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This project page records Wikimedia initiatives carried out by the Wellington City Archives (herein Archives). Projects were initiated by New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Giantflightlessbirds in December 2018. The Archives have a large collection of undigitised photos; many of these are historic photos in the public domain, and there are several decades of photos by City Council photographers. Under NZ law, copyright of photos by Council staff rests with the Council, and the Archives are authorised to release these under a Creative Commons license.
- Neil Price • current Team Leader Photography and Video, official Wellington City Council photographer for some years
- Alister K Bristow • History Librarian at the Wellington Public Library • between 1951 and 1963 took some 3000 images at the request of Council departments
- Mark Graham, Mark Tantrum • Some photography
Mayors of Wellington
editTo Do Done
Check Wikipedia's Mayor of Wellington City listing for accuracyCheck Commons Category:Mayors_of_Wellington for info and completeness – Mark Blumsky missing a photo?Upload photos taken by City Photographer Neil PriceUpload other photos as needed from public domain sources, or scanned from City YearbooksCreate categories for any mayors lacking them.Link each Mayor in Wikidata to their Commons category so infoboxes work.Have some publicity photos of the current mayor authorised by the comms team for release under a CC license
# | Name | Term of Office | Commons cat? | Pics | Added | Notes | |
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- | George Hunter | 1842 | 1843 | 1 | |||
- | William Guyton | 1843 | 1 | 1 | Uploaded better scan | ||
1 | Joseph Dransfield | 1870 | 1873 | 1 | |||
2 | Charles Borlase | 1874 | 1875 | 1 | |||
3 | William Sefton Moorhouse | 1875 | Yes | 4 | |||
4 | William Hutchison | 1875 | 1877 | 1 | |||
(1) | Joseph Dransfield | 1878 | 1879 | — | — | ||
5 | George Allen | 1879 | 1 | 1 | |||
(4) | William Hutchison | 1879 | 1881 | — | — | ||
6 | George Fisher | 1881 | 1885 | Yes | 6 | ||
7 | Arthur Winton Brown | 1885 | 1887 | 1 | |||
8 | Samuel Brown | 1887 | 1888 | 1 | |||
9 | John Duthie | 1888 | 1890 | Yes | 2 | ||
10 | Charles Johnston | 1890 | 1891 | Yes | 1 | ||
(7) | Arthur Winton Brown | 1891 | 1892 | — | — | ||
11 | Francis Bell | 1892 | 1893 | Yes | 6 | ||
12 | Alfred Brandon | 1893 | 1894 | 1 | 1 | ||
13 | Charles Luke | 1894 | 1895 | 1 | |||
(6) | George Fisher | 1895 | 1896 | — | — | ||
(11) | Francis Bell | 1896 | 1897 | Yes | 6 | ||
14 | John Blair | 1897 | 1899 | 1 | |||
15 | John Aitken | 1899 | 1905 | Yes | 7 | 1 | |
16 | Thomas William Hislop | 1905 | 1909 | Yes | 4 | 1 | |
17 | Alfred Newman | 1909 | 1910 | Yes | 2 | ||
18 | Thomas Wilford | 1910 | 1912 | Yes | 6 | ||
19 | David McLaren | 1912 | 1913 | Yes | 3 | ||
20 | John Luke | 1913 | 1921 | Yes | 3 | ||
21 | Robert Alexander Wright | 1921 | 1925 | Yes | 1 | ||
22 | Charles Norwood | 1925 | 1927 | 1 | |||
23 | George Troup | 1927 | 1931 | Yes | 0 | 2 | |
24 | Thomas Hislop | 1931 | 1944 | Yes | 3 | 1 | Bad scan |
25 | Will Appleton | 1944 | 1950 | Yes | 6 | ||
26 | Robert Macalister | 1950 | 1956 | Yes | 1 | 4 | Need more |
27 | Frank Kitts | 1956 | 1974 | Yes | 6 | 12 | |
28 | Michael Fowler | 1974 | 1983 | Yes | 3 | 1 | Just 1 portrait |
29 | Ian Lawrence | 1983 | 1986 | Yes | 2 | Cropped version of group shot | |
30 | Jim Belich | 1986 | 1992 | Yes | 2 | Cropped version of group shot | |
31 | Fran Wilde | 1992 | 1995 | Yes | 3 | ||
32 | Mark Blumsky | 1995 | 2001 | Yes | 0 | 4 | |
33 | Kerry Prendergast | 2001 | 2010 | Yes | 5 | Two cropped | |
34 | Celia Wade-Brown | 2010 | 2016 | Yes | 15 | Three good | |
35 | Justin Lester | 2016 | present | Yes | 8 | 3 |
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George Troup
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Mayors in 1928
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Wellington mayoral chain
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Justin Lester
Botanic Garden
editPreparing to significantly improve the Wellington Botanic Garden's Wikimedia presence in preparation for its 150th anniversary in 2019, and a BioBlitz in April 2019.
To Do
Create To Do list on Talk page- Add info from Heritage NZ listing
- Use Winsome Shepherd's book to generate rough article outline
- Have Ayla add no-known-copyright Botanic Gardens photos to the Flickr gallery under CC BY 4.0
- Locate Gardens photos by Neil Price
- Organise bulk upload of historic photos to Commons, categorise appropriately
Wellington City Archives article
editTo Do Done
Establish notability of archives from clippings file of media coverageTake Commons photosSort Commons categories to distinguish categories for photos OF the Archives and IN the ArchivesCreate Wikidata itemCreate Commons institution templateCreate Start-class articleIf more sources are available, upgrade to C-class articleRequested reassessment
Misc
edit- Check Suzanne Aubert article: possibility of expanding Wellington section with Archives images
Ask WCC comms to post images from the 2000 unveiling of the Kupe statue and ask for IDs for people- Possible use of Wikidata for public database of Wellington architects and buildings, such as the town hall