Wikipedia:Meetup/Greymouth/8

Yvonne Rust Editathon

Left Bank Art Gallery, Tainui St, Greymouth
Saturday 26 November 2022
10:30 am – 4:00 pm
Tea and coffee supplied

This is a meetup to improve the Wikipedia coverage of potter, teacher, and artist Yvonne Rust (1922–2002), on the occasion of her 100th birthday. Rust was an important figure in West Coast art and was teacher and mentor to a circle of creative people locally and throughout New Zealand. An excellent 2011 biography by Theresa Sjoquist, Yvonne Rust: maverick spirit (her Wordpress site) will be a key reference for this event. The editathon is kindly hosted by the Left Bank Art Gallery.

Attendees

You can attend in person or remotely. Edit this section to add your Wikipedia username. Tip: you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

Giantflightlessbirds (Mike Dickison)
Katrina Brown (Left Bank Art Gallery)
Cassandra Struve (Left Bank Art Gallery)

Training

If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, there's a free online training session:

Wednesday 23 November 2022
7:30–8:30 pm
Register here

This session will set you up with a Wikipedia account, give you some editing and citation practice, set a homework task, and make sure that when you turn up on Saturday you're ready to go.

To work on

Yvonne Rust (Q99304224) Wikidata item; have created and added her fist name, Niria (Q115475428). ✓
~~There are only two photos in the Commons Category:Yvonne Rust; we need more, and need to organise an open licence from the photographers~~. Paul Caffyn kindly donated some photos of his under an open licence.

January 1974
House being built in Parua Bay
Yvonne visiting lynda Ferguson in 1989

Te Hāpua photos and info to add:
Things to fix about the Yvonne Rust article:
- Too short: We need sections on Early Life, Teaching, Pottery, Painting at least, summarising the relevant sections in Sjoquist (2011).
- Photographs of her art and pottery: these need to be cleared by both the photographer and the current holder of Yvonne Rust's copyrights (which don't expire until 2052).
- The Whangarei District Library has some photos of Rust in their Florence Keene collection, but the library doesn't seem to know the copyright holder, copyright status, or licensing of them – family have been contacted, keen to clear.
- A bit more about Rust in the Barry Brickell article? And that article could probably be expanded.
- No mention of Rust in the Parua Bay article.
Related people and places:

Yvonne-Rust-related
Topic	Wikidata	Wikipedia	Quality	Commons	Notes
Ian Boustridge	Q110075907	Ian Boustridge		—
Hardy Browning	—	—			https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.110034, 1974 book
Roger Ewer	—	—
John Crawford	Q111173506	John Crawford (potter)		—
Greymouth High School	Q5608461	Greymouth High School	Start	Greymouth High School	No mention of Rust; could use a photo
Quarry Arts Centre	—				Needs creating in Wikidata at least

Timetable

10.30 am: Setup
Meet at the Left Bank and get sorted out with an account and lanyard.
11.00: Editing
We'll divide up topics to tackle and get stuck in—lots to do!
12.30: Lunch break
A chance to go over any problems or questions you have as a group.
1.30: More editing
4.00: Finishing up
Make sure you fill out an evaluation form and add your contributions to the list below.

Useful links

Good things to bring

Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads!
Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to Yvonne Rust and West Coast artists.
Photos you've taken, especially of people or places relevant to the topic; we can help you upload these to Wikimedia Commons so Wikipedia articles can use them.

Media

We'll be taking photos for the record. If you don't want to be in a photo, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one.

Outcomes

The day was a great success, with many people turning up who knew Yvonne and had photos to donate. Katrina Brown of the Left Bank was kept busy scanning and identifying prints, and Mike spent several hours interviewing, including:

Grant Hudson, who spent a year working in the Brewery with Yvonne in the 1960s, and later moved to Barrytown. Grant was not interviewed for the Sjoquist book, so this interview will be written up and published in the Left Bank's blog.
Evelyn Hewlett and Glenys Birchfield, who were students of Yvonne for five years at Greymouth High School.
Paul Caffyn, who first met Yvonne in 1970 and later visited her in Parua Bay.
Roger Ewer, who worked with her in the Studio of Design in Christchurch in the early 1960s.

Evelyn also brought along a huge pot of Yvonne's made during her Greymouth period, which will be photographed, copyright cleared, and added to the Wikipedia article.