Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/NZInsectCards

What's it about?

An Edit-a-thon is an all-day attempt to improve Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic. Led by an experienced Wikipedia editor, participants learn to create and edit pages, correct mistakes, add references, and upload photos. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided. This edit-a-thon is being hosted by the University of Auckland, and will focus on adding information on the New Zealand insects depicted on the Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards.

When and where

Sunday 3 September 2017, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm NZST (2 September 2017, 22:00 – 3 September 2017 04:00 UTC/GMT)
University of Auckland Tāmaki Campus, 261 Morrin Road, St Johns, Auckland
Building 733, Room 234 (we will send you a map and parking info)
Participants from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely, using #NZInsectCards in tweets and edit summaries (Wikipedia can search for the #NZInsectCards hashtag now).

Timetable

10:00: Meet and greet, setup, account creation if needed
10:15–12:00: Intro: how to create and edit species articles on Wikipedia.
Lunch break (pizza); there'll also be refreshments available all day. Let us know your dietary preferences when you register.
12:30–16:00: Wikipedia editing. Our goal is for beginners to create stub articles for every species depicted on the Insects of New Zealand cards, and to improve existing species pages. Experienced Wikipedia editors will be available to help and troubleshoot.

How to sign up

The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all; we would love you to register and make a commitment to coming, so we can make sure the venue will house everybody and we order enough pizza.

You can book online by filling out this Google form. Any questions? Contact Chrissie Painting <chrissiepainting@gmail.com>.

People attending

In person

Remotely

Ambrosia10 (helping Giantflightlessbirds prepare resources)
Markanderson72
AMartian

What to bring

Laptop and power cord. The venue will have free wifi.
Any books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to pages you're interested in.
Photos you've taken that could illustrate species articles; you'll learn how to donate these to the Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Preparation

If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
Have a think about any species you'd like to work on. Check the articles in our To Do list below for any obvious mistakes or problems. Maybe even do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an entomologist; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can contribute to Wikipedia. The best references for Wikipedia articles are news stories, textbooks, or magazine articles. Look for secondary sources like field guides and popular books that discuss that species, not just scientific papers.
We'll also need photos, and those need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken species photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

Guides to editing

How to create a species stub article in Wikipedia: notes for this editathon
Editing Wikipedia Species Articles guide (aimed at students, but still useful)
How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
Information about Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos, harrychapman.nz
Suggested layout of beetle articles; Suggested layout of lepidoptera articles: helpful for all insect articles.

Insect species to work on

These have been assessed by Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10, taking the Assessing articles guidelines into account. Many articles need good photos, and most need more information. Please feel free to make suggestions on article Talk pages, adopt an article you plan to work on, and approach people you think might have photographs. We've noted places where there are problems with the taxonomy, and would appreciate entomologists suggesting the best solution (but hold off diving in and starting to move and rename articles before you've talked to us!)

