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Edit-a-thon in Wellington, May 29

Hi there. I'm organising an edit-a-thon at Te Papa on Sunday May 29th, focussed on adding NZ flora and fauna species to Wikipedia. It would be good to have some more experienced editors along to help any complete beginners, and I wonder if you might be interested in attending. If so, feel free to add yourself to the Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/2016_Edit-a-thon. It would be great to have a good turnout and show Te Papa there's an active local editing community. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:39, 23 April 2016 (UTC) A shame you couldn't make it, but hope to meet you another Wikipedia event in the future. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:02, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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NZ wine

I can help out a bit with the NZ wine article, I'm going to be travelling over the next few weeks but I'll see if I can put some time aside to help out. I have a fairly decent knowledge and interest in the subject. What did you have in mind? getting it up to GA status? — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)}_{(click me!)} 11:25, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

That would be nice! I'm not exactly in a busting rush either, but I think at least it could do with some more updating. I've jotted some ideas on my todo list for example, and there might be some more ideas on the talk page. One thing I'd like opinion on (other than my own!) is whether some of the regions should have their own separate articles. Following the many articles for Australian wine regions, e.g. Barossa Valley (wine), which seem to have passed some sort of notability check, I wonder if at least Marlborough (wine) and Hawke's Bay (wine) should exist, if not all of them; there is already a Central Otago wine region article.—Jon (talk) 06:46, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Oh, and if we do that, then I'd like to copy-cat a Template:Wine regions of New Zealand navbox template, modelled on Template:Wine regions of South Australia.—Jon (talk) 06:49, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

... which I just created :-) —Jon (talk) 07:22, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

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@Ronhjones: - Hi, I am attending a workshop today with WP:NZWPAL Giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs) where the (non-existence of any) copyright on the logo will be resolved/clarified. Also, I created the screenshot image, and I'm pretty sure I tagged it appropriately? Please let me know if I'm missing something. Cheers, Jon (talk) 22:05, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Jon; while you hold the copyright for that screenshot, it contains typography, text, and graphics that are copyrighted to Mahara/Catalyst. If this was a standard software product, the copyright holder would need to release that image under an open licence. Since Mahara is released under a GNU GPL, adding the GPL template to the file, plus a link to Mahara's open source page, should be enough for people to verify that you're not violating any copyright by uploading a screenshot. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 06:28, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

@Giantflightlessbirds: great, but how is it that File:MoodleDashboard.png is fine? Is it because it's on Commons? Jon (talk) 21:52, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

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Location for next Wellington Meetup

Kia ora, I'm letting all those that have attended during last few Wellington meet ups know that the location for the next two meet ups has changed. The location for the Wellington Meetup 17 August 2019 and Wellington Meetup 31 August 2019 is now in the Alexander Turnbull Library Reading Room, Level 1, National Library. The National Library net.work space area will be closed for building work from 12 August. See the meet up pages for more information. Looking forward to seeing you there. Einebillion (talk) 04:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Orchestra Wellington

Hi, I'm a bit mystified why you removed the official and Facebook external links from the Orchestra Wellington page, and the fair-use logo from the infobox, without an explanation, and then added Orchestra Wellington to a "See also" section on the NZSO page? — Jon (talk) 01:47, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

(moved here ) the 'see also' was because each new article needs to be linked (not an orphan), as for the Facebook link Wikipedia:External_links (under links to avoid), thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 01:55, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: - Hi, thanks for your reply regarding WP:EL. I read this before un-drafting this article, and under the links to avoided section, the Orchestra Wellington Facebook page qualifies as "a link to an official page of the article's subject", and under official links, it also meets the given criteria, namely that "the linked content is controlled by the subject" of the article and "the linked content primarily covers the area for which the subject of the article is notable" - i.e. communications with an increasingly Facebook-bound public about Orchestra Wellington's activities, concerts, tickets, seminars etc. I'm still not sure why you removed the fair-use logo or their official site. — Jon (talk) 02:30, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Im very careful with anything in an article that might seem WP:PROMO Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not ….you can revert for the logo..--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:13, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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Peer review

Hello, Jonathan! I've only just noticed your NZ wine article on the list for PR and will be giving it my best attention over the next few days. I see from your user page that you are a classical music fan, and so I take the liberty of inviting you to look in at my current peer review: Charles Gounod. (If you aren't thus inclined, no matter! I shall certainly review the wine article regardless.) Best wishes, Tim riley talk 20:56, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

@Tim riley: thanks so much! It's great to finally hear from someone else, I was beginning to get used to the sound of crickets...! I will most certainly take a look at the Gounod article; I played bass trombone in Faust some years ago. I'm new to PR, what's the procedure, by the way? Do I leave suggestions on the discussion page, or just go ahead and improve the article, or both? Cheers, and Merry [Christmas / insert holiday here] — Jon (talk) 10:54, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

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Wellington Wiki Meetup

Just to let you know that the upcoming Wellington Wiki meeting will be on Saturday the 28th of March but will now be held virtually via the ZOOM platform. The meeting details can be found here. Hope to see you on the day! Ambrosia10 (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

@Ambrosia10: do we have to use Zoom? Can we try Jitsi instead? It works in a Chrome/Firefox browser, and is free, anonymous, encrypted, and unlimited. https://meet.jit.si/ — Jon (talk) 03:34, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Jonathanischoice, I'll be talking to Victoria about this. I think the reason we chose Zoom for the first virtual is because both Victoria and I are familiar with the platform and we haven't had a chance due to the changing and stressful circumstances recently to attempt to learn anything else. Feel free to also raise this with her. Ambrosia10 (talk) 06:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Jonathanischoice, I'm sorry that my pragmatic first stop solution of zoom has meant you don't feel like you can attend today's meeting. I've added a discussion point on the agenda about which video conferencing platform the group want to use. I encourage you to use zoom in for that part of today's meetup but I understand if you wish to maintain your philosophical position. Thank you for stating your views so clearly in the meet up page. If you don't feel like you can attend today's meet up to discuss this I'll be speaking on your behalf about jitsi.

GOCE June newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2020. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. All times and dates stated are in UTC. Current events Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 00:01 on 16 June. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought about helping out at the Guild, or you know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: This blitz begins at 00:01 on 14 June and ends at 23:59 on 20 June, with themes of articles tagged for copyedit in May 2020 and requests. Drive and blitz reports March Drive: Self-isolation from coronavirus may have played a hand in making this one of our most successful backlog elimination drives. The copy-editing backlog was reduced from 477 to a record low of 118 articles, a 75% reduction. The last four months of 2019 were cleared, reducing the backlog to three months. Fifty requests were also completed, and the total word count of copy-edited articles was 759,945. Of the 29 editors who signed up, 22 completed at least one copy edit. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: This blitz ran from 12 to 18 April with a theme of Indian military history. Of the 18 people who signed up, 14 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed a total of 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. May Drive: This event marked the 10th anniversary of the GOCE's copy-editing drives, and set a goal of diminishing the backlog to just one month of articles, as close to zero articles as possible. We achieved the goal of eliminating all articles that had been tagged prior to the start of the drive, for the first time in our history! Of the 51 editors who signed up, 43 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news Progress report: as of 2 June, GOCE participants had processed 328 requests since 1 January, which puts us on pace to exceed any previous year's number of requests. As of the end of the May drive, the backlog stood at just 156 articles, all tagged in May 2020. Outreach: To mark the 10th anniversary of our first Backlog Elimination Drive, The Signpost contributor and GOCE participant Puddleglum2.0 interviewed project coordinators and copy-editors for the journal's April WikiProject Report. The Drive and the current Election of Coordinators have also been covered in The Signpost's May News and Notes page. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Reidgreg, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Open Refine workshop

Hi Jonathan - were you interested in coming along to the wikidata / open refine workshop? We've got a preliminary date of 25 July. Let me know as soon as you get this by either tweeting me on @VLeachman or noting on my wikipedia or wikidata talk page. Einebillion (talk) 09:07, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

@Einebillion: yes, I would be very much interested indeed! — Jon (talk) 20:51, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Got it. You're on the list. Saturday 25 July is the day. I'll send out more details shortly. Einebillion (talk) 21:49, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

@Jonathanischoice: Hey Jon I've got the registration link for the event. Check it out here and register asap to reserve your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/open-refine-and-wikidata-workshop-tickets-111071323318

