Event:Meetup/Christchurch/45

The Ōtautahi Christchurch monthly meetups are a chance for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and so on) to get together, get advice, get collaborations started. Everybody's welcome, beginners or experienced.

• Scoundrel • 375 St Asaph St, Central Christchurch (map)
• Sunday, 24 May 2026
• 10 am–midday

Scoundrel is a bar and eatery on St Asaph Street. We will have booked a table under the name "Wikipedia".

• If driving, St Asaph is a one-way street so you need to approach from Fitzgerald Avenue (to the east).
• If biking, there are fixed bike hoops just down the road outside Space Academy and ordinary "wheel-bender" racks by the front door of Scoundrel.
• If taking the bus, most of the east<->west routes go nearby including the 3 and the 80. Otherwise the Bus Interchange is a 15 minute walk away.
• WiFi password is beans375 for Scoundrel Customers

Add your Wikipedia username if you have one. Tip: in Source editing, you can just type asterisk-space-three tildes (* ~~~)

• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• An anonymous editor attended also

• David Nind (talk)
• Julius the quaestor
• ChristchurchHistorian

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  Giantflightlessbirds: I attended the ESEAP 2026 meeting in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (conference report). A mixed bag, with some very good and inspiring talks and some that were a bit half baked. Have been working with councillor Celeste Donovan to get a better photo of her in Commons (shared the blog post I wrote about improving one's Wikipedia photo). While photographing Niaosong Wetland Park, I found a very nice photo of an Asian toad which I made the infobox photo in 23 languages, and thanked the creator in Flickr. Have also been slowly scanning images for the WIkisource Tutira project.
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk): Wrote an article for Scenic Hotel Group, did a bunch of new page patrol. Did an OpenChch workshop.
• ChristchurchHistorian: I was invited to attend this and future meetings by Giantflightlessbirds (and previously Schwede66). I am not living in Chch at the moment, so am willing to continue helping out with Chch taskforce pages and other events you are all involved in.

• I saw a very cute X-frame mini tabletop banner advertising a trust-and-safety clinic while at ESEAP, but can't find anyone in NZ who prints them. I did discover A4 tabletop pull-up banners though, which we could consider getting a couple printed off for Wiki meetups like this; more portable than a perspex stand. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:19, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
• There's a new tool for converting and uploading video to Commons directly from your photo library: Clip2Commons. Worked great for me on laptop, but a couple of hiccups from iPhone. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 11:29, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Citation Tools: discussion arose from Giantflightlessbirds attending a session by Robert Sim on creating Zotero translators—we should have another go at persuading NZ publishers to whitelist Citoid.
• Need to do some OpenChch event planning for next year. Taking photos is a great activity for attendees, quite apart from editing Wikipedia articles, and we could run an uploading session after the tours.
• We need some sort of ultra-easy upload app for iPhones to get more newbies uploading; the mobile interface for Commons is a bit daunting. Maybe even a pamphlet or zine that walks people through it.
• Some discussion of candidate photos in the upcoming election, and whether Parliamentary Services could help.
• Currently uploading, indexing and adding locations of photos to Commons on my Commons user page. Nearing completion of Terrace Station Homestead in my sandbox. —ChristchurchHistorian (talk) 02:32, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

• 20 June 2026 (a Saturday, because the Aotearoa Online meeting is on Sunday 21st)