Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/NZInsectCards

What's it about?
An Edit-a-thon is an all-day attempt to improve Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic. Led by an experienced Wikipedia editor, participants learn to create and edit pages, correct mistakes, add references, and upload photos. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided. This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the University of Auckland, and will focus on adding information on the New Zealand insects depicted on the Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards.

When and where

 * Sunday 3 September 2017, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm NZST (2 September 2017, 22:00 – 3 September 2017 04:00 UTC/GMT)
 * University of Auckland Tāmaki Campus, 261 Morrin Road, St Johns, Auckland
 * Building 733, Room 234 (we will send you a map and parking info)
 * Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely, using #NZInsectCards in tweets and edit summaries (Wikipedia can search for the #NZInsectCards hashtag now).

Timetable

 * 10:00: Meet and greet, setup, account creation if needed
 * 10:15–12:00: Intro: how to create and edit species articles on Wikipedia.
 * Lunch break (pizza); there'll also be refreshments available all day. Let us know your dietary preferences when you register.
 * 12:30–16:00: Wikipedia editing. Our goal is for beginners to create stub articles for every species depicted on the Insects of New Zealand cards, and to improve existing species pages. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be available to help and troubleshoot.

How to sign up
The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all; we would love you to register and make a commitment to coming, so we can make sure the venue will house everybody and we order enough pizza.

You can book online by filling out this Google form. Any questions? Contact Chrissie Painting .

In person
• Giantflightlessbirds (organiser)

• Weevilwonder (organiser)

• Lanipai (organiser)

• Tayste

• Gadfium

• Nurg

• Daption

• Carabidave

• Mfea015

• Groovybandit

• Bluedrift

• Flygirlbex

• Sceliphron

• Pantopsalis

• Risa21554

• Reallyoriginalusername

• Tokeneffort

• Rich Leschen

• SimonJW2010

• Bedmas.

• Bryaphyte

Remotely

 * Ambrosia10 (helping Giantflightlessbirds prepare resources)
 * Markanderson72
 * AMartian

What to bring

 * Laptop and power cord. The venue will have free wifi.
 * Any books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to pages you're interested in.
 * Photos you've taken that could illustrate species articles; you'll learn how to donate these to the Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Preparation

 * 1) If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
 * 2) Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
 * 3) Have a think about any species you'd like to work on. Check the articles in our To Do list below for any obvious mistakes or problems. Maybe even do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an entomologist; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can contribute to Wikipedia. The best references for Wikipedia articles are news stories, textbooks, or magazine articles. Look for secondary sources like field guides and popular books that discuss that species, not just scientific papers.
 * 4) We'll also need photos, and those need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken species photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

Guides to editing

 * How to create a species stub article in Wikipedia: notes for this editathon
 * Editing Wikipedia Species Articles guide (aimed at students, but still useful)
 * How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
 * Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz
 * Suggested layout of beetle articles; Suggested layout of lepidoptera articles: helpful for all insect articles.

Insect species to work on
These have been assessed by Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10, taking the Assessing articles guidelines into account. Many articles need good photos, and most need more information. Please feel free to make suggestions on article Talk pages, adopt an article you plan to work on, and approach people you think might have photographs. We've noted places where there are problems with the taxonomy, and would appreciate entomologists suggesting the best solution (but hold off diving in and starting to move and rename articles before you've talked to us!)

See also Guide to species names at Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards, including a link to a PDF document containing lists, in two different sort orders, of the scientific and common names.

Outcomes
Twenty-one people took part in the workshop, and three remotely, making 433 edits in total. Most worked on the list above, but in addition the following pages were created:
 * Broscini
 * Hemideina crassidens
 * Hemideina maori
 * Mecodema aoteanoho
 * Mecodema haunoho
 * Pachyrhamma acanthoceras
 * Pachyrhamma waitomoensis
 * Saphobius

The following pages were improved:


 * Austrosimulium
 * Blosyropus spinosus
 * Broscinae
 * Clitarchus tepaki
 * Mecodema
 * Miomantis caffra
 * Phlyctaenodini

And images were added to Commons for the following:


 * Clitarchus tepaki
 * Mecodema aoteanoho
 * Mecodema haunoho
 * Blosyropus spinosus
 * Xylophilus luniger
 * Saphobius inflatipes
 * Glaucias amyoti

News media

 * Giantflightlessbirds interviewed by Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about the workshop, 1 September 2017
 * "Putting a word in for insects" (University of Auckland Tāmaki Campus Update, Oct 2017)

Acknowledgements
Many thanks for Chrissie Painting and Leilani Walker for hosting this edit-a-thon, to Emma Scheltema for her gorgeous artwork, and to the Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity at the University of Auckland for funding and support. This event wouldn't exist without the Entomological Society of New Zealand backing the Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards project.