Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Collaboration/History

Peter Ellis (New Zealand)
NZCOTF April 23 2006 to 7 May 2006


 * 9 contributors worked on it
 * The article came from nothing to a fairly large one (over 8500 words, excluding notes/references)
 * Nominated on 22 April 2006, needs 2 votes by 30 April 2006


 * gadfium
 * Brian | (Talk) 07:24, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Avenue 07:58, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Grutness...wha?  10:14, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * SimonLyall 12:25, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Weta
NZCOTF 7 May 2006 to 22 May 2006 The article expanded from 59 lines (795 characters) to 89 lines (1508 characters), not counting categories or interwiki links.
 * 10 named editors and several anonymous editors worked on it.
 * Nominated on 23 April 2006, needs 2 votes by 7 May 2006


 * gadfium 19:10, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Avenue 10:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Onco_p53 19:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * moza 04:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * porg es (talk) 02:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Referendums in New Zealand
NZCOTF 22 May 2006 to 5 June 2006 The article expanded from nothing to 221 lines (1693 characters), or 181 lines (1433 characters) excluding the See also and References sections.
 * 7 named editors worked on it.

New Zealand has had a lot of referendum, from alcohol, to CMT, to Electoral reform, to extending the term of Parliament and so forth. Yet, no overbinding article? None that discusses our unique nature of Citizens Initiated Referendum. I think we need one.
 * Nominated on 26 April 2006, needs 4 votes by 25 May 2006
 * Should the tile perhaps be referendums or referenda in NZ? ie the plural rather than singular? - SimonLyall 08:59, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * You misspelled "Initiated" above, and have created a redirect from the misspelling.-gadfium 09:07, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Support as nominator. --Midnighttonight 08:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support after edit conflict. Shouldn't the title be "Referenda in New Zealand"? The title of the 1993 Act is "Citizens Initiated Referenda Act". I came across a great website about referenda in New Zealand a few months ago looking for material for the Six o'clock swill article, but can't find it just now.-gadfium 09:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Referendums in New Zealand is fine as a title.-gadfium 06:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support However I am sure we have something all ready on wikipedia about NZ Referendum's I remember reading it once Brian | (Talk) 11:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I found a bit here: New_Zealand_constitution. -- Avenue 12:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I have a lot of resources on referendum, having just written an honours essay on part of it. Resources will be no problem - I will provide all the links I can.  I can't provide my essay to people however as it cannot be on the internet before I hand it in otherwise the anti-plagarism programmes will pick it up.  --Midnighttonight 01:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * support if titled "Referenda in New Zealand" Grutness...wha?  06:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * That'll be a fine title. Of course, other suggestions are useful redirects. --Midnighttonight 07:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)


 * support. I'd prefer "Referendums in New Zealand", but "Referenda in New Zealand" is also fine . -- Avenue 09:43, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * cj's comments and links below have convinced me that "referenda" should be avoided in the title. -- Avenue 04:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment the title should be Referendums in New Zealand to be consistent with other articles on the same topic (see here). For reasons on why "Referendums in X" is preferable to "Referenda in X", see discussion at Talk:Referendums in Australia.--cj | talk 10:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Rugby union in New Zealand

 * 13 named editors worked on it.
 * The article expanded from 24 lines (534 words or 3742 characters) to 71 lines (3413 words or 23668 characters).
 * Nominated 8 May 2006 (UTC), needs 6 votes by 4 June 2006

Just bigger than a stub, and was recently created. I'm not sure how appropriate this nomination is, but after finding the NZ COTF, I figured it would interest a few people. Although it could normally go to the RU COTF, but that Collab. is a bit quiet at the moment and a nation-specific article may not get any votes. Anyway, thought I would nominate it. Cvene64 13:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support as nominator. Cvene64 13:39, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Super strong support -- that is all there is on NZ rugby? We should be ashamed! PageantUpdater 14:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment and it was only started a few days ago as well! I'm shocked, I thought this would already have a lot of coverage. PageantUpdater 14:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support -I created the page as a(n Aussie) rugby supporter but have little knowledge of the Kiwi game. Surely theres some experts out there Soundabuser 15:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - This is something less controversial then Peter Ellis so I say yes. Also, as there is so much published out there on rugby in NZ hopefully it'll be more easily referenced then some of the other nominations. - Shudda talk  03:12, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. It is to our shame that the national sport doesn't havec a better article than this. I blame the IRB! :) Grutness...wha?  05:28, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment : NB there is a few other articles about NZ rugby (ie National Provincial Championship, Lion's tour, NZRB, All Blacks, to name a few) Brian | (Talk) 05:42, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support Mostlyharmless 07:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Avenue 13:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. thought I had already done so, but obviously not. --Midnighttonight 01:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Joint collab-- HamedogTalk|@ 08:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * WikiProject Rugby union/Collaboration of the fortnight also has Rugby Union in New Zealand as a potential collaboration... so it should be a joint collaboration (by the looks of the votes for each). --Midnighttonight 08:08, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Year in New Zealand

