User:David Nind/Progress Report

2024
May 2024


 * General Wikipedia activities:
 * 18: Ink on Paper Edit-a-thon: mainly wikidata - updated Wikidata items for, ,  ; added wikidata items for reference books , ; updated Open Library entry for Ink on Paper (fixed publisher, added work information, added cover, added more IDs) and the author, Peter Vangioni
 * 09: Updated wikidata item for, added commons category and uploaded photo from investiture for QSM
 * 03: Updated Wikidata item for
 * Wikisource:
 * 11- : Adventures of Kimble Bent: validating pages
 * 11-16: Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove: validating pages, completed 16 May 2024
 * 9-11: Index to Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (1 to 40): validating pages
 * 10: The geology of the Oamaru District, North Otago (Eastern Otago Division): setup index page, added Wikidata item, updated commons category page for book and author (author linked to wrong Wikidata item), started on plate pages, updated Wikidata item for
 * 4: "Red" Fed. Memoirs: fixed two image plates, uploaded updated plate pages to commons, transcluded pages, added table of contents
 * 1-3: Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury: proofing pages, completed proofing 2 May 2024, added Wikisource author page, updated Wikidata item

April 2024

March 2024
 * 26-30: Wikisource:
 * Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury: created PDF with OCR layer (using Abbyy FineReader 15), proofing pages
 * 21-27: Wikisource:
 * Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas: validating, completed 27 April (a few things left to tidy up)
 * Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (March Proofread of the Month): validating (about two pages a day);
 * 05-20: Wikisource:
 * Castaway on the Auckland Isles completed validating (mini TOC to index page, improving Wikidata items, consistency, checks)
 * Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Indexes to Volumes 1–40 + Voumes 41–51: valdiating (about one page a day for each)
 * Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (March Proofread of the Month): validating (about two pages a day)
 * 02-04: Wikisource: completed valdiating pages Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (also did some consistency checks, added page breaks for transcluded work, changed status to all validated)
 * 01: Wikisource: started validating Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (being worked on collaboratively, other contributors also validating pages)
 * 01: Commons: - added institution template, Commons category, and improved Wikidata item


 * 31: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup. Notes from the last meeting completed. Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
 * 29-31: Wikisource: Moving Picture Boys on the Coast - validating pages
 * 26: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
 * 22: Wikipedia: minor edits to Ian P. Griffin's page - separated out awards and honours
 * 3, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
 * 03: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup
 * 03: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
 * 03: Commons: depicts statements to Benmore dam category items

February 2024


 * 10: Wikipedia: updated OpenBoard software release information
 * 04, 06, 26: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
 * 04: Attended Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup

January 2024


 * 25: Added ISC Fellow award to
 * 22:
 * Added Michael King Writer's Fellowship award to Danny Keenan and Wikidata item
 * Improved entries for and, including Open Library entry
 * 21: Wikisource - some pages for Castaway on the Auckland Isles
 * 20: Commons - edited/sorted categories for Anderson House, Invercargill and Invercargill Public Art Gallery (originally housed in Anderson House but now located elsewhere)
 * 19: Added wikidata item for and added entry book  and
 * 16-20: Updated all existing items with, including amendments to entries


 * 13: Wikisource: Transactions: Index to volumes 1-40
 * 11: Various items:
 * Added
 * Spent some time on updating (previously NZ Museums ID) - URL doesn't update for existing items, query posted
 * Updated - added Mastodon ID
 * Te Papa Mix'n'Match - had a go
 * 01: Wikisource - completed validation of pages for Girls of Central High on the Stage

