Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/West Coast task force



This is the project page for coverage of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The goal is to improve the breadth and depth of the Coast's coverage in English Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Commons, and Wikisource.

Scope
This task force covers Wikimedia projects with a strong connection to the West Coast of New Zealand, especially its geography (including national parks and tracks), history (historic buildings, politics, and newspapers), natural history (landscapes and rare species), arts, GLAM institutions (libraries and museums), and books and pamphlets.

Userbox
Copy and paste  onto your user page. This puts you in Category:West Coast NZ task force participants and give you a userbox featuring the project mascot. You will get a newsletter four times a year on your Talk page.

Events
We've had small Wikipedia training workshops in Hokitika, Greymouth, and Westport. Our goal is to continue these with regular meetups to support beginning editors and supply topics and resources people can collaborate on.

Hot topics
These possible subjects for future edit-a-thons.
 * Ōkārito: originally just an article about Ōkārito Lagoon, this is an important historic town with notable buildings
 * Deploying the photo collection of Greymouth amateur photographer John Charlton, now scanned and digitised by Grey District Library
 * Improving the Denniston Plateau article to Good quality, updated with information on the current mining proposal
 * The libraries, museums, and art galleries of the West Coast

Good content

 * Hokitika Clock Tower
 * Thomas Brunner

B content (for improvement to Good)

 * Fox Glacier (town)
 * Lake Matheson
 * Greymouth
 * Denniston Plateau
 * Reefton
 * West Coast Region
 * Westland temperate forests
 * 1878 Hokitika by-election
 * Brunner Mine disaster
 * Lake Gault

Photos needed

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Coast, New Zealand

Useful Wikidata searches

 * Wikidata search for all cultural institutions in New Zealand, as a map https://w.wiki/aLy
 * And then broken down by archives (currently none on the West Coast), libraries (5 on the West Coast), and museums (2 on the West Coast).

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.