 * Article sizes are less relevant than for most collaborations as each article contained boilerplate text which was removed as well as content being added.
 * The Collaboration focussed on the 1980-1989 timeperiod, but some people chose to improve other Year in New Zealand articles.
 * For the 1980-1989 articles:
 * 1980 in New Zealand: 3 editors worked on it
 * 1981 in New Zealand: 4 editors
 * 1982 in New Zealand: 4 editors
 * 1983 in New Zealand: 4 editors
 * 1984 in New Zealand: 6 editors
 * 1985 in New Zealand: 6 editors
 * 1986 in New Zealand: 3 editors
 * 1987 in New Zealand: 3 editors
 * 1988 in New Zealand: 3 editors
 * 1989 in New Zealand: 3 editors


 * Nominated on 28 April 2006, needs 4 votes by 23 June 2006

This is a series of articles, from 1900 in New Zealand to 2006 in New Zealand, mostly created from a template on March 1. They are being slowly improved, but many of them still have the original completely incorrect information on incumbents, and inappropriate links. The 1900 in New Zealand article is, as of this writing, an example of an unaltered product of the template. I'd like to see a community effort to bring these up to scratch.
 * (FWIW, I've started updating the 1900 page, so it's no longer an unaltered template. Grutness...wha? )


 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 21:45, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support . These articles could become very important to the global knowledge on NZ. the section about music and the section about television are the two that need removing from perhaps 59 articles with tv in nz (we got it in 1959) and maybe 70 articles with Triple JJJ (it started in late 70's in Sydney). I'll likely get to some of them before this nomination procedes, and there is no reason why we all cant jump in anyway, its a time consuming project.moza 04:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Lot of work to do on these. I've only even touched the ones after 1950. I was hoping for a little more help with edits on these than so far and things have been a little busy offline for me &#x2639; . Perhaps a TODO type list of things to do for these article so people can select one thing at a time? - SimonLyall 15:33, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support...but I'd far prefer to see a smaller batch of articles nominated - perhaps a decade's worth - rather than us trying to scrabble our way to fixing 100 articles in a fortnight! Grutness...wha?  13:47, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support - I've been working away at the music section, but totally inappropriate Australian links in the original template have been making it tedious. --Dom 14:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)y
 * 6) Support - and agree we should probably do one decade at a time Lossenelin 00:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support providing one decade at a time... (although how we decide which I'm not sure) r2b2 04:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) Support - if we can get this to be comprehensive enough, then it is possible that we may be able to run a "Select Anniversary" section in the New Zealand Portal. --Midnighttonight 07:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support To much to do in 2 weeks through Brian | (Talk) 10:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support if limited to a single decade. Mostlyharmless 23:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Comment: since several people have suggested we tackle only a singe decade, I suggest we have a run-off poll. Please add your name (and optionally reasons) to one or more of the following options. The option with the most names at the time the main topic becomes NZCOTF (most likely this Sunday) will become the topic being worked on. If several options have the same number of names, then we'll worry about that at the time.


 * Do the whole lot
 * 1) I know it's a lot of work, but it needs to be done. The most efficient way is probably to work on one aspect, e.g find a list somewhere of NZ literature, and update the Literature section of all the articles at once.gadfium 01:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) I certainly support the idea of doing one section at a time. Although I've been watching the collaborations and not editing much, now that exams are nearly over I'd be prepared to put some work into the "Events" section by going through old Yearbooks.  Seems like the most effective way to do it! -- P a g  e  a  n t U  p  d  a t e  r 01:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * 1900-1909
 * 1) support. It makes more sense to work from one end or the other than from the middle, and theoretically this first batch should be smaller files than the 1990-2000 ones. As Lewis Carroll wrote: "Start at the beginning, go on until you reach the end, then stop." Grutness...wha?  08:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * 1910-1919


