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Riverside Precinct Adelaide Meetup
Next: 12 April 2025
Last: 15 November 2024
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Facilitator

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Dickison (front, left) leading a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Auckland Museum, July 2018.

The meet up will be facilitated by Dr Mike Dickison, the prolific Wikipedian and Wikimedian at Large for Aotearoa New Zealand, and hosted by Wikimedia Australia and South Australian Museum.

Dr Mike Dickison is 2025 Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large; he was the first ever Wikipedian at Large, travelling the length of New Zealand over 2018–2019. A former museum curator who did his PhD on flightless bird evolution, Mike is now a full-time Wikipedia consultant working with museums, tourism organisations, universities, and conservation groups to help them understand and engage with the Wikimedia Movement. He is based in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, New Zealand.

Theme

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We’d love for you to join us at the SA Museum for...

📷 A Wiki Day at SA Museum: From Photos to Facts 🖼️.

We will explore the Wikimedia Commons workflow - transforming a collection of photos into meaningful contributions across Wikidata, WikiCommons, and Wikipedia.

Program

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Adelaide Meet up at Royal Society of South Australia Room
Adelaide Meetup, Royal Society of South Australia room, Morgan Thomas Lane, in between the museum and library

This will be a practical day of discovery and collaboration, working through the full process:

  • Organising and uploading images to Wikimedia Commons, including creating new categories
  • Creating and enhancing entries in Wikidata, including adding images
  • Using these images to improve and illustrate Wikipedia articles

Lunch will be provided by Wikimedia Australia, so come along, contribute, and enjoy good food with great company!

Whether you're experienced or new to some of these Wiki platforms, this is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills, contribute to open knowledge, and connect with fellow editors in a museum setting.

You will need to:

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  • Bring your own laptop, already loaded with some of your own snapshots that you will use throughout the workshop.
  • RSVP by THURSDAY 10TH APRIL by adding your name to the list below and emailing contact@wikimedia.org.au with any dietary requirements and disability parking requirements so we can plan accordingly.

Note: due to two football matches at Adelaide Oval on 12 April parking may be difficult. We recommend public transport. However there is space for those with a disability parking permit – and we’ll need to book those spots in advance.

Attendees

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Mike (standing) and the workshop attendees

Apologies

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What we achieved

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Resources

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  • The Donald Judd sculpture Untitled used as the handout example
    Version 1.0 of the handout, with suggestions from the workshop incorporated
    Freedom of Panorama information
  • WikiShootMe: a tool to show Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles, and Commons images with coordinates, all on the same map.
  • moveClaim: Wikidata tool to move or copy a statement from one entity to another (see your Gadgets settings).
  • DuplicateReferences: Wikidata tool to add a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item (see Gadgets settings).
  • Gallery Tag: Help page on creating image galleries in Wikipedia
  • CropTool: CropTool is a tool for cropping and rotating images from within Commons (Tools menu)
  • Example of a Gallery or Page on Wikimedia Commons, compared with a Category
  • Volunteer Response Release Team who respond to emails created by the Release Generator; use this to get people to release their work under an open licence
  • Here is Mike's boilerplate text he uses when generating copyright releases, and a blog post on the process
  • The handout for the workshop, The Commons Workflow, is available on Commons.

Takeaways

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  • Paperbagapedia - using good quality images, in the right context in Wikipedia articles.
  • Find the gaps/quiet spots in WikiShootMe and adopt a neighbourhood

Event Feedback

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Comment

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Not directly related to the content of the workshop (which I found very interesting) but is this article about Donald Judd just coincidence, or did Mike mention it? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 11:21, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was a display about the 50th anniversary of Untitled in the Art Gallery of South Australia (a splendid gallery by the way), which I'd seen the previous day, where I learned about the work and went out to find it—that's why it wound up in the handout. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 04:03, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Ah, I see. When I have recovered from moving and get back to proper editing on my computer, I may see if there's anything in that article worth adding to the Judd article. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:02, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]