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DYK for Hokitika Wildfoods Festival

On 20 March 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hokitika Wildfoods Festival, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hokitika Wildfoods Festival. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hokitika Wildfoods Festival), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (ie, 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Māori culture

Hi giantflightlessbirds, I was wondering whether or not you thought that aspects of māori culture, such as those described in the article Elaeocarpus dentatus, should be written in past or present tense. On the one hand, these practices are most likely archaic, on the other hand, though, it implies that the culture is sorta dead - if you know what I mean? Thanks! Beeveria (talk) 08:51, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on whether it's an historic use or a contemporary use. When citing Elsdon Best (who is not the most reliable of ethnographers, by the way) we might want to qualify it with "Elsdon Best recorded the uses of hīnau as… and described the cakes made from its berries as…". Perhaps it's best to look at Andrew Crowe's Native Edible Plants of New Zealand for a summary of the different historical sources. Maybe we'd want to find sources written by Māori, rather than about them. We'd want to see from those sources if hīnau is currently used in Māori cooking (not that I'm aware of) or if it's being revived, for example by checking a book like Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine by Monique Fiso. To me this is the same process you'd go through when talking about any Māori cultural tradition – some of which are no longer practiced and others of which are very much alive – or indeed any culture which has changed quite a bit in the last 200 years (as all cultures surely have). The one thing that we don't want to do is rely entirely on 19th century Pākehā sources, which can be a bit dodgy. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:12, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - Beeveria (talk) 09:18, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project – funding success

Great news. The Wikimedia Foundation gave me the grant for the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wiki-Project. It starts on 17 May 2021 and runs for four months. Thanks for being a volunteer or endorsing it.

Go to the project page for guidance on starting to contribute as an editor. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pakoire/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa_-_Wiki_Project

I will update this project page regularly plus send out weekly updates. The focus of this grant is on quality content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. I encourage you to go in-depth and reach out for hints about where to get resources. There is heaps available on-line. Reach out with problems eg. Categories etc

There will be three formal edit-a-thons in Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin. Dates to be confirmed.

You can email me at any time maule.lisa@gmail.com or message me on my talk page.

My focus once the project starts will be on getting resources available for editors from organisations, and educating people in organisations on what Wiki platforms are and how and why they can be engaged. Pakoire (talk) 07:28, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know your area of interest _ I will endeavour to focus material for you. There is also short on-line meeting tomorrow (Tuesday 12.30pm) as a preamble to the project. This will bring together participants, discuss exchange with our Canadian colleagues working in a the same area and for any questions. Email me (maule.lisa@gmail.com) and I will send a link tomorrow on Jitsi Pakoire (talk) 20:39, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa

The project is now two weeks in and the profile of the project is building in the performing arts communities. Editors have created seven new articles in Wikipedia and 291 new and improved entries in Wikidata. These have been tagged in Wikidata to the project using the property p5008 ‘on focus list of Wikimedia project’ – ‘Performing Arts Aotearoa New Zealand.’

Thank you if you have made a contribution already, there will also be lots of other ways to contribute over the coming three and a half months.

The current focus is the Wellington based festival Kia Mau [1]. This weekend Saturday 5th June there is a takeover of the Wellington Meetup with an edit-a-thon focus to Wikify the festival. Kia Mau is an established festival based in Wellington celebrating and promoting “contemporary Māori, Pasifika and international Indigenous live performance experience.” For more information look at the Wellington Meetup page or the Kia Mau Wikiproject Worksheet. Over the next few days resources will be shared, including stubs and links to information. Focusing on this festival will start to address the bias in Wikipedia that means there is low content on indigenous people, plus there are many women involved. Which means you can also add them to the Women in Red projects #1day1woman, some would fit onto the year-long campaign: Women's rights, and some into the June focus Wiki Loves Pride.

Increasing content on women and indigenous people is part of the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject.

Participating in the Kia Mau editing can be in person or remotely. You can start this week, join for an hour or more on the day, and follow up afterwards also. Any improvements to Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons content will make a difference.

Please let me know if you have any tips or questions to help me help you. If you aren't in a position to contribute right now that's ok too - take care.

