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2024

April 2024

05: Wikisource: Started again on validating Castaway on the Auckland Isles, one page of Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Index to Volumes 1–40
02-04: Wikisource: Completed valdiating pages Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (also did some consistency checks, added page breaks for transcluded work, changed status to all validated)
01: Wikisource: Started on validating Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895 (being worked on collaboratively, other contributors also validating pages)
01: Commons: Forrester Gallery (Q75371691) - added institution template, Commons category, and improved Wikidata item

March 2024

31: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup. Notes from the last meeting completed. Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
29-31: Wikisource: Moving Picture Boys on the Coast - validating pages
26: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
22: Wikipedia: minor edits to Ian P. Griffin's page - separated out awards and honours
3, 14, 15, 23, 24, 25: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Boys and the Flood
03: Attended New Zealand Aotearoa meetup
03: Wikisource: completed validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
03: Commons: depicts statements to Benmore dam category items

February 2024

10: Wikipedia: updated OpenBoard software release information
04, 06, 26: Wikisource: validating Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm
04: Attended Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup

January 2024

25: Added ISC Fellow award to Hamish Spencer (Q22102768)
22:
- Added Michael King Writer's Fellowship award to Danny Keenan and Wikidata item Danny Keenan (Q114992793)
- Improved entries for Huia histories of Māori : ngā tāhuhu kōrero (2012) (Q106878939) and Huia histories of Māori : ngā tāhuhu kōrero (2012) (Q106878939), including Open Library entry
21: Wikisource - some pages for Castaway on the Auckland Isles
20: Commons - edited/sorted categories for Anderson House, Invercargill and Invercargill Public Art Gallery (originally housed in Anderson House but now located elsewhere)
19: Added wikidata item for Tim McNamara (Q124312901) and added entry book Rust in action: systems programming concepts and techniques (Q124314177) and Rust in action: systems programming concepts and techniques (2021) (Q124314245)
16-20: Updated all existing items with Kōtuia ID (P9074), including amendments to entries

13: Wikisource: Transactions: Index to volumes 1-40
11: Various items:
- Added Awarua Communications Museum (Q124248617)
- Spent some time on updating Kōtuia ID (P9074) (previously NZ Museums ID) - URL doesn't update for existing items, query posted
- Updated New Zealand Legal Information Institute (Q16979248) - added Mastodon ID
- Te Papa Mix'n'Match - had a go
01: Wikisource - completed validation of pages for Girls of Central High on the Stage

2023

June 2023

24: Work on pages for the Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15, and a few pages for the Wikisource Monthly Challenge
23: Now ready for transclusion! The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon (including fixing up my error with footnotes, and finished a quick QA check of pages)
22: Finished validating pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and started a quick QA and consistency check of pages
21: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon and Transactions of the NZ Institute - Volume 15
20:
- Wikisoure: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon, and The case for women's suffrage + Doom of the Great City (Wikisource monthly challenge)
- Transactions project: Commons - created category pages for Edward Sayers and Alan Kirton, moved and re-categorised images, and updated Wikidata items
- Alan Kirton (Q4707068): used author dismabiguator to identify some publications, added Scholia template to Wikipedia article, add Wikidata infobox to Wikipedia, add Authority control template to Wikipedia article, added category page for images in Commons, improved Wikidata item
19: Added, proofread, and transcluded Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 2012
19: Started documenting properties used for NZ Acts in Wikidata - still a WIP
17-19: Added depicts statements in Commons to the NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts.
17-19: Improved (and added where required) Wikidata items for NZ Institute/Royal Society of New Zealand Acts and Amendment Acts:
13:
- Spent some time trying to work out the categories for NZ legislation - some 2,000 odd NZ Acts are in the same category, would be nice if you could browse them by name and year to make them easier to locate. Used the Cat-a-lot to bulk move items to different categories.
- Improved Wikidata item for Rachel Anne Buchanan (Q119366969) (from new Wikipedia article), including differentiating her from Rachel Buchanan (Q108214502)
11: Added, proofread, and transcluded New Zealand Institute Act 1908
9: Validated pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
7: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1867
6: Validated pages for New Zealand Institute Act 1903, New Zealand Institute Amendment Act 1930, Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933, and Royal Society of New Zealand Amendment Act 1964

May 2023

28: Validated a page for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1933

20: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin 6
1: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Index to Volumes 1–40

April 2023

30: Validated pages for Royal Society of New Zealand Act 1965

March 2023

12: Validated pages for Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute - Volume 1 (2nd ed.), Transactions NZ Institute Volume 2; fixed pages for The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon

11: Added depicts statements in Commons to images for Suzanne Aubert
11-12: Attended Wellington WikiCon 2023
5: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/34

February 2023

11: Participated in the Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin 5
- Added depicts statements in Commons to Bugs of the Year images in their category pages using the SDC tool
5: Attended Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/33

2022

Didn't keep this up-to-date during 2022 - mainly worked on the Wikisource West Coast Project

August 2022

10: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
9: Wikisource - validating Charleston: Its Rise and Decline
7–8: Wikisource - proofread (including OCR) all of Reuben and other poems

Got a bit slack updating from April 2021 to July 2022!

