Wikipedia is a great place for people to find out about performing arts in Aotearoa. Surprisingly there are many notable people and companies missing articles. This editing workshop event was going to be at Te Whaea, the National Dance and Drama Centre but is now online. It will to expand content on New Zealand theatre and dance. The event includes notable graduates and staff of the New Zealand School of Dance and Toi Whakaari, with the resources of the Nola Millar Library.
This edit-a-thon is for all editing levels – learn about how you can help by editing Wikipedia articles or feel free to use the resources and get started right away.
Because of New Zealand's current COVID alert status the group is going to meet via video conference call.
Please register your interest for information and the Zoom link: lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
Date:Sat 21 AUG, 2021 Time:10:30am - 4:00pmNZST Previous location: Nola Millar Library, Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre, Wellington New location:ONLINE - register interest for a Zoom link: lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
Lisa Maule
There will be a short introduction at 10.30am.
Link to Zoom edit-a-thon today.You can join whenever you can make it. You will have to wait to be let in.
ZOOM link:
Topic: Aug 21 Performing Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Time: Aug 21, 2021 10:30 AM Auckland, Wellington
The event is being coordinated by Lisa Maule. She is a Pākehā theatre practitioner who also loves knowledge and research, and who felt motivated enough to increase performing arts information on Wikipedia to apply for a grant. Please add your user name to the list below and enroll in the event Dashboard so your edits can be tracked.
Articles need to pass notability, which typically means the person, company or event is well-known enough to be discussed by sources in the media or in academic articles.
There is a list of articles to develop and resources on google drive:
Fifteen editors joined the event dashboard, wrote over 76K words and added 217 references to Wikipedia and Wikidata. People joined our Zoom video meeting when they were able and breakout rooms allowed small group coaching and also social catch ups. There were four new editors - two from last weekend in Auckland, and two with accounts set up for the day. Out of the fifteen editors two were in Australia and one in USA, eight from Wellington and four dispersed around Aotearoa.
New articles created because of the edit-a-thon include:
Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)