Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/28



The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.


 * Foundation Cafe, ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library. We can move to a table space in the library when everyone has arrived.
 * Sunday 9 June 2024
 * 10:00–midday

Useful links

 * Join the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand user group
 * Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand on Facebook
 * The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large project (WP:AoWPAL)
 * Wikiproject New Zealand in Wikipedia and Wikidata
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board

Attendees
Add your Wikipedia username if you have one. Tip: in Source editing you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes ( * )


 * Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
 * Alexeyevitch (talk)
 * David Palmer// cloventt (talk)

What have we been up to?

 * Alexeyevitch (talk), just the usual - staying home, went to the library a few times. Aoraki / Mount Cook national park passed GAN. I would like to see more Christchurch articles get up to GA status, most suburbs are in a sub-par status and could see substantial improvements. I initially attempted to get the Addington article up to B-Class but I then realized that the article was quite boring and decided to stop... I think Cashmere is better. I have started work on Southshore, I haven't been there for months but would like to visit soon to do some photography . I might start work soon on Papanui? the article is currently poorly-referenced. (I thought this was interesting, see this Stuff article)
 * Since the editathon I've done some GAN and AfD reviewing. Split a dedicated article for Kaiapoi Pā out from the article for Kaiapoi, and I've started writing a decent history of the township in cloventt/sandbox. Did some cleanup on some random articles such as Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre. Have roped in my Mum on a fairly major project to translate the page for Harima no Kuni Fudoki, which is a significant Japanese medieval manuscript that she is a subject-matter expert in. David Palmer// cloventt (talk)
 * I've been sorting the edit-a-thon outcomes and getting photos cleared by everyone—a lengthy process~ Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

Outcomes and tips

 * Hugh Young's database of Māori pronunciation recorded in the 1990s (link)
 * Try out the Template:infobox person/wikidata template, which automatically pulls bio info from the associated Wikidata entry. Might be risky on WP:BLP articles.
 * NearbyWiki lets you see articles on a map using their title coords.

Next event

 * 7 July, same time and venue