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User talk:Giantflightlessbirds/Archive 1
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Nice to meet youNice to meet you at NetHui last week! Feel free to contact me if you need any help.-gadfium 00:53, 13 July 2014 (UTC) A pleasure to meet you too. As per your suggestion, I'm sketching out a GLAM subproject for WikiProject NZ. Organising community wikipedia meetups here in Whanganui too. Looks like there'll be some workshops before the National Digital Forum this year for folks who want to start editing. Mike | Giantflightlessbirds 01:48, 22 July 2014 (UTC) A kitten for you! A kitten for you for organising http://wikiwednesday.net/2014/08/04/first-meeting/ . I have a worklist at Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Requested_articles/New_Zealand_academic_biographies that I'm currenrly working my way through, feel free to nominate people. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:37, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Thank you! Yes, we'll be making a list of articles and stubs to work on, and will fire any academics your way. Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 17:54, 5 November 2014 (UTC) WP:PERM Request After reviewing your request for the account creator right, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:
If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the account creator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 13:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC) Please note, your access has been granted with the following stipulations:
Good luck with your event! — xaosflux Talk 13:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC) Wiki Wednesday suggestionsI hope you don't mind suggestions for articles your group might like to work on. Wanganui Girls' College was recently created by the College's assistant principal and could do with some attention. Also Wanganui City College should have a page. Wanganui High School would benefit from a picture.-gadfium 23:16, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
The "River Queen" movie has a 10 year anniversary this year. Many people in Whanganui worked on the film. There is no mention of Whanganui on the River Queen page and there is plenty of information that could go on the Whanganui pages.Riverviewhouse (talk) 01:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC) I have done six months work of Wikipedia editing and now I am having a break from WikiWednesday. (I will be following up some loose ends.)Riverviewhouse (talk) 01:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
My interests in Wikipedia vary from yours at the point where a decision is made about "how Whanganui's story will be told". Checked and edited before it makes the page or afterward. My hunch from spending time in Whanganui is that the people from the Whanganui River are past wanting their story written for them and in need of fixing after. There is room in today's community to attempt to collaborate first. Riverviewhouse (talk) 01:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC) Hello.Hi, I just want to say what an excellent editor you are. I live in Palmerston North so I probably can't have anything to do with your Whanganui Wiki Wednesday. I love the Idea though man! Regards. Sirpottingmix (talk) 05:52, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox exampleRe your good faith edit at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox example, the way the automated taxobox system works is this. If you use {{Speciesbox}} for the species A b, it looks for the taxonomy of the genus, i.e. it looks for "Template:Taxonomy/A". If you use {{Automatic taxobox}} for the genus A, again it looks for the taxonomy of the genus, i.e. it looks for "Template:Taxonomy/A". That template will link A to its family, so there must also be a template at "Template/Taxonomy/Family_of_A", and so on upwards. Look at Template:Taxonomy/Araneus, for example – if you click on a "Taxonomy" link in the table at the right it takes you to the taxonomy template. Ranks below genus are always different because the Linnaean system uses binomials and trinomials, unlike higher ranks. So while the automated taxobox for a genus, family, suborder, order, etc. looks for a taxobox template at the same rank, the automated taxobox for a species or subspecies never needs to look lower than genus. Peter coxhead (talk) 13:58, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
DesisNice work at Desis (spider)! We badly need more spider editors. One small point: because taxonomy is in the end subjective, when an article includes a list of species I regard it as important to say where it came from. So I include something like:
See, e.g., Euphrictus. If different sources have different lists, then you can discuss this with references, although the World Spider Catalog usually seems definitive and is regularly updated. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:29, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Some baklava for you!
A barnstar for you!