 * 1920-1929


 * 1930-1939


 * 1940-1949


 * 1950-1959


 * 1960-1969


 * 1970-1979


 * 1980-1989
 * 1) support-Fourth Labour Govt, Rainbow Warrior sinking, ANZUS collapse, constitution crisis, my birth   (ahem)   , rugby world cup, and so on and on to the break of dawn. --Midnighttonight 08:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support old enough to have settled down, but it's better to start with the most recent decades as it's not currently possible to start at the start (NZ history did not begin in 1900!). Additionally, these are the ones that are more likely to be read, so they should probably be cleaned up first. Z iggurat 03:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support per above, Brian | (Talk) 08:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) '''I support the 1980s. Mostlyharmless 11:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 1990-1999

Central Otago Gold Rush

 * 5 named editors worked on it.
 * The article expanded from lines  to lines
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 * Nominated 24 May 2006 (UTC), needs 6 votes by 5 July 2006


 * 1) Okay, I know I'm biased, being a proud blue-and-gold wearer and all, but this is a tiny tiny stub for one of the most important historical events of 19th century New Zealand. There's lots of information available on this, both online and (especially) in printed media - I think this would be a great NZCotF. (support as nominator). Grutness...wha?  02:47, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support moza moza. now heres a really interesting article subject. Is there an overall gold / gold-rush article for NZ, with articles for other areas? such as Coromandel, Thames, Waihi. must look sometime but so much to do.moza 02:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support.-gadfium 05:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Tom Webb 06:37, 6 June 2006 (UTC). Would cover an important part of our history.
 * 5) Support - Count me in on anything to do with Otago. Grumpyyoungman01 01:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) support. me too!  BL Lacertae -  kiss the lizard  07:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. 10 out of 10 for this one. Alan Liefting 22:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 8) *(and I was not buttering you up for my RfA!) Alan Liefting 07:40, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 9) Support. A very important historical event (even if it did happen in Otago). Mostlyharmless 23:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 10) Support however 'who cares about the South Island?' :P Has anyone got a image of Gabriel's Gully area (or any other major Otago Gold Rush areas ? Brian | (Talk) 07:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * If I hadn't had car trouble when I visited Ranfurly last month I'd have got more photos than I did, but there are a couple on pages like Naseby, New Zealand that are a start. If anyone has a photo of the Chinese village reconstruction at Lawrence it'd be very useful... Grutness...wha?  12:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Treaty of Waitangi settlements and claims
This could be a controversial one. There's currently an article Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry which has POV and other problems, which is up for deletion at Articles for deletion/Treaty of Waitangi Grievance Industry. I've proposed it be renamed to the above title (or similar), and its contents transformed. This would be an excellent chance for Wikipedians from diverse political viewpoints to find ways of expressing the issues in the neutral tones that this encyclopedia does so well.

Nominated 21 June, needs 4 votes by 19 July
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 00:55, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. Title could change slightly to Treaty of Waitangi settlement process, but I support either.  Grievance industry could come under a criticism section. --Midnighttonight 01:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support I can forsee deabtes comming..Brian | (Talk) 01:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Suggest "Claims and Settlements" as the logical order. Watch for duplication with the Treaty of Waitangi page.  Perhaps include within a new Race Relations in NZ category, which could group everything from the Treaty through the NZ wars to the foreshore & seabed.  Would be good if we could do this without advertisingfor meat puppets. Tirana 02:23, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, that is the logical order.-gadfium 02:38, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh dear though, thanks for pointing to that Tirana, well, lets hope they are not as good as those on Peter Ellis... And and I agree about the category, I'll set one up --Midnighttonight 04:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Te Atairangi Kaahu and Māori King Movement
This article on the Māori Queen, and the associated article Māori King Movement, are very short, but the subject is an important part of New Zealand culture, history and politics. With the Queen admitted to hospital in the final phase of her life, we should expand these two articles. More information can be found with a Google search for "Te AtairangiKaahu" than for our article title, but I don't know enough to say that our article title is wrong.

Nominated 11 July, needs 4 votes by 8 August
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 08:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, these articles deserve better coverage and provide plenty of scope for a COTF. -- Avenue 00:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Turangawaewae could do with a hand, too. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  01:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Tiebreak - SimonLyall 07:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support seems very right L-Bit 11:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Flora of New Zealand
Currently this is a stub article consisting of some incomplete lists and some bullet points. This could be dramatically improved by turning the bullet points into text, changing the lists into tables with some explanation of each item, and making it more complete. There's plenty of information on the web, with three excellent external links already in the article. I've added a section on liverworts as a start.


