Wikipedia:Meetup/Greymouth/5

Greymouth Wikipedia Meetup

 * Grey District Library, 18 Albert St, Greymouth
 * Saturday 13 March 2021
 * 1:00–4:00 pm
 * Tea and (good) coffee supplied, bring something to share for afternoon tea

This is a meetup for volunteer Wikipedia editors who want to get advice, collaborate, and assist others. Editing Wikipedia, WikiCommons, and Wikidata is great fun and socially worthy; while there's enormous amounts of advice and information available online on how to do it, nothing beats chatting with other human beings and getting some help and inspiration. During the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project it became clear that the coverage of the Coast on Wikipedia was pretty poor. The way to solve this is to get West Coast people empowered to tell their own stories, and for this we need a support structure and access to expertise and resources. These meetups are part of that.

Attendees
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 * Giantflightlessbirds
 * Sayns
 * Eelgirl2020
 * Lakebrunner
 * Katrina Brown from Left Bank Art Gallery

Apologies

 * BurkesPass

Useful links

 * West Coast task force or just WP:WCNZ
 * [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/West_Coast_task_force&action=watch Add the West Coast task force Events page to your Watchlist]
 * Wikipedia New Zealand on Facebook
 * Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
 * Wikiproject New Zealand
 * Wikidata Wikiproject New Zealand
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
 * Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list run by User:Giantflightlessbirds

Agenda items

 * Feel free to add questions and topics to this section, and sign with your username ( ~ )
 * Round the table: what's everyone up to? Add links and notes as needed

Outcomes

 * Planning with Katrina Brown about a West Coast artists project with the support of Left Bank. The Gallery will check their archives, contact artists to arrange photos and scan press clippings, and plan a Wikipedia strategy to coincide with the next year of events.
 * Sayns cleaned and photographed portraits of former mayors from the History House collection, uploading them to Commons and adding them to the page Mayor of Grey. Giantflightlessbirds also uploaded mayoral portraits, did some cleanup, and added them to the articles Joseph Petrie and Edward Masters.
 * Lakebrunner checked out Find A Grave cemetery listings and planned a photography itinerary in South Westland.
 * Eelgirl2020 made a list of articles to improve from the Critter of the Week project, concentrating on New Zealand native fishes.

Good things to bring

 * Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads.
 * Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to what you're interested in.
 * Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; we can help you donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Next meetup

 * 1 May 2021
 * Note that March 20–21 is West Coast WikiCon, and there is a Hokitika Wikipedia meetup on Sat April 10.