Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Workshop

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Introduction to Wikipedia Workshop: 4 March 2023

An introduction to editing Wikipedia on Saturday 4 March organised by Kasi Valu and run by Lisa Maule (Pakoire (talk)).

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Purpose & outline

Wikipedia is an online source of encyclopedic information that when well-done weaves together strands of intersecting people, events, organisations and ideas. The arts sector of Aotearoa is particularly networked due our our relatively small size and mobility. This introduction will help complete newcomers make their first Wikipedia edit and learn about the culture of Wikipedia's crowd-sourced online platform within the context of our Mana Moana artists.

Participants

Add your username here by writing four tildes ~

• Pakoire (talk) 02:47, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
• Friagatewayfinder (talk) 12:29, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
• Definedtriangleer (talk) 01:41, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
• Lightspear451 (talk) 00:43, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia workshop participants in Te Whanganui-a-Tara at the Nola Millar Library, Te Whaea (4 March 2023)

Project ideas

Expand existing articles by:

• finding interviews or mentions of your favourite arts and arts
• using a reference such as a Playmarket Annual or a recent news article (Spinoff, Pantograph Punch, Theatreview, TheatreScenes)

Find a redlink in an article on a topic that is of interest to you and create a draft article by clicking on the redlink (and then researching etc!).

Using an article that needs improving check if there is any more to add from the existing references.

Proposals

• Improve: Leki Jackson-Bourke - add headings, find more references, add an infobox (Pakoire)
• The foundational redlink articles such as festivals eg: Measina Festival
• Pasifika visual arts eg: Evotia Tamoa
• Pasifika animators eg: Michel Mulipola
• Underground ballroom culture / the legacy in Aotearoa and other countries from the USA Ball culture
• Develop a funding proposal for Wikipedia to extend to Pacific Islands
• Women Pasifika comedy and comedians including SIS (TV)

Learning guide

Use your sandbox

1. write down some ideas of topics or subjects for Wikipedia
2. create a title 'Reference list' (note only the first word has a capital letter in Wikipedia headings)
3. create a reference list from a template
4. create a statement paraphrasing from a reference and add a citation using a website link
5. create a statement paraphrasing from a reference add a citation of a book using the ISBN
6. create a link in the article to another Wikipedia page
7. insert an image from Wikimedia Commons
8. create an infobox from a template

Handy references

Useful links and references

• Find New Zealand Artists (https://findnzartists.org.nz/)
• Coconet TV - (https://www.thecoconet.tv/)
• TheatreView - performing arts reviews (https://www.theatreview.org.nz/)
• Tiaki, the Alexander Turnbull Library's catalogue (& National Library of New Zealand)
• Digital NZ Ā-Tihi o Aotearoa (https://digitalnz.org/)
• Digital Pacific - (https://digitalpasifik.org/)

Wikipedia community meetups

A conference where you can meet a range of other Wikipedia folk of varying experience

• Wellington WikiCon 2023 next weekend 11 & 12 March

Regular meetings with people who can answer your questions - including all the stuff you forgot

• New Zealand group of editors online monthly on Sundays at midday: Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online
• Wellington Meetups at the WCC library within the National Library monthly on Saturday mornings: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington

Names

The guideline for the naming of articles is the most commonly used version in sources. Also check how the artist likes their name to be represented and when searching - search for variations.

Conflict of interest

It's not ok to write about yourself, your employers or your whānau because you will have a bias, this seems tricky if you are a practicing artist writing about the arts but not impossible. Ask Pakoire or Kasi for advice! More: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest

Notability

• Some of the amazing people (shows and / or organisations) you want to write about might be well known and influential but might not be written about enough to meet Wikipedia notability guidelines. Wikipedia can only reflect what can be cited / referenced. More: Wikipedia:Notability (people)

People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals - directors, writers, choreographers, designers, artists

Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Entertainers - actors (and also assume dancers)