 * 3 named editors worked on it.
 * The article expanded from 135 lines (441 words or 4194 characters) to 214 lines (961 words or 8442 characters).

Nominated 19 July, needs 4 votes by 16 August
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 03:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. *drew 05:51, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - SimonLyall 12:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Avenue 13:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. dramatic 10:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

List of New Zealand place names and their meanings
A very short list. Even if everyone only added one or two places to this it could be far more useful. As it is, it's in dire need of expansion. There should be plenty of sources - many of them in WP's own articles.

Nominated 19 July, needs 6 votes by 30 August
 * 1) Support as nominator.- Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  03:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support .-gadfium 04:29, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Removing my support. After reading comments by dramatic and Avenue below, I'm no longer sure that this is a good idea.
 * I'm not to sure as well Brian | (Talk) 23:48, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) support The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names should be able to help with this, there are 100's of English and Maori names that would be worth having in a list, however how will we judge what should be included, should there have to be an article?Brian | (Talk) 05:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I've been adding the etymology of place names to the various articles from my copy of the Reed Dictionary mentioned above - this article has the issue Brian raises, that it's either going to be too long and thus unworkable, or too selective and thus unnecessary. <font style="color:#DC2163;">Z iggurat 05:36, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Add them all, it's not like we're going to run out of paper ;) —porg es (talk) 09:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Support - should be quite interesting once it's fleshed out. - Axver 09:34, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - yes it will be an excellent resource. amazing how these little articles in huge need keep popping up. There are 55,000 official place names, free download from LINZ. I see the two of most interest to me are missing; Rakiura "Land of the glowing skies" or "Burning Skies", and Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater,' played his flute to his loved one." so I'll just wander over and update it now.  (hardly valid references though).moza 13:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * oppose Firstly, I feel that the information would be better put into the actual articles on the places (do we need yet another list of localities). Secondly, I'm wary on relying on a single source too much - what is the publication date of the dictionary of New Zealand Place Names? I'm familiar with Wise's New Zealand Guide published from the 1950's - 1970's and many of its etymologies are now considered doubtful. dramatic 10:01, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. If oppose votes counted, I'd oppose the nomination in its current form. The article includes enough examples to be interesting, so it's already long enough to achieve that, and adding more names without more structure will just make it less readable IMO. We also should not be attempting a comprehensive list - WP:NOT includes dictionaries. But I do see some scope for explaining the various themes of Maori placenames (historical, geographical, etc) and the predominant sources and themes of British names. -- Avenue 12:57, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

2005 New Zealand election funding controversy
This has been in the headlines for months now, and shows no sign of abating. There's a small section under New_Zealand_general_election%2C_2005 but I think it warrants its own article. This is the sort of article which would lead well to collaborative writing, since there are numerous interpretations on what happened and how legitimate it was. There's certainly room for improvement in my suggested title, above.

Nominated 10 September, needs 2 votes by 24 September
 * 1) Support as nominator.-gadfium 20:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support. Will need a number of people to POV check. --Midnighttonight Procrastinating on uni work... 00:36, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Is a great idea for its own article. --Roue2 00:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Yep, great idea. Armon 01:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 5) Support Onco_p53 03:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Feltex Carpets
According to their corporate page, Feltex is Australasia’s largest manufacturer of residential and commercial carpets, and it's very much in the news at present. Whether or not the company survives, we should have an article on it.

Nominated 26 September, needs 2 votes by 10 October
 * 1) Support as nominator.- gadfium 02:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Although this article wouldn't be limited to that locality, I'd love to see more information on Foxton-centric topics in Wikipedia. <font style="color:#DC2163;">Z iggurat 02:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - A lot of people have lost a lot of money over it... I'm a little surprised that there is nothing in wikipedia about it. --Roue2 05:33, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 4) Support - but note that there does exist a messy little stub for this - it was at Feltex and I've moved it to the better title listed above. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  05:42, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The stub was created only yesterday.- gadfium 05:54, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm - I hadn't noticed that. Seems we aren't the only ones who think this is worth an article! :) Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  06:04, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Social welfare in New Zealand
2 votes needed by 29 October 2006 Given New Zealand's history of welfare, from being the social lab of the world, the reforms of the first Labour govt etc, we should have an article on it all. History, current policy, current debates etc etc.
 * 1) Support as nominator. --Midnighttonight remind to go do uni work! 09:06, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) SupportWithit 19:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support -Lossenelin 23:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand literature
2 votes needed by 9 December 2006

