User:DrThneed

A Brit, living in New Zealand, I have a scientific editing background. I have interests in all sorts of things, but especially women in science, women in New Zealand, science in New Zealand, and history. From the beginning of 2022, I have been mostly working on the NZThesisProject.

I was at WikiCon in Hokitika in March 2021, and Auckland in July 2022, and Wellington in March 2023, and Wikimania in Singapore in 2023.

Conflict of interest statement
I am a (very) part-time employee of the University of Otago Department of Anatomy, where I edit publications or grant proposals. My paid work does not involve editing Wikimedia. When I am editing Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons I always strive to abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me through my talk page.

To do:

 * 1) Birthday honours in Wikidata 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020,  2019, 2018 , 2017, and back
 * 2) New Year honours 2024, 2023, 2022 , 2021 , 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and back
 * 3) Female FRSNZs with no Wikipedia page (as at April 2023, 2024): NONE!!!
 * 4) Add new professors to Wikidata as they are announced in 2023 for 2024: Auckland, AUT , Canterbury, Massey , Otago , Lincoln, VUW, Waikato
 * 5) Rutherford Discovery fellows for 2023
 * 6) Robert Burns fellows in Wikidata Robert Burns Fellowship
 * 7) Frances Hodgkins Fellows in Wikidata Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
 * 8) Caroline Plummer Fellowship (needs Wp page, Wd creation, then list) Wp page not done
 * 9) University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellow
 * 10) NZIFST fellows and honorary fellows into Wikidata, page for NZIFST itself and note other awards such as JC Andrews award
 * 11) Emeritus professors at University of Auckland, AUT (not in calendar), Canterbury, Massey (2021 done, can't read calendar) , Otago,  Lincoln, VUW,  Waikato
 * 12) Jane Prichard, Patricia Bradbury (Massey), Tere Gilbert (Waikato), Deborah Manning (KiwiHarvest), Gretchen Kivell (1st woman president Engineering NZ), Paddy Walker (1st Pacific councillor Auckland, OBE), Deborah Kennedy Gilbertson CNZM, Ruth Lilian Spearing CNZM, Catherine Mary Andrew ONZM, Florence Joyce Cowan (midwife)
 * 13) Council protected buildings list - cross-check with Wikidata, add missing items, find way to record items on council list as opposed to HNZ list.
 * 14) In progress pages: Karole Hogarth waiting Wd tools, Mary Isabel Turnbull, first female humanities academic at Otago (related to Barbara Calvert), Orpheus Beaumont lifejacket inventor.
 * 15) Find more professors: check Wikidata against lists at Auckland, AUT , Massey, Waikato , Lincoln, Canterbury , Victoria, Otago

Monthly reports
Accumulated monthly reports to Aotearoa Online meeting for 2023 and 2024

Page creations
Biographies of women all 2024 entries now at 1woman1day2024 list


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Performing arts project:


 * 1) Kila Kokonut Krew
 * 2) Massive Theatre Company
 * 3) Oamaru Opera House
 * 4) That Bloody Woman
 * 5) James Reach
 * 6) Nga Tangata Toa
 * 7) Kia mau Festival
 * 8) New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing
 * 9) Annual Auckland Theatre Awards
 * 10) Luke Di Somma
 * 11) Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute
 * 12) Playhouse Theatre, Dunedin
 * 13) Suitcase Theatre
 * 14) Dunedin Theatre Awards
 * 15) Arthur Meek (playwright)
 * 16) Rob Mokaraka
 * 17) The Prophet
 * 18) Dance Aotearoa New Zealand
 * 19) Centrepoint Theatre
 * 20) Waiora Te Ūkaipō - The Homeland
 * 21) Mitch Tawhi Thomas
 * 22) Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
 * 23) Wow! Productions
 * 24) Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards - begun
 * 25) Taane Mete - stub
 * 26) Jason Te Kare - stub/start
 * 27) Wednesday to Come
 * 28) Pass It On (play)
 * 29) Allen Hall Theatre
 * 30) Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies
 * 31) Playwrights Association of New Zealand

