Auckland Women in Performing Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Sat 14 Aug 2021.

Wikipedia is a central place that can celebrate the culture and history of Aotearoa. Surprisingly there is a great lack of information about performing arts. This editing workshop aims to address this as well as improve Wikipedia's coverage of notable women with a focus on Auckland women in theatre and dance and other forms of performing arts. Supported by Auckland Theatre Company and their Open House programme made possible with the assistance of the Auckland Council and the Auckland Festival.

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.

This event is part of the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.

Date: Sat 14 August, 2021
Time: 10:30am - 4:00pm NZST
Location: Auckland Theatre Company studio's, 487 Dominion Road, Mt Eden, Auckland 1024

• This is a free workshop with lunch, coffee and snacks provided
• Please register your interest: lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
  

We welcome you at any time. There will be a short introduction at 10.30am.

Goals:

• Increase biographies of women on Wikipedia to address the existing bias
• Ensure women of colour and Indigenous women are also represented (target - at least 30% of new entries) 

Under COVID Alert Level 2 or higher the group will meet via video conference call.

The event is being coordinated by Lisa Maule. She is a theatre practitioner with a love of the performing arts communities and history, and was motivated enough in increasing performing arts information on Wikipedia to apply for a grant.

Please list yourself below.

Attending

1. User:Pakoire
2. User:Susan Tol
3. User:Rockybayk - has created a draft article User:Rockybayk/Elizabeth Whiting
4. User:MargeritaNZ - improving Nicola Kawana

Remote participation

1. User:DrThneed created Cathy Downes, Claire Ahuriri-Dunning, and now working on Miriama McDowell.
2. User:Ambrosia10 (from about 10.30am as I've got an appointment for an eye test) - I'm planning on working on creating an article about Edith Campion. A little bit of expanding of Don Selwyn. Now working on creating an article for Tracy Grant Lord.
3. User:Oronsay - created Deirdre Tarrant

Please enrol in the event Dashboard so your edits on the day can be tracked.

1. Please register your interest: lisamauleinfo@gmail.com
2. Ideally create a Wikipedia account beforehand: best not to 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 will need a username; usually not recommended for it to be your actual name. Here's some advice on picking a username.
3. Read up on Wikipedia, search what NZ theatre articles there are and identify any you want to add to. There are also tutorials on 'how to', like the Wikipedia Adventure, and useful guides, like the Editing Wikipedia brochure.
4. 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).

• Laptop and power cord. The venue has free wifi.
• Resources that can be cited in Wikipedia if you have any - media clippings, books etc

• Examples of articles to create are: Bianca Hyslop, Dolina Wehipeihana, Miriama McDowell, Cathy Downes, Elizabeth Whiting, Tracy Grant Lord, Tracey Collins, Cassandra Tse, Jo Kilgour

• Potential articles discussed at workshop: Donagh Rees, Margaret Mary Hollands, Lynne Cardy, Wendy Preston (dance), June Renick (drama in education & musical theatre), Justine Simei-Barton (drama in education & Pacifika dramaturg), Sally Markham (Auckland City Council arts projects 1990s), Blackfriars Theatre Company (New Zealand) and Michelle Johannsen, Sam Scott - Massive Theatre Company, Marie Addams (and Mike Mizrahi), Black Creatives Aotearoa

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.

• Short entry level articles ready to expand are: Cathy Livermore, Nisha Madhan, Julia Croft, Tanya Muagututi'a, Alice Canton

• Articles that would be improved with more theatre content are: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Fiona Samuel
• Articles to improve with citations: The New Zealand Dance Company, Pop-up Globe, Nicola Kawana

• Notable missing Auckland articles: Silo Theatre, Te Pou Theatre, The Basement Theatre, Prayas Theatre, TEMPO Dance Festival

• Draft articles needing some work: Draft:Raymond Hawthorne - citations needed for his work with Mercury Theatre

More information including how to edit in this google document: Auckland articles to develop, references and 'how to' Please comment with any additions or thoughts.

The dashboard recorded 11 articles created (including Wikidata), 68 articles edited, 352 total edits, 6 editors, 20.3K words added, 190 references added, 12.6K article views and 6 Commons uploads (images).

1. Estelle Chout - (Wikidata Q108082753)
2. Dione Joseph - (Wikidata Q108082946)
3. Black Creatives Aotearoa (Wikidata Q108082978)
4. Miriama McDowell
5. Cathy Downes
6. Elizabeth Whiting (draft)
7. Tracy Grant Lord
8. Silo Theatre
9. The Basement Theatre
10. Claire Ahuriri-Dunning
11. Deirdre Tarrant

• Fixed citation needed problems with The New Zealand Dance Company article
• Added theatre section to Nicola Kawana

• This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.

Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference

• All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

The video conferencing meetup is a replacement for the in-person meetup if required.

• A useful introductory video on editing: YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44)

This includes

• How to create and set up your account (00:00)
• 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)

• The Wikipedia Adventure

Learn to edit Wikipedia in under an hour

• How to edit pages using the Visual Editor: for when you click Edit

• [http://harrychapman.nz/blog/2014/11/creative-commons-wikimedia-commons-and-crowdsourced-photos/ An explanation of Creative Commons, Wikimedia Commons, and crowdsourced photos

• The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"

Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

This edit-athon is part of a 2021 project running from May - September: Performing Arts Aotearoa - Wiki Project