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This is a weekly report on meetings, events, and contributions made.

It's also a place for project volunteers to note down their contributions (remember to sign your name!) There will be prizes (donated by Westland District Library) for the most and best contributions in different areas (articles in each geographical location, Commons uploads, Wikidata etc.) Prize categories and winners will be decided by Mike at the end of August and no correspondence will be entered into.

Mon 20 – Sun 26 Jun

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Mon 27 Jun – Sun 3 Jul

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Mon 4 – Sun 10 Jul

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@Turnagra: I certainly understand the problem of getting over-committed. If you felt able to help with some initial scoping, that would be great. It would be useful to survey the existing articles to see what type of content is common, and what content is unusual or "exceptions". This might help us identify core areas of content that should be present in all or most National Park articles (perhaps some kind of model table of contents might emerge ? ). This might lead to some kind of project definition, or even just a table setting out the most obvious areas for improvement for each National Park article ? If we managed to get a sufficiently high profile for this campaign, perhaps we could try to get engagement from DoC, and get a contact person who could help us dig out useful documents and images ? I would be happy to work with you on some initial steps as outlined above. --Marshelec (talk) 09:38, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I would suggest just preparing a To Do table, like I've done for the different regions in this project, so we know how each national park is for Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons. Then plan a Wikiblitz and invite all the Wikipedians you know to join you for a day (see: upcoming Wikipedia:Meetup/Hokitika/7|West Coast Reptiles]]). Once, that's done, we could approach DOC for references and all their publicity photos. They should actually be funding this sort of thing! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:42, 11 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Mon 11 – Sun 17 Jul

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Mon 18 – Sun 24 Jul

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Mon 25 – Sun 31 Jul

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Paparoa Track
  • Did you know ... that the hiking track through the Pororari River Gorge has become part of New Zealand's newest Great Walk, the Paparoa Track (video shown)? This is scheduled to be the DYK lead hook (i.e. including the video) for 25 July, on the main page from noon to midnight that day. Schwede66 01:44, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • The video got 405,000 views on the day it was on the Main Page. Is that an impressive number or what? Schwede66 05:41, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    That is REALLY impressive – and interesting; if video is so much more appealing than a photo (or just clicking the article link—the articles got 1266 and 1749 views respectively on the day) then we should be seriously shooting more short video clips and structuring DYKs around them. I would want to check with Wikimedia gurus to make sure there wasn't some sort of main-page autoplay going on and that those views are reliable; perhaps we can ask in the usual Facebook groups. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 00:20, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mon 1 – Sun 7 Aug

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Mon 8 – Sun 14 Aug

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Fantail Falls in 1965
  • Carrol Browne QSM (Fox Glacier) – Commons & Wikidata
  • Pat McManus (mayor of Buller) – Wikidata
  • Lesley Jackson QSM (Hokitika) – Commons & Wikidata
  • Andrew Buglass QSM (Hokitika) – Commons
  • Durham Havill ONZM (mayor of Westland) – Wikidata
  • Tania Gibson (mayor of Grey) – Wikidata
  • Bruce Smith (mayor of Westland) – Wikidata
  • Rosemarie Searle QSM (Kumara) – Commons & Wikidata
  • Gerard Bullimore QSM (Kumara) – Commons & Wikidata

Mon 15 – Sun 21 Aug

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The Iron Hut on the Haast–Paringa track c. 1920
  • Maureen Truman MNZM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Paul Berry QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Colin Smith MNZM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Margaret Swinburn QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Alan Atkinson QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • And three more from Runanga. Mike, could you please check whether we have a husband-and-wife combo here? I have found matching residential addresses on the Companies Office website, but one shouldn't make assumptions. Schwede66 00:00, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Paul Caffyn ONZM – Commons
  • John Sturgeon ONZM MBE – Commons and Wikidata
  • Mary Sturgeon QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Kevin Stechman QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Norman Crawshaw QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Rebecca Keoghan MNZM – Commons
  • John Vaile QSM – Commons and Wikidata
  • Richard Scadden QSM – Granity, Commons and Wikidata
  • Ross Scarlett MNZM – Karamea, Commons and Wikidata
  • Rosalie Sampson MNZM – Karamea, Commons and Wikidata

Mon 22 – Sun 28 Aug

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Denis Ryall driving dray along Nine Mile Beach
Haast coastline – showing parallel lines of dunes and swales
  • I've just uploaded 50 photos of those short walks and created them properly in Wikidata, with Commons categories, so there's plenty to choose from. We should probably assign walk photos to just those categories, and the remaining beach/shelter/bridge/tower photos could stay at the top level. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:59, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]