Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/West Coast task force

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This is the project page for coverage of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The goal is to improve the breadth and depth of the Coast's coverage in English Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Commons, and Wikisource.

Scope

This task force covers Wikimedia projects with a strong connection to the West Coast of New Zealand, especially its geography (including national parks and tracks), history (historic buildings, politics, and newspapers), natural history (landscapes and rare species), arts, GLAM institutions (libraries and museums), and books and pamphlets.

Participants

1. Giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs)
2. DrThneed (talk · contribs)
3. Paora (talk · contribs)
4. Schwede66 (talk · contribs)
5. Oronsay (talk · contribs)
6. Jen8000 (talk · contribs)
7. Raewynpetal (talk · contribs)
8. PuehaTuarangi (talk · contribs)
9. RimuSky (talk · contribs)
10. KAynsley (talk · contribs)

Userbox

Copy and paste {{User West Coast NZ task force}} onto your user page. This puts you in Category:West Coast NZ task force participants and give you a userbox featuring the project mascot. You will get a newsletter four times a year on your Talk page.

Events

We've had small Wikipedia training workshops in Hokitika, Greymouth, and Westport. Our goal is to continue these with regular meetups to support beginning editors and supply topics and resources people can collaborate on.

Date	Time	Title	Venue
Sat 12 Sep 2020	10.00–16.00	Editing Wikipedia: Greymouth	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
Sat 19 Sep 2020	10.00–16.00	Editing Wikipedia: Westport	EPIC Westport, 10a Lyndhurst Street, Westport
Sat 26 Sep 2020	10.00–16.00	Editing Wikipedia: Hokitika	Westland District Library, Sewell St, Hokitika
Sun 27 Sep 2020	12.30–16.00	Greymouth Meetup 2	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
Sat 31 Oct 2020	13.00–16.00	Greymouth Meetup 3	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
Sat 30 Jan 2021	13.00–16.00	Greymouth Meetup 4	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
Wed 10 Feb 2021	15.00–16.30	Introducing Wikisource	Digital Learning Centre, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
Sat 13 Feb 2021	13.00–16.00	Hokitika Meetup 2	History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
Sat 13 Mar 2021	13.00–16.00	Greymouth Meetup 5	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
19–21 Mar 2021	All weekend	West Coast WikiCon	Como House, 51 Tancred St, Hokitika
Sat 24 Apr 2021	13.00–16.00	Hokitika Meetup 3	History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
Sat 1 May 2021	13.00–16.00	Greymouth Meetup 6	Grey District Library, 18 Albert Street, Greymouth
Sat 22 May 2021	13.00–16.00	Hokitika Meetup 4	History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
Sat 26 June 2021	13.00–16.00	Hokitika Meetup 5	History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
Sat 31 July 2021	13.00–16.00	Hokitika Meetup 6	History Room, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika
(Several COVID-19-related event cancellations)
Sat 16 Oct 2021	13:00–16:00	Greymouth Meetup 7	Byte Māwhera Digital Hub, 1a Guinness Street, Greymouth
Sat 15 Jan 2022	13:00–14:30	Virtual Meetup	Online meetup of Task Force (meeting space link)
Sat 5 Feb 2022	09:00–17:00	Barrytown Wikiblitz	Barrytown Settlers Hall, 6 Cargill Road, Barrytown 7873 online
Sun 31 Jul 2022	09:00–17:00	West Coast Reptiles Wikiblitz	Digital Learning Centre, Westland District Library, 20 Sewell St, Hokitika Online
Sat 26 Nov 2022	10:30–16:00	Yvonne Rust Editathon	Left Bank Art Gallery

Hot topics

These possible subjects for future edit-a-thons.

• Ōkārito: originally just an article about Ōkārito Lagoon, this is an important historic town with notable buildings
• Deploying the photo collection of Greymouth amateur photographer John Charlton, now scanned and digitised by Grey District Library
• Improving the Denniston Plateau article to Good quality, updated with information on the current mining proposal
• The libraries, museums, and art galleries of the West Coast

Featured content

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Good content

• Hokitika Clock Tower
• Thomas Brunner

B content (for improvement to Good)

• Fox Glacier (town)
• Lake Matheson
• Greymouth
• Denniston Plateau
• Reefton
• West Coast Region
• Westland temperate forests
• 1878 Hokitika by-election
• Brunner Mine disaster
• Lake Gault

Photos needed

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in West Coast, New Zealand

Resources

Sources

• Google Drive of West-Coast-related media clippings of offline media, for use by Wikipedians
• Bradley, Vaughan (2020-08-29). "A potted history of Hokitika Gorge". DOC Conservation Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
• Hansford, Dave (September–October 2020). "What's next for the West Coast". New Zealand Geographic. 165.
• Latham, Darrell (1984). The Golden Reefs: an account of the great days of quartz-mining at Reefton, Waiuta and the Lyell. Christchurch: Pegasus Press. ISBN 0908568126.
• Reed, A. W. (1979). The Reed dictionary of New Zealand place names (2002 ed.). Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4. OCLC 49290681.
• Wilson, Kerry-Jayne (2017). West Coast Walking: A naturalist's guide. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-927145-42-5.

Useful Wikidata searches

• Wikidata search for all cultural institutions in New Zealand, as a map https://w.wiki/aLy
• And then broken down by archives (currently none on the West Coast), libraries (5 on the West Coast), and museums (2 on the West Coast).

Tips

?	Use common sense. Ultimately, assume good faith on the part of others, be bold in editing because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. Need help starting a new article? See Wikipedia:Article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
I.	Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information.
II.	Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. "We want to learn editors to write proper" There are helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information.
III.	Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.	Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information.
V.	Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information.
VI.	Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.	Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.