This is a poor quality article at present, dominated by a large list of New Zealand writers with no indication of which names on the list are considered to be significant. I'd suggest that any writers who haven't won a major award should be removed from the list. See Australian literature for an example of a decent article on national literature.
 * 1) Support as nominator.- gadfium 22:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Support dramatic 19:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Kiwi-sonja 20:20, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

1981 Springbok Tour
Nominated 2007-01-18 This is one of the major events in New Zealand's recent history. It's still referred to as 'The Tour' and had a massive impact on New Zealand society. The article needs a lot of work. I've started adding some inline citations, however the article doesn't even have a lead. There are no mentions of the actual match and Test results of the tour. As well there isn't a single image in the article. It needs a lot of work but it's a subject with a lot written about it out there. - <font color="Blue">Shudda <font color="Blue">talk  23:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support as nominator. - <font color="Blue">Shudda <font color="Blue">talk  23:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support Brian | (Talk) 00:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support GringoInChile 20:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Support Lossenelin 02:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 5) Support dramatic 07:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Otago
New Zealand collaboration topic from 9 April 2007 to 21 April 2008, but the collaboration was inactive throughout this period.

Nominated 2007-02-01 Amazingly, this article is not that much more than a stub - considerably smaller than the articles for places within the province like Ranfurly, New Zealand and Milton, New Zealand, and also considerably smaller than the articles for most of New Zealand's other traditional regions. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  05:26, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Support as nominator. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  05:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support dramatic 07:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Robin Patterson 13:24, 3 February 2007 (UTC) (as I have driven hundreds of survey pegs into the place; remind me if it gets chosen)

Australia-New Zealand relations
Australian collaboration of the fortnight topic and added to the New Zealand collaboration template from 21 April 2008 to 5 May 2008.

New Zealand general election, 2008

 * NZC from 13 November - 2 December, 2008


 * A large proportion of New Zealand editors were involved in updating election-related articles over the month. Because the topic involves hundreds of articles, and is open-ended, it isn't possible to count how many editors were involved or how much content was added. Work was still continuing at the time the formal collaboration ended.- gadfium 01:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

This article, together with the very many other articles which need to be updated to account for the election and change of government, is de facto the topic which New Zealand editors are concentrating on this month. The process is being coordinated at WikiProject New Zealand/Election 2008 taskforce.

State housing

 * NZC for December 2008


 * Three contributors worked on it from the start of its nomination. The article increased from 1599 bytes to 19,086 bytes.
 * The associated article Housing New Zealand Corporation was created by a fourth editor, and contributes a further 1413 bytes.

This is a top-importance article which is currently stub-class. Nominated 13 October 2008.


 * 1) gadfium  04:28, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Sounds like a good one to do - SimonLyall (talk) 09:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) agreed, and good to see the collaboration getting moving again. dramatic (talk) 16:55, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) There are plenty of books on this topic. I can't really volunteer to work on it as I have exams soon, but I could provide some suggested readings. By the way, it's technically a high importance article. I don't think it's important enough to be top importance. Articles like housing in New Zealand and social welfare in New Zealand are probably more important. Richard001 (talk) 22:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Please post the suggested readings at Talk:State housing.- gadfium 05:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't really know which ones to add - there are loads on public housing in New Zealand. I have just added one recent book which is at the Short Loan collection. Richard001 (talk) 05:19, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Waikato River

 * NZC for January 2009


 * Three editors worked on the article during January. It increased in size from 6,961 bytes to 13,934 bytes, an increase of 100%. The number of references increased from 2 to 18.
 * Several minor corrections were also made to Waikato

This is New Zealand's longest river, but it's mostly unreferenced. See Johnson Creek (Willamette River) for a featured article on a river. We could ask WP:WikiProject Rivers for assistance on this collaboration. Nominated 15 October 2008.


 * 1) gadfium  05:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Support - looks a good candidate for a work project (as does the one above... but this is more my field :) Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  00:23, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Support - more my field too... well, closer anyway. We looked at it a little bit in environmental science. Richard001 (talk) 04:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) Support dramatic (talk) 08:58, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Art of New Zealand

 * NZC for February-March 2009


 * Four editors worked on the article during February and the first half of March. It increased in size from 8,534 bytes to 13,069 bytes, an increase of over 50%. The number of references increased from 2 to 16.

