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2024

November 2024

• 12: WANZ monthly committee meeting (online)
• 10: Attended the Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup
• 07: Improved Wikidata item for John Woodhouse Lee (Q114019131)
• 03: Attended the Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetup

October 2024

• 29: Improved Wikidata item for Hepora Raharuhi Young (Q130718181)

September 2024

• 17: Improved Wikidata item for Nigel Latta (Q7032508)
• 14-15: Improved Wikidata item for Ian Michael St George (Q21388473) and improved the Open Library author page
• 12-14: Wikisource: The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (1890)
  • Validated several pages for this work
  • Quality checks and updates for consistency
  • Created the Commons category for the work, moved files into the category, added depicts statements, added cover page image
  • Added Wikidata items for the work (The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6, 1840 (Q130282579)) and edition (The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6, 1840 (1890) (Q130282586))
  • Added the edition to the Open Library, and improved the author's page
• 10: WANZ monthly committee meeting (online)

August 2024

• 16: Improved Wikidata item for Shirley Gillies (Q94687987)
• 15: Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup - updating landing page with next meeting info (18 August), added notes for 21 July 2024 meeting
• 13: WANZ monthly committee meeting (online)
• 10-11: WANZ in-person committee meeting, Wellington

July 2024

• 30: Wikisource: Adventures of Kimble Bent - validating pages
• 29: Added wikidata item for Anna Darling (Q128025062)
• 21: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup
• 09: WANZ Committee meeting

June 2024

• 10-11:
  • Uploaded pictures, created and organised categories Rakis Tunnel, Tapui Tunnel, Rakis Table, Tokarahi Branch Line
  • Improved Wikidata items for Rakis Table (Q31672320) and Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark (Q119440416)
  • Added a gallery and pictures to Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches
• 10: Presentation to North otago Tramping and Mountainering Club - adding and using photos on Wikipedia, NZ National Parks project
• 07: Added Open Library ID for Vernice Wineera (Q126389507)
• 02: Wikisource: Adventures of Kimble Bent - validating pages

May 2024

• 27: Improved Wikidata item for Robert Martin (Q21062642)
• 26: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup
• General Wikipedia activities:
  • 18: Ink on Paper Edit-a-thon: mainly wikidata - updated Wikidata items for Peter Vangioni (Q124547198), Ink on Paper (Q124547196), Ink on Paper (1st ed.) (Q118224886) (Q27924506,) Edith Collier (Q5338519); added wikidata items for reference books Three Dunedin designers: Lily Daff, Rona Dyer, Eileen Mayo (Q125963582), Engravings on wood (Q125962998); updated Open Library entry for Ink on Paper (fixed publisher, added work information, added cover, added more IDs) and the author, Peter Vangioni
  • 09: Updated Wikidata item for Ping Ching Mabbett (Q108687459), added commons category and uploaded photo from investiture for QSM
  • 03: Updated Wikidata item for Lily Duval (Q125757828)
• Wikisource:
  • 11-12, 19-25 : Adventures of Kimble Bent: validating pages
  • 11-16: Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove: validating pages, completed 16 May 2024
  • 9-11: Index to Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (1 to 40): validating pages
  • 10: The geology of the Oamaru District, North Otago (Eastern Otago Division): setup index page, added Wikidata item The Geology of the Oamaru District, North Otago (Eastern Otago Division) (Q125863534), updated commons category page for book and author (author linked to wrong Wikidata item), started on plate pages, updated Wikidata item for James Park (Q6140915)
  • 4: "Red" Fed. Memoirs: fixed two image plates, uploaded updated plate pages to commons, transcluded pages, added table of contents
  • 1-3: Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury: proofing pages, completed proofing 2 May 2024, added Wikisource author page, updated Wikidata item Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury (1915) (Q125590537)

April 2024

• 26-30: Wikisource:
  • Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury: created PDF with OCR layer (using Abbyy FineReader 15), proofing pages
• 21-27: Wikisource:
  • Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas: validating, completed 27 April (a few things left to tidy up)
  • Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (March Proofread of the Month): validating (about two pages a day);
• 05-20: Wikisource:
  • Castaway on the Auckland Isles completed validating (mini TOC to index page, improving Wikidata items, consistency, checks)
  • Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Indexes to Volumes 1–40 + Voumes 41–51: valdiating (about one page a day for each)
  • Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope (March Proofread of the Month): validating (about two pages a day)
• 02-04: Wikisource: completed valdiating pages Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (also did some consistency checks, added page breaks for transcluded work, changed status to all validated)
• 01: Wikisource: started validating Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (being worked on collaboratively, other contributors also validating pages)
• 01: Commons: Forrester Gallery (Q75371691) - added institution template, Commons category, and improved Wikidata item