2023
June 2023

May 2023
 * 24: Work on pages for the Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15, and a few pages for the Wikisource Monthly Challenge
 * 23: Now ready for transclusion! The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon (including fixing up my error with footnotes, and finished a quick QA check of pages)
 * 22: Finished validating pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and started a quick QA and consistency check of pages
 * 21: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15
 * 20:
 * Wikisoure: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon, and The case for women's suffrage + Doom of the Great City (Wikisource monthly challenge)
 * Transactions project: Commons - created category pages for Edward Sayers and Alan Kirton, moved and re-categorised images, and updated Wikidata items
 * : used author dismabiguator to identify some publications, added Scholia template to Wikipedia article, add Wikidata infobox to Wikipedia, add Authority control template to Wikipedia article, added category page for images in Commons, improved Wikidata item
 * 19: Added, proofread, and transcluded Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012
 * 19: Started documenting properties used for NZ Acts in Wikidata - still a WIP
 * 17-19: Added depicts statements in Commons to the NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts.
 * 17-19: Improved (and added where required) Wikidata items for NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts and Amendment Acts:
 * 13:
 * Spent some time trying to work out the categories for NZ legislation - some 2,000 odd NZ Acts are in the same category, would be nice if you could browse them by name and year to make them easier to locate. Used the Cat-a-lot to bulk move items to different categories.
 * Improved Wikidata item for (from new Wikipedia article), including differentiating her from
 * 11: Added, proofread, and transcluded New Zealand Institute Act 1908
 * 9: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
 * 7: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1867
 * 6: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1903, New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930, Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933, and Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964
 * 13:
 * Spent some time trying to work out the categories for NZ legislation - some 2,000 odd NZ Acts are in the same category, would be nice if you could browse them by name and year to make them easier to locate. Used the Cat-a-lot to bulk move items to different categories.
 * Improved Wikidata item for (from new Wikipedia article), including differentiating her from
 * 11: Added, proofread, and transcluded New Zealand Institute Act 1908
 * 9: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
 * 7: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1867
 * 6: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1903, New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930, Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933, and Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964
 * 7: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1867
 * 6: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1903, New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930, Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933, and Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964
 * 28: Validated a page for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933


 * 20: Attended Meetup/Dunedin 6
 * 1: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Index to Volumes 1–40

April 2023

March 2023
 * 30: Validated pages for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1965
 * 12: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute - Volume 1 (2nd ed.), Transactions NZ Institute Volume 2; fixed pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon


 * 11: Added depicts statements in Commons to images for Suzanne Aubert
 * 11-12: Attended Wellington WikiCon 2023
 * 5: Attended Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/34

February 2023


 * 11: Participated in the Meetup/Dunedin 5
 * Added depicts statements in Commons to Bugs of the Year images in their category pages using the SDC tool
 * 5: Attended Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/33

2022
Didn't keep this up-to-date during 2022 - mainly worked on the Wikisource West Coast Project

August 2022
 * 10: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
 * 9: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
 * 7–8: Wikisource - proofread (including OCR) all of Reuben and other poems

Got a bit slack updating from April 2021 to July 2022!

2021
May 2021
 * 25-29: Added and improved Children's Commissioner and related Wikidata items
 * - included adding office holders and creating office holders that didn't have a Wikidata item
 * , (added),, , ,  (added),  (added)
 * Book and edition for (added) and author  (added)
 * Added thesis for John Angus
 * Events:
 * Wikimedia Aotearoa Online meeting
 * Wikipedia Wellington Meetup
 * Wikipedia Wellington Meetup


 * Other:
 * Lisa Maule - Wikidata sessions x2 (setting up Zotero to add Wikidata items, adding Wikidata items for books and editions, Cite Q)

April 2021


 * Sun 4: Improved Wikidata item for (missing VIAF IDs)
 * Mon 5: Improved Wikidata item for,  (missing VIAF IDs)
 * Tue 13: Added Wikidata item for winner of Science Teacher Prize for 2020 to Prime Minister's Science Prizes, improved Wikidata item for


 * Tue 20: Improved Wikidata item for
 * Events:
 * 10 April: Wellington Meetup (in person)
 * 20 April: National Library - Staunch identifiers and frilly descriptions: making collections discoverable and usable, Nicola Frean
 * 24 April: Wikipedia Weekly