Many thanks, Lisa Maule / Pakoire (talk) 22:07, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

First attempt to post to a Talk

Hiya. I guess my first question is do you address editors only by their wikipedia name, even if you know their first name? ˜˜˜˜ Okay. Second question: why did typing ˜˜˜˜ not work? I'll use the button this timeArchaeothanata (talk) 23:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC) Nevermind! I see the difference now in the edit box Archaeothanata (talk) 23:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You can address editors by their first name if you know their first name, and you're pretty sure they go by it on Wikipedia (check their user page to see), Good to hear from you! I got your email too. (and you have to type the tildes on your keyboard, not the accent). —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 19:35, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings

Good to meet you at Ewan's Women in Red event. I have some relations in Dunedin, NZ — the Hamilton branch of my father's Scottish family — and so hope to get out there one day. But we'll need to deal with the pandemic first -- good luck with that now it's loose in your islands.

Andrew🐉(talk) 12:39, 25 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for The Noises

On 18 September 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Noises, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the name of the Noises, a group of islands in New Zealand, is a corrupted version of Les Noisettes ("the Hazelnuts")? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Noises. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Noises), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blanket move discussion NZ your vote

Hallo Giantflightlessbirds,

You have participated in a previous vote. There is a blanket move discussion initated by User:Spekkios to revert your vote on other pages which is here: Talk:Fox_Glacier_/_Te_Moeka_o_Tuawe#Requested_move_2_November_2021 in case you are not aware of it yet. Gryffindor (talk) 17:53, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons: community meetup, February 22

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WP:AFC Helper News

Hello! I wanted to drop a quick note for all of our AFC participants; nothing huge and fancy like a newsletter, but a few points of interest.

AFCH will now show live previews of the comment to be left on a decline.
The template {{db-afc-move}} has been created - this template is similar to {{db-move}} when there is a redirect in the way of an acceptance, but specifically tells the patrolling admin to let you (the draft reviewer) take care of the actual move.

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Tamzin. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Sounds Australia, and have marked it as unreviewed. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

-- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 02:38, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Giantflightlessbirds. The above unreview is because I've tagged the page for speedy deletion under the G12 criterion. Please be aware that, since you have the autopatrolled permission, any page you move to mainspace will be automatically marked as "reviewed" in Special:NewPagesFeed, meaning it will not be subject to scrutiny by new page reviewers. In this case, I wouldn't have noticed the page if it hadn't come up in the course of reviewing an unrelated edit filter issue, potentially meaning that, if not for that coincidence, no new page reviewer would have looked at it and noticed that it was almost 100% copied and pasted from the sources it cited. I understand and appreciate the important work that event coördinators do bringing new users to Wikipedia, but, especially given that you are autopatrolled, please make sure not to mainspace anything that would be eligible for speedy deletion. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 02:45, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Understood! The user assured me it was their text and they just needed to add more references. Should have been more careful. We're doing cleanup now. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 03:25, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 12 May 2022

A year after the Performing Arts Aotearoa project started and as we are coming into winter (a busier editing time for many) here is an update.

The Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject now lives on the WikiProject New Zealand page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa

I have added new articles created as part of the Pacific Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject. These articles by new editors include Lusi Faiva, Suli Moa, Edith Amituanai and Amanaki Prescott-Faletau, who was interviewed on Radio New Zealand last Sunday. The reporter let me know the article was valuable for the interview research – great feedback for all of us creating and improving content in Wikipedia.

On the project page is highlighted plenty of articles to create or improve. I invite you to have a look and contribute if you can. There are many long-standing festivals in Aotearoa without articles such as the Hawkes Bay Arts Festival, Tauranga Festival of the Arts, Taranaki International Arts Festival, Nelson Arts Festival and the Christchurch Arts Festival. Creating these Wikipedia pages or Wikidata items allows links to biographies and strengthens the weaving of Wikipedia.

South Westland list

Kia ora - just saw your revision history note on the South Westland list, mentioning "no more entries please". Of course I saw it after I'd already gone through the list at the top and added the missing ones which had articles to the table, so wanted to check whether the "no more entries" was beyond the list at the top or just the table? I'm happy to revert my change if we want to stick with the ones that were already on the table! Turnagra (talk) 18:53, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No it's all good; if you discover something has an article, move it to the table. By all means cross off things that have an accurate Wikidata item and some photos. I just want the "total number of things to do" to stay the same, as there are heaps more rivers, mountains, swamps etc we could concern ourselves with. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Lake Brunner

On 4 August 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lake Brunner, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lake Brunner. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lake Brunner), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 11,486 views (478.6 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of August 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 05:32, 5 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

WIR at University of Otago & Bug of the Year Editathon

Heard about this (new?) position / role you're taking on, and the super cool editathon you're starting up! Congratulations - it looks super exciting. Lovely meeting you at the ESEAP conference, and hope we get to cross paths off-wiki again soon! - Yael RWeissburg (WMF) (talk) 00:46, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Yael; only a short part-time project at the moment, but hoping to extend it. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 00:53, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Assessing project progress

