Starting February 2024 we'll be running regular meetups, training sessions, and community editing events in Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library. Regular meetups are currently on Sunday mornings every 4 weeks at Foundation Cafe, extending into the Facilitation Space for group editing and collaboration.
| Date | Time | Title | Venue | For | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 February | 10.00–12:00 | Christchurch WikiCoffee | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Initial meetup for Chch Wikipedians | Notes |
| Sun 17 March | 10.00–12.00 | Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Chch Wikipedians | Event Page |
| Sun 14 April | 10.00–12.00 | Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Chch Wikipedians | Event Page |
| Sun 12 May | 10.00–12.00 | Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Chch Wikipedians | Event Page |
| Sat 18 May | 10.00–16.00 | Ink on Paper Edit-a-thon | Christchurch Art Gallery library | All interested Wikipedians, local and remote | Event Page |
| Sun 9 June | 10.00–12.00 | Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Chch Wikipedians | Event Page |
| Sun 7 July | 10.00–12.00 | Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup | Foundation Cafe, Tūranga | Chch Wikipedians | Event Page |
These meetups have continued after the Wikipedian at Large project ended: see the Christchurch Meetup page for schedule and upcoming monthly meetings.
Tūranga spaces
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Auahatanga or the Facilitation Space is a non-bookable meeting space on the 4th floor. This is a possible venue for meetups. -
There are two bookable computer labs (Taiwhanga Rorohiko) on the 4th floor. -
Auaha Hīhī / Spark Centre on the ground floor will be used for large editing events and for meetups where needed. -
The High Bar in Foundation, the ground floor café used for monthly meetups.
Projects
editThese are projects suitable for volunteer editors to tackle alone or in a group.
- The Weekend Press. At Foundation Cafe we'll divide up up the weekend newspaper, looking for material that could improve or create Wikipedia articles. For example, the Saturday Feb 24 Press could be used as a source for: Rachael King, Bronwynn Bakker, dog training, Christchurch (both parks and nature and crime rates sections), urban forestry, Grant Robertson, Anna Crighton, collision avoidance system, Alexei Navalny (a Washington Post obit), Toyota bZ4X, MG4, the Clean Car Discount, Sam Tanner, ChristChurch Cathedral, Roimata Food Commons, Queenstown, the New Zealand Customs Service, the Te Whatu Ora 2023 vaccine data breach, water supply and sanitation in New Zealand, tourism in New Zealand, search and rescue, Electric Avenue (New Zealand festival), 2023 New Zealand general election (donors), Ōpihi River, Casey Costello, and panda diplomacy. We could also submit a newly-unearthed or -released photo to the paper's weekly History Corner.
- John Walsh (Q124612946)'s Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture (2023 revised edition) (Q124612956) features a mixture of heritage and contemporary buildings, many of which have no articles or out-of-date photos. We can supply a copy of the book to any Wikipedian willing to help improve Walsh's list, and can assign a mission each month to write, improve, or illustrate an article on a different building.
- Ink on Paper artists. We have a list of 49 NZ artists, some with no Wikipedia article at all. The Christchurch Art Gallery is making photographs of out-of-copyright works available to us, and is giving us access to their files of artist information in an edit-a-thon on Saturday 18 May. People keen on improving the whole list are welcome to work on the list before or after that event, and there are prizes (a copy of the Ink on Paper artist catalogue, Rita Angus swag) for top contributors.