Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Playmarket Edit-A-Thon

What's it about?

This edit-a-thon has a focus on increasing the presence of NZ playwrights on Wikipedia and is hosted by Playmarket. New Zealand Theatre is in general lacking information in Wikipedia, and this is one way to address that.

When and where

Participants in the on-line Playmarket NZ edit-a-thon, 15 Aug 2020

This event was rescheduled from May 2020 due to COVID-19. After being COVID-free for 100 days, New Zealand was placed back into Level 2/Level 3 status on Wednesday 12 August. Level 2 in Wellington requires social distancing, so it's not possible for all participants to work at the Playmarket offices. This is the new schedule:

• Saturday, 15 August
• 11:00 am NZST: Introduction online at Whereby. Participants will choose articles to work on, and be briefed on resources available and communication during the day.
• 1:00 pm: Touch Base online at Whereby. Share what you've been working on, get help, and collaborate.
• 3:00 pm: Wrap Up online at Whereby. Summary of what's been achieved, posting list to this project page, problem solving and wrapping up.
• Lisa Maule User:Pakoire and Playmarket's Murray Lynch will be present at the Playmarket Wellington office, Level 1 35-38 Cambridge Terrace (above Domino's) from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, scanning and photographing resources to be uploaded or shared with editors. Email them with your information needs (details in Introduction).
• This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.

People attending

Ambrosia10 and Giantflightlessbirds

Lisa Maule and Murray Lynch at the Playmarket office for the August edit-a-thon 2020

Please add yourself:

• Pakoire
• Giantflightlessbirds

• Ambrosia10 (talk) 09:12, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
• David Nind
• Pippipip
• Oronsay

Apologies

• Gertrude206
• Quilt Phase
• Noracrentiss

To do list

There are 30 New Zealand playwrights targeted in this edit-a-thon. Please follow the link to this google document for the list and suggested actions. This will be updated during the event to show progress.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l85fGId8h_tSEpgL-ST9TGykpbOoN84KFVQ6ofl0Sno/edit?usp=sharing

Make sure that every Wikipedia article you work on is in New Zealand English, and uses D/M/Y dates. Here's the code:

• {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
• {{en-NZ|date=August 2020}}

Resources

Pacific Underground members in 1994 during the season of Fresh Off The Boat at the Herald Theatre in Auckland. From left: Michael Hodgson, Erolia Ifopo, Tanya Muagututi'a, David Fane, Mishelle Muagututi'a, and Oscar Kightley

Link to NZ Theatre references - mostly books - with comments about how they are useful. Contains info to copy and paste into citations as required. Perhaps there are copies in some Wellington libraries (Surprisingly few! – MRD)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hbV607UCwH4bzoT72REPFY9vGe-I-I738BhuXgUNSPw/edit?usp=sharing

• Search Theatreview website for reviews

https://www.theatreview.org.nz/

• Theatrescenes http://www.theatrescenes.co.nz/
• Pantograph Punch https://www.pantograph-punch.com/
• Lumiere Reader https://lumiere.net.nz/
• Searchable indexed items in the Nola Millar library

https://nolamillarlibrary.toiwhakaari.ac.nz/

• Playmarket annuals available as pdf’s on http://issuu.com/playmarket from 2012
• Theatre Aotearoa - searchable database

http://tadb.otago.ac.nz/

Outcomes

• Stuart Hoar: expanded with infobox and fuller plays listing --Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:22, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Oscar Kightley: more on bio and first plays, warning template removed after cleanup --Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:22, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Expanded the wikidata items for the first 10 playwrights in the Google doc list, adding statements, identifiers and references where appropriate. Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Joseph Musaphia: expanded bio and lists of works. Changed from Stub to Start class Pakoire (talk) 02:34, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Bruce Mason Playwriting Award: Updated award winners in Wikipedia, adding refs, and added award info to their Wikidata items – 25 playwrights on WP, 3 now on Wikidata. Added NZ Order of Merit to their Wikidata items + refs. Created redirect for Mīria George. Oronsay (talk) 03:17, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Created new entry for Renee Liang --Pippipip (talk) 03:29, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Robert Lord (playwright): reorganised headings, added references, improved Wikidata entry --David Nind 04:59, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Added Wikidata entry for Nonita Rees, one of the founders of Playmarket, including a photo from MNZM investiture ceremony --David Nind 05:40, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Expanded Wikidata entries for Mervyn Thompson and Playmarket, --David Nind 05:40, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Progressed availability of images of playwrights with Playmarket - Pakoire (talk) 09:41, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
• Jess Sayer: new article MurielMary (talk) 08:58, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
• Expanded Robert Lord (playwright) from start to C (3.43) (ORES) Pakoire (talk) 06:11, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Future work

Many New Zealand literary awards, residences and grants do not have Wikidata items let alone a Wikipedia page. These are important as they help establish notability of living playwrights. It might be worth focusing on this subject should there be another opportunity to undertake an editathon. Ambrosia10 (talk)

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Playmarket for hosting the event and providing access to their fantastic resources on all things NZ playwrights. And also thanks to the Wellington Wikipedia Meetup group for supporting.