Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/Ink on Paper

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Edit-a-thon: New Zealand printmakers in the Ink on Paper catalogue

Fantail by Thomas Gulliver

An edit-a-thon is an event where volunteers tackle a part of Wikipedia that needs improvement. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided. After Tuesday's presentation, allowing enough time for attendees to compile materials and photographs, Mike will run a daytime edit-a-thon at the Art Gallery on the topic of the 2023 Christchurch Art Gallery show Ink on Paper.

• Saturday 18 May 2024, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm NZST (See this in your time zone)
• Library, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Montreal St. Meet at the reception desk and we'll be let into the library together.
• Wikipedians from anywhere in the world are of course welcome to join in remotely. Please feel free to hashtag edits with #NZartists and add yourselves to the participants list below.
• Bring a laptop if you have one. We will have one spare to loan if you don't have your own to bring.

Why Ink on Paper?

1. It featured New Zealand printmakers from the first half of the 20th Century, including women and Māori, who are not usually featured in the art history books
2. The exhibition has a beautiful hardcover catalogue with bios of all the artists; we'll be giving one away to the keenest participant
3. Many of the works in the show are in the public domain under US law, so can be uploaded into Wikimedia Commons and illustrate the artist's article. Christchurch Art Gallery have kindly supplied good-quality photos of the works for upload.

Timetable

• 10.00: Meet and greet
  Introductions, name lanyards, and account creation if needed.
• 10.15: Wikipedia tutorial
  We'll learn how Wikipedia works and how to improve, create, and reference articles, and what resources the Christchurch Art Gallery has. Experienced editors present will be buddied up with any newcomers.
• 10.45: Editing
  Our goal is to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the artists in the table below. You can improve existing articles, add to Wikidata, or create stub articles for people missing from Wikipedia.
• 12.30: Lunch break in the cafe downstairs
• 13:15: Working through the afternoon, doing as much as we can.
• Finishing up: Make sure you fill out an evaluation form and add your contributions to the list below.

To attend

Raymond McIntyre's Street Scene

• The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all, thanks to the support of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
• There is budget available to cover childcare or other costs to enable participants to attend.
• There will be one extra laptop available for anyone who doesn't have their own to use on the day.
• We will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.

People attending

In person

• Giantflightlessbirds
• Alexeyevitch
• Herewhy
• MurielMary (talk)

• David Nind
• Cloventt (+ Evelyn)
• Ratso56

Remotely

• DrThneed (talk) 01:15, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

What to bring

• Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads. There may be a computer you can use if you don't have a laptop, but BYO if you can.
• Any snacks or drink you want. Covered drinks only; no smelly or greasy food please!

Preparation

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. The more you prepare, the more you'll be able to get done. You may want to read up on avoiding common mistakes, but Wikipedia has a "don't bite the newbies" policy, and we'll be there to troubleshoot.
3. Read up on the Ink on Paper exhbition on the Art Gallery's website; the catalogue is available to download for free.

The table of Ink on Paper artists can be found on the Christchurch Art Gallery project page.

Outcomes

• Created Rhona Haszard: an Experimental Expatriate New Zealand Artist (2002) (Q125962533) to use as a reference —Giantflightlessbirds
• Added photo of Rhona Haszard, info, and gallery to her page —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Improved Juliet Peter - HereWhy
• May Gilbert - new article MurielMary (talk)
• Rona Dyer - new article MurielMary (talk)
• Gertrude Ball - new article MurielMary (talk)
• Improved Nancy M. Bolton (Q64918667), created new article Nancy Bolton, added mention of her mural to Dixon Street Flats. DrThneed (talk)
• Thomas Gulliver - new article -- David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• copyedits and book references to womens biographies (E.g Anne Hamblett and Adele Younghusband), however I was mostly reading books about Rita Angus. Alexeyevitch^(talk)
• Arnold Goodwin - new article -- David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• William Henry Allen (artist) - new article -- David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Created Frank Weitzel —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Works: Ratso56
  • Cable Car https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125963766
  • Diana & Endymion https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125963806
  • The Song from beyond the World https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125963847
  • Three Bathers https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125963865
  • Hoeing Tobacco https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125962911
• Kenneth Hassall - new article -- David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Added 15 works by Frank Weitzel to WikiCommons and made galleries in his article. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

Useful

• Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. OCLC 1370607329. OL 51712170M. Wikidata Q118224886.
• How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit.
• Index New Zealand contains index for articles in NZ art publications
• findNZarticles Includes articles by or about New Zealanders from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.
• INZART Index to New Zealand Art Selected journal and newspaper articles indexed by the Fine Arts Library at the University of Auckland since 1965
• the Template:NewZealand-artist-stub
• Ross, Gail Macdonald (2006). New Zealand Prints 1900-1950: An unseen heritage (PhD thesis). University of Canterbury. Retrieved 2024-05-18. <- excellent PhD thesis covering the history of print making in NZ, incredibly thorough

Wikidata properties for prints

Properties relevant to print

Property	Description	Example
P31	instance of	print (Q11060274) (or subclass see below)
P170	creator	Colin McCahon (Q5145349)
P608	exhibition history	Ink on Paper (Q124733840) reference: stated in Ink on Paper (1st ed.) (Q118224886)
P195	collection	Hocken Collections (Q622974)
P571	inception	1944
P973	described at URL	https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/98626
P217	inventory number	1980-0029-1
P180	depicts	?
P2048	height	?
P2049	width	?

^work Q386724 
 ^ intellectual work Q15621286
   ^ creative work Q1753576
     ^ work of art Q838948
       ^ print Q11060274 
          ^ etching print Q18218093 
          ^ linocut print Q22060043 
          ^ lithograph Q15123870
          ^ monotype print Q22669635
          ^ woodcut print Q18219090
          ^ wood engraving print Q22669664
          ^ potato cut Q125963661 (added at this event)

Initial query to works and creators https://w.wiki/A7L2

Media

We will have a photographer present for an hour to take publicity photos. If you definitely don't want to be in a photo, just choose a red name lanyard; if you don't mind, pick a green one. No photos will be shared or uploaded without the subject's consent.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Tim Jones at the Christchurch Art Gallery for making this event possible and WANZ for funding the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large.