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Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2020.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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December 2020 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2020 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the December GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since September 2020.                  Current and upcoming events Election time: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opened for nominations on 1 December and will close on 15 December at 23:59 (UTC). Voting opens at 00:01 the following day and will continue until 31 December at 23:59, just before Auld Lang Syne. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. December Blitz: This will run from 13 to 19 December, and will target all Requests. Sign up now. Drive and Blitz reports September Drive: 67 fewer articles had copy-edit templates by this month's close. Of the 27 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and 124 articles were claimed for the drive. October Blitz: this ran from 18 to 24 October, and focused on articles tagged for copy-edit in July and August 2020, and all Requests. Of the 13 who signed up, 11 editors copy-edited at least one article. 21 articles were claimed for the blitz. November Drive: Of the 18 editors who signed up, 15 copy-edited at least one article, and together claimed 134 articles. At the close of the drive, 67 fewer articles were in the backlog and we had dealt with 39 requests. Other news Progress report: As of 09:05, 3 December 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 663 requests (18 from 2019) since 1 January and there were 52 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 494 (see monthly progress graph above). Annual Report for 2020: this roundup of the year's activity at the Guild is planned for publication in late January or early February. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Seasonal tidings and cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject Performing Arts Aotearoa

Kia ora Jonathanischoice - would you be interested in supporting my grant proposal for a Performing Arts Aotearoa WikiProject? Submission due 10 Feb 2021.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa_-_Wiki_Project

Feedback also welcome!

Pakoire (talk) 22:05, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Map request

Take a look here and let me know if it needs any changes. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 09:28, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project - funding received!

Great news. The Wikimedia Foundation gave me the grant for the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wiki-Project. It starts on 17 May 2021 and runs for four months. Thanks for being a volunteer or endorsing it.

Go to the project page for guidance on starting to contribute as an editor. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pakoire/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa_-_Wiki_Project

I will update this project page regularly plus send out weekly updates. The focus of this grant is on quality content on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. I encourage you to go in-depth and reach out for hints about where to get resources. There is heaps available on-line. Reach out with problems eg. Categories etc

There will be three formal edit-a-thons in Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin. Date to be confirmed.

You can email me at any time maule.lisa@gmail.com or message me on my talk page.

My focus once the project starts will be on getting resources available for editors from organisations, and educating people in organisations on what Wiki platforms are and how and why they can be engaged. Pakoire (talk) 07:21, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

NZ Opera project

Hi Jonathan,

Would you be interested in adding yourself to the NZ Opera project and helping with some of the articles? There are plenty of opera companies that need expanding, but we most need articles on contemporary performers, especially Māori and Pasifika. I'll be able to source a lot of production photos from the archives of NZ Opera, so there's likely to be plenty of images for a change. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:57, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa

The project is now two weeks in and the profile of the project is building in the performing arts communities. Editors have created seven new articles in Wikipedia and 291 new and improved entries in Wikidata. These have been tagged in Wikidata to the project using the property p5008 ‘on focus list of Wikimedia project’ – ‘Performing Arts Aotearoa New Zealand.’

Thank you if you have made a contribution already, there will also be lots of other ways to contribute over the coming three and a half months.

The current focus is the Wellington based festival Kia Mau [1]. This weekend Saturday 5th June there is a takeover of the Wellington Meetup with an edit-a-thon focus to Wikify the festival. Kia Mau is an established festival based in Wellington celebrating and promoting “contemporary Māori, Pasifika and international Indigenous live performance experience.” For more information look at the Wellington Meetup page or the Kia Mau Wikiproject Worksheet. Over the next few days resources will be shared, including stubs and links to information. Focusing on this festival will start to address the bias in Wikipedia that means there is low content on indigenous people, plus there are many women involved. Which means you can also add them to the Women in Red projects #1day1woman, some would fit onto the year-long campaign: Women's rights, and some into the June focus Wiki Loves Pride.

Increasing content on women and indigenous people is part of the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject.

Participating in the Kia Mau editing can be in person or remotely. You can start this week, join for an hour or more on the day, and follow up afterwards also. Any improvements to Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons content will make a difference.

Please let me know if you have any tips or questions to help me help you. If you aren't in a position to contribute right now that's ok too - take care.

Many thanks, Lisa Maule / Pakoire (talk) 21:56, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 20 June

Many thanks to all who have contributed so far. There are 28 new Wikipedia articles and over 500 new Wikidata entries. The Kia Mau Festival mini edit-a-thon happened with useful learning for me about what seems simple and what is possible. I am proud of the persistence of editors – a much improved article for Audrey Brown-Pereira for example, a new article for The Māori Sidesteps and lots of links from performance UPU to various poets. And many Wikidata entries.

