Wikipedia:Meetup/Hokitika/4

West Coast Stories Online meetup

History Room

• History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
• Saturday 22 May 2021
• 1:00–4:00 pm
• Tea, coffee, and biscuits supplied. Feel free to drop for any part of the time.

This is a meetup for volunteers who want to get advice, collaborate, and help others tell West Coast stories online. Editing Wikipedia, WikiCommons, and Wikidata is great fun and socially worthy; while there's enormous amounts of advice and information available online on how to do it, nothing beats chatting with other human beings and getting some help and inspiration. During the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project it became clear that the coverage of the Coast on Wikipedia was pretty poor. The way to solve this is to get West Coast people empowered to tell their own stories, and for this we need a support structure and access to expertise and resources. These meetups are part of that. Other projects supported are Find A Grave and Google Maps photography, Wikisource book proofreading, and publishing original research on West Coast history.

Attendees

Edit this section to add your Wikipedia username. Tip: you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Jen8000 (talk · contribs)
• PuehaTuarangi (talk · contribs)

Apologies

• Raewynpetal (talk · contribs)

Useful links

• This is the West Coast task force or just WP:WCNZ
• You can add the West Coast task force Events page to your Wikipedia watchlist
• Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand on Facebook
• Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
• Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list run by User:Giantflightlessbirds
  

Agenda items

• Feel free to add questions and topics to this section, and sign with your username (~~~~)
• Round the table: what's everyone up to? Add links and notes as needed

Outcomes

• Reminder of the Aotearoa Wikimedia User Group meeting on Sunday 23 May: Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa_New_Zealand_Online/12
• Introduced Butterick's Practical Typography as a typography reference
• Wikisource:TemplateScript as a great tool for removing line breaks and converting headings to SMALL CAPS
• Possible research project: Alys Lowth, author of Emerald Hours in New Zealand
• Possible field trip: Hokitika Cemetery
• Walkthrough of Commons uploading

Good things to bring

• Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads.
• Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to what you're interested in.
• Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; we can help you donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Next meetup

• Saturday 26 June