to get them into Papers Past; realised that no library on the West Coast had a copy of Ian Grant's book Lasting Impressions.

Good things to bring edit

Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads.
Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to what you're interested in.
Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; we can help you donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Next meetup edit

13 March 2021 (note this is the day of the Wildfoods Festival in Hokitika, which shouldn't affect attendance). Hokitika Meetup 3 will be moved to not clash with it. We have the WikiCon in Hokitika in March anyway.