Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/37

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The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together, get advice, get collaborations started. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

• Foundation Cafe, ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library (OSM, Google Maps)
• Sunday, 9 March 2025
• 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

• The venue sells a variety of café cabinet food, including really good cheese scones and blueberry danish pastries. The coffee is good too. There are vegan and gluten free options as well.

• Internet access is provided through the library "PUBLIC" network, but it can be a bit intermittent at times.

Depending on how you are getting there:

• Car: there are a number of large car park areas nearby operated by Wilsons. There is also on-street parking on Armagh and Colombo Street. All of these are charged by the hour.
• Bicycle: there is a large covered bicycle stand right outside the café with a clear view of the table we normally sit at.
• Public transit: there are bus stops on Manchester Street, which is a short walk away to the east. The Christchurch Bus Interchange is a 10 minute walk away, to the south.

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• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• MurielMary (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

• Sameeenz (talk)
  • I've sent a welcome message to Sameeenz on their Talk page and invited them to join us at future meetups. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

• Sameeenz (talk): I got a ~2-3 good pictures at Onuku marae on Waitangi day.
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk): masses of stuff, working on an infobox for marae, Christchurch Seagull Pit, had an interview with The Post about Wikiwork, cleaned up the Christchurch City Council article a bit, might do more on that soon too, and a bit of the usual wikigardening.
• Giantflightlessbirds: Continuing with the Banks Peninsula project (see February report), did a trip to Kaituna Valley to photograph, and was in Bali for the world Wikisource conference (report in progress) where I talked about the Wikisource-to-public-libraries pipeline; managed to attend a meetup in Melbourne en route, Went on an overnight trip to Ashburton Lakes and Mount Sunday and did lots of photography for the Ashburton project: articles coming soon. Great to see all the media coverage various Wikimedians have been having! In March the focus is on Banks Peninsula flora, so there will be trips to various scenic reserves (and have started work on some scenic reserves articles).
• MurielMary (talk): Not much editing going on; involved with organising the Aotearoa NZ WikiCon in May. Had a positive meeting with a representative of ChristchurchNZ who is coming to the conference. Will follow up with a discussion of release requirements for images, and to co-create a list of Christchurch-related topics which have poor coverage on Wikipedia e.g. Electric Avenue, street art.

• WikiCon 2025 is in Christchurch, Fri 16 – Sun 18 May: don't forget to register here.
• Mike is trying to organise several of us to go take photos in Ashburton, but timing is difficult; Sunday March 30th suits the museum archivist, but may not suit us.

• David impressed us with his Wikipedia cap (other merchanise available here: Wikimedia Store). Should there be a "Citation Needed" t-shirt?
• We talked about the Radio NZ interview with Tamsin Braisher: Correcting history one edit at a time and the Detail podcast with Siobhan Leachman and Axel Downard-Wilkie: Wikipedia, a surprising repository of fact as well as David's upcoming profile in The Post.

• A report from Women's Day edit-a-thon including inventing the role of "Wikipixie" to handle behind-the-scenes work.
• Alex is pushing Metrosideros bartlettii for FA status, and it would be good if we could help, especially those of us with some botanical knowledge – @Stitchbird2: is this something you could cast an eye over?
• Would it be possible to import all Christchurch parks into Wikidata so they show up in WikiShootMe? There doesn't seem to be a URI for each park in a database that would let us create a Wikidata property and run Mix'n'Match. But if there was a published list of all parks with basic properties about them we could use it as a reference, and create a spreadsheet that could bu uploaded to Wikidata using OpenRefine. There is Christchurch City Council Open Data Portal for parks, including all scenic reserves.
• Discussion of Paddy Cotter's "museum" which preserves the Māori-style carvings of Rehutai, J.H. Menzies's homestead in Menzies Bay. Menzies also carved the church decorations in St Luke's, Little Akaloa. An expensive guided tour of Rehutai is running later this month, but perhaps we could do a field trip with a view to an article about the bay, Menzies, and the homestead? (Article on Menzies, Neil Pardington , Canterbury Museum article and photos)
• How do we go about getting "press credentials" so we can take cameras into events like council meetings and get good photos? Would a letter on official WANZ letterhead help?
• David has been working on modelling marae in Wikidata, and has created a marae infobox. Because of local variations these infoboxes will probably have to be hand-coded rather than generated from Wikidata, at least until we improve our modelling (how we model marae would be a good discussion topic for the Christchurch WikiCon).
• The Wikisource conference had reports of a couple of newbie training projects; we can get started with books in the Ashburton project, and in June will be working on lots of Wikisource works in the Banks Peninsula project. Mike will be contacting Christchurch Libraries again about collaborating
• The Canterbury History Foundation has some funding: apply for them to support summer student interns along the same model as Auckland Museum has successfully used?

• Sunday 6 April (6:00 pm) – note Daylight Saving ends that day – probably at the Pegasus Arms, though Scoundrel and Two Thumb Brewery have both been suggested as well.
• In May, we have Christchurch WikiCon!

• Wikipedia meetups in New Zealand