March 2021

 * Sat 13:
 * Wikipedia: update to George Hudson - reverted birth date change


 * Sun 21: Improved Wikidata item for (missing VIAF IDs)


 * Events:
 * 13 March: Attended in person Wellington Meetup
 * 14 March: Attended Wikipedia Weekly - Wikidata Editing #34
 * 20-21 March: WikiCon West Coast in Hokitika

February 2021

 * Mon 1:
 * Wikidata: expanded
 * Tue 2:
 * Wikidata property: SOUNZ contributor ID (P9136) now added
 * Sun 7:
 * Wikidata: expanded (more identifiers)
 * Fri 12:
 * Tools: added UseAsRef user script


 * Sat 13:
 * Event: attended Wellington Meetup
 * Sun 14:
 * Wikidata: expanded (more identifiers),, , , ; added  and linked to those who have held the role , , ; added


 * Mon 22:
 * Wikidata: added, expanded , , , , ,


 * Sun 28:
 * Wikidata: expanded
 * Events: attended Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand Online meeting

January 2021

 * Wed 6:
 * Tweeted step by step guide about more identifiers Wikidata user script
 * Sat 9:
 * Learning: Listened to RNZ interview with Jimmy Wales
 * Sun 10:
 * Wikidata: expanded, (more awards), , , , , , , , , , , , ; author disambiguation for
 * Open Library: added books and tidied up entries for Angus Macfarlane
 * Created proposal for NZ Museums ID
 * Tue 12:
 * Wikidata: expanded, , , (work on awards and thesis); added  (thesis)
 * Wed 13:
 * Wikidata: expanded, , - added thesis statement; added  (thesis)
 * Thu 14:
 * Wikidata: expanded ,
 * Commons: SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
 * Fri 15:
 * Meetings: attended Wikimedia Australia's 20th birthday online celebrations - great presentation by Mike of the West Coast Wikimedian at Large project
 * Wikidata: expanded, ,
 * Sat 16:
 * Meetings: attended 16 January 2021 meetup
 * Wikidata: expanded, , , , , - added OpenCorporates ID; author disambiguation for
 * Commons: created category pages for photos taken by Tom Category:Martinborough Post Office; SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
 * Sun 17:
 * Meetings and events: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #27
 * Wikidata: expanded, , , , ; added
 * Commons: added categories for photos taken by Tom Category:Bank of New Zealand, Martinborough Category:Rostgard’s Drapery (Former), ; SDC depicts for St Gerard's Church and Monastery
 * Other:
 * updated Wellington 16 January 2021 meetup notes
 * InternetNZ article: updated Etherpad, added progress to the talk page
 * Wikipedia: spent sometime updating the NetHui article - tidied up, reorganised, updated the description, added the list of past conferences held by year with starting information, added some references and marked those that still need one (many), added improvement notes to the talk page, minor updates to the Wikidata item.
 * Mon 18:
 * Meetings and events: Aotearoa New Zealand Editor Support (some great tips about templates and #1Lib1Ref)
 * Wikidata: expanded and improved, , , , ,
 * Wikipedia:
 * created template for recipients of the Hutton Medal and started adding to articles for recipients
 * worked out how to use Cite Q to add as an item as a reference (see George Hudson (entomologist))
 * Fri 22:
 * NZ Museums ID property approved and setup!
 * Tue 26:
 * Data for NZ Museums ID scrapped from the NZ Museums website, see Google Spreadsheet
 * Began reconciling to Wikidata using OpenRefine
 * Wed 27:
 * Progress on NZ Museums ID - used TABernacle, about 22% of IDs added to existing Wikidata items
 * Wikidata: expanded
 * Sun 31:
 * Wikidata: expanded, (expanded ), ,
 * Other: added and editions to the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary, along with IDs to Wikidata items