This is a day-by-day report on meetings, events, and contributions made.
It's also a place for project volunteers to note down their contributions (remember to sign your name!) There will be prizes (donated by Development West Coast) for the most and best contributions in different areas (articles in each West Coast district, Commons uploads, Wikidata etc.) Prize categories and winners will be decided by Mike at the end of October and no correspondence will be entered into.
If you're a Wikimedia volunteer and would like to assist with this project in September–October 2020, feel free to add your name below. You'll receive a weekly update listing priority topics for the week, newly-uploaded images available for use, and Wikidata tasks to check off. There will be West-Coast-themed prizes for the most and best contributions by volunteers!
A fine Afghan from Broadway Tearooms and Bakery, ReeftonTravelled from Nelson to Blackball, photographing localities between Lyall and Reefton: see categories Lyell, Buller Gorge, and Inangahua Junction. Visited and photographed Blacks Point Museum and created Blacks Point Museum (Q98916263) and curator Cory Aitken (Q98916521). Filmed the working quartz stamper battery in operation. Also had an excellent Afghan in Reefton so photographed it, created the Afghan biscuit category in Commons, and made it the canonical Afghan biscuit (Q4689116) image in Wikidata. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:23, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fishing boat in Blaketown Lagoon 1968Had a good browse through the Google drive of news clippings and found a notable woman without a biography: Katie MilneMurielMary (talk) 04:32, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Gave a presentation to Grey District Library staff on Wikipedia for heritage institutions. Uploaded more John Charlton photos. Started to distinguish the three Inangahua settlements in Inagahua Junction. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 08:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Blackball Museum of Working Class History and Granity Public Library - new articles. However, suggest checking the actual name of the Granity library, as the photo in Commons is captioned "Granity Community Library" and that name is also visible on the building in some photos. MurielMary (Will pay it a visit and get the good info –Mike)
Expanded the article on Granity a little. MurielMary
Cape FoulwindRan a workshop for local tourism operators on Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikivoyage. Have been given 26GB of tourism publicity photos of the six iconic West Coast attractions to add to Commons. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 07:38, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Added some historic building photos in a WikiShootMe blitz in the golden hour when even Greymouth's derelict buildings look nice: Greymouth High School, Commercial Building, Regent Theatre, Revingtons Hotel, Waitiaki House, the former High Street Auto Centre, Dixon Park, the Dispatch & Garlick building, Rugby Park, and the Courthouse. —Giantflightlessbirds
RapahoeCreated Government Buildings, Hokitika page, linked from architect, added Commons category templates to some of my previous pages - DrThneed
Started a userspace page (User:Canley/New Zealand protected areas) to track Wikidata cleanup/import project for Protected areas in New Zealand (will begin/concentrate on West Coast Region) –Canley (talk)
Spent the day at Left Bank Art Gallery explaining Wikipedia/Wikidata to staff and volunteers, creating a To Do List for 20 West Coast artists, signed up Hinekaikai as volunteer №13, took interior photos, and got hold of a scrapbook of 30-year-old press clippings. —Giantflightlessbirds
Inside Left BankWorked on the Left Bank Art Gallery article, from the scrapbook and a NZ Museums Journal article. There a quite a few NZ artists that need Wikidata and articles! —Giantflightlessbirds
Got three minutes of fame on Seven Sharp (watch it here) talking about Wikipedia and tourism. Managed to plug DWC and Stewart Nimmo. —Giantflightlessbirds
Yvonne Rust - new article (from Left Bank Art Gallery list of West Coast artists) - MurielMary
Ran another workshop for heritage organisations, including folks from Shantytown. Sorted Stewart Nimmo's photo collection and noted all the metadata, ready for upload. And looks like I'll be heading down to South Westland in October. —Giantflightlessbirds
Interviewed Jo Wilson at Garth Wilson Jade and photographed their carving workshop. Looks like they'll donate pounamu carving photos to Commons. —Giantflightlessbirds
@Giantflightlessbirds: If you're still in Westport, some photos of St Canice's Church (exterior and interior if possible) at the corner of Brougham and Queen Streets, designed by John Scott, would be awesome! Paora (talk) 11:31, 19 September 2020 (UTC) (Happy to. I've done everything in Westport that's geolocated in Wikidata, via WikiShootMe, so you add it to Wikidata added it! and I'll take the pics. I'm here for 4 more days, so taking requests. —Giantflightlessbirds)[reply]
St Canice's Catholic ChurchEmptied West Coast Region category on Commons as much as possible, setting up dozens of categories and tidying Wikidata entries along the way; merged geography articles on Cebuano WP so that Wikidata entries can be merged – Schwede66
Black ReefThe list of Westport heritage buildings on the German Wikipedia is now complete (thanks for all the photos, Mike!). The respective Commons categories are all done and linked to Wikidata. Schwede66
Schwede66 challenged me to come up with photos of two tiny islets off Cape Foulwind, which I did. —Giantflightlessbirds
Met with Charles Bruning who supplied about 1000 photos and showed me around Coaltown Museum. Was interviewed by the Westport News, and agreed to improve their article and that of reporter Becky Manawatu if they could supply sources. —Giantflightlessbirds
Went through Populated places in West Coast Region and made sure that the district category was defined, the item linked to Wikidata, with Wikidata showing an appropriate photo (if there is one). Schwede66 22:27, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Old Westport cattle wharfGave presentations to Westport Rotary and Buller Camera Club. —Giantflightlessbirds
Added Inangahua County Library to Reefton and Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library to Westport articles, ready for redlinks for article creation – Oronsay
