Wikipedia:GLAM/NZOpera

New Zealand Opera is New Zealand's only full-time professional opera company, and as such has a significant archive of information and photos relating to the history of opera in the country. Opera in New Zealand is woefully covered in Wikipedia and Commons! This project is a place to coordinate efforts to improve that.

Wikipedian in Residence 2021
A Wikipedian in Residence, much like an artist in residence, is an experienced Wikipedia editor who works within an institution. The Wikipedian in Residence can improve the coverage and accuracy of Wikidata and Wikipedia articles related to the institution's area of interest, facilitate the donation of photos and other media to Wikimedia Commons, advocate for the use of open licenses, and organise the volunteer community to help in public events such as edit-a-thons. New Zealand Opera was the first opera company in the world to partner with a Wikipedian in Residence.

Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds) was the Wikipedian in Residence for New Zealand Opera from January to August 2021, undertaking a collaborative project to improve the coverage of Māori and Pasifika in opera. This was a paid position, working 1–2 days a month, supported by a grant from the Stout Trust managed by Perpetual Guardian. Some work was done remotely, including during lockdown, and some during visits to Auckland and Wellington to work with physical archives. Also assisting were the four-month WikiProject run by Pakoire, and volunteers DrThneed and Jonathanischoice.

The residency focussed specifically on the role of Māori and Pasifika in opera, using the resources, photo archives, and publications of NZ Opera and its predecessors Auckland Opera, Wellington City Opera, and Southern Opera. During the residency it became clear that the coverage of opera in New Zealand by Wikimedia projects was so poor that a large amount of fundamental work was required, and there was scope for an expanded follow-up project.

Wikipedia created

 * Wellington City Opera
 * National Opera of New Zealand
 * New Zealand Opera Company
 * Opera in New Zealand (draft)
 * Phillip Rhodes (baritone)
 * Benson Wilson
 * Hōhepa
 * Madison Nonoa
 * Natasha Wilson
 * Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator
 * Category:Pasifika opera singers

Wikipedia improved
Unless noted, these had photos added from the NZ Opera collection. • New Zealand Opera (substantially expanded and updated)

• The Magic Flute

• Faust (opera)

• The Turn of the Screw

• The Turn of the Screw (opera)

• The Human Voice

• La voix humaine

• Eight Songs for a Mad King

• Sara Brodie

• Elizabeth Whiting

• Costume design

• Scenic design

• Costume designer

• Célestine Hitiura Vaite (noted her opera involvement)

• Category:Māori opera singers

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Wikimedia Commons categories created and photos uploaded
The Institution:New Zealand Opera page template was created for photos from its collections. The following categories were created; the number of uploaded photos are noted. • Category:Opera in New Zealand

• Category:Opera houses in New Zealand

• Category:Opera companies in New Zealand

• Category:NZ Opera (1)

• Category:The Magic Flute (New Zealand Opera 2006) (5)

• Category:The Magic Flute (New Zealand Opera 2016) (52)

• Category:Faust (New Zealand Opera 2006) (18)

• Category:Hōhepa (New Zealand Opera 2012) (25)

• Category:Semele (New Zealand Opera 2020) (19)

• Category:The Human Voice (New Zealand Opera 2020) (12)

• Category:The Turn of the Screw (New Zealand Opera 2019) (49)

• Category:Eight Songs for a Mad King (New Zealand Opera 2020) (13)

• Category:Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator (New Zealand Opera 2021) (13)

• Holly Mathieson

• Patricia Wright

• Jared Holt

• Madeleine Pierard

• Fiona McAndrew

• Amanda Atlas

• Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson

• Samuel Dundas

• Sara Brodie

• Madison Nonoa

• Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua

• John Verryt

• Elizabeth Whiting

• Paul Whelan

• Natasha Wilson

• Amitai PatiThe tool GLAMorgan can estimate the reach of photos uploaded to Commons, by totalling the number of unique page views for the articles on which they appear. In August 2021, for example, Category:New Zealand Opera photos were seen by 109,107 people (including 27,390 for photos in the article The Turn of the Screw and 18,723 in The Magic Flute). A total of 76 pages used NZ Opera photos, including Wikipedia articles in English, Russian, Arabic, Hungarian, and French.

Articles to work on
Some of these were created or improved during the 2021 Wikipedian in Residence term; there is still plenty to do

Other singers that could do with additional photos and information include Īnia Te Wīata, Donald McIntyre, Kiri Te Kanawa, Malvina Major, Simon O'Neill, and Jonathan Lemalu. Some of the singers in Southern Voices like Noel Mangin (Q6152001) and Anson Austin (Q107638410) have no English Wikipedia article at all, and some like Rodney Macann aren't even in Wikidata.

Works

 * Marama, and its star Merekotia Amohau

Commons categories and uploads

 * Category:Opera vocalists from New Zealand

Needed: photos of performers, especially ensemble photos of emerging artists like this one, which are so useful for Wikidata and article infoboxes.

Diary

 * Creating project page
 * Working out initial list of topics to create or improve with the help of NZ Opera


 * Library research


 * Created the references and  and authors,  and  in Wikidata. Improved , ,.
 * Created Wellington City Opera,, , , , , and.
 * Created National Opera of New Zealand, New Zealand Opera Company
 * Drafted Opera in New Zealand


 * Created the references, , , and
 * Created and Phillip Rhodes (baritone)
 * Created, uploaded photos to Category:The Magic Flute, and added them to The Magic Flute article. Created NZ Opera category in Commons. Expanded New Zealand Opera with references from print archives.
 * Created, uploaded photos to Category:Faust, and added them to Faust (opera).
 * Created


 * Created Benson Wilson
 * Created, , , , , , , and
 * Uploaded photos to Category:Hōhepa (New Zealand Opera 2012)
 * Uploaded photos to Category:Semele (New Zealand Opera 2020)
 * Created, , and
 * Uploaded photos to Category:The Turn of the Screw (New Zealand Opera 2019) and created categories for Holly Mathieson, Patricia Wright, Jared Holt, and Madeleine Pierard.
 * Deployed Turn of the Screw photos to The Turn of the Screw, The Turn of the Screw (opera),, , Holly Mathieson, New Zealand Opera, the opera characters , , , , , , and.
 * Created
 * Created, , and . Uploaded photos to Category:The Human Voice (New Zealand Opera 2020) and created categories for the opera itself, Fiona McAndrew and Amanda Atlas. Added photos to The Human Voice and La voix humaine.
 * Improved, created , . Uploaded photos to its NZ Opera category, added photos to Wikidata items and to Eight Songs for a Mad King.


 * Created and Hōhepa.
 * Created Madison Nonoa and
 * Created, , , , , and
 * Created Commons categories Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson, Samuel Dundas, Sara Brodie, Madison Nonoa, Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua, John Verryt, Elizabeth Whiting, and added photos to articles about Sara Brodie, Elizabeth Whiting, and Madison Nonoa.
 * Added Magic Flute photos to the articles Costume design, Scenic design, Costume designer.
 * Created, , and Natasha Wilson
 * Created, , , and
 * Created c:Category:Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator (New Zealand Opera 2021) and a category for the opera, as well as image categories for Paul Whelan, Natasha Wilson, and Amatai Pati. Created Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator and added note to article about Célestine Hitiura Vaite.
 * Report prepared.