User:Chocmilk03/2022 highlights

This page highlights my contributions to Wikipedia over the last 12 months (Jan 2022 to Jan 2023).

Highlights

 * Patricia Grace Symbol support vote.svg: Grace is one of New Zealand's most important Māori women writers. The article was rated C-class when I started working on it. In February 2022 I successfully got it through GA review (I had already nominated it for DYK on the basis of 5x expansion in August 2021).
 * the bone people Symbol support vote.svg: This is one of New Zealand's best-known books. It was written by a Māori author, Keri Hulme, and she won the Booker Prize in 1984 (the first time it had been won by a New Zealander or a debut novelist). When I started working on the page it was in a dire state and flagged for inappropriate original research. It was rated Start-class, although of high importance to the NZ Wikiproject. In October 2022 I successfully got it through GA review, and nominated it for DYK. It appeared on the main page on 1 November 2022.
 * As a side benefit of working on this article and tweeting about it, I was able to link up with one of Hulme's publishers who arranged with a photographer for a bunch of his photographs of Hulme to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons In July 2022. A selection are now included on Hulme's article and on the article for the bone people.
 * I have participated in a number of Women in Red edit-a-thons, for example Women writers & their works and Indigenous women. A number of the pages below marked with the Women in Red icon Women_in_Red_logo.svg were created as part of these edit-a-thons. I also really enjoy being able to learn and read about other women globally as part of these edit-a-thons.
 * New Zealand School Journal. This is a new article I created in April 2022 that was a highlight of the year for me; this journal was something I loved as a child in primary school and that contributed to my lifelong love of literature. I was astonished to see it didn't have a page. It's rated B-class; I'm considering putting it up for GA-review at some stage but haven't yet since it's not part of my core focus (women/Māori literature). I did however nominate it for DYK and it appeared on 20 May 2022.
 * I have worked through List of New Zealand women artists & List of New Zealand artists and List of New Zealand women writers & List of New Zealand writers to make sure that anyone who appeared in the "women" list also appeared in the other list (many women were only featured in the "women" list). I am also now working through these lists to ensure they include all people listed in the relevant categories.

This one isn't from the past 12 months but I wanted to mention it anyway: I was particularly proud of getting the New Zealand literature page to GA status in October 2021, and ensuring that it had a proper focus on Māori and Pasifika literature. It was very short when I started working on it, and rated Start-class but high importance. Other users also contributed to improving the article, for example through adding content on literary festivals, which was helpful because of the breadth of the topic.

Other page creations / DYKs with links
Other pages I have created or improved over the last 12 months are listed here. Icons denote:
 * Symbol question.svg = I've successfully nominated the page for DYK
 * Globe current.svg = I've improved (and sometimes nominated) a page that has appeared in the "Recent deaths" section on the main page
 * Women_in_Red_logo.svg = this is the Women in Red icon and denotes where the article is about a woman or a group of women
 * Koru flag.svg = a koru which denotes where the article is about someone of Māori or Pasifika heritage

New Zealand literature

 * Randell Cottage Writers' Residency (created by me) Symbol question.svg
 * Michalia Arathimos (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Fiona Kidman (improved to B-class from Start-class) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (improved to B-class from Start-class) Koru flag.svg
 * Rebecca K Reilly (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * New Zealand Women Writers' Society (created by me) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Alice Glenday (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Gina Cole (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Arapera Blank Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Celia Manson (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Joanna Preston (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Melanie Drewery (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * International Institute of Modern Letters (created by me) Symbol question.svg
 * Kirsten McDougall (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Geoff Cochrane (created by me) Globe current.svg
 * Dinah Hawken (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Mihi Edwards (created by me) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Cathie Dunsford (created by me) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Roger Robinson (academic) (created by me) Symbol question.svg
 * Ann Beaglehole (created by me) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Denis Baker (created by me)
 * Russell Kirkpatrick (improved to C-class from Start-class)
 * Christine McElwee (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Mikaela Nyman (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg

New Zealand

 * H. H. Clifford (created by me)
 * Geraldine McDonald (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Russell Kerr (choreographer) Globe current.svg
 * Moana Jackson (improved to C-class from Start-class) Globe current.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Women's Gallery Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Fantail Falls (created by me)
 * Stacey Leilua (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Molima Molly Pihigia (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Maewa Kaihau (created by me) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Tāme Iti (improved to B-class from C-class) Koru flag.svg
 * Jonathan White (painter) (assisted new user with getting this page through AFC, after it was declined twice)
 * Kōhine Pōnika (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Myra Larcombe (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Inez Kingi (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Joan Fear (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Judy Pickard (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications (created by me)
 * Christine Harvey (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Maurice Bennett (improved to B-class from Start-class)
 * Pania Newton (improved to C-class from Stub) Symbol question.svg Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Katerina Nēhua (improved to C-class from Stub, added photo) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg
 * Titewhai Harawira (improved to C-class from Start-class) Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg Globe current.svg
 * Pauline Stansfield (created by me) Women_in_Red_logo.svg
 * Georgina Beyer Women_in_Red_logo.svg Koru flag.svg Globe current.svg