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




 * While in Dunedin I ran workshops for local GLAM staff, organised an edit-a-thon on the history of Otago Museum, and began an upload of the museum's collection images (hampered by some metadata and export problems). At the end of my time in Dunedin I was invited to attend the excavation of seven moa footprints at Kyeburn. Although none of the amazing video and images have yet entered Commons, I've been assured by the museum that this will be happening…


 * For most of the month I was based at the University of Canterbury Arts Digital Lab, where I gave public talks, workshops with university staff, and began a project on the Residential Red Zone (a post-Chch Earthquake site).


 * I collaborated with Tim Jones of Christchurch Art Gallery on a talk and workshop on getting NZ artists into Wikipedia. After presenting on Wikidata at a GLAM meetup, two proposed the Wikidata property Find NZ Artists ID, and I organised a Mix'n'Match upload of 4751 names from that database.


 * At the first meetup of Christchurch Wikipedians for some time, we finally agreed on a plan for creating a NZ Wikimedia User Group.


 * A meeting with iNaturalist NZ team had been planned for a long time, and there was a very positive reception to working more with Wikimedia and making large numbers of nature photography available under an open licence.


 * In May the North Face marketing scandal broke, and after tweeting about it I ended up being mentioned in some of the media coverage.

Presentations

 * Thu 2 May: Wikipedia for Outreach • Dept of Zoology, 340 Great King St, Dunedin • (25) Otago Entomology Society
 * Tue 14 May: How do we get New Zealand artists into Wikipedia? • (12) public • Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū • Info
 * Fri 17 May: How to vandalise Wikipedia • (24) staff and students • A1 Lecture Theatre, University of Canterbury, Ilam, Christchurch

Workshops

 * Wed 17 Apr: Making a Species Stub Article • Otago Museum, Dunedin
 * Wed 1 May: Hands-On Wikidata • Hocken Library Seminar Room, 90 Anzac Ave, Dunedin • (16) Hocken staff and similar library/archives folks
 * Thu 2 May: How to edit Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons • Hocken Library Seminar Room, 90 Anzac Ave, Dunedin • (9) GLAM sector workers
 * Sat 4 May: History of Otago Museum edit-a-thon • Skinner Annex, cnr Great King and Albany St, Dunedin • 	Meetup/Dunedin/History of Otago Museum
 * Sun 19 May: NZ Artists edit-a-thon • Christchurch Art Gallery • Meetup/Christchurch/NZ Artists
 * Mon 20 May: Hands-on Wikipedia • 388 Puaka-James Hight Library, University of Canterbury, Ilam campus, Christchurch • (3) University staff and students

Meetings

 * Wed 1 May: DigitalNZ meeting with Michael Lascarides
 * Thu 2 May: Images and data release meeting with Otago Museum collections team
 * Mon 6 May: Talked with Otago Universirty class about writing Wikipedia profiles of writers
 * Tue 7 May: Claire Lacey, English programme, about future artist/Wikipedia collaboration
 * Fri 10 May: Arts Digital Lab staff to plan residency
 * Tue 14 May: Met with User:Tom Schwede to plan Chch meetup
 * Wed 15 May: Canterbury Names Project meeting at Chch Art Gallery with local GLAM reps
 * Thu 16 May: UC comms team to explain copyright and Creative Commons possibilities
 * Wed 22 May: Presented to Master's of Strategic Communication class of overseas students
 * Wed 29 May: Tim Jones at Chch Art Gallery to plan next step in NZ Artist Names
 * Wed 29 May: Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup, Smash Palace: WP:CHCH2
 * Thu 30 May: Geoff Ford to go over Twiki and Bidibidi Twitter Wiki tools
 * Thu 30 May: Meeting with iNaturalist NZ to discuss CC licensing, importing, advertising opening licence to new users, WikiEducation, Flora of NZ NC licence.

Media coverage

 * Otago Museum (3 May 2019). "Otago Museum images to be freely available in Wikimedia." Scoop.
 * University of Canterbury (13 May 2019). "UC hosts first NZ Wikipedian in Residence." UC News
 * Sullivan, Laurie (29 May 2019). "The North Face Breaches Wikipedia Terms Of Service To Reach Top Of Google Search Results." MediaPost.
 * Brown, Jennings (31 May 2019). "North Face Apologizes For Showing Us The Future Of Marketing." GizModo.