March 2024

• 31: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup. Notes from the last meeting completed. Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
• 29-31: Wikisource: Moving Picture Boys on the Coast - validating pages
• 26: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
• 22: Wikipedia: minor edits to Ian P. Griffin's page - separated out awards and honours
• 3, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
• 03: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup
• 03: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
• 03: Commons: depicts statements to Benmore dam category items

February 2024

• 10: Wikipedia: updated OpenBoard software release information
• 04, 06, 26: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
• 04: Attended Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup

January 2024

• 25: Added ISC Fellow award to Hamish Spencer (Q22102768)
• 22:
  • Added Michael King Writer's Fellowship award to Danny Keenan and Wikidata item Danny Keenan (Q114992793)
  • Improved entries for Huia histories of Māori : ngā tāhuhu kōrero (2012) (Q106878939) and Huia histories of Māori : ngā tāhuhu kōrero (2012) (Q106878939), including Open Library entry
• 21: Wikisource - some pages for Castaway on the Auckland Isles
• 20: Commons - edited/sorted categories for Anderson House, Invercargill and Invercargill Public Art Gallery (originally housed in Anderson House but now located elsewhere)
• 19: Added wikidata item for Tim McNamara (Q124312901) and added entry book Rust in action: systems programming concepts and techniques (Q124314177) and Rust in action: systems programming concepts and techniques (2021) (Q124314245)
• 16-20: Updated all existing items with Kōtuia ID (P9074), including amendments to entries

• 13: Wikisource: Transactions: Index to volumes 1-40
• 11: Various items:
  • Added Awarua Communications Museum (Q124248617)
  • Spent some time on updating Kōtuia ID (P9074) (previously NZ Museums ID) - URL doesn't update for existing items, query posted
  • Updated New Zealand Legal Information Institute (Q16979248) - added Mastodon ID
  • Te Papa Mix'n'Match - had a go
• 01: Wikisource - completed validation of pages for Girls of Central High on the Stage

2023

June 2023

• 24: Work on pages for the Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15, and a few pages for the Wikisource Monthly Challenge
• 23: Now ready for transclusion! The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon (including fixing up my error with footnotes, and finished a quick QA check of pages)
• 22: Finished validating pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and started a quick QA and consistency check of pages
• 21: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15
• 20:
  • Wikisoure: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon, and The case for women's suffrage + Doom of the Great City (Wikisource monthly challenge)
  • Transactions project: Commons - created category pages for Edward Sayers and Alan Kirton, moved and re-categorised images, and updated Wikidata items
  • Alan Kirton (Q4707068): used author dismabiguator to identify some publications, added Scholia template to Wikipedia article, add Wikidata infobox to Wikipedia, add Authority control template to Wikipedia article, added category page for images in Commons, improved Wikidata item
• 19: Added, proofread, and transcluded Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012
• 19: Started documenting properties used for NZ Acts in Wikidata - still a WIP
• 17-19: Added depicts statements in Commons to the NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts.
• 17-19: Improved (and added where required) Wikidata items for NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts and Amendment Acts:
  • New Zealand Institute Act 1867 (Q119229006)
  • New Zealand Institute Act 1903 (Q119230191)
  • New Zealand Institute Act 1908 (Q119616513)
  • New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930 (Q119619137)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933 (Q105036661)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964 (Q119704404)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1965 (Q119644077)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1997 (Q119647316)
  • Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012 (Q119711805)
• 13:
  • Spent some time trying to work out the categories for NZ legislation - some 2,000 odd NZ Acts are in the same category, would be nice if you could browse them by name and year to make them easier to locate. Used the Cat-a-lot to bulk move items to different categories.
  • Improved Wikidata item for Rachel Anne Buchanan (Q119366969) (from new Wikipedia article), including differentiating her from Rachel Buchanan (Q108214502)
• 11: Added, proofread, and transcluded New Zealand Institute Act 1908
• 9: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
• 7: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1867
• 6: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1903, New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930, Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933, and Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964

May 2023

• 28: Validated a page for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933

• 20: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin 6
• 1: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Index to Volumes 1–40

April 2023

• 30: Validated pages for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1965

March 2023

• 12: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute - Volume 1 (2nd ed.), Transactions NZ Institute Volume 2; fixed pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon

• 11: Added depicts statements in Commons to images for Suzanne Aubert
• 11-12: Attended Wellington WikiCon 2023
• 5: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/34

February 2023

• 11: Participated in the Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin 5
  • Added depicts statements in Commons to Bugs of the Year images in their category pages using the SDC tool
• 5: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/33

2022

Didn't keep this up-to-date during 2022 - mainly worked on the Wikisource West Coast Project

August 2022

• 10: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
• 9: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
• 7–8: Wikisource - proofread (including OCR) all of Reuben and other poems

Got a bit slack updating from April 2021 to July 2022!

