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The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

  • Foundation Cafe, ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library
  • Sunday 14 April 2024
  • 10:00–midday

Attendees

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Add your Wikipedia username if you have one. Tip: in Source editing you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

Apologies

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What have we been up to?

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Upcoming events

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  • 26–29 April: City Nature Challenge, involving public walks and light trapping, as well as iNaturalist photography
  • 4–5 May: Open Christchurch festival, a good opportunity to photograph architecturally-significant buildings
  • Coordinate Me is a Wikidata campaign in May, focussed on adding coordinates to Wikidata items. There are prizes!
  • 18 May: Art Gallery Edit-a-thon (event page coming soon)

Outcomes and tips

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  • See yesterday's Wellington meeting: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 13 April 2024
  • Discussed upgrades to the Christchurch article, following Marshelec's useful analysis of work needed. We shouyld all read the Talk page and think about what we could do to help. Cloventt offered to look at the pre-European settlement section based on Harry Evison's book. Alexeyevitch noted that he will focus on improving the Culture and entertainment section of the article including: theaters, festivals, music, and parks.
  • It looks like Kaiapoi pā needs to have its own article. Mike to search for a Ngai Tahu publication on the siege.
  • XKCD used to have a store with Citation Needed stickers with a clear backgound for pasting onto essays etc. Maybe we could organise our own.
  • Use of macrons for Māori loanwords (like Māori) is well established under Wikipedia:Naming conventions (New Zealand) for articles written in NZ English (you need to include the {{use New Zealand English|date=January 2024}} in the page though).
  • Can we get a better cityscape of Christchurch than this rather small photo from 2015?
  • We learned about the pipe trick
  • Typing just three tildes (~~~) puts only your username, four tildes adds a date/time stamp.
  • We should get our meetups on the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
  • And on the list of Christchurch Libraries events
  • Possible venues for WikiCon events: Catylyst, above a cafe and pub, would fit 20; New Brighton Library (depending on conference rooms); and Halswell Library.
  • Does anyone know who User:Soundsold is, who attended the last Christchurch Art Gallery edit-a-thon? It would be nice to invite them again.
  • Another Ara meetup, perhaps after work on the week of the 29th, is on the cards
  • Don't forget to join WANZ for just $5 everybody!

Next event

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  • 12 May, same time and venue

Sugggestion: we book a meeting room at the library, so that we are not using a table in the cafe without buying suitable quantities of food and drink. It's awkward to be using their space for free without spending much money there. Also, if we book a room, the get together will appear on the library "what's on"/"events" listings. Thoughts? MurielMary (talk)