Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/15

An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Everybody's welcome, new or experienced.

Date: Saturday, 31 October 2020
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Location: Christchurch Art Gallery, Montreal Street, Christchurch CBD

We'll be digging through the archives of the Christchurch Art Gallery, looking for sources that will help us write or improve articles about artists, curators, etc.

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• Schwede66
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Ratso56 (talk) 04:06, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Herewhy (talk)

• MurielMary (talk)

• welcome to new users
• dig through the archives
• West Coast Artists List
• Graham Bennett (sculptor)
• To see if the Gallery has a book about an artist, do an Advanced search in the Christchurch Public Library catalogue with branch:"Christchurch Art Gallery" in the search bar.
• Why can I see the metadata for here [1] but not here [2]? Second photo has EXIF metadata for camera, but not for photographer.
• List of death dates of NZ Artists (artist has Find NZ Artists Id) where death date is less precise than day https://w.wiki/jYb

• Took copies of the gallery's artist file on Patricia France, with an eye on creating an article for her at a later date
• Created wikidata item Patricia France (Q101031258)
• Updated Catherine Brough, Sue Syme and Yvonne Rust's wikidata with info from their artist files
• Worked through West Coast Artists list and checked all artists against Christchurch Art Gallery files.
• Added more info to Jim Cooper (potter)
• Amended Wikidata entry for Allan Holcroft (Q64153518); it was already there and but not under the common name. Set up supporting items Elmwood Normal School (Q101032246) and Karoro Cemetery (Q101031597).
• Amended Wikidata items for Paul Haywood (Q99304638) and Yvonne Rust (Q99304224).
• Took photos of various editions of Who's Who in New Zealand (Q24189484) book covers and added photos to Wikidata entries.

• Next meetup is on Tuesday, 10 November 2020

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