You can now link to the project page through my website (http://www.lisamaule.info). Easier to remember and google-able (Wikiproject Lisa) if you want to direct other people where to look.

Things to do:

• DEEPEN CONTENT: Have a look at the new articles on the project page: User:Pakoire/Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project. Many can be expanded including with this resource: Theatre Aotearoa database https://tadb.otago.ac.nz/theatre

• LINKABLE ARTICLES: Create articles for a venue, a company or a festival. This will help facilitate biographies being linked to other articles. Suggestions on project page.

• KEEP GOING with your own area. Let me know what you are up to. See my new research google doc (linked on the project page) – feel free to comment if you need something (ask me for permission to edit)

• IMPROVE ANY ARTICLE on any performing arts topic, theatre, dance, venues – feel free to use my suggestions as a starting point and then going where it takes you. Reach out for suggestions in your area of interest, or ideas for research. I am a subject expert which helps with searching, and now have a pool of academics and others who I can ask too.

Examples of articles to get formatting ideas:

• New Zealand Opera

• Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival

• Bangarra Dance Theatre

• Hugo Weaving

• Tusiata Avia

• Kia Mau Festival

• Circa Theatre

• New Zealand Festival of the Arts

• Raewyn Hill

Very simple stub articles:

• Eagles Theatre

• Camden Fringe

DIARY the three in person edit-a-thons now scheduled 10am - 4pm:

Dunedin Saturday 10 July (location tbc) - topic Allen Hall and contemporary companies in Dunedin

Auckland Saturday 14 August (location tbc) - topic Auckland Women in performing arts

Wellington Saturday 21 August (Nola Millar Library, Te Whaea) - topic Toi Whakaari and New Zealand School of Dance alumni

Many thanks – do what you can (might be nothing, might just be one citation) and take care, Lisa

GOCE June 2021 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, our first newsletter of 2021, which is a brief update of Guild activities since December 2020. To unsubscribe, follow the link at the bottom of this box. Current events Election time: Voting in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 16 June and will conclude at the end of the month. GOCE coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Have your say and show support here. June Blitz: Our June copy-editing blitz is underway and will conclude on 26 June. Drive and blitz reports January Drive: 28 editors completed 324 copy edits totalling 714,902 words. At the end of the drive, the backlog had reached a record low of 52 articles. (full results) February Blitz: 15 editors completed 48 copy edits totalling 142,788 words. (full results) March Drive: 29 editors completed 215 copy edits totalling 407,736 words. (full results) April Blitz: 12 editors completed 23 copy edits totalling 56,574 words. (full results) May Drive: 29 editors completed 356 copy edits totalling 479,013 words. (full results) Other news Progress report: as of 26 June, GOCE participants had completed 343 Requests since 1 January. The backlog has fluctuated but remained in control, with a low of 52 tagged articles at the end of January and a high of 620 articles in mid-June. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Miniapolis, Tenryuu and Twofingered Typist, and from member Reidgreg. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 04 August

Many thanks to all who have contributed so far. Half way through.

There are two more scheduled edit-a-thons as part of this project:

• Auckland on Saturday 14 August 10.30am - 4pm at the Auckland Theatre Company studio - 487 Dominion Road, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024. The focus is influential Auckland women in performing arts.
• Wellington on Saturday 21 Augusts 10.30am - 4pm at the Nola Millar Library, Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre - 11 Hutchison Street, Newtown, Wellington. The focus is staff and graduates of Toi Whakaari and the New Zealand School of Dance.

Please diary and attend in person or remotely if you are able.

• Examples of articles to create: Tanea Heke, Turid Revfeim, Taiaroa Royal, Taane Mete, Sarah Foster-Sproull, Paul Mathews, Dolina Wehipeihana, Miriama McDowell, Cathy Downes, Elizabeth Whiting
• Examples of articles to improve: New Zealand School of Dance, Hori Ahipene, Mitch Tawhi Thomas, The New Zealand Dance Company, Pop-up Globe

Add suggested articles to the project pages or get in touch with me. A Women in Red (WIR) August campaign is Indigenous women and there are heaps on my list so if you create or improve these articles be sure to tag WIR on the talk page. Pakoire (talk) 09:19, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE
WIKIPEDIA
There are now 31 new Wikipedia articles reported on the project page that include 19 new biographies, 14 of these about women and six are of people of colour (three Māori people). Keep up the good work. Keep seeking out women and people of colour to celebrate through Wikipedia.

