Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/January 2019 Report


 * After returning to Wellington on January 8th, I've been based in the Scholar's Office in the National Library of New Zealand. I've made several presentations to staff, met with different teams, and run weekly drop-in sessions. We're looking at the following projects:
 * Uploading 68 high resolution George Raper watercolours from 1788–1790
 * Creating a "NLNZ person" Wikidata property and adding 2000 records to Mix'n'Match
 * Nearly 80,000 1920–1988 photographs, mostly aerial photography, to be released under CC0 or CC BY licences
 * An event in Whanganui later this year to celebrate the extension of Papers Past coverage from 1920 to 1950
 * Meetings with the Department of Conservation to discuss moving parts of their image library to Commons, and creating a pilot project of nearly 2000 scanned slides of the Subantarctics by P.J. Moors. Revising the TCS article and templates.
 * Several small meetups and workshops, and a well-publicised event hosted by the National Library to work on NZ comics and cartoon artists; a follow up edit-a-thon will be happening in March.

= Meetings =
 * 11 Jan: Alexander Turnbull Library team to plan events
 * Jan 16, 23, and 30: Drop-in Wikipedia/Wikidata/Commons sessions for National Library staff on Wednesday afternoons
 * 16 Jan: Will Brockelsby and Rosie Goble, Department of Conservation, re Critter of the Week and the Moors photo upload project
 * 22 Jan: Turnbull library staff and Ambrosia10 to discuss Mix-n-Match upload of 2000 person records
 * 22 Jan: Jay Buzenberg and Oliver Stead to organise Raper watercolor upload
 * 24 Jan: BRANZ staff to plan future Wikimedia collaboration
 * 25 Jan: Jeremy Rolfe and Fathima Iftikar at DOC re the TCS system's future API and uploading a plant photo collection to Commons with Pattypan
 * 25 Jan: Marnie Prickett of Choose Clean Water to plan an event in Palmerston North
 * 29 Jan: NLNZ Digitisation team re Papers Past expanding to 1950 in the coming financial year and a possible Whanganui event to celebrate this
 * 30 Jan: Federated Farmers to discuss how they can legitimately interact with Wikipedia
 * 31 Jan: Michael Brown, Curator Music: possible summer student internship to work on NZ music articles?

= Presentations =
 * 17 Jan: Coffee and a Byte: How Wikipedia really works • National Library staff (c. 50) • National Library of NZ, Wellington
 * 25 Jan: Wikipedia for libraries • Alexander Turnbull Library staff (40) • National Library of NZ
 * 31 Jan: What Wikipedia means for libraries and archives • LIANZ, ARANZ and public (40) • National Library of NZ

= Workshops =
 * 13 Jan: Historic Buildings in Wikidata • Wellington City Archives, 28 Barker St, Wellington • Meetup/Wellington/Wikidata 1
 * 22 Jan: Threatened Species Wikiblitz • Sprig & Fern, 342 Tinakori Rd, Thorndon, Wellington • Meetup/Wellington/Wikiblitz 1
 * 26 Jan: NZ Comics and Cartoon Edit-a-thon • National Library • Meetup/Wellington/NZ Comics and Cartoons
 * 30 Jan: Wellington Botanic Garden Wikiblitz • Wellington City Archives • Meetup/Wellington/Wikiblitz 2

= Meetups =
 * 12 Jan: Wikibrunch: Critter of the Week • Home Cafe, National Library, Wellington • WP:WGTN5
 * 15 Jan: Wiki in the Pub: Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! • Dragonfly, 70 Courtenay Place, Wellington
 * 20 Jan: Wellington Wikipedians Meetup • Loretta, 181 Cuba St, Wellington • WP:WGTN6

= Media coverage =
 * Stead, Oliver. (24 Jan 2019). "A beautiful milestone". National Library of New Zealand blog.
 * Dickison, Mike. (30 Jan 2019). "New Zealand Cartoonist and Comics Artist Wikipedia edit-a-thon". National Library of New Zealand blog.