Join us for an information evening and a full day workshop to learn practical steps and how-to wikipedia with NZ Wikipedian-at-Large, Dr Mike Dickison, who is currently on a one-year grant from the Wikimedia Foundation with the aim of helping people and institutions better engage with Wikipedia.
To encourage more editors and more accurate edits, Mike is running this free information session for the Ōtepoti arts community to help increase the visibility of NZ artists on wikipedia
Monday 11 February 2019, 5:30–7:00pm
Blue Oyster Art Project Space
This is an informal evening covering practical steps the art community can take to make New Zealand art more visible to the world. It will cover:
- How artists can satisfy Wikipedia's notability criteria, so new articles don't get deleted.
- Adding photos of artists to Wikimedia Commons.
- Encouraging artists to release some images of their work under an open license.
- Which publications qualify as reliable references in Wikipedia, and what arts writers and researchers can do to help.
Saturday 16 February 2019, 11:00–4:00pm
The Hub, Dunedin City Library, 230 Moray Place, Dunedin
After Tuesday evening's presentation, this daytime edit-a-thon will help volunteers tackle the parts of Wikipedia that need improvement. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided. All you need to bring is a laptop!
Wikipedians from anywhere in the world are welcome to join in remotely. Please feel free to hashtag edits with #NZartists and add yourselves to the participants list below.
Both events are free to attend and all are welcome.
For more information, see the events page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin/Artists
Image: By Mike Dickison (@adzebill) - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75796641
