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Starting February 2024 we'll be running regular meetups, training sessions, and community editing events in Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library. Regular meetups are currently on Sunday mornings every 4 weeks at Foundation Cafe, extending into the Facilitation Space for group editing and collaboration.

Date Time Title Venue For Info
Sun 18 February 10.00–12:00 Christchurch WikiCoffee Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Initial meetup for Chch Wikipedians Notes
Sun 17 March 10.00–12.00 Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Chch Wikipedians Event Page
Sun 14 April 10.00–12.00 Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Chch Wikipedians Event Page
Sun 12 May 10.00–12.00 Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Chch Wikipedians Event Page
Sat 18 May 10.00–16.00 Ink on Paper Edit-a-thon Christchurch Art Gallery library All interested Wikipedians, local and remote Event Page
Sun 9 June 10.00–12.00 Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Chch Wikipedians Event Page
Sun 7 July 10.00–12.00 Christchurch Wikipedians Meetup Foundation Cafe, Tūranga Chch Wikipedians Event Page

These meetups have continued after the Wikipedian at Large project ended: see the Christchurch Meetup page for schedule and upcoming monthly meetings.

Tūranga spaces

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Projects

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These are projects suitable for volunteer editors to tackle alone or in a group.

  1. The Weekend Press. At Foundation Cafe we'll divide up up the weekend newspaper, looking for material that could improve or create Wikipedia articles. For example, the Saturday Feb 24 Press could be used as a source for: Rachael King, Bronwynn Bakker, dog training, Christchurch (both parks and nature and crime rates sections), urban forestry, Grant Robertson, Anna Crighton, collision avoidance system, Alexei Navalny (a Washington Post obit), Toyota bZ4X, MG4, the Clean Car Discount, Sam Tanner, ChristChurch Cathedral, Roimata Food Commons, Queenstown, the New Zealand Customs Service, the Te Whatu Ora 2023 vaccine data breach, water supply and sanitation in New Zealand, tourism in New Zealand, search and rescue, Electric Avenue (New Zealand festival), 2023 New Zealand general election (donors), Ōpihi River, Casey Costello, and panda diplomacy. We could also submit a newly-unearthed or -released photo to the paper's weekly History Corner.
  2. John Walsh (Q124612946)'s Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture (2023 revised edition) (Q124612956) features a mixture of heritage and contemporary buildings, many of which have no articles or out-of-date photos. We can supply a copy of the book to any Wikipedian willing to help improve Walsh's list, and can assign a mission each month to write, improve, or illustrate an article on a different building.
  3. Ink on Paper artists. We have a list of 49 NZ artists, some with no Wikipedia article at all. The Christchurch Art Gallery is making photographs of out-of-copyright works available to us, and is giving us access to their files of artist information in an edit-a-thon on Saturday 18 May. People keen on improving the whole list are welcome to work on the list before or after that event, and there are prizes (a copy of the Ink on Paper artist catalogue, Rita Angus swag) for top contributors.