2021

May 2021

25-29: Added and improved Children's Commissioner and related Wikidata items
- Children’s Commissioner (Q106963615) - included adding office holders and creating office holders that didn't have a Wikidata item
- Office of the Children’s Commissioner (Q107009538)
- Ian Hassall (Q5981761), Laurence Michael O’Reilly (Q106963832) (added), Roger McClay (Q7358621), Cindy Kiro (Q17180701), John Angus (Q19144013), Russell Wills (Q106963668) (added), Andrew Becroft (Q106963774) (added)
- Book and edition for A voice for children: the Office of the Commissioner for Children in New Zealand, 1989-2003 (Q106978182) (added) and author John Michael Barrington (Q106978265) (added)
- Added thesis for John Angus City and country, change and continuity: electoral politics and society in Otago, 1877-1893 (Q107001625)
Events:
- Wikimedia Aotearoa Online meeting
- Wikipedia Wellington Meetup

Other:
- Lisa Maule - Wikidata sessions x2 (setting up Zotero to add Wikidata items, adding Wikidata items for books and editions, Cite Q)

April 2021

Sun 4: Improved Wikidata item for Donald Forrester Brown (Q5294371) (missing VIAF IDs)
Mon 5: Improved Wikidata item for Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić (Q59325309), Deidre Brown (Q45239917) (missing VIAF IDs)
Tue 13: Added Wikidata item for Sarah Washbrooke (Q106484472) winner of Science Teacher Prize for 2020 to Prime Minister's Science Prizes, improved Wikidata item for Rachel Mary Roxburgh (Q21537196)

Tue 20: Improved Wikidata item for Nancy Wake (Q234134)
Events:
- 10 April: Wellington Meetup (in person)
- 20 April: National Library - Staunch identifiers and frilly descriptions: making collections discoverable and usable, Nicola Frean
- 24 April: Wikipedia Weekly

March 2021

Sat 13:
- Wikipedia: update to George Hudson - reverted birth date change

Sun 21: Improved Wikidata item for Edmund Hillary (Q33817) (missing VIAF IDs)

Events:
- 13 March: Attended in person Wellington Meetup
- 14 March: Attended Wikipedia Weekly - Wikidata Editing #34
- 20-21 March: WikiCon West Coast in Hokitika

February 2021

Mon 1:
- Wikidata: expanded David John Evans (Q104774700)
Tue 2:
- Wikidata property: SOUNZ contributor ID (P9136) now added
Sun 7:
- Wikidata: expanded Alice Muriel Williamson (Q4726025) (more identifiers)
Fri 12:
- Tools: added UseAsRef user script

Sat 13:
- Event: attended Wellington Meetup
Sun 14:
- Wikidata: expanded Brian Boyd (Q4090348) (more identifiers), Prime Minister of New Zealand (Q1071117), New Zealand Parliament (Q1520966), Category:Cabinet of New Zealand (Q7988453), Pamela Hall (Q105484316); added Minister for Children (Q105485411) and linked to those who have held the role Tracey Martin (Q7831246), Anne Tolley (Q540420), Kelvin Davis (Q6386648); added Pamela Hall (Q105484316)

Mon 22:
- Wikidata: added Institute for Governance and Policy Studies (Q105623519), expanded Policy Studies Institute (Q7209687), Institute of Policy Studies (Q6040758), Institute of Policy Studies (Q6040755), Institute of Policy Studies (Q20987417), Policy Quarterly (Q96726662), Victoria University of Wellington School of Government (Q101013653)

Sun 28:
- Wikidata: expanded Polar Bears International (Q7209018)
- Events: attended Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand Online meeting

