Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/Wikiblitz 1

What's it about?
A Wikiblitz is a type of Edit-a-thon where volunteer Wikipedia editors tackle one particular task together: improving a single article, fixing a whole category of pages, or uploading a whole photo collection. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided.

This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland Museum, and will focus on adding spectacular photos of specimens from the Land Vertebrates collection to Wikipedia. The Museum has just finished photographing the land vertebrate (bird, mammal, reptile) specimens in its care, and there are many Wikipedia pages lacking a good photo of these species – particularly New Zealand animals.

When and where

 * Saturday 18 August 2018, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm NZST
 * Auckland Museum
 * Library, lvl 2 (from the South Atrium entrance, take the lifts to the Secret World of Butterflies exhibition: the library entrance is in that show)
 * Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely.

Timetable

 * 10.00: meet and greet, account creation for newcomers
 * 10.30: Tutorial on photos in Wikimedia Commons and adding them to Wikipedia pages
 * 11.00: Editing
 * 12.00: Lunch/coffee break
 * 13.30: Tutorial on uploading photos, captioning, linking, and metadata
 * 14.00: Editing
 * 15.00: Coffee break
 * 16.00: Finishing up

To attend
The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part.

Auckland Museum has free admission for Aucklanders: if you're coming from out of town, contact Mike at or 027 4477081 so he can escort you in.

In person
• Giantflightlessbirds (organiser)

• Hugh Lilly (Auckland Museum)

• Adam (Auckland Museum)

• JTHoye

• St.phlov

• OrangeZone

• Ehlana18

• KiwiFiwi

• LeopardOctopus

• AdventureForScience

• Tayste

• Lightyouonfire

Remotely

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What to bring

 * Laptop and power cord. The venue will have free wifi.
 * Photos you've taken that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to the Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.
 * No food or drink are allowed in the Museum Library, but we'll take regular breaks downstairs in 1929 Expresso Bar.

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 if you like. 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) Take a look at the Commons category Photos from Auckland Museum, and see the diversity of pictures there. Explore a category that interests you, and check out relevant Wikipedia pages to see if there's as good a photo there; if not, make a note.
 * 4) If you want to bring photos along and add them to Commons and Wikipedia, they 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 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).

Useful links

 * This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
 * How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
 * Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz

To work on
This wikiblitz will focus on the collections of Auckland Museum found in Wikimedia Commons; you can see the Images from Auckland Museum here.

Outcomes
User:Hl introduced us to CropTool, very handy for creating cropped images of museum photographs of eggs for use in native bird articles. We also discussed Pattypan and Flickr2Commons.

A gallery of some of the photos attendees worked on:

Photos were added to the following articles:
 * Tui (bird)
 * New Zealand pigeon
 * Australasian pipit
 * New Zealand falcon
 * South Island kōkako
 * Ramarama
 * Waikouaiti
 * Hell Drivers
 * King penguin
 * North Island brown kiwi
 * Black-faced sheathbill
 * Hercules monument (Kassel)

Media
There will be a newspaper photographer present. If you don't want your photo in the paper, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one.

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Adam Moriarty and Hugh Lilly at Auckland Museum for making this event possible.