Hey Mike, At some point in the weekend we talked about the 150 women project and how I tracked what I was doing - here's the table I built and worked through, until all were more than stub. User:DrThneed/150 women in 150 words project page assessments

Cheers DrThneed (talk) 22:45, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Hardy Browning

Hello! Your submission of Hardy Browning at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! CeeGee 12:06, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, it's now been 23 days since you nominated this article to DYK, and 20 days since you were reminded about doing a QPQ. You have 13 previous DYK nominations, so a QPQ is required- please can this be actioned ASAP? Otherwise, the DYK nomination is at risk of being rejected. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:06, 3 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Hardy Browning

On 19 August 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hardy Browning, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that New Zealand potter Hardy Browning began his career as a coal miner? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hardy Browning. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hardy Browning), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Christchurch Meetups

Are there any plans on meetups in Christchurch? I'm keen on coming along. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 03:26, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

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And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too! Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:02, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

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Replaceable non-free use File:1946 peace 1.2d 300px.png

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Yep, the same user is bugging me as well. It's a shame that they don't seem to be capable of actually reading the free-use rationale. You might want to follow the links from my talk page to how I've responded to those deletion nominations. Schwede 66 08:03, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see that your files have been deleted and the same has happened to me. Should we ask for a deletion review? Should we touch base via conference call to align our ducks? Schwede 66 00:23, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable non-free use File:1946 peace 9d 300px.png

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this seems very facist 222.153.176.212 (talk) 12:49, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Future West Coast plans

Kia ora Mike, hope you're doing well. I just wanted to touch base quickly to see whether you've got any further plans for West Coast-related events this year? I'm sure you're aware of the WPNZ National parks collaboration, and I was wondering whether there would be an opportunity to align the two projects by focusing on West Coast national parks at the same time as your event is going on. This worked well with Kahurangi National Park earlier in the year and could help prevent duplication of resources - no stress though if you haven't got anything planned, we can just try and improve those articles independently! Turnagra (talk) 00:31, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedians

Susan Tolich (Susan Tol) - June/July 2017 @ AWMM, Auckland [2]
Marty Blayney (Prosperosity) - January 2021 - ongoing @ AWMM, Auckland [3]

Here's some basic info about dates/times for Susan and my dates as Wikimedians in Residence. --Prosperosity (talk) 23:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Richard Washbourn

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Z1720 (talk) 00:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Collingwood Area School

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Z1720 (talk) 00:04, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent Aotearoa New Zealand meetup

Hi ya, just thought I'd let you know of a discussion point that came up at the recent meetup suggesting a topic to be raised at Wikicon 2025. See the discussion on the review of questions raised during the roundtable. Ambrosia10 (talk) 02:35, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uncertain genera placement

Kia ora Mike, do you know much about moving genera in GBIF and other databases? I've just made an article on the genus Alloecentrella, which based on papers from 2007/2008 should be in the family Helicophidae. This isn't recognised in many major databases (GBIF, iNaturalist, NCBI, ITIS), but is on others (IRMNG, NZOR, Manaaki Whenua). Do you have any experience in making changes like this (and if it's appropriate to change genera structure in Wikidata if it's different on GBIF)? --Prosperosity (talk) 03:11, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Thanks for your email (from a few days ago). I will be in touch if I need more help. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 21:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Christchurch Meetup - September 1st

Hello, in case you are interested, fellow Ōtautahi-based Wikipedians are planning to have a meetup at The Pedal Pusher restaurant in Addington on September 1st at 6pm. If you are interested in attending please see the event page for more details. Hope to see you there! David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 01:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō

The name is tricky - its use is so variable. I'm not sure about the capital for 'te'. 'Te' ('the') is not normally capitalised in title case. Nurg (talk) 02:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've discussed name issues with another editor too - User talk:TheLoyalOrder#Nga wai hono i te Po. Nurg (talk) 02:05, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Death of Tuheitia

