Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/June 2019 Report

Participants in the "Get NZ Writers into Wikipedia" workshop, Tūranga, 8 June 2019

Fresh Focus talk, Stoke, Nelson

With host Judene Edgar at an interview for Nelson radio station Fresh FM

• Continued at UC in Christchurch, giving a public talk on copyright as well as presentations to Heritage New Zealand and Lincoln University, and local GLAM workers. Ran Getting NZ Writers into Wikipedia workshop at Tūranga in association with the literary festival WORD Christchurch. WORD turn out to take good photographs of all the writers who speak at the festival, and we uploaded quite a few to Commons, as well as discussing a possible Wikipedian in Residence at the next festival.

• The rest of June was spent at the Nelson Provincial Museum, working with them to sort out copyright and licensing for the Tyree Studio collection of over 100,000 glass plate negatives. Unfortunately the physical organisation, naming conventions, and file format of the digitised negatives did not allow an easy bulk upload in this visit, and the release of out-of-copyright images under a public domain (rather than CC-BY) licence was a stumbling block for the museum. I was able to give community talks and a workshop for local GLAM staff as well as run a well-attended edit-a-thon.

• The month ended with the East and South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP) Wikimedia community summit in Bangkok, which I attended along with fellow Kiwi Heather Knox. I was able to share what I'd learned as Wikipedian at Large with delegates from other countries, who seemed very interested in the "circuit rider" model of outreach.

• I ended my year on the road in Wellington, with an edit-a-thon at Archives New Zealand.

Presentations

• Wed 5 Jun: What Wikipedia means for Libraries and Archives • 12 librarians at Hao Room, Te Hāpua Halswell Centre, 341 Halswell Road, Christchurch
• Thu 6 Jun: Getting Research into Wikipedia • (15) Lincoln University, Lincoln
• Fri 7 Jun: From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia • (25) A3 Lecture Theatre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
• Mon 10 Jun: How Wiki Works • (75) Fresh Focus, Elim Christian Centre, Stoke, Nelson
• Tue 11 Jun: How Wikipedia works • (11) Nelson Provincial Museum
• Tue 25 Jun: Wikipedia as an outreach tool • (6) Nelson Provincial Museum staff
• Wed 26 Jun: How Wikipedia works • Picton Library, 2 Dublin St, Picton • (16) Picton-area GLAM sector

Workshops

• Sat 8 Jun: Getting New Zealand Writers into Wikipedia • Tūranga, Cathedral Square, Christchurch • Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/NZ Writers
• Sat 15 June: Buller's Birds edit-a-thon • Nelson Provincial Museum • Wikipedia:Meetup/Nelson/Buller's Birds
• Thu 20 June: What Wikipedia Means for GLAMs • Richmond Library, 280 Queen St, Richmond • (15) Nelson-area GLAM sector
• Sun 7 July: Archives NZ edit-a-thon • Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, 10 Mulgrave St, Wellington • Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Archives NZ

Meetings

• Tue 4 Jun: Met with Heritage NZ staff at Antrim House, Wellington, to pitch working with Wikimedia projects
• Thu 6 Jun: Journalist Amber Allott about photos on reptile smuggling for Wikipedia

Media coverage

• Staff reporter. (5 Jun 2019). "Wikipedian comes to Nelson." Nelson Weekly, p13.
• Wane, Joanna. (10 June 2019). "For the record." North and South July 2019 issue. (Feature on Des Helmore, mentioning my recent upload of all his illustrations to Commons.)
• Judene Edgar. (25 June 2019). "Community Conversations – Wikipedia Interview Special." FreshFM (audio)
• Hancock, Farah. (10 July 2019). "The travelling Wikipedia salesperson." Newsroom.