January 2021

Wed 6:
- Tweeted step by step guide about more identifiers Wikidata user script
Sat 9:
- Learning: Listened to RNZ interview with Jimmy Wales
Sun 10:
- Wikidata: expanded New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (Q99763922), Margaret Brimble (Q15848279) (more awards), Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229), Angus Macfarlane (Q4764132), Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229), Aigantighe Art Gallery (Q76853150), Great Giant Arithmos (Q104655727), Raewyn Dalziel (Q91860292), Mary Aldis (Q103976459), Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare O Rehua Whanganui (Q7424149), Sarah Dougherty (Q7422257), Ellen Dougherty (Q14954724), Colonial Museum (Former Library) (Q77979095), Cutters Bay (Q32171965); author disambiguation for Sonja Macfarlane (Q104766229)
- Open Library: added books and tidied up entries for Angus Macfarlane
- Created proposal for NZ Museums ID
Tue 12:
- Wikidata: expanded Hazel Tucker (Q104709028), Sandra Levy (Q49909218), Marsden Medal (Q6773236), Margaret Brimble (Q15848279) (work on awards and thesis); added Salinomycin : the bis-spiroacetal moiety (Q104774207) (thesis)
Wed 13:
- Wikidata: expanded Ann Harding (Q100157885), Margaret Garson (Q103888081), Hazel Tucker (Q104709028) - added thesis statement; added Living with tourism : tourism, identity and change in a village in Central Turkey (Q104786124) (thesis)
Thu 14:
- Wikidata: expanded Marian Baird (Q99922596), Stanley R. H. Rogers (Q7599919)
- Commons: SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
Fri 15:
- Meetings: attended Wikimedia Australia's 20th birthday online celebrations - great presentation by Mike of the West Coast Wikimedian at Large project
- Wikidata: expanded Susan Kippax (Q66490681), Wendi Roe (Q88630517), Doreen Rosenthal (Q78741641)
Sat 16:
- Meetings: attended 16 January 2021 meetup
- Wikidata: expanded Rostgard’s Drapery (Former) (Q77362237), Post Office (Former) (Q79310260), Wendy I Baltzer (Q87817649), Ann M. McGrath (Q64866567), Karitane hospitals (Q104814990), InternetNZ (Q6055415) - added OpenCorporates ID; author disambiguation for Wendy I Baltzer (Q87817649)
- Commons: created category pages for photos taken by Tom Category:Martinborough Post Office; SDC depicts for Siobhan Leachman
Sun 17:
- Meetings and events: Wikipedia Weekly Network - Wikidata editing #27
- Wikidata: expanded Susan Perkins (Q44081264), Charities Services (Q5074454), InternetNZ (Q6055415), Bank of New Zealand (Q77023630), Rostgard’s Drapery (Former) (Q77362237); added Charities Register (Q104854021)
- Commons: added categories for photos taken by Tom Category:Bank of New Zealand, Martinborough Category:Rostgard’s Drapery (Former), ; SDC depicts for St Gerard's Church and Monastery
- Other:
  - updated Wellington 16 January 2021 meetup notes
  - InternetNZ article: updated Etherpad, added progress to the talk page
- Wikipedia: spent sometime updating the NetHui article - tidied up, reorganised, updated the description, added the list of past conferences held by year with starting information, added some references and marked those that still need one (many), added improvement notes to the talk page, minor updates to the Wikidata item.
Mon 18:
- Meetings and events: Aotearoa New Zealand Editor Support (some great tips about templates and #1Lib1Ref)
- Wikidata: expanded and improved Ann Wylie (Q103976490), Judith Kinnear (Q103976480), Sue Maslin (Q101084895), William Cooch (Q8007074), Obituary.George Vernon Hudson, F.R.S.N.Z. (1867–1946). (Q77132985), William Benham (Q8005629)
- Wikipedia:
  - created template for recipients of the Hutton Medal and started adding to articles for recipients
  - worked out how to use Cite Q to add as an item as a reference (see George Hudson (entomologist))
Fri 22:
- NZ Museums ID property approved and setup!
Tue 26:
- Data for NZ Museums ID scrapped from the NZ Museums website, see Google Spreadsheet
- Began reconciling to Wikidata using OpenRefine
Wed 27:
- Progress on NZ Museums ID - used TABernacle, about 22% of IDs added to existing Wikidata items
- Wikidata: expanded Henry Suter (Q5728874)
Sun 31:
- Wikidata: expanded Neil Gemmell (Q43871773), Fiona J McDonald (Q57228435) (expanded Studies on the role of FGF-4 in mouse development (Q59572744)), Alison Jones (Q43378678), St. Hilda's Collegiate School (Q7588342)
- Other: added Hokitika, N.Z. : the Birth of the Borough (Q104373257) and editions to the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary, along with IDs to Wikidata items

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 '''April 2024'''
+* 05: Wikisource: Started again on validating [[wikisource:Index:Castaway on the Auckland Isles (IA castawayonauckla01musg).pdf|Castaway on the Auckland Isles]], one page of Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Index to Volumes 1–40
 * 02-04: Wikisource: Completed valdiating pages [[wikisource:Index:Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895.pdf|Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895]] (also did some consistency checks, added page breaks for transcluded work, changed status to all validated)
 * 01: Wikisource: Started on validating [[wikisource:Index:Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895.pdf|Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895]] (being worked on collaboratively, other contributors also validating pages)