Event:Meetup/Christchurch/48

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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)
Saturday, 15 August 2026
10 am–midday

Venue

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

Attendees

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

Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

Apologies

David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)

What have we been up to?

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PDF of Wikifying a Conference
Giantflightlessbirds: Since the last meeting two months ago I've been representing WANZ at the Science Communicators of Aotearoa NZ conference here, and the NZ Archaeological Association conference in Kaikōura. I also staffed the Wikipedia table at the Dunedin Science Festival and gave a talk on "How to Vandalise Wikipedia". The little book DrThneed and I wrote, Wikifying a Conference, has been printed and is also available on Commons. I had a weekend in Geraldine, took some photos, improved the Geraldine article a little, and created new articles on the Geraldine Cinema and the Vicarage Geraldine. Met with the Scorpio Books team to go over the article, and took photos / created Wikidata of the Custard Square Bookshop in prep for an article.

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13 September 2026