Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/Wikiblitz 1

What's it about?

A Wikiblitz is a type of Edit-a-thon where volunteer Wikipedia editors tackle one particular task together: improving a single article, fixing a whole category of pages, or uploading a whole photo collection. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided.

This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland Museum, and will focus on adding spectacular photos of specimens from the Land Vertebrates collection to Wikipedia. The Museum has just finished photographing the land vertebrate (bird, mammal, reptile) specimens in its care, and there are many Wikipedia pages lacking a good photo of these species – particularly New Zealand animals.

When and where

Saturday 18 August 2018, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm NZST
Auckland Museum
Library, lvl 2 (from the South Atrium entrance, take the lifts to the Secret World of Butterflies exhibition: the library entrance is in that show)
Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely.

Timetable

10.00: meet and greet, account creation for newcomers
10.30: Tutorial on photos in Wikimedia Commons and adding them to Wikipedia pages
11.00: Editing
12.00: Lunch/coffee break
13.30: Tutorial on uploading photos, captioning, linking, and metadata
14.00: Editing
15.00: Coffee break
16.00: Finishing up

To attend

The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part.

Auckland Museum has free admission for Aucklanders: if you're coming from out of town, contact Mike at mikegiantflightlessbirds.com or 027 4477081 so he can escort you in.

People attending

In person

Remotely

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What to bring

Laptop and power cord. The venue will have free wifi.
Photos you've taken that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to the Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.
No food or drink are allowed in the Museum Library, but we'll take regular breaks downstairs in 1929 Expresso Bar.

Preparation

If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
Take a look at the Commons category Photos from Auckland Museum, and see the diversity of pictures there. Explore a category that interests you, and check out relevant Wikipedia pages to see if there's as good a photo there; if not, make a note.
If you want to bring photos along and add them to Commons and Wikipedia, they need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

Useful links

This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz

To work on

This wikiblitz will focus on the collections of Auckland Museum found in Wikimedia Commons; you can see the Images from Auckland Museum here.

Outcomes

User:Hl introduced us to CropTool, very handy for creating cropped images of museum photographs of eggs for use in native bird articles. We also discussed Pattypan and Flickr2Commons.

A gallery of some of the photos attendees worked on:

Howick Beach, New Zealand
Close-up of the Hercules monument
Headstone of Hannah King Letheridge
Ohakune carrot
Ninox novaeseelandiae egg image cropped
New Zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris)
Sign for Yankee Wharf, Rangitoto Island
Mounted skeleton of king penguin
Serviceman with multiplepukeko, 1952

Photos were added to the following articles:

Edits	Files in use	Files uploaded	Items created	Items improved	New editors	Pages created	Pages improved	7 day retention
17	11	131	0	4	6	0	13	3

Media

There will be a newspaper photographer present. If you don't want your photo in the paper, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Adam Moriarty and Hugh Lilly at Auckland Museum for making this event possible.