User talk:Middleislander

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Middleislander! Thank you for your contributions. I am Oronsay and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. If you wish to contact me on this page, please use  such that I get notified of your request. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oronsay (talk) 13:12, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
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Upcoming on the West Coast
Here are some events coming up on the West Coast you might be interested in.

Greymouth Wikipedia Meetup


 * Grey District Library, 18 Albert St, Greymouth
 * Saturday 30 January 2021
 * 1:00–4:00 pm
 * Tea and (good) coffee supplied, bring something to share for afternoon tea

Hokitika Wikipedia Meetup


 * History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
 * Saturday 13 February 2021
 * 1:00–4:00 pm


 * Tea, coffee, and biscuits supplied. Feel free to drop for any part of the time.

These are part of a series of monthly meetups we’ll be running in Greymouth and Hokitika. See the West Coast Task Force project for more ways to get involved.

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Introducing Wikisource • a seminar by Andrew Wooding


 * Digital Learning Centre, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell Street, Hokitika
 * Wednesday 10 February 2021, 3:00–4:30
 * Afternoon tea provided

Please RSVP to mike.dickison@westlib.co.nz

An introduction to Wikisource, a free repository of digitised out-of-copyright books uploaded and proofread by volunteers, and what this means for New Zealand libraries and museums.

Wikisource, a sister project to Wikipedia, is an online repository of free, out-of-copyright books anyone can read or download. The books have been scanned, transcribed, and proofread by multiple volunteers to create a computer-readable and searchable document. Wikisource can also import books already scanned by the Internet Archive, which includes numerous New Zealand works. Volunteers can help with basic proofreading, verification, and formatting of each others’ work. There’s significant potential for Wikisource as a place to host New Zealand works for free, and enlist the help of an international team of volunteers to transcribe them. Andrew Wooding is a Wikisource admin and has been volunteering with the project for over ten years; he most recently assisted the National Library of Scotland with a COVID lockdown project where staff transcribed nearly 3000 pamphlets from the collection. Andrew is visiting the West Coast and has kindly agreed to give this free seminar for anyone interested.

See this blog post for an example of WikiSource being used to digitise an out-of-copyright book of West Coast history.

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West Coast WikiCon


 * Hokitika (venues at Como House, 51 Tancred Street and the Digital Learning Centre, Westland District Library)
 * Sat–Sun 20–21 March 2021
 * Registration will be just $20, with a mixture of presentations, skill sharing, and editing events for Wikipedians.