Science/FRSNZ/NZ professors:


 * 1) Hill Tinsley Medal
 * 2) Cranwell Medal
 * 3) Pickering Medal
 * 4) Hutton Medal,
 * 5) Ichneutica virescens
 * 6) New Zealand Microbiology Network
 * 7) Ian Town
 * 8) Rutherford Discovery Fellowships
 * 9) New Zealand Society of Animal Production
 * 10) Centre of Research Excellence (New Zealand)
 * 11) New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
 * 12) National Science Challenge
 * 13) BRANZ
 * 14) James Cook Research Fellowship
 * 15) New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology
 * 16) Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowships
 * 17) Aitken Lectureship
 * 18) New Zealand Veterinary Association

Otago: Otago Regional Herbarium, Dunedin Writers' Walk, Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, Robert Chisholm (mayor), Otago Youth Adventure Trust, David R. Murdoch, Former Trinity Methodist Church, Dunedin, Olveston (complete rewrite rather than page creation), Caselberg Trust, Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall

Dunedin & other architects: Harry Mandeno Pages needed: Roy Henderson Fraser of Mandeno and Fraser. Wales of Mason and Wales? David Ross (link on Mason page). Also Christchurch architect Roy Lovell-Smith

Dunedin mayors, other politics: Andrew Mercer, Henry John Walter, Keith Ramsay, Richard Henry Leary, John Bryce Thomson, William Parker Street, Arthur Scoullar, John Barnes, John Carroll, Charles Robert Chapman (needs photo); Lawrence Xu-Nan, Scott Willis, Francisco Hernandez (politician)

West Coast:


 * Ebenezer Teichelmann
 * Kotuku Model Bungalow, Blacks Point Museum, Karamea Centennial Museum
 * Hokitika Customhouse
 * Statue of Richard Seddon, Hokitika, Government Buildings, Hokitika
 * All Saints' Church, St James Church, Franz Josef, St Andrew's United Church, Hokitika‎
 * Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library in Westport, Karamea War Memorial Library, H. E. Holland Memorial Library in Seddonville, Grey District Library in Greymouth

Slave traders & slavery-related: James H. Birch, Thomas Tyndall, John Tarleton (slave trader), William Challoner, William Swymmer, William Hayman, James Ewing of Strathleven; Members of the Society of Merchant Venturers: Sir David James Vernon Wills, 5th Baronet, Joseph Matamata

Random things: Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro, Italian geologist and paleontologist, Taeniogyrus dunedinensis, Women's World, Office of the Chief Freshwater Commissioner

RSNZ 150: 150 women in 150 words

New Zealanders: Adrian Hailwood

Dancers: Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli (librettist and plagiarist)

Media awards: 2019 Voyager Media Awards, 2018 Voyager Media Awards, 2017 Canon Media Awards, 2016 Canon Media Awards, 2015 Canon Media Awards

List of New Zealand Art Awards, NEXT Woman of the Year awards, List of historic places in Buller District, List of historic places in Grey District, List of historic places in Hokitika

Education: Bill Renwick, Keith Sheen, Ned Dobbs, William Dawbin

Dunedin City Council Archives images
Adding images to Commons, using on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Beginning 28 May 2020.


 * Added Roslyn Borough Councillors 1912 to commons, cropped image of B Hooper and added to Basil Hooper page
 * Uploaded John Hyde Harris image and added to his Wp page
 * Uploaded Henry Smith Fish
 * Uploaded Andrew Mercer, added to Mayors of Dunedin page, created Andrew Mercer stub and added image, create wikidata and linked image
 * Ditto Henry John Walter, Keith Ramsay, Richard Henry Leary, John Bryce Thomson, William Parker Street, Arthur Scoullar
 * John Carroll (and added picture of Carroll's Hotel being demolished)
 * John Barnes
 * Added Charles Stephen Reeves image to existing page, and put in wikidata. Same for Thomas Birch and John Roberts