I'm listening to your interview on Radio New Zealand. You come across very well. Well done!-gadfium 04:53, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Palmy Edit-a-thonHey, just checking in to ask about Sunday? Did it go ahead? Was it a success? Sorry I couldn't go, I am currently a school student. Cheers Sirpottingmix (talk) 02:51, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Good articlesHi, I just read your talk page, and since I've mainly been working on recently extinct birds, I was wondering whether you have considering improving some articles about extinct NZ birds to good article or featured status? I've improved most articles about well-known extinct Mascarene birds, should be possible to have a nice collection of quality NZ bird articles too... I should be able to assist if you ever take a stab. FunkMonk (talk) 05:31, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Whanganui talk pageI have written 3 paragraphs here. Riverviewhouse (talk) 01:18, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
Edit-a-thon in Wellington, May 29Will think about the Edit-a-thon tho ugh not a flora @ fauna expert Hugo999 (talk) 01:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC) Hi. Just wanted to say I'm glad to see the Edit-a-thon happening. My list are merely suggestions. Would like to do what I can to help get the word out there etc and whatever can be done remotely. Linnah (talk) 13:01, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
Posted about it /r/Wellington in Reddit. https://redd.it/4km70w There's a question there already. Are you a redditor? If not let me know how you wish that comment answered. Thanks Linnah (talk) 05:54, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll post your reply. Btw someone just suggested checking http://www.naturehack.nz/ Event was run by Callaghan Innovation and Landcare. Perhaps People from either of those organisations can help put out the word about your edit-a-thon. How many signups have you had?Linnah (talk) 00:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
Critter of the Week 24 March linkHi Just looking at the critter of the week section of your page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giantflightlessbirds#Critter_of_the_week Noticed the 24 March 2016 RNZ link is currently wrong. it should be http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201794545/critter-of-the-week-with-nicola-toki Linnah (talk) 05:01, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
A Barnstar for you!
New Zealand lesser short-tailed batSorry, I should have explained in the edit summary; I removed the category because it was a duplicate. The article is also categorised as Category:Mystacinidae, which is part of Category:Bats of New Zealand, which is part of the category in question Category:Mammals of New Zealand. Mattlore (talk) 06:12, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
8-legged babiesThanks for the "Thanks". Means even more coming from someone in my Second Favourite Country (home is always #1). Saw your workplace once, when a new friend took us to see Queen's Park, but must admit we didn't stop to walk through the museum. Best part about NZ, over and above the amazing landscape? The unbelievable hospitality - was invited into stranger's homes, in multiple cities/towns/villages. Kids, Moms, Dads, Grandpas, Grandmas - none of them ever phoned home to see if it was okay with rest of family that someone was joining for mealtime - would just invite us! Happened when I was young (first trip) and happened when I was old (second trip). No need to respond (I know this is not a proper Wikipedia "talk"), but just wanted to thank you for being a Kiwi. Jmg38 (talk) 20:45, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
So I saw you created the above 2 articles, and decided to restore Stewart shag as a bridge until more tax authorities rule on the split. I think the right thing to do is to keep all three names. We standardize on the IOC for tax on species pages only, so species pages, genus pages, etc. will use the IOC..... Since the Ornithological Society of New Zealand has yet to change their web site, as has Clements, which the List of birds of New Zealand standardizes on, I think we're OK with the set up......Let me know what you think..... (talk) 21:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
More photos for Austral snipeI saw your comment on the critter of the week about the snipes and laughed... I've been wanting to add photos to that since I started it ten years ago and was amazed to find a photo today on the Campbell snipe page. I've been thinking of fixing the article up to GA standard and then asking Colin Miskelly if he had any he was prepared to share - if anyone has images it would be him. Sabine's Sunbird talk 09:35, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
ACTRIALSomething you might not be aware of, there is an upcoming change to article creation that is going to begin in the next month or so, though the date is not set yet (see here: Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_article_creation_trial). This change will result in accounts younger than 4 days and with less than 10 mainspace edits being unable to create new articles (they can still edit as normal and can create drafts or work in the sandbox though). I thought I would let you know about this, as you often work with new users. The main change is that very new users will have to ask for their articles to be promoted by another user that is autoconfirmed (4 days and 10 edits) or else use the system at Articles for Creation and won't be able to do it themselves. The change itself is intended to reduce the number of very poor new articles submitted to Wikipedia and reduce the load on New Page Patrol. The change is a trial, and is intended to last 6 months or so, and then be reverted for a time of 1-3 months to observe the changes to the system and examine the positive/negative effects of the change. — InsertCleverPhraseHere 05:56, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
