Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Chinese history

New Zealand Chinese Association Chinese–English calendar, 1910–1911 & 1911–1912

What's the plan?

Wikipedia (and its image library Wikimedia Commons) are the place people get information today. If we want to increase public knowledge of the often-overlooked contribution of Chinese people to the history of Wellington (and New Zealand in general) we need to be engaging with Wikipedia. Although the barrier to entry is very low – anyone can edit it – Wikipedia articles are written in a particular style, and everything needs to be supported by independent, reliable, published secondary sources. Wikipedia is not a publishing outlet for original research. Given those constraints, how can we work with Wikipedia to get our research out there, and harness the enthusiasm of the thousands of volunteer editors around the world who'd like to help us? That's the purpose of this workshop.

When and where

• Monday 25 March 2019, 4:00 – 8:00 pm NZST
• Wellington City Archives, 28 Barker St, Wellington
• Wikipedian Mike Dickison will be present for the whole session, so turn up for as much of it as is convenient.

To attend

This workshop is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part. Anyone interested in Wikidata (or in historic buildings) is encouraged to attend.

What to bring

• BYO Laptop and power cord if you have them, but there are several desktop computers available for people without laptops. The venue has free wifi.

Preparation

1. If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. 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; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Your Wikipedia login will work for Wikidata as well. Here's some advice on picking a username.
2. Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
3. If you add photos to Commons so they can be used in Wikipedia and Wikidata, 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 of Wellington buildings 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).

Useful links

• 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
• Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz
• Wikidata In Brief one page cheatsheet by Andrew Lih – lots of useful links

People attending

In person

• Giantflightlessbirds (organiser)
• Wellington Chinese History
• joshuatj

To work on

Building

• Chinese Mission Hall building
• Tung Jung Association building
• New Zealand Chinese Association building
• Wellington Chinese Sports & Cultural Centre
• Chinese Anglican Mission
• Chinese Baptist Church

People

• Add mentions of Chinese in Wellington article
• Charles Sew Hoy
• Chinese New Zealanders
• List of Chinese New Zealanders
• To focus on Chinese New Zealander in Wellington
  • Yue Jackson
  • Joe Lee Wah
  • Chun Ting (aka Chin Ting)
  • Kai Luey
  • Harvey Wu
  • Steven Young
  • Gordon Wu
  • Rev Peter Fung
  • Rev Cheung Wing-Ngok
  • Graham Young
  • George Gee (First Mayor of New Zealand of Chinese origin)
  • Molly Ngan-Kee
  • Nancy Goddard
  • Bickleen Fong
  • Dr Roy Lau
  • Matthew Shum
  • Louis Kitt
  • William Wah
  • Paul Wah
  • James Luey
  • Harry Wong
  • David Fung
  • Guy Ngan (Artist)
  • Kerry Ann-Lee
  • Dan Chan
  • Margaret Lee - Chinese Woman Judge

Events

• New Zealand Head Tax (Poll Tax)
• SS Ventnor
• The murder of Joe Kum Yung 24 September 1905
• Chinese alleged leper on Mokopuna 1904
• 1912 fruit shop murder

Resources

• "Being Chinese in Aotearoa in the 1890s" Archives New Zealand's Facebook Note
• Index of Chinese Poll Tax Certificates
• NZ History page about "Poll tax imposed on Chinese"
• Chinese in New Zealand - Steven Young

Questions and tips

• The tool Wiki Shoot Me (use this link, not the one that sometimes comes up first on a Google search). You can see which Wikipedia pages and Wikidata items near you don't have photos. If you have a smartphone, it will even show your location as you walk around, and you can upload photos to Wikidata directly from your phone camera – a fun holiday activity!
  • Shooting directly from the phone sometimes doesn't work: safer to photograph it normally, edit the photo, and add it from your camera roll.
  • Double-check the locations of things in Wiki Shoot Me using a map, like NZ Topo Maps – sometimes the location coordinates are way off.
• To find the coordinates for a building in Wikidata, look for its street address in Google Maps and find the relevant two numbers after the @ symbol in the URL; copy them together and paste them directly into the Coordinates field.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Wellington City Archives for hosting the workshop. This event is indirectly supported by the Wikimedia Foundation through the NZ Wikipedian at Large Project Grant.