Wikipedia:WikiCon Aotearoa/Christchurch 2025
The conference theme is "Welcome to Ōtautahi, the heart of the Mainland".
Participants
[edit]- Aerohydro (talk)
- AxonsArachnida (talk)
- Bjankuloski06 (talk)
- Chefcat29 (talk)
- CopperAlchemy (talk)
- David Nind (talk)
- DrThneed (talk)
- Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
- Herewhy
- Hillmenco (talk)
- IndustriousFrog (talk)
- Jon (talk)
- MargaretRDonald (talk)
- Marshelec (talk)
- MurielMary (talk)
- Paora (talk)
- Prosperosity (talk)
- Richlitt (talk)
- Stitchbird2 (talk)
- TheLoyalOrder (talk)
- Unclesi86 (talk)
- Winnieswikiworld (talk)
Friday 16 May
[edit]| Time | Event |
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| 6:00 pm | Meetup and dinner
Muy Muy, 44 Welles Street (see Venues tab for directions and maps) |
| 8:00 pm |  Route: North to Margaret Mahy Playground and back through the Square and High Street, a half hour round trip with stops to take night photographs of:
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Saturday 17 May
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| 8:00 a.m. | Assemble at Ara
Welcome and conference registrations | ||
| 8:30 a.m. | Mihi Whakatau | ||
| 9:00 a.m. | |||
| 9:30 a.m. | Shared kai as part of the mihi whakatau
Wharekai (downstairs) | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome to Ōtautahi • Editors working on Christchurch content
Wharekai (downstairs) | ||
| 10:30 a.m. | Introducing OpenStreetMap
Classroom 1 (upstairs) Facilitators: Bojan Jankuloski and Marty Blayney |
Structured Data on Commons
Classroom 2 (upstairs) Facilitators: Siobhan Leachman and Tamsin Braisher |
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| 11:00 a.m. | |||
| 11:30 a.m. | Adding maps to infoboxes using tools such as OpenStreetMap
Classroom 1 (upstairs) Facilitator: Marty Blayney |
Modelling iwi, hapū, or rūnanga correctly in Wikidata
Classroom 2 (upstairs) Facilitators: Jonathan Harker and David Palmer |
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| 12:00 p.m. | |||
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch catered by Share Kai: https://www.sharekai.nz/
Wharekai (downstairs) | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | |||
| 2:00 p.m. | Wikipedia and disinformation
Classroom 1 Facilitators: Stephen Judd and Mike Dickison |
Batch Uploading Techniques for Wikimedia Commons
Classroom 2 Facilitator: Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira
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| 2:30 p.m. | |||
| 3:00 p.m. | Commons copyright templates
Classroom 1 Facilitator: Mike Dickison |
Attracting younger editors
Classroom 2 Facilitators: Anjuli Selvadurai, Kat Baker, and Anya Christiansen |
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| 3:30 p.m. | |||
| 4:00 p.m. | Lightning Talks • 5-minute presentations on anything Wiki
Classroom 1 Feel free to add yourself (but do keep to time!)
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| 4:30 p.m. | |||
| 5:00 p.m. | |||
| 5:30 p.m. | |||
| 6:00 p.m. | Assemble outside Ara for travel to conference dinner at The Old Vicarage, 6.30pm start, 335 Halswell Road (transport provided) | ||
Sunday 18 May
[edit]| Time | Event | Event |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Conference breakfast
Good Habit, 319 St Asaph Street | |
| 9:00 a.m. | ||
| 9:30 a.m. | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Getting Reliable Sources
Classroom 1 Facilitator: Axel Downard-Wilke |
Open sessions
Break room (upstairs) Facilitator: |
| 10:30 a.m. | ||
| 11:00 a.m. | Making lists from Wikidata without SPARQL (to help Wikipedia workflows)
Classroom 1 Facilitator: Tamsin Braisher |
Collage & Conversation
A guided crafting session for Wikimedia reflections, conversation and some screen-free time. All materials provided, all experience catered for. Link to instructions: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P0-yRsNMERdb5lYwehgjoOsmpm_AJJR71qops5P1Obg/edit?usp=sharing Break room Led by: Lisa Maule |
| 11:30 a.m. | Geospatial data on Wikidata: Importing the Christchurch City Council parks database
Classroom 1 Facilitator: David Palmer | |
| 11:45 a.m. | ||
| 12:00 p.m. |  Kōnae woven from harakeke gathered in Christchurch, and filled with stickers, postcards, a bookmark, an enamel pin and edible treats from local Christchurch businesses Cookie Time and Mary Gray Confectionery | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch catered by Share Kai: https://www.sharekai.nz/
Wharekai (downstairs) | |
| 1:00 p.m. | ||
| 1:30 p.m. | Assemble outside Ara for field trip to Christchurch Art Gallery and environs (Category:Christchurch WikiCon 2025 Sunday field trip)
WikiShootMe assignments around Art Gallery and Arts Centre We can base ourselves in the Art Gallery Cafe and the Arts Centre Cafe | |
| 2:00 p.m. | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | ||
| 3:00 p.m. | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | (optional) Drinks at Art Gallery cafe
Transport provided from Art Gallery to the airport or back to Southwark Apartments | |
The conference programme was constructed based on participant input. Registered particiants were polled on topics that had arisen at previous WIkiCons, and the most popular were used, with people self-nominating or being approached to be facilitators.
Topic noticeboard
[edit]If you want to talk about something, make a note here and there's bound to be other people who want to chat with you. Feel free to grab a lightning talk slot or an open session and put your name and topic in.
- I'm happy to talk to people about Wikisource. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
- Dianne and Heather are going to talk together on Sunday morning about writing biographies of women netball players and administrators. Let us know if you would like to join us.
- David N and Heather are going to talk together on Sunday morning about possible pages and editing on the Waitaki Valley region: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Waitaki_task_force
- Do you use Petscan? Tamsin is making some instructional videos and would love to include a wider range of workflows. Show me your favourite Petscan query! (I'm happy to share the ones I already have if people want to see Petscan in use)
- OpenRefiners - shall we have a casual sit down in the open session at 11.30 to swap notes and chat?