Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Māori Women Weavers Editathon

What's it about? edit

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This edit-a-thon will focus on improving the presence of Māori women weavers in both Wikipedia and Wikidata. It is intended that articles and items relating to Māori weaving will also be improved along with those relating to Māori weaving organisations. The organiser of this event is Ambrosia10 (talk).

When and where edit

This event will be informal with no presentations on learning how to edit Wikipedia but instead will be focused on improving Wiki content. However, if folk want to learn or need assistance on how to edit either Wikipedia or Wikidata help will of course be given.

There will be three locations for this meetup on the 7th of January 2021. The first will be held at He Matapihi Molesworth Library at the National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington. The date this meetup will commence when the library opens at 9am. The second location will be at the Elma Turner Library in Nelson from 9.30am. The third will be at the Hocken Library in Dunedin from 10am.

Please come along if you can to either of these locations if you want to help. Alternatively you can also assist by editing remotely.

When: 7th of January 2021
Where:

He Matapihi Molesworth Library at the National Library in Wellington. (9:00am - 5:00pm)
Elma Turner Library in Nelson (9:30am–4:00pm)
Hocken Library in Dunedin (10am–5pm)

Noon Virtual Meetup edit

There will be a virtual meetup at Noon for up to 30 minutes so that participants around the country can touch base and raise any issues they might be having. The link will be the normal Wellington jit.si meetup link.

Dashboard edit

For those wanting to participate please consider joining this dashboard so we can measure the impact of this editathon.

Chat channel edit

An experimental chat channel is available Wikimedia Aotearoa- you need to setup an account as it is not linked with your Wikimedia user account. David Nind 19:03, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

People attending edit

Please add yourself:

Ambrosia10 (Wellington)
MurielMary (talk) (remotely)
DrThneed (talk) 02:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC) (remotely)[reply]
Pakoire (talk) (Wellington)
Giantflightlessbirds (talk) (Nelson)

Not attending edit

Gertrude206 - I've ordered some magazines in the Nat Library with articles on Rangi Te Kanawa, Bethany Edmunds and Veranoa Hetet. They'll be on the holds shelf in the Reading Room in my name.

To do list edit

There are over 50 New Zealand weavers targeted in this edit-a-thon. Please follow the link to this google document for the list and suggested actions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LOj_2oST5rhIyPtTUSMfC_bXhuIz0hdNoUcx2h3GZdc/edit?usp=sharing

Make sure that every Wikipedia article you work on is in New Zealand English, and uses D/M/Y dates. Here's the code:

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{en-NZ|date=January 2021}}

Resources edit

Many of the online resources are listed next to the women's names.
Newsletter of the national association of Maori weavers Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aoteaoroa (This may have to be accessed via the reading room of the National Library).
Books - many books aren't available for view on Google books so hard copies will have to be sought.

Outcomes edit

Screen shot of some of the participants in the Māori Women Weavers Editathon

The focus of this editathon is the improvement of current articles on Māori women weavers in English Wikipedia with the aim that these be available for reuse and also translation into other languages (including hopefully into Te Reo). In the run up to the editathon editors have created several new stub and start articles to facilitate the ease of adding and linking information from books, pamphlets etc that are only available at the libraries participants will be attending. In recognition of the important role improvement of articles plays, the outcomes from this editathon will list these contributions first. Feel free to list the article you have improved and also to add your username beside that article even if it is already listed in the "new articles" section.

Improved articles edit

Catherine Elizabeth Brown ORES GA (4.24) - (Pakoire (talk)) page move the Cath Brown (artist) as common usage
Rānui Ngārimu ORES GA (4.17) - Ambrosia10 (talk)
Ngaahina Hohaia ORES Start (2.45) - Pakoire (talk)
Diane Prince (artist) ORES C (3.07) - Pakoire (talk)
Kohai Grace ORES C (3.21) - Pakoire (talk)
Rangimārie Hetet — Giantflightlessbirds
Veranoa Hetet — Giantflightlessbirds
Hikapuhi - MurielMary (talk)
Edna Pahewa ORES Start (2.45) - Ambrosia10 (talk) 10:21, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sonia Snowden ORES Start (2.81) - Ambrosia10 (talk) 10:54, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New articles edit

New articles created during the editathon.

New articles created in anticipation of expansion during the editathon.

Improved Wikidata items edit

Improved Wikidata items during the editathon:

New Wikidata items edit

Created during the editathon:

Created prior to the editathon to aid in the creation of articles: