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Esther James was a land developer who designed and built several houses, but her Wikipedia page currently only describes her as a model.

On 7 October, DrThneed will run a Wikipedia event on Women and Architecture, as part of the Southern Heritage Festival. This event falls under the New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikiproject.

New Zealand Women and Architecture

• Date: 7 October 2023
• Location: Heritage New Zealand offices, Level 2, 201 Princes Street
• Time: 10am–1pm
• Sign up: Register via Heritage Festival website.
• Bring: a laptop

New editors: Please create a Wikipedia account ahead of time, as we are limited on how many new accounts we can create from one IP address on the day. This video shows you how, in less than 2 minutes. We recommend adding an email address so that if you forget your password you can recover your account.

Dashboard: Please add yourself to the event dashboard by typing your username at this link

Participants

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• DrThneed (talk) 21:05, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
• sarahlibrarina (talk)
• loolady123 (User talk:loolady123)

Suggested activities

• Add information and/or sources and/or images to existing pages
• Improve the listed articles, see notes for specific suggestions
• Create new pages for Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall, Siedeberg-McKinnon house, Mary Edwards, Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei, Kathy Waghorn (see table below)
• Add any heritage building photos you have taken to Wikimedia Commons
• Add new or improved photos for any heritage buildings in Dunedin (see here for a list of buildings)

Sample pages for reference:

• Heritage-listed buildings: Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin Town Hall
• Architects: Lucy Greenish, Jackie Gillies, Elizabeth Farrelly

Articles to improve

Page	Notes	Sources	Wikidata item
Ann Monroe Gilchrist Strong	Currently "stub" article. Professor of home science at University of Otago, arranged first architecture lectures by a woman in NZ. There is an image that can be added (File:Ann Gilchrist Strong 1926.jpg)	see sources on page, and p404 of Making Space, plus Beyond the domestic sphere? article	Ann Monroe Gilchrist Strong (Q4766573)
Esther James	Currently talks of her only as a fashion model, yet she designed and built multiple houses, and campaigned for matrimonial property law reform. E.g. Turnbull library entry says "Inventor, fashion model, promoter, marathon walker, builder, built her own houses. Wrote her autobiography 'Jobbing Along'." Also add a link in the text back to her page from her grandfather's page (she is currently only linked in infobox).	Dictionary of National Biography entry (linked on page), plus	Esther James (Q5401208)
Bronwen Kerr	Currently very brief with no images.	see existing sources on page, plus pages 245, 247, 253 of Making Space
Katherine Skipper	Article has orphan tag, so we need to find some other articles to link to it (e.g. add her to the alumna list for her school). Also very brief.	see existing sources on page, including Making Space p206
Kimberly Browne	Needs linking to and expanding.	see existing sources on page, plus p320 Making Space (just a mention)

Articles to create

Page	Image	Notes	Sources	Wikidata item
Siedeberg-McKinnon house	none		ODT article on property sale in 2017 ODT article on property history by David Murray, 2016 Heritage listing	Siedeberg-McKinnon House (Q120765920)
Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall (DrThneed)			ODT article about heritage listing Heritage listing Bright future	Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall (Q95939920)
Truby King Harris Hospital	1942 image at Hocken		Property presented to Society in 1910 Launch of appeal to build new hospital, 1937 Turning the first sod ODT article on conversion to apartments 2015 Heritage listing Opening of memorial library at the hospital	Truby King Harris Hospital (Q79311729)
Mary Edwards (architect)	none		p51 & 106 of Making Space	Mary Edwards (Q117802981)
Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei			[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9], p287, 288-290,409 of Making Space	Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei (Q117811141)
Kathy Waghorn			Sources: [10] [11] [12][13], p412 of Making Space	Kathy Waghorn (Q117813436)

Tools & links

• 2023 page views for Wikipedia category: Category I historic places in Otago
• 2023 page views for Wikipedia category: Category II historic places in Otago
• Wikimedia Commons category: Category I listings in Otago
• Wikimedia Commons category: Category II listings in Otago
• Pages with requested images in Otago: Requested photographs in Otago