Okitiki BuildingGave presentations to tourism operators and heritage institutions in Hokitika. Photographed some heritage buildings and linked the last of them to Wikidata items in WikiShootMe. Downtown Hokitika is now a sea of green dots. —Giantflightlessbirds
Some work on Hokitika Commons categories; main category is now fairly empty (as it should be). Made categories for streets and set up a Wikidata entry for William Revell (Q99658893). – Schwede66
Expanded George York (priest), vicar of Holy Trinity Greymouth from 1894 and archdeacon of Māwhera from 1903 to 1919. – Paora
Working my way through the six missing libraries in Mike's list (drafting in user space, will not publish until I'm able to get to the library for the book on small NZ libraries though) - DrThneed (I have the Hokitika library files and will do that one soon —Mike)
Thanks for the photos, Mike. The list of historic buildings in Hokitika on the German Wikipedia (Liste der Baudenkmale in Hokitika) is now complete. Schwede66 08:45, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Added information about marae on the Bruce Bay article. Discovered three artists who contributed to the new marae there - searched for them in Wiki. Created wikidata item for one of them Fayne Robinson (Q99836010). Added Robinson to the Hokitika notable people. (He could probably have an article - he is a Māori carver (Yes, there's plenty written about him —Mike). - Pakoire
Add section on early Māori settlement to Bruce Bay – Paora
Thank you for taking the time to do that, Mike. Have added it to the page. V nice! Forgot to say earlier that I made a page for Roy Lovell-Smith, architect of St Andrew's DrThneed
Presented on this project to the team at Development West Coast, who all seemed chuffed. Met with Stewart Nimmo and got some Ōkārito photos from him, and drove down there. —Giantflightlessbirds
New article Maida Bryant from Hokitika Museum Google doc; there is a good summary of her life achievements in a facebook post by the Hokitika Museum however I can’t verify that information elsewhere. Any leads on sources? -MM (I'll ask the Museum. They also said they could perhaps get photos cleared from relatives —MRD)
Expanded Maida Bryant – Paora (lots more information and sources - many thanks! -MM)
New article Dorothy Fletcher from Hokitika Museum Google doc. -MM
New article and category for Rimu (Mike, it could do with a contemporary photo if you want to take the inland route to Hokitika). Tidied up links for State Highway 6, which got moved earlier this year. Schwede66
Split Okarito (which just redirected to Ōkārito Lagoon) into two articles, so now Ōkārito the settlement has its own article. Have been working extensively on the lagoon article and adding photos, including some I took yesterday. —Giantflightlessbirds
Created Commons category Category:Mayors of Greymouth, populated with images from Cyclopedia of New Zealand, and added images to table of mayors of Greymouth Borough at Mayor of Grey — Paora
Expand Westland County to include its second period of existence, from 1876 to 1989 — Paora (good work but I wonder whether they should be separate articles given that they only thing that they shared was the name – Schwede66)
Created Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library page, and also created a Wikidata item for current library building (Q100321107), and used the existing Q64746729 to tie together the new building and old Carnegie library building (Q79311117) as parts of it. I don't know how to rearrange the Commons cats to reflect that though - DrThneed
It's a very NZ thing to give a beautiful alpine tarn a ridiculous name like "Lake Wombat"Put NZ's Big Things in Wikidata, of which two are on West Coast (Big Doughnut at Springfield, and the Big Sandfly in Pukekura, which needs a better photo if possible (Will do!—MRD)). - DrThneed (have to say that Springfield stretches my understanding of West Coast a tad :-) – Schwede66) Well mine too but I was going on the lines drawn on the Wikidata query map! Investigating - spot on map was on West Coast but is definitely in the wrong place, will remedy. I had to fight with maps over some other coordinates too. DrThneed
Added photo of giant sandfly to Commons, Wikidata, and article about NZ's Big Things – Paora
Added a few more pics to St James. Added photos of Lake Wombat (Q100332176), and documented my Wikidata/Commons workflow here if anyone's interested. Suggestions welcome and I'm happy to demo this over Zoom. —Giantflightlessbirds
Created QID for Edward Iveagh Lord (architect & engineer). Created Grey District Library incorporating old town hall and Carnegie library. Uploaded old pic to Commons, thanks to Te Papa. DrThneed
Added a Chancellor Hut photo to the list of registered West Coast buildings. (please keep your eye on the list of missing photos, Mike) Schwede66 (Will do! I have a couple marked in my itinerary for the trip north. MRD)
Did a Zoom presentation to the Greymouth Camera Club about Wikimedia Commons and copyright law; question time become bogged down in the minutia of US property release agreements, which I had to Google afterwards. —Giantflightlessbirds
Our Lady of the Woods, WhataroaGave up on Lillian Fell for now (only have one source as other is a book chapter I have not tracked down the source of yet). Linked existing page for Agnes Addison to Hokitika notable people list, and added a few things to her Wikidata item. - DrThneed
Relocated from Fox Glacier to Reefton, taking photos on the way: Fox Glacier Hotel, a church in Whataroa, Hende's Ferry Cottage, monuments and buildings etc. Meetings in Reefton to plan the next few days. —Giantflightlessbirds
Created Bess Hudson, Hokitika nurse, realised there is no Dr Teichelmann page so will do him next. - DrThneed (Yes! There's a whole biography of him, really important figure in early Westland exploration. MRD Was hoping to knock it out quick for the end of your West Coastathon but now I see what I'm dealing with I'll have to take a bit longer. Off to get the book tomorrow! DrTh)
Added more photos of Chancellor Hut. —Giantflightlessbirds
Found another excellent Afghan in Reefton, this one with the traditional half-walnut, so (of course) photographed it and made it the new canonical Afghan biscuit (Q4689116) image in Wikidata. —Giantflightlessbirds
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