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West Coast Stories Online meetup

• History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
• Saturday 24 April 2021 (moved a second time)
• 1:00–4:00 pm
• Tea, coffee, and biscuits supplied. Feel free to drop for any part of the time.

This is a meetup for volunteers who want to get advice, collaborate, and help others tell West Coast stories online. Editing Wikipedia, WikiCommons, and Wikidata is great fun and socially worthy; while there's enormous amounts of advice and information available online on how to do it, nothing beats chatting with other human beings and getting some help and inspiration. During the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project it became clear that the coverage of the Coast on Wikipedia was pretty poor. The way to solve this is to get West Coast people empowered to tell their own stories, and for this we need a support structure and access to expertise and resources. These meetups are part of that. Other projects supported are Find A Grave and Google Maps photography, Wikisource book proofreading, and publishing original research on West Coast history.

Attendees

History Room

Jenny Cook, Kathleen Scott Langi, Terri Gee, Michelle Bethell. Not pictured: Mike Dickison

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• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Jen8000 (talk · contribs)
• Terri Gee
• Kathleen Scott Langi
• Michelle Bethell

Agenda items

• Feel free to add questions and topics to this section, and sign with your username (~~~~)
• Round the table: what's everyone up to? Add links and notes as needed

Outcomes

• Terri was enthusiastic about getting started with Find A Grave, and the requests she was getting from the community
• Jenny explained the work she's been doing on book transcription, and the different templates used to create page formatting
• Mike explained to newcomers the different types of projects the group can tackle – Wikipedia research, Commons photography, Find A Grave, and Wikisource – and suggested one-to-one meetings to set people up with a accounts and get them working on topics.

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 what you're interested in.
• Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; we can help you donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Useful links

• West Coast task force or just WP:WCNZ
• Add the West Coast task force Events page to your Watchlist
• Wikipedia New Zealand on Facebook
• Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Wikiproject New Zealand
• Wikidata Wikiproject New Zealand
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
• Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list run by User:Giantflightlessbirds
  

Next meetup

• Saturday May 22, 1pm