2021

May 2021

• 25-29: Added and improved Children's Commissioner and related Wikidata items
  • Children’s Commissioner (Q106963615) - included adding office holders and creating office holders that didn't have a Wikidata item
  • Office of the Children’s Commissioner (Q107009538)
  • Ian Hassall (Q5981761), Laurence Michael O’Reilly (Q106963832) (added), Roger McClay (Q7358621), Cindy Kiro (Q17180701), John Angus (Q19144013), Russell Wills (Q106963668) (added), Andrew Becroft (Q106963774) (added)
  • Book and edition for A voice for children: the Office of the Commissioner for Children in New Zealand, 1989-2003 (Q106978182) (added) and author John Michael Barrington (Q106978265) (added)
  • Added thesis for John Angus City and country, change and continuity: electoral politics and society in Otago, 1877-1893 (Q107001625)
• Events:
  • Wikimedia Aotearoa Online meeting
  • Wikipedia Wellington Meetup

• Other:
  • Lisa Maule - Wikidata sessions x2 (setting up Zotero to add Wikidata items, adding Wikidata items for books and editions, Cite Q)

April 2021

• Sun 4: Improved Wikidata item for Donald Forrester Brown (Q5294371) (missing VIAF IDs)
• Mon 5: Improved Wikidata item for Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić (Q59325309), Deidre Brown (Q45239917) (missing VIAF IDs)
• Tue 13: Added Wikidata item for Sarah Washbrooke (Q106484472) winner of Science Teacher Prize for 2020 to Prime Minister's Science Prizes, improved Wikidata item for Rachel Mary Roxburgh (Q21537196)

• Tue 20: Improved Wikidata item for Nancy Wake (Q234134)
• Events:
  • 10 April: Wellington Meetup (in person)
  • 20 April: National Library - Staunch identifiers and frilly descriptions: making collections discoverable and usable, Nicola Frean
  • 24 April: Wikipedia Weekly

March 2021

• Sat 13:
  • Wikipedia: update to George Hudson - reverted birth date change

• Sun 21: Improved Wikidata item for Edmund Hillary (Q33817) (missing VIAF IDs)

• Events:
  • 13 March: Attended in person Wellington Meetup
  • 14 March: Attended Wikipedia Weekly - Wikidata Editing #34
  • 20-21 March: WikiCon West Coast in Hokitika

February 2021

• Mon 1:
  • Wikidata: expanded David John Evans (Q104774700)
• Tue 2:
  • Wikidata property: SOUNZ contributor ID (P9136) now added
• Sun 7:
  • Wikidata: expanded Alice Muriel Williamson (Q4726025) (more identifiers)
• Fri 12:
  • Tools: added UseAsRef user script

• Sat 13:
  • Event: attended Wellington Meetup
• Sun 14:
  • Wikidata: expanded Brian Boyd (Q4090348) (more identifiers), Prime Minister of New Zealand (Q1071117), New Zealand Parliament (Q1520966), Category:Cabinet of New Zealand (Q7988453), Pamela Hall (Q105484316); added Minister for Children (Q105485411) and linked to those who have held the role Tracey Martin (Q7831246), Anne Tolley (Q540420), Kelvin Davis (Q6386648); added Pamela Hall (Q105484316)

• Mon 22:
  • Wikidata: added Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (Q105623519), expanded Policy Studies Institute (Q7209687), Institute of Policy Studies (Q6040758), Institute of Policy Studies (Q6040755), Institute of Policy Studies (Q20987417), Policy Quarterly (Q96726662), Victoria University of Wellington School of Government (Q101013653)

• Sun 28:
  • Wikidata: expanded Polar Bears International (Q7209018)
  • Events: attended Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand Online meeting