Upcoming changes and edit-a-thonsThis RFC is of particular importance to upcoming editathons and you may want to take a look. I'll be reading it later and commenting. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:08, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
NZ Wikipedian at Large.Hey, thanks for the message on my talk page about this. I would have replied earlier, however I am currently in school and well, it's gotten the better of me haha. Yeah I would be keen in assisting however I can. Although as you may take a quick look at my contributions I focus generally in sports.. although related to New Zealand, I don't see too many others fall into that category but I guess that shouldn't matter? I would like to put forward that I would be unable to attend any edit-a-thon's unless you so kindly came back to Palmerston North again. From reading all that I'm very keen to support you moving forward with this. Thanks for all your work. Sirpottingmix (talk) 06:39, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
HemideinaHi. Both of the widespread Hemideina have been collected in or around Sydney, NSW. If you carefully read the lists of synonyms in the OSF Catalog, in both species one of the junior synonyms was described from specimen(s) originating in NSW. On top of that, I have a Hemideina specimen from our Museum sitting here in front of me collected in Sydney in 1931, and I know for a fact that it is not mislabelled; that faculty member spent all his years abroad in Oz, and never once set foot in NZ. Give me a minute, and I can provide the citations for the descriptions. Dyanega (talk) 16:54, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
ACTRIAL RfCHi Mike, you said that you wanted me to let you know when the discussion began about making ACTRIAL permanent. The discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Autoconfirmed_article_creation_trial/Request_for_comment_on_permanent_implementation. Note that if it passes (which it seems likely to), there will be another RfC with regards to setting up an 'Event coordinators' usergroup with the ability to manually confirm new editors. See User:TonyBallioni/Event_coordinator and the associated talk page. I would like to know what you think of that proposal as you would be an ideal candidate for the to-be-proposed user right. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 02:24, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar to say thanks for all your hard work.
Event Coordinator ProposalThe ACTRIAL RfC has closed with with a result that it has become permanent. As I mentioned before, there is a follow up RfC on an event coordinator proposal that you said you wanted to know about. You can find it here: Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Event_coordinator_proposal. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 17:08, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
Corybas carseiHello Giantflightlessbirds, Working through the species of Corybas I came across your excellent article on Corybas carsei. I hope you will not mind if I make some small changes to the layout. (eg. I think "Description" should come before "Taxonomy" as per WP:Plants/Template) At the bottom of the NZPCN page on this species there is a note about C. fordhamii, meaning that C. carsei may not be a New Zealand endemic. I know that the article "Orchidelirium" claims that it is (and very rare). I will include the note about C. fordhamii in the article. Junk it if I have missed something in the refs. Gderrin (talk) 07:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Muehlenbeckia astonii On 7 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Muehlenbeckia astonii, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the endangered New Zealand shrub Muehlenbeckia astonii is also known as zig zag plant and wiggy-wig bush? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Muehlenbeckia astonii. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Muehlenbeckia astonii), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 7 May 2018 (UTC) eseapyour presentation and presence at the conference is so much appreciated - must keep in contact - there are so many things to still talk about! JarrahTree 10:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
Event CoordinatorPlease note that there is a new User Right which may be useful to you in your outreach activities. Please see Wikipedia:Event coordinator. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 02:10, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Congratulations !!Well done - excellent support for your project - JarrahTree 06:30, 20 May 2018 (UTC) NZ Wine editathonCongratulations on the Wikipmedia grant, looking forward to working with you and helping out with events later this year. As for the wine writing editathon that we tentatively planned out for later this year, Gracemckenzie and I are still keen. We will let you know when works for us when we get some more info back about when she will be back in New Zealand (we should know in the next few weeks). Cheers, — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 00:14, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Leptinella filiformis
You need to review another DYK nomination - this is what was supposed to go in the Review field. I'll make a DYK nomination myself within a few minutes or so, which will also need a volunteer to review... In any case, if you've already reviewed a DYK nomination, or once you have done so, you should add that at the DYK discussion under your nomination. Boud (talk) 21:13, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
Massey students editing WikipediaHi Mike, I am one of the Massey University postgrad students working with Mary Morgan-Richards, I will be doing a Wikipedia assignment looking at a species of weta (Hemiandrus pallitarsis). I am still trying to get my head around editing on Wikipedia, but I looked at the link that you sent and that has helped. Thank you, Millie. (Millieahlstrom (talk) 23:50, 28 May 2018 (UTC)).
