Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 10

Only 18.8% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women. Help celebrate International Women's Day 2021 by bridging this gap, with the Women in Red project! Come to Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum, where you can help tell the stories of New Zealand women who have remained article free for far too long. This event is for all editing levels – learn about how you can help by editing Wikipedia articles, or feel free to use our resources to get started right away.

This event is part of Auckland Museum's Wikimedian in Residence project, funded by a Wikicite Grant.

The Dashboard for the event can be found here

• Saturday 1 May 2021, 9:30am-1pm NZST
• Auckland Museum Library
• We will meet at Tui Tui Cafe inside Te Ao Mārama (South Entrance) at 9:30am before heading to the library at 10am to kick things off.
• Lunch, coffee and snacks provided

This editathon is free and open to all. You don't need to be an experienced Wikipedia editor to take part. Wikipedians will be present to help newcomers make edits.

• Laptop and power cord. The venue has free wifi.
• Resources that can be cited in Wikipedia will be accessible in the Museum Library, however feel free to bring any relevant material.

1. If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
2. Read up on Wikipedia: there are lots of tutorials, like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
3. If you add photos to Commons so they can be used Wikipedia, they'll need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. If you're not familiar with Creative Commons, see Useful Links below. If you've taken photos and are happy to donate them, great! Bring them along. If you know of anyone who has good photos, approach them and ask them if they'd like their work to be seen and used by people all over the world (with them credited, of course).

Feel free to look at our list of articles to develop! Articles on New Zealand women should pass notability (more info here: WP:BIO), which typically means the person is well-known enough to be discussed by multiple sources in the news, or in academic articles (though for each profession, there are agreed upon conventions for who can have an article).

Otherwise, feel free to browse Category:New Zealand women by occupation to find a page that already exists, and see if there's any missing information that you could add.

• This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.
• How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit
• A nice explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos by Harry Chapman
• WikiProject Women In Red - Missing articles of New Zealand women
• New or improved articles can be added to the WiR project here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Meetup/184

• New article Karen Stockin
• New article 150 women in 150 words
• New article Gillian Greer
• New article Rachel Esson
• Improved stub article Tuini Ngāwai to start class (ORES rating 2.35)
• New article Claire Breen
• New article Ranjna Patel
• New article Hinewehi Mohi
• New article Rachel Lang
• New article Milne & Choyce (early women-owned department store in Auckland)
• New article Joan Talbot
• Added 29 women to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Architecture#New Zealand, which was previously empty

This event is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation through a Wikicite Grant.