Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Whanganui Wiki Wednesday

Whanganui Wiki Wednesday was a community Wikipedia-editing group in Whanganui, New Zealand, meeting monthly from August 2014 to July 2016. Its goal was to improve Whanganui-related pages, and encourage new editors. The coordinator was giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs). For other Wikipedia events in Whanganui, see the Whanganui Meetup page.

Meetings

• Originally at the Davis Library, then at the Alexander Heritage & Research Library, in their temporary home at the Alex on Ridgway, 62 Ridgway St.
• First Wednesday of each month. See the web page for summaries of previous meetings.

To Do list

Articles to create (need photo)

• Alexander Heritage & Research Library
• Joseph Soler, pioneering winemaker; here's a link
• George Sherriff. artist who carved the lion on the Veteran Steps and designed them. Need a photo of the steps! Also, a painting in Putiki Church (off-site waiting restoration, ask Huia Kirk)
• Davis Library
• Queens Park / Pukenamu
• Durie Hill War Memorial Tower

(Check the listings by Heritage New Zealand and also, oddly, the German Wikipedia entry)

• Kemp Monument "0165". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Standard Chain Mark "7101". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Strachan's Cave "7308". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Native Land Court building (not sure what the article should be called) "7783". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

Articles to create (have photos)

• Durie Hill Elevator "0164". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015. (translate from German Wikipedia) DONE
• War Memorial Hall, Whanganui "7442". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Heads Road Cemetery "7700". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015. (needs up to date photo, though)

Stubs to expand

(Check for Heritage New Zealand listings)

• Henry Sarjeant
• John Tiffin Stewart
• Whanganui Regional Museum
• Sarjeant Gallery: needs Sarjeant on the Quay section and photo
• Wi Taepa and Rick Rudd: especially need to talk to them about sample photos of work that could go into the public domain
• Emma Camden: need to add some Whanganui content
• Charles Mackay (mayor): approach Paul Diamond for help?
• Walter D'Arcy Cresswell
• Moutoa Island, describing the battle
• Cameron Blockhouse
• Jerusalem, New Zealand
• Pipiriki
• Ward Observatory
• Moutoa Gardens, especially as the Museum has an exhibit opening on it. NB Laurel Stowell from the Chron says the Ballance statue wasn't beheaded during the protest, but on 21 Dec 1994; obviously a .
• Bushy Park Homestead "0157". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
• Jane Winstone

Articles to improve

• Whanganui: obviously this is the important one. I suggest we model the page on a medium-sized city in the UK or USA that has WP:Good Article status. The City of Salford or Ely, Cambridgeshire are excellent. Note how each section is well-written paragraphs with links to specific institutions, not bullet points or subheadings.
• Mayor of Wanganui
• Bushy Park Forest Reserve
• Royal Wanganui Opera House: check for WP:COPYVIO: where'd the text come from?
• Bridge to Nowhere; address maintenance tag
• Rana Waitai
• Edith Collier
• Whanganui River template needs correcting and augmenting
• Tylee Cottage Residency needs to create pages for more of its NZ artists: a project for the Sarjeant?
• River Queen

External Links

• Whanganui Wiki Wednesday (blog and introduction to the project)
• “Call to lift our online image” (Wanganui Chronicle, 11 Aug 2014)
• “The importance of Wanganui’s ‘Wiki Wednesday’” (River City Press, 18 Dec 2014)