A top importance article with a reasonable structure already in place but limited content and very little referencing. It won't be hard to find sources in public libraries. Nominated 8 January 2009
 * 1) gadfium  06:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) dramatic (talk) 07:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Agriculture in New Zealand

 * NZC for March-April 2009


 * Ten editors worked on the article. It increased in size from 9,767 bytes to 24,636 bytes, and the number of references increased from 6 to 27. The article was previously classified as a stub (but was actually start-class), and ended as C-class.

The mainstay of the New Zealand economy, but mostly a stub. Nominated 11 January 2009
 * 1) gadfium  05:57, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) dramatic (talk) 07:31, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:30, 1 February 2009 (UTC) (I started the article but never got around to making a decent article of it.  Very important article - mainstay of economy as mentioned in the nom.)
 * 4) Geronimo20 (talk) 21:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC) (I'll write a supporting article on aquaculture)
 * Liveste (talk · contribs) 05:19, 2 February 2009 (UTC) (Should be able to help with a forestry section. Perhaps we should mention farming subsidies somewhere.)

Poi (juggling)

 * NZC for May-July 2009


 * Eight named editors worked on the article. It increased in size from 13,353 bytes to 15,007 bytes, and the number of references increased from 2 to 10. The article ended as C-class.
 * Renamed to Poi (performance art) at the beginning of the collaboration.

A messy article with an inappropriate title. There is currently undue weight on "poi as practiced overseas as a circus-arts discipline", and a tad too much how-to, with relatively little on the Māori tradition.
 * 1) dramatic (talk) 06:57, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Support.- gadfium  09:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Support. Avenue (talk) 09:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. – Liveste (talk • edits) 00:17, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

New Zealand river stubs

 * NZC for August-September 2009


 * At least four named editors worked on the stubs, and all have now been cleared from Category:New Zealand geography stubs. Many of the stubs still need expanding.

Several hundred one-line stubs have been created on New Zealand rivers. Each says "The X River is a river in New Zealand". They can be found in Category:New Zealand geography stubs, and there's a discussion about them at New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board. Each needs at a minimum to be resorted into one of the geographical regions of New Zealand by replacing the national geo-stub template with the appropriate regional geo stub template, and adding a line saying what region/district/area the river is in. This information can be found in any half-decent road atlas of New Zealand or with google searches. Adding the river or sea the river runs into is good (there's a field for it in the infobox), and other general information about the river can at least sometimes be found on Google - I've found http://www.nzfishing.com a useful resource. Occasionally, a free photo can be found on http://www.flickr.com to use. Coordinates can be added too, using for example Google Earth. In short, you can spend as much or as little time as you want on each stub and still make a valuable contribution.

Haupiri River is an example that I've fleshed out into a reasonable stub.

This will be the area that some of us will probably be spending our time on over the next month or so anyway, so why not make it the collaboration topic? Nominated 13 July 2009.
 * 1) gadfium  as nominator.
 * 2) Good idea. Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  23:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) I will help out since I was responsible for created List of rivers of New Zealand as a page of redlinks!! -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Gregg's (New Zealand)
Currently a three-line stub, which came to my attention when it was prodded as non-notable. I'm not sure how easy it will be to find reliable third-party sources which do much more than affirm the company's existence. Nominated 24 May 2009
 * NZC for October-November 2009
 * No edits were made to the article during the period it was the collaboration topic.
 * 1) nominator  gadfium  01:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) As the person who wrote the stub twenty minutes ago to fill a redlink at the new article on Dunedin North, support :). Grutness...<small style="color:#008822;">wha?  01:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Adabow (talk) 04:15, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) supporttshiels1 (talk) 03:58, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Sir Howard Morrison
'NZC for February 2010 Seems to be thattouching on the spheres of Māoridom, entertainment and politics thisbiography would be an excellent place to start improving wikipedia,especially with all the recently-published obits.Stuartyeates (talk)07:26, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Definite Supporttshiels1 (talk) 07:55, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Support- I also note that the article on the Howard Morrison Quartet isvery stubby and could probably be included in this.Grutness... <fontcolor="#008822">wha? 23:31, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Support dramatic (talk) 07:53, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) 'Support Adabow  ( talk )  08:38, 12 February 2010 (UTC)