User:David Nind/Projects
Current projects
[edit]- Wikisource:
- transcribing West Coast and New Zealand books
- transcribing the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- transcribing The geology of the Oamaru District, North Otago (Eastern Otago Division)
- Waitaki taskforce: progressively improve the breadth and depth of the Waitaki region's coverage in English Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Commons, and Wikisource
- Kōtuia ID (P9074):
create Wikidata property andadd NZ museums identifier for all organisations listed in https://www.kotuia.org.nz/
Completed projects
[edit]- Wikisource:
- Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove: completed validation of pages, 16 May 2024
- Reminiscences of Earliest Canterbury: created PDF with OCR layer (using Abbyy FineReader 15), completed proofed pages 2 May 2024, added Wikisource author page, updated Wikidata
- Castaway on the Auckland Isles: completed validation of pages, added mini TOC to index page, improved Wikidata items, consistency, checks, completed on 20 April 2024
- Papers of William Shakespeare Hall, 1861–1895: completed validation of pages, completed on 4 April 2024
- Moving Picture Boys on the Coast: validated all pages, completed on 31 March 2024
- Moving Picture Boys and the Flood: validated all pages, completed on 26 March 2024
- Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm: validated all pages, completed on 3 March 2024
- The Girls of Central High on the stage: validated pages, completed 1 January 2024
- Municipal and Official Handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand: validated pages and combined images, completed December 2023
- Dave Porter in the gold fields: validated pages, completed October 2023
Not actively being worked on
[edit]- North Otago Memorial Oaks: add Wikidata entries for all memorial oaks and link to those memorialised (aim is to take photos and get co-ordinates to make a map), create Wikipedia page about
- New Zealand Libraries: progressively add NZ libraries to Wikidata, or expand existing entries (continuation of first edit-a-thon I attended in January 2019)
- New Zealand Science Awards: improve coverage of New Zealand science awards
- University of Canterbury Research Medal: add recipients and improve Wikidata entries for recipients
- Hutton Medal: add template for recipients of the Hutton Medal and add to recipients articles
- New Zealand Legislation: improve coverage of New Zealand legislation in Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons
- BUGZ ID: update URLs on Wikispecies
- Govdirectory: improve Wikidata coverage of New Zealand Government agencies and organisations
Someday/maybe projects
[edit]Ideas for other potential future projects:
- New Zealand charities id: create a property so that organisations can be linked to the Charities Register, can then be used a) as an identifier, b) for stated in qualifiers
- New Zealand government agencies editathon: improve the quality of the pages about New Zealand government agencies, at the moment they are generally of a low quality
- New Zealand government registers: improve Wikidata entries for official registers, such as company, incorporated societies, etc