Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/Wikiblitz 4

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. Subject experts with no Wikipedia background can sit down with experienced Wikipedians and get lots done: see the Kauri Dieback Wikiblitz for an example.

This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the Auckland offices of Bauer Media Group, publisher of the magazines The Listener, North and South, and New Zealand Woman's Weekly (amongst many others) and will focus on those magazines, their archives and photo libraries, Wikidata presence, and important contributors and articles.

When and where

Saturday 27 July 2019, 10:00 am – 3:00 or 4:00 pm NZST
Bauer Media Centre, Shed 12, CityWorks Depot, Wellesley St West, Auckland
There are Bauer guest carparks outside the entrance and we can let people into the staff garage for parking.
Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely.

Timetable

10.00: meet and greet, account creation for newcomers, intro to Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata
12.00: Lunch/coffee break
14.00: Coffee break
15.00–16:00 or so: Finishing up, depending on energy!

To attend

This Wikiblitz is a training and participation workshop for Bauer Media staff, but Auckland Wikipedians are invited to attend to help and supply some editing expertise. Just add your name to People Attending.

People attending

In person

Remotely

What to bring

Laptop and power cord. A laptop is MUCH better than an iPad for editing Wikipedia. The venue will have wifi.
Bauer are supplying coffee, tea and fizzy water, and will shout us a round of flat whites/long blacks etc from their friendly neighbourhood café, The Botanist.

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.
Photos for Commons and Wikipedia 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

Note that because of Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules, Bauer Media staff can't edit articles about themselves, their employer, or their co-workers. They're free, however, to list corrections and make suggestions, supply sources and citations, add photos to Commons, fill out Wikidata and so forth, and make it as easy as possible for other editors to improve those articles.

Wikipedia

North and South
The Listener
Metro
New Zealand Women's Weekly
Adding info from recent publications to articles with Noted references: for example, a recent article on the black stilt.
Improving the Voyager Media Awards 2019 page

Listener:

Books & Culture Editor Russell Baillie
Art Director Derek Ward
Senior Writers
- Donna Chisholm,
- Diana Wichtel (Auckland),
- Sally Blundell (Christchurch)
Chief Sub-editor Geoff Cumming
Sub-editor Nick Russell
Entertainment Editor Fiona Rae
Political Columnist Jane Clifton
Assistant Art Director Shane Kelly
Senior Designer Richard Kingsford
Digital Producer Ryan Holder
Editorial Assistant Lauren Buckeridge

These people do not have existing Wikipedia pages and should because of their notability:

Michael Cooper, prolific wine writer
Clare de Lore, feature writer, journalist (stub - I couldn't find much online, DrThneed)
Peter Griffin, technology journalist and commentator
Jane Clifton, political columnist

Commons

Magazine covers where there's no secondary copyright issues with photography
Photos relevant to Wikipedia articles
Mugshots of magazine staff and contributors (by the copyright holder)

Wikidata

Items for all the magazine titles, with a reference for date established etc, lists of their editors with start and end dates, and so forth
Items for major contributors, including a mugshot
Items for important articles published in each title, especially ones likely to be extensively cited

People in need of Wikidata items:

Michael Cooper, prolific wine writer
Peter Griffin, technology journalist and commentator
Jane Clifton, political columnist
Russell Baillie, Books & Culture Editor
Fiona Rae, entertainment editor
Virginia Larson
Joanna Wane
Caroline Courtney
Mike White

Sorted:

Outcomes

New Zealand Listener magazine logo

North & South magazine logo

Expanded New Zealand Listener (Q15846578), Metro (Q6824453), and New Zealand Woman's Weekly (Q7015827) wikidata items, adding ISSN identifiers & social media links etc. Ambrosia10 (talk) 23:06, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Added wikidata items for Audrey Argall (Q65951621) founding editor of the NZ Woman's Weekly, Ola Rudman (Q65951640), Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:39, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Uploaded image of Hedda Dyson, editor of the NZ Woman's Weekly, sourced from the National Library to Wikicommons & reused in her Wikipedia article and in Wikidata item Hedda Dyson (Q5362829). Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:57, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Uploaded magazine mastheads for The Listener and North & South and added to articles
Lots of information and suggestions for improvement and additional articles added to Talk:North & South (New Zealand magazine) (this would keep a team of Wikipedians busy for a while!)
Uploaded images of journalists to Wikimedia Commons and added links to them in North & South talk page
Completed list of winners for 2019 Voyager Media Awards, created stub for Clare de Lore, added awards to Donna Chisholm. Added press freedom info to North & South page (but could be expanded heaps). Created Jo Seagar DrThneed (talk) 03:56, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Photo uploads of Whanganui and Ernst Plischke buildings by photographer Ken Downie (as well as a very nice pic of a Honda CB350 motorcycle, now the Wikipedia article photo. His Massey House photo now illustrates a list article on the German WP.
Added publications to Ichiro Kawachi page
Added info and links from Noted articles and citations to Dame Anne Salmond, Dick Frizzell, George Hudson, Napier, Rhema Media, Simon Dickie, Warren Cole, Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, and Ross Collinge