Order	Species common name	Species Latin name	Quality	Notes
Lepidoptera	New Zealand red admiral	Vanessa gonerilla	Start	Taxonomy section; better photos
Diptera	New Zealand blue blowfly	Calliphora quadrimaculata	Start	Poorly written student essay, no photo only drawing.
Orthoptera	Small field cricket	Bobilla	Stub	No species pages created; needs photo, (no appropriately licensed one found).
Plecoptera	Large green stonefly	Stenoperla	Stub	Added several photos to commons.
Coleoptera	Rove beetle	Kenocoelus	Stub	Expand. Difficulty finding images, (no appropriately licensed one found).
Lepidoptera	Common blue	Zizina otis labradus	C	Needs NZ info, distribution, ecology. Have added one photo to wikicommons.
Coleoptera	Manuka beetle	Pyronota festiva	C	Poor student essay; refs, more photos. Added more photos to Wikicommons.
Hemiptera	Chorus cicada	Amphipsalta zelandica	Stub	Needs an edit, more pics, cleanup
Hymenoptera	Sphecoid wasp	Rhopalum perforator	Stub	Expansion needed.
Lepidoptera	Carpet moth	Xanthorhoe bulbulata	Stub	Expansion needed. More refs.
Coleoptera	Huhu beetle	Prionoplus reticularis	Stub	Needs good refs, photos, much expansion – the most-viewed NZ beetle page, 1338 views/month!
Lepidoptera	Puriri moth	Aenetus virescens	Stub	Expand, more photos (esp. larva, burrows)
Mantodea	New Zealand praying mantis	Orthodera novaezealandiae	Start	Rewrite, fix refs, more on NZ vs introduced S African sp
Lepidoptera	Lichen moth	Declana atronivea	Start	Just some expansion to get to A-class
Hemiptera	Australasian shield bug	Glaucias amyoti	Stub	Needs photos and much expansion
Hymenoptera	Southern ant	Monomorium antarcticum	Stub	More pics, refs, expansion
Hymenoptera	Striated ant	Huberia striata	Stub	Needs expansion.
Hymenoptera	Ant	Pachycondyla castaneicolor	Stub	Actually Austroponera? Needs more info.
Hemiptera	Water boatman	Sigara arguta	Stub	Expansion needed. More references.
Odonata	Red damselfly	Xanthocnemis zealandica	Stub	Better refs and nice photos. Added some more photos to Wikicommons, more also available here
Coleoptera	Diving beetle	Rhantus plantaris	Stub	Was moved in April 2017 to Carabdytes:
Diptera	New Zealand mosquito	Culiseta novaezealandiae	Stub	Difficulty finding images.
Coleoptera	New Zealand dung beetle	Saphobius inflatipes	Stub	see Canthonini. Difficulty finding images.
Neuroptera	Antlion lacewing	Weeleus acutus	Stub	Needs expansion. More images. More refs.
Lepidoptera	New Zealand jaw moth	Sabatinca aurella	Stub	Currently in Micropardalis aurella so could be moved. Better photo!
Hymenoptera	Lemon tree borer parasite	Xanthocryptus novozealandicus	Stub	Could be expanded to Start
Orthoptera	Tree wētā	Hemideina thoracica	Stub	Ridiculously, masses of wētā are missing! See Tree weta. Needs expansion.
Coleoptera	Tiger beetle	Cicindela	C	Has the subg. Cicindela (Neocicindela) been raised to genus Neocicindela? One NZ article Cicindela tuberculata - should this be Neocicindela tuberculata now? See Larochelle and Larivière 2013, 2016
Coleoptera	Squeaking longhorn	Hexatricha pulverulenta	Stub	Need more references, ecology, photos
Coleoptera	Ant-like leaf beetle	Xylophilus luniger		To create: check Xylophilus genus. Need to confirm current name before creating. Is it now Aderus luniger [1], [2]
Blattodea	Native bush cockroach	Celatoblatta	Stub	Expansion & images needed. No species articles yet. C. vulgaris is the most common NZ species.
Megaloptera	Dobsonfly	Archichauliodes diversus	Start	General cleanup, larva photo
Hemiptera	Spittle bug	Carystoterpa fingens	Stub	Needs expanding. Needs images. Several images have been added to Wikicommons.
Coleoptera	Ground beetle	Ctenognathus	Stub	No species pages created.
Hymenoptera	Native bee	Leioproctus fulvescens	Stub	Just some expansion to get to start. More refs.
Diptera	West coast black fly	Austrosimulium ungulatum	Stub	Having difficulty finding images. Expansion needed.
Phasmatodea	New Zealand stick insect	Clitarchus hookeri	Stub	Expand, more photos.
Coleoptera	Helms' stag beetle	Geodorcus helmsi	C	Needs expansion to get to A class
Diptera	Green soldier fly	Beris	Stub	General expansion. Add citations. Image
Odonata	New Zealand bush giant dragonfly	Uropetala carovei	Start	Expansion needed. More pics.
Lepidoptera	Kūmara moth	Agrius convolvuli	Start	Expand.
Dermaptera	Seashore earwig	Anisolabis littorea	Stub	Expand. Needs images.
Hemiptera	Sooty beech scale insect	Ultracoelostoma assimile	Stub	Expand. One CC BY image in iNaturalist but blurry. Need images.
Hymenoptera	Masked bee	Hylaeus agilis	Stub	General expansion and photos
Orthoptera	Alpine grasshopper	Sigaus australis	Start	Expand. Type info section needed in prose.
Diptera	Three-lined hover fly	Helophilus seelandicus	Stub	Expand. Needs images.
Diptera	Kelp fly	Chaetocoelopa littoralis	Stub	Expand. Having difficulty finding images.
Diptera	Fungus gnat/Glow worm	Arachnocampa luminosa	Start	Expand, more citations, pics. Taxonomy.
Ephemeroptera	Swimming mayfly	Nesameletus ornatus	Stub	Needs significant expanding and images.
Coleoptera	Canterbury knobbled weevil	Hadramphus tuberculatus	Stub	Expand, more photos (Ambrosia10 can't find any), see see see
Coleoptera	Black spined weevil	Scolopterus	Stub	Scolopterus penicillatus exists
Orthoptera	Cave wētā	Pachyrhamma	Stub	More info, pics, create species pages
Hymenoptera	Spider wasp	Sphictostethus nitidus	Start	Cleanup, break into sections, more info. Pics
Coleoptera	Giraffe weevil	Lasiorhynchus barbicornis	C	Check for any other recent literature

See also Guide to species names at Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards, including a link to a PDF document containing lists, in two different sort orders, of the scientific and common names.

Outcomes

Giantflightlessbirds helps a participant during the workshop.

Twenty-one people took part in the workshop, and three remotely, making 433 edits in total. Most worked on the list above, but in addition the following pages were created:

The following pages were improved:

And images were added to Commons for the following:

Photographs

News media

Giantflightlessbirds interviewed by Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about the workshop, 1 September 2017
"Putting a word in for insects" (University of Auckland Tāmaki Campus Update, Oct 2017)

Acknowledgements

Many thanks for Chrissie Painting and Leilani Walker for hosting this edit-a-thon, to Emma Scheltema for her gorgeous artwork, and to the Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity at the University of Auckland for funding and support. This event wouldn't exist without the Entomological Society of New Zealand backing the Insects of New Zealand Playing Cards project.