Notes to self, and useful links

 * Phoebe Myers for external image box
 * Infoboxes generated from wikidata see Template:Infobox person/Wikidata
 * Images: check Alexander Turnbull Tiaki
 * Images: check Hocken Collections
 * Images: check Governor-General site
 * Archives Archway
 * Auckland Libraries heritage images https://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/pages/heritage-photographs.aspx
 * GLAMorgan tool for seeing image use over time
 * Theatre group meetups happened: Hocken: (Editathon 10 July), 28 July, 3 Aug, 11 Aug, 18 Aug, Library: ??, Nova, 10 Nov, 1 Dec, 13 Dec

150 women
Out of 150 women, 24 had start or better quality pages with an image of the person. This leaves 126 to be created or improved. /150 women in 150 words project page assessments

Did You Know nominations
All my Did you know nominations: User:DrThneed/Did you know nominations for easy counting
 * Nominated Foulden Maar for DYK. Was in DYK 13 June 2019 (8,392 views)
 * Nominated Ibrahim Omer and 18 other new MPs 30? October 2020
 * Nominated Mary Aldis January 2021 (image, 10,269 views)
 * Nominated Ebenezer Teichelmann February 2021 (pic, 3,977 views)
 * Nominated Rosalie Carey May 2021 (10 July, no pic, 599 views)
 * Nominated Honor McKellar nom May 2021 (14 June, 2,475 views)
 * Nominated That Bloody Woman May 2021 (14 June, 1,250 views)
 * Carla Van Zon (written by but not nominated by me) May 2021 (26 June, 1,865 views)
 * Nominated Allen Hall Theatre and Lisa Warrington (11 August 2021, 1,387 views and 1,552 respectively)
 * Nominated Anne Wyllie (image for half the time, 12 October 2021, 42,308 views)
 * Janet Wilmshurst (30 Oct 21, 3,698 views)
 * Women's World (18 March 22, 2,180 views)
 * Keith Sheen (9 September 2022, 3,763 views)
 * Bill Renwick (17 September, 6,163 views in 24 hours)
 * Ned Dobbs (27 September, 5,830 views in 24 hours)
 * Lynda Simmons (20 May 2023, 1,523 views in 12 hours)
 * Vanessa Weenink and x others
 * Catherine Wedd - 3,734
 * Tom Rutherford - done
 * Tim Costley - done
 * Hamish Campbell - done

Unused or in progress QPQs

 * Stuart Memorial, Dunedin for Carol Mutch

Listeria lists and other user space stuff:
Web2Cit


 * Worklist for Web2Cit

Critter of the week

 * Critter of the week test page
 * Critter of the week Listeria list
 * Critter of the week Listeria tables by class

Architecture

 * Heritage buildings in Hokitika
 * Heritage buildings in Dunedin
 * Delisted heritage buildings in New Zealand
 * Women in architecture Listeria
 * User:DrThneed/Template for category I places

Awards winners

 * Alexander Allan Cameron to be translated
 * Recipients of the Queen Elisabeth Medal
 * Winners of the NZ Women of Influence awards
 * Listeria for recipients of New Year Honours
 * 544 people (men and women) were given a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. As of 27 July 2021, 93 of the Suffrage Centennial Medal awardees have a Wikipedia page, 451 do not. https://w.wiki/3gk$ 7 of those have an image.
 * As of 1 Dec 2021, 443 do not have a Wikipedia page.
 * As of 5 Dec 2022, 436 do not have a Wikipedia page.
 * As of 6 May 2023, 115 people have pages (429 do not).

Academics

 * Female professors at NZ institutions
 * Emeritus professors at NZ institutions
 * FRSNZs with images and death dates
 * Template for academic bios
 * Listeria for 150 women project (to turn into list articles)

Tools

 * Tool: Page views of user created pages
 * FindLink tool https://edwardbetts.com/find_link/

Workflows

 * Bio for female academic