DYK for Leptinella filiformisOn 1 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leptinella filiformis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the slender button daisy Leptinella filiformis (pictured), thought by botanists to be extinct, was rediscovered in 1998 growing on a hotel lawn? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leptinella filiformis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Leptinella filiformis), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Alex Shih (talk) 05:33, 1 June 2018 (UTC) Thank youCongratulations on your new position as NZ Wikipedian at Large and thank you for your help. My problem was sorted. --TomCa (talk) 09:47, 6 June 2018 (UTC) DYK for Lyperobius huttoniOn 22 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lyperobius huttoni, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the flightless weevil Lyperobius huttoni may have rafted between the North and South Islands of New Zealand? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lyperobius huttoni. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lyperobius huttoni), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 22 June 2018 (UTC) Use NZE redirectI've made {{en-NZ}} as a shortcut to {{Use New Zealand English}} :-). p.s. Interesting to note that in 2006(!) on the Talk page for Taupō, people were saying things like "Athrough, it won't hurt to have both [i.e. both Māori and 'General White New Zealand English' pronunciations], with a footnote, saying something like 'This was the pronounciation used by Non Maori, but is not correct...'"! — Hugh (talk) 01:43, 20 July 2018 (UTC) Wētā assistance - Thank youKia ora, thank you for the assistance with fixing the links there. I did a find and replace and was trying to be mindful about not breaking historical references or URLs, but I obviously missed a few. Really appreciate revisiting this and fixing on my behalf. Cheers :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Expazz (talk • contribs) 23:38, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
DYK suggestionHi Giantflightlessbirds, if you feel like reviewing a DYK nomination and building up your credits :), then here's one you might wish to do. Cheers, Boud (talk) 16:24, 28 August 2018 (UTC). W-A-L in DunedinSorry to miss your Dunedin talk tonight (I'd managed to double-book myself) :/ Hope you enjoyed your time in the city and that the talk went well! Grutness...wha? 06:37, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
List of pages createdI see that you curate a list of all the articles you have created on your homepage. Just in case you didn't know, https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/en.wikipedia.org/Giantflightlessbirds exists. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:29, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
Kerikeri visitHello Mike GFB. I noted the nice bit on Facebook about you visiting Kerikeri next Friday. I'd like to pop along in the morning sometime to say hello, and basically observe. I'll make myself known to you, but I don't really want people to know I am a long term editor and administrator on Wiki. That OK with you? Moriori (talk) 02:17, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
Hi from an old editorI've been around since the early days (September 2001). It'd be cool to have a chat about the early days if you're interested. Lisiate (talk) 20:28, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Trilby Yates
DYK for Trilby YatesOn 23 October 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Trilby Yates, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Julia Yates, head of the New Zealand fashion label Trilby Yates, was once spat at in the street for wearing trousers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Trilby Yates. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Trilby Yates), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Alex Shih (talk) 00:01, 23 October 2018 (UTC) West Coast?Hello Mike, could you squeeze in a wikipedia day on the West Coast for a public workshop? Perhaps May or June? Fingers crossed!
after balihttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melbourne_morning_10th_November_2018_session_WMAU.jpg the next one JarrahTree 00:27, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Des Helmore
Alex Shih (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC) Event coordinator granted After reviewing your request for the "eventcoordinator" permission, I have enabled the flag on your account. Keep in mind these things:
If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the event coordinator right. Happy editing! — xaosflux Talk 02:47, 11 December 2018 (UTC) DYK for Holcaspis breviculaOn 11 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Holcaspis brevicula, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the critically endangered Eyrewell ground beetle (pictured) is known from just one locality—a pine plantation which is currently being cut down and turned into dairy farms? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Holcaspis brevicula. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Holcaspis brevicula), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Mifter (talk) 12:02, 11 December 2018 (UTC) Autopatrolled granted Hi Giantflightlessbirds, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! – Joe (talk) 20:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC) sighthe inescapable has happened with the critter of the week category. As it (the deletion of the category) has some weight, there might be some re-grouping of the information related to the programme and the issues related, down the line. Translated = ho hum. Will catch you later on the organisation of the material, probably offline. Have a good weekend. Perth (where I am) is about to get its hottest day of the season today, so much for southern hemisphere warming... cheers JarrahTree 23:13, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Heritage New ZealandHello Mike, greetings of the season. Given that you are currently active in Wellington, I wonder whether you could pay Heritage New Zealand a visit. I've made a couple of attempts over the years for them to think about using a free license for the text of their register entries. I don't think that I've ever managed to talk to a person who has some sway. Sitting down with someone and looking them in the eyes might be a better strategy than emailing them. I'd be most grateful if you could find the time to give them a nudge. I'd say that their Category I entries have inherent notability and it would be primo if we could semi-automate the creation of articles for those. What do you think? Schwede66 06:48, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
"moa" vs. "moas"?"moa" is certainly correct if you're referring to a group of individuals. But is it also correct if you're referring to a group of species of moa - is in the edit that you just reverted? The reason I bring this up is that there is some precedent in English for adding "s" to a word that's normally both singular and plural, if you're talking about more than one species - e.g., "fishes" [5]. (OTOH, you never see "sheeps" - so maybe "moa" falls into that category...) Ross Finlayson (talk) 08:16, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
Thank you and Toby MorrisI really enjoyed learning how to edit Wikipedia at the NZ Comics edit-a-thon thanks. As promised, I've drafted a new page for Toby Morris. It's in my sandbox - would you mind having a look? Thorndonite (talk) 12:18, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
whateverThanks for that JarrahTree 21:29, 4 February 2019 (UTC) Invitation to online Wikimedian in Residence meetupI think this is at your 6am. There is a meta:Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network online meetup tomorrow Wednesday 13 February 2019 at noon EST (New York) described at meta:Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2019 02. You said that you wanted to connect and I want to keep you invited. Perhaps at some point the rest of us can do some compromise for your schedule, because we would like to include you. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Come and talk to us at Catalyst?Hi Mike, would you be interested in coming to talk to us at Catalyst where I work, about your work as NZWaL, working with institutions around open data, citizen science, collaboration and so on? Catalyst is all about the open source, and we have govt and GLAM clients; personally also I'd really like to get some more folks involved with Wikipedia. We have lunchtime "Pizza talks" every second Thursday of the month, if you happen to be free around lunchtime on March 14? I'm also wondering if we could organise a workshop, if there's enough interest, covering contributing to WP, uploading to commons, and so on. Any thoughts? Cheers, Jon (talk) 11:14, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Useful paperThis will be helpful with your current subject A study of their foraging and diet. Sabine's Sunbird talk 05:56, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Prep work for BioblitzI've started pulling together a page of bird stubs of New Zealand and then some free journal articles about the species in question. Hopefully at the library they will have copies of HANZAB at hand too, but if you like I can send you the HBW entries for the species by email so you can share. I'll migrate the list and links to the project page when I'm done. Sabine's Sunbird talk 07:58, 26 February 2019 (UTC) DYK for Oemona hirta
— Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 14 March 2019 (UTC) Article on shooting in The Signpost?I saw your project at Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/Chch mosque shootings in which you solicit photos related to the Christchurch mosque shootings. You and your fellow New Zealanders have my condolences. Please excuse the formality of what I have to say from this point forward, and also excuse my focus on encouraging media production and ethical discourse in Wikimedia projects. I live in the United States where shootings are frequent. I see Wikipedia articles on shootings in the United States, and have watched their development and the discussion around them on their talk pages. I am not able to articulate exactly what is different, but I have the idea that somehow the participation of people in New Zealand has made the Wikimedia content development around this New Zealand shooting progress differently than how it happens in articles covering comparable events in the United States. In your photo collection project you have already demonstrated your interest in having people in New Zealand contribute media. To what extent would you be interested in writing an article, even a brief one, summarizing the Wikimedia community response to this incident? I am imagining that you could showcase this photo collection project as a model for anyone else to replicate, and perhaps also you could point to the English Wikipedia talk page for the topic and invite anyone to participate in the controversies there. I hardly know anything about the distinct culture of New Zealand, but I was thinking that this topic is worth elevating for being different from the more typical United States case and also because I hope this is an unusual opportunity to get the unique New Zealand public opinion as a case study into modeling how Wikipedia covers shootings. I do not want to draw you into an untimely commitment, so please do not feel pressured by my request. The shooting happened on the 15th, now is the 21st, and the March issue of The Signpost goes out on the 29th. Five sentences is probably the minimum commitment. This probably is a topic best reported by someone in New Zealand. How do you feel about drafting something? Please excuse me if I have been insensitive about any part of this tragedy. Disasters happen routinely and Wikipedia covers many of them. Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management is an inactive project and when these things happen I wish we had a better portfolio to recommend how involved people can use Wikipedia for media publication access which they find useful as a response. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:23, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Manual user confirmationsHello Giantflightlessbirds, when processing manual user confirmations under Wikipedia:Event_coordinator#Granting_confirmed_status - please keep in mind that you must use an expiration date of 10 days or less. I've fixed the last few you set as indefinite. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 21:04, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
Nice one MikeHow rewarding it must be to be part of this magnificent and significant find. Congratulations. Photos in Wiki sometime perhaps? Moriori (talk) 21:45, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
Nina Jones DOBRe Nina Jones, have added a birth notice ref, but date was from Registrar-General's historic BDMs online. Her birth was shown as 1871/41981 indicating a birth (as claimed) in 1871, though it could have been a December 1870 birth registered in 1881, or in a few cases a birth several years earlier registered late. The RG Historic Records website has BDMs under the (claimed) date of the event, and the exact date can be found by gradually restricting the search range to say 6 months then 3 month then a month etc. NB: from about 1972 the death entries gave the (claimed) date of birth rather than the age at death. Hugo999 (talk) 22:21, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
Great workI see your term as NZ Wikipedian at large has finished. What a great job you have done! Many thanks.-gadfium 05:22, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
Whanganui BasinHi, I've made a small start on an article for Whanganui Basin and the relevant fossil sites. Tried to adapt format used for related pages. Will try and add more each week. Thank you! IcknieldRidgeway (talk) 22:51, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Puke ArikiOn 31 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Puke Ariki, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Puke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Puke Ariki. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Puke Ariki), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC) Connecting!Hi Mike - I'm here at Wikimania and am interested in talking with you about natural history specimen in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons for some upcoming Smithsonian projects. I'm giving a talk tomorrow at 3pm on some gender work which touches on women in STEM, one of our common interests. Let me know how to get in touch! Effie --Digitaleffie (talk) 10:27, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
Notable?Nic Rawlence doesn't look notable to me but I don't have time to look into it. Science communicator - that sounds a bit like you. You may know him. Any thoughts on the matter? Schwede66 03:58, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
Draft:Nic Rawlence; sorry was editing on my phone and then forgot all about it when I got back to my laptop. It hadn't been deleted after all; it had been moved to draft space. Schwede66 19:03, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
congratsgood to see you mentioned in the Washington Post - Australian Financial Review AFR Weekend - good work !!! JarrahTree 00:57, 6 October 2019 (UTC) New Wikimedian in Residence tableA new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence (draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:46, 28 October 2019 (UTC) Wikimedia Commons structured data for source files of cropped imagesThanks for all your help today. Just had a thought about adding structured data to crops, ie children, of original Commons media. Any Wikidata items added to the structured data tabs for cropped images as "depicts" ought to be automatically inherited by the original, by definition. Does, can or should this happen? Quilt Phase (talk) 02:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Carmichaelia astoniiCarmichaelia astonii has been started to use your photo from Otari-Wilton's bush. I have had no luck with Aston. It seems unlikely to be Aston – Helen Isobel Aston (1934-). I am hoping you can fix this (and more of course). Cheers & thanks. MargaretRDonald (talk) 22:16, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
trust you have had a good christmasand all the best for the new year - and well done for all the things that you have done in the last 2 years !!! JarrahTree 02:59, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Vytautas TomaševičiusOn 28 December 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Vytautas Tomaševičius, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Vytautas Tomaševičius is the first Lithuanian to win an Excellence Award at the Tokyo Art Olympia Biennale, for his painting A Still Life with Two Objects (shown)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Vytautas Tomaševičius. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Vytautas Tomaševičius), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