January 2021

• Wed 6:
  • Tweeted step by step guide about more identifiers Wikidata user script
• Sat 9:
  • Learning: Listened to RNZ interview with Jimmy Wales
• Sun 10:
  • Wikidata: expanded New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (Q99763922), Margaret Brimble (Q15848279) (more awards), Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229), Angus Macfarlane (Q4764132), Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229), Aigantighe Art Gallery (Q76853150), Great Giant Arithmos (Q104655727), Raewyn Dalziel (Q91860292), Mary Aldis (Q103976459), Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui (Q7424149), Sarah Dougherty (Q7422257), Ellen Dougherty (Q14954724), Colonial Museum (Former Library) (Q77979095), Cutters Bay (Q32171965); author disambiguation for Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229)
  • Open Library: added books and tidied up entries for Angus Macfarlane
  • Created proposal for NZ Museums ID
• Tue 12:
  • Wikidata: expanded Hazel Tucker (Q104709028), Sandra Levy (Q49909218), Marsden Medal (Q6773236), Margaret Brimble (Q15848279) (work on awards and thesis); added Salinomycin : the bis-spiroacetal moiety (Q104774207) (thesis)
• Wed 13:
  • Wikidata: expanded Ann Harding (Q100157885), Margaret Garson (Q103888081), Hazel Tucker (Q104709028) - added thesis statement; added Living with tourism : tourism, identity and change in a village in Central Turkey (Q104786124) (thesis)
• Thu 14:
  • Wikidata: expanded Marian Baird (Q99922596), Stanley R. H. Rogers (Q7599919)
  • Commons: SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
• Fri 15:
  • Meetings: attended Wikimedia Australia's 20th birthday online celebrations - great presentation by Mike of the West Coast Wikimedian at Large project
  • Wikidata: expanded Susan Kippax (Q66490681), Wendi Roe (Q88630517), Doreen Rosenthal (Q78741641)
• Sat 16:
  • Meetings: attended 16 January 2021 meetup
  • Wikidata: expanded Rostgard’s Drapery (Former) (Q77362237), Post Office (Former) (Q79310260), Wendy I Baltzer (Q87817649), Ann M. McGrath (Q64866567), Karitane hospitals (Q104814990), InternetNZ (Q6055415) - added OpenCorporates ID; author disambiguation for Wendy I Baltzer (Q87817649)
  • Commons: created category pages for photos taken by Tom Category:Martinborough Post Office; SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
• Sun 17:
  • Meetings and events: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #27
  • Wikidata: expanded Susan Perkins (Q44081264), Charities Services (Q5074454), InternetNZ (Q6055415), Bank of New Zealand (Q77023630), Rostgard’s Drapery (Former) (Q77362237); added Charities Register (Q104854021)
  • Commons: added categories for photos taken by Tom Category:Bank of New Zealand, Martinborough Category:Rostgard’s Drapery (Former), ; SDC depicts for St Gerard's Church and Monastery
  • Other:
    • updated Wellington 16 January 2021 meetup notes
    • InternetNZ article: updated Etherpad, added progress to the talk page
  • Wikipedia: spent sometime updating the NetHui article - tidied up, reorganised, updated the description, added the list of past conferences held by year with starting information, added some references and marked those that still need one (many), added improvement notes to the talk page, minor updates to the Wikidata item.
• Mon 18:
  • Meetings and events: Aotearoa New Zealand Editor Support (some great tips about templates and #1Lib1Ref)
  • Wikidata: expanded and improved Ann Wylie (Q103976490), Judith Kinnear (Q103976480), Sue Maslin (Q101084895), William Cooch (Q8007074), Obituary.George Vernon Hudson, F.R.S.N.Z. (1867–1946). (Q77132985), William Benham (Q8005629)
  • Wikipedia:
    • created template for recipients of the Hutton Medal and started adding to articles for recipients
    • worked out how to use Cite Q to add as an item as a reference (see George Hudson (entomologist))
• Fri 22:
  • NZ Museums ID property approved and setup!
• Tue 26:
  • Data for NZ Museums ID scrapped from the NZ Museums website, see Google Spreadsheet
  • Began reconciling to Wikidata using OpenRefine
• Wed 27:
  • Progress on NZ Museums ID - used TABernacle, about 22% of IDs added to existing Wikidata items
  • Wikidata: expanded Henry Suter (Q5728874)
• Sun 31:
  • Wikidata: expanded Neil Gemmell (Q43871773), Fiona J McDonald (Q57228435) (expanded Studies on the role of FGF-4 in mouse development (Q59572744)), Alison Jones (Q43378678), St. Hilda's Collegiate School (Q7588342)
  • Other: added Hokitika, N.Z. : the Birth of the Borough (Q104373257) and editions to the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary, along with IDs to Wikidata items