Kia ora! I just wanted to leave a message. I’m concerned that the page I started for the Death and tangi of Tuheitia will be deleted. The reasoning is that the page does not include enough detail and could be simply merged. I haven’t finished writing the page - it still needs a lot of work regarding the tangi - but deleting it I think would be a very poor idea. The events of the King’s death and tangi were of major national significance, being the first Māori monarch’s tangi to be nationally televised, and that it reached a wide audience within New Zealand. I also am concerned that articles on events significant to Māori, like this one, will get deleted, and what that means for Māori engagement with Wikipedia (which is low). Dhantegge (talk) 10:13, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've added my suggestion on the Talk page. Bear in mind nobody's talking about deleting information; pages are merged and split all the time, it's all about what works best for presenting information clearly for the average international reader (the person we're doing all this work for, after all). Worst case, the content in Death of Tūheitia will be merged back into Tuheitia, then, when you've continued to expand it, split out again. Which is a wee bit of extra work but not a big deal in the long run. Note that many editors from other countries have their own concerns and increasing the visibility of Māori in Wikipedia is a long way down that list, so appealing to the importance of representation or increasing Māori engagement won't be very effective in changing their minds. It's best to stick to arguments from Wikipedia policy that everybody agrees on: notability criteria as set out in Wikipedia:Notability (events), the guidelines for when topics are split off into stand-alone pages WP:PAGEDECIDE, and so forth. Also it can be a good idea to start by expanding a section in an already-existing article, then, when that content is so voluminous that it overshadows the rest of the article, post a Talk page message suggesting it be split off—at least until someone else improves the other sections to match it—wait for responses, then split off the new article. That's less likely to get push back from other editors, and won't put you in the position of defending the significance of an article that's not finished yet. Anyway, good work, and keep it up. — Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 11:49, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fensham Reserve

Kia ora. Thanks for photos of Fensham Reserve you took back in 2020. I visited the reserve in February this year, and have finally got around to writing a new article. I have put one of your photos into the article. See: Fensham Reserve. Ngā mihi _Marshelec (talk) 21:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that's excellent—glad to see those photos came in handy. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 04:56, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: September 2024

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IX, September 2024
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Albania report: Wikimedian in Residence at Elbasan’s Ethnographic Museum in Albania Argentina report: GLAM and communities Australia report: Artbank's edit-a-thon for gender equity in Australian visual arts Belgium report: Project 'Belgian distilleries as Linked Open Data' completed Brazil report: Photowalks for Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 at five corners of Brazil France report: 4th edition of the Label Culture Libre India report: Digitization at the Museum of Santal Culture, Federation Hall Society Library and Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya New Zealand report: Report on the Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical 2024, Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024 and the upcoming New Zealand species edit-a-thon Poland report: What's up in GLAM-Wiki in Poland Spain report: Wiki Takes Rural Archaeology Switzerland report: Swiss GLAM Programme UK report: Wiki content in interfaith education USA report: Banned books and more Biodiversity Heritage Library report: BHL-Wiki Working Group September monthly highlights Special story: Global GLAM calls from November: short survey, and register! Calendar: October's GLAM events
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About This Month in GLAM · Subscribe/Unsubscribe · Global message delivery · Romaine 11:37, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Present Wikisource at CSIR Event on November 22nd

Dear User:Giantflightlessbirds,

I hope this message finds you well. I am User:Mwintirew, and I had the pleasure of attending your session on Wikisource at the Knowledge Beyond Boundaries event last year in Singapore.

I’m reaching out because we, Global Open Initiative are organizing an event with the Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (INSTI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana, and I believe your expertise would greatly benefit our participants, who are primarily librarians and researchers. We would be honored if you could present Wikisource to them and guide them on how they can contribute their research and collections to the platform.

The event is scheduled for the 22nd of November, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM UTC. I realize this is on relatively short notice, so please let me know if you're available, and we can discuss the details at your earliest convenience.

Thank you for considering this invitation, and I look forward to your response.

Best regards, Mwintirew (talk) 14:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in a research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of Wikipedians to better understand what draws administrators to contribute to Wikipedia, and what affects administrator retention. We will use this research to improve experiences for Wikipedians, and address common problems and needs. We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this anonymous survey.

You do not have to be an Administrator to participate.

The survey should take around 10-15 minutes to complete. You may read more about the study on its Meta page and view its privacy statement .

Please find our contact on the project Meta page if you have any questions or concerns.

Kind Regards,

WMF Research Team

BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 23 October 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Akaroa

For your position at large you could get in touch with Linda Wallace at Akaroa Museum. Might also be worth talking to the Friends of the Akaroa Museum (FOAM) whose members might have capacity or interest to volunteer with Wikipedia. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 04:26, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great minds think alike! I've already had a chat with Linda, and will be heading to Akaroa in a few weeks for a day of meetings; will suggest working with FOAM (great name) and recruiting some editors. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 09:32, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]