DYK for Lincoln University Art CollectionOn 12 January 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lincoln University Art Collection, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Lincoln University Art Collection was initially funded by selling cigarettes in the staff common room? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lincoln University Art Collection. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lincoln University Art Collection), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 12 January 2020 (UTC) Resources for presenting to academicsKia ora, hope 2020 has started well for you! The librarians at Ara Institute of Canterbury have asked me and another Wikipedian to run a session for them and/or for academic staff on WP. I'm not sure where to start - maybe with how academics can contribute to WP? How they can use it in their teaching? Would love to hear your ideas - and maybe there are already some resources created that I could pick up and use in the workshops? We're having an initial discussion and planning session in about a week's time. Thanks very much! MurielMary (talk) 10:10, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
New Zealand red admiralThanks. I had it a little wrong the first time, then found a slightly better template to use when the disambiguation page target does not have "(disambiguation)" as part of its title. BTW, I now see that you served a year as NZ Wikipedian at Large since our 2016 interaction. That's pretty damn cool! Hope you're doing well during this coronavirus pandemic. No need to respond – just keep social distancing (I love that it is a NZ diagram shown at that Wiki article) and carry-on editing. Jmg38 (talk) 00:07, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
Kauri diebackJust a heads-up that I'll be doing a paragraph-by-paragraph review of the kauri dieback article over the next few days. Using this version: [6] as a reference to help spot POV changes. Also fixing and de-duplicating references. --Onco p53 (talk) 04:52, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Representing "At Risk - Relict" in the speciesbox@Giantflightlessbirds: I am trying to describe Sporadanthus ferrugineus as being "at risk- relict" but cannot work out the appropriate code to put in the speciesbox. Hoping you can help... MargaretRDonald (talk) 23:19, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
MoaHi Mike, I saw on your twitter that the Moa bone trade is finally going to be banned, and I would like to congratulate you after your extensive campaigning on the issue, it was a long time coming. I know that your main interest these days is insects, but would you be interested in helping to improve the Moa article and the 9 species? I was thinking it would be nice to get the Moa article to WP:GA status. Some of the species articles are pretty bare stubs at the moment, and I thought it would be worth merging some of them to the genus level, like South Island giant moa and North Island giant moa into Dinornis, but I would like to know your opinion first. Kind Regards. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
WHO vs Wikipediahi Giantflightlessbirds - since you've been interviewed recently about the quality of Wikipedia, you might be interested in this objective comparison between Wikipedia data and the next best set of data - for the daily national SARS-CoV-2 counts. Boud (talk) 17:18, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
West CoastThere's many more West Coasts than just the US one - this is a global environment not an NZ-specific one. Imagine you came across a Wellington WAL, but it turned out they were roaming around SW England rather than the NZ city. And just as a general principle per Wikipedia:Categorization#General_conventions, categories should avoid ambiguous names and should follow article names, so the category at least should really be moved to Category:West Coast, New Zealand Wikipedian at Large. Also categories should always be categorised in turn... Le Deluge (talk) 23:04, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
your postcardsare marvellous ! I have seen them at friends talk pages - they really are inspiring, can you include me in any further? They really remind me of why the westcoast of tasmania needs more work as well !! well done ! JarrahTree 09:50, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Category or article?I think that Category:Pakihi – which currently incorrectly has no parent category – would be better as an article, which both describes it and lists characteristic plants. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:44, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
I vote that ...
positivityI have never seen an editor who has exuded such enthusiastic and positive contribution to biota and context to any region in Australasia in my 15 years + of editing as your efforts. It goes beyond accolades and although your original presentation in Bali all those months ago might be blurry in my memory and some detail lost, your efforts deserve much more than what words can trasnmit - as well as your humour and good will. Good on you, I am so glad I heard that first time in Bali, it gives me faith there is room for positivity in what sometimes becomes a difficult place. Thank you so much. JarrahTree 10:19, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Stewart/Otago shagHi Giantflightlessbirds: I wasn't sure if you've had an eye on the Stewart/Otago shag merge you suggested earlier this year. There has been some discussion you might want to reply to. The overall consensus is definitely to merge, but a question has been asked that you might best be able to answer. MeegsC (talk) 08:49, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
CongratsHa! I just "met" you this week, and now I read all about you in the Signpost! Nice work on the New Zealand front. Best of luck in keeping things going! If you ever want to collaborate on a NZ bird article, let me know. I'm a Yank in the UK, but I have a big library covering all things natural. MeegsC (talk) 15:20, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
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