WIKIDATA
The targets specified in this project for Wikidata were exceeded within the first week of the project with the concerted efforts of two editors. A Wikidata item was created to track entries. Performing Arts Aotearoa New Zealand (Q106787482). With claims of ethnicity the policy is to include references from a biography, interview or personal website. Ethnicity of white people is strongly encouraged to be included where this information is available. Māori is listed and then also iwi (tribe/s).

EDIT-A-THON DUNEDIN
The Ōtepoti Dunedin Edit-a-thon was a success. It was at the Hocken Library on Saturday 10 July. The coordinator Pakoire and co-host DrThneed were joined in person by seven others, which included six new editors from the performing arts community, and two people working remotely in Wellington and Christchurch.

The new editors added 27 references to Wikipedia between them and a total of 2,017 words. Comments from new editors after they had learnt the basics and started editing related to how accessible they found doing it. There was motivation amongst many in the group to continue to meet as a way of progressing the articles they are interested in. With the experienced editors overall including Wikidata the edit-a-thon added 48.1K words, 4 commons uploads, 245 references, across 53 articles including 4 new Wikipedia articles and 15 new Wikidata articles.

COI
Conflict of interest (COI) is an area of consideration for editing in performing arts, since most subject experts are also practicing arts and producers. The edit-a-thon / meetup format was useful and people worked on unrelated articles but in tandem with others who knew where to get information.

IMAGES
There is more work to do to create opportunities to upload images to Wikimedia Commons under appropriate licences, as predicted this involves a lot of education with individuals and organisations as well as motivating people to follow through.
Take some pics of a local entertainment venue and upload them. Music venues, amateur arts, town hall, converted theatre, you would be surprised what isn’t there.

SUPPORT
All edits count - reach out if you need help or guidance and many thanks for any contribution you can make.

Pakoire (talk) 09:19, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

New Zealand wine

Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article New Zealand wine has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The article most certainly qualifies as a Good Article except for the lack of citations. I tagged several sections where there are no citations. I also tagged a number of sentences/paragraphs where this is also the case. (I could probably have tagged many more.) I think the whole article needs to be reviewed and the appropriate citations found and added before you attempt to get it through the GA process.

Best of luck with the article moving forward.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 15:00, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much, very useful! I have plenty of work to do finding refs and/or trimming and rewriting the "essay" sections from 10-15 years ago :-P Cheers — Jon (talk) 21:10, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 19 August

A short update this time.
The project has created 74 new Wikipedia articles and improvements to many. An example is one person has been working through improving and creating notable composers of New Zealand which is a great enhancement to Wikipedia. There is a now a regular meetup happening in Ōtepoti.

The COVID19 status of New Zealand means the next workshop is fully online. Wellington Saturday 21 August
Please add yourself to the project page and dashboard of you are able to do any editing. You can join into the zoom (link below) – come to the introduction at 10.30am, pop into the ‘Tearoom’ to say hello to others and informally ask questions. You can also work by yourself (please add yourself to the dashboard for the reporting).

Here is a google doc with suggested articles categories as 'dance' and 'theatre' with links to references. You can make suggestions with comments.

• Articles to develop Performing Arts Aotearoa google doc

Saturday 21 Aug ZOOM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Lisa Maule is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85672644820?pwd=QnJWdXk1TCtZenBEaHJMZEZGbXRWdz09

Meeting ID: 856 7264 4820 Passcode: 907118

WikiProject update - Performing Arts Aotearoa 08 September

The Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject officially ends in 2 days. I am happy with the momentum that has built since the project started. Many thanks to everybody who was able to contribute.

There are 99 new articles listed on the project page. Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject

• If there are others not listed please can you update.
  
• If you have a draft waiting to be moved into main space please list it too (or move it)

I am looking to maintain the project in an ongoing way connected to New Zealand Wikipedia, I will let you know where.

Pakoire (talk) 03:33, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Please review my article on a NZ Winery

I see you have edited a few other pages of other prominent NZ Wineries. I have just published this article and am wanting some help publishing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Seifried_Estate_Winery

September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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