Falkland Island wolf, Dusicyon australis: the images we took of this Otago Museum specimen are the only ones of the species available under an open licenseDunedin "Let's Get NZ Artists into Wikipedia" event
Continued to work with National Library staff on the projects worked out in January.
Made a week-long trip to the South Island to attend the meeting of the New Zealand Entomological Society (where I ran a Wikipedia meetup) and run two events in Dunedin to encourage the arts community to increase their presence in Wikipedia. The Dunedin events were poorly attended, but a representative of Christchurch Art Gallery drove four hours to attend the talk, and it looks like we'll run the same events, better-publicised, in Christchurch in May. Met with numerous other people to plan events in Dunedin in April.
As part of the visit to Otago Museum, I helped them upload and use photographs of Tasmanian tiger, kurī, and Falklands wolf specimens in the collections; the latter two are now the best images of each in Commons.
Took part in a workshop run by Te Papa on submissions on the New Zealand Copyright Act reforms; I'll be preparing a submission as NZ Wikipedian, representing to some extent the Wikimedia Foundation statements on open knowledge in the NZ context (where we currently have a "life + 50 years" copyright term but no Fair Use provisions).
Yes, I ran three events on Tuesday, February 19th, two of them simultaneously. I don't plan on repeating that soon…
1 Feb: Alexander Turnbull Library staff meeting to discuss Māori collections policy
1 Feb: Paul Diamond re the expansion of Paper Past to 1950 and a possible Whanganui event
4 Feb: Amy Watling re the White aviation photos and CC terms compatible with Commons
4 Feb: DigitalNZ meeting about using Wikidata as possible replacement for "concepts" API and scraping open content from DBpedia
5 Feb: Federated Farmers rep re running a joing FedFarmers/F&B Wikipedia event on 1080 in Christchurch
12, 13 Feb: Otago Museum to upload and annotate collection photos
13 Feb: Heritage NZ to discuss photo archives, Wikidata, and GLAMorgan
14 Feb: LIANZA and Hocken Library representatives to plan Dunedin events
14 Feb: James Maclaurin (Philosophy) to discuss Wikipedia coverage of bad algorithms
14 Feb: Orokonui Ecosanctuary director to plan event there
15 Feb: Otago University English Programme staff meeting
15 Feb: Anatomy Museum of Otago Medical School re departmental seminar and possible Wikimedia project
18 Feb: Department of Conservation re Critter of the Week, making photos available, future talks to staff anfd scientists
20 Feb: NLNZ staff drop-in session
25 Feb: Land Information NZ staff to discuss macron use on official NZ Gazetteer of Place Names, when updates will happen, and possible Wikipedia event to coincide
26 Feb: Archives New Zealand to advise on possible "NZ schools" Wikidata project
5 Feb: Wikipedia as a Conservation Outreach Tool • 7 Forest & Bird staff • Forest & Bird Head Office, Wellington
11 Feb: How to get New Zealand artists into Wikipedia • Public (6) • Blue Oyster Art Project Space Dunedin
19 Feb: What Wikipedia means for researchers • Public, genealogy enthusiasts (35) • National Library of NZ, Wellington
19 Feb: Citizen-Generated Knowledge • Public, GLAM community (20) • Victoria University (Piptea Campus), Wellington
26 Feb: Why you should get your photographs into Wikipedia • Public, volunteers, photography enthusiasts (20) • Zealandia Visitors Centre, Waiapu Road, Wellington
27 Feb: Wikipedia as a Conservation Outreach Tool • Zealandia staff (6) • Zealandia, Waiapu Road, Wellington
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