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This project page records Wikimedia initiatives carried out by the Wellington City Archives (herein Archives). Projects were initiated by New Zealand Wikipedian at Large Giantflightlessbirds in December 2018. The Archives have a large collection of undigitised photos; many of these are historic photos in the public domain, and there are several decades of photos by City Council photographers. Under NZ law, copyright of photos by Council staff rests with the Council, and the Archives are authorised to release these under a Creative Commons license.

  • Neil Price • current Team Leader Photography and Video, official Wellington City Council photographer for some years
  • Alister K Bristow • History Librarian at the Wellington Public Library • between 1951 and 1963 took some 3000 images at the request of Council departments
  • Mark Graham, Mark Tantrum • Some photography

Mayors of Wellington

To Do Done

  • Check Wikipedia's Mayor of Wellington City listing for accuracy
  • Check Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mayors_of_Wellington Category:Mayors_of_Wellington] for info and completeness – Mark Blumsky missing a photo?
  • Upload photos taken by City Photographer Neil Price
  • Upload other photos as needed from public domain sources, or scanned from City Yearbooks
  • Create categories for any mayors lacking them.
  • Link each Mayor in Wikidata to their Commons category so infoboxes work.
  • Have some publicity photos of the current mayor authorised by the comms team for release under a CC license

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!Name

! colspan="2" width="150" |Term of Office

!Commons cat?

!Pics

!Added

!Notes

-

|George Hunter

| width="75" |1842

| width="75" |1843

|No Yes

|1

|

|

-

|William Guyton

| colspan="2" |1843

|No Yes

|1

|1

|Uploaded better scan

1

|Joseph Dransfield

|1870

|1873

|No Yes

|1

|

|

2

|Charles Borlase

|1874

|1875

|No Yes

|1

|

|

3

|William Sefton Moorhouse

| colspan="2" |1875

|Yes

|4

|

|

4

|William Hutchison

|1875

|1877

|No Yes

|1

|

|

(1)

|Joseph Dransfield

|1878

|1879

|—

|—

|

|

5

|George Allen

| colspan="2" |1879

|No Yes

|1

|1

|

(4)

|William Hutchison

|1879

|1881

|—

|—

|

|

6

|George Fisher

|1881

|1885

|Yes

|6

|

|

7

|Arthur Winton Brown

|1885

|1887

|No Yes

|1

|

|

8

|Samuel Brown

|1887

|1888

|No Yes

|1

|

|

9

|John Duthie

|1888

|1890

|Yes

|2

|

|

10

|Charles Johnston

|1890

|1891

|Yes

|1

|

|Portrait with Blavatsky? Fixed

(7)

|Arthur Winton Brown

|1891

|1892

|—

|—

|

|

11

|Francis Bell

|1892

|1893

|Yes

|6

|

|

12

|Alfred Brandon

|1893

|1894

|No Yes

|1

|1

|

13

|Charles Luke

|1894

|1895

|No Yes

|1

|

|

(6)

|George Fisher

|1895

|1896

|—

|—

|

|

(11)

|Francis Bell

|1896

|1897

|Yes

|6

|

|

14

|John Blair

|1897

|1899

|No Yes

|1

|

|

15

|John Aitken

|1899

|1905

|Yes

|7

|1

|

16

|Thomas William Hislop

|1905

|1909

|Yes

|4

|1

|

17

|Alfred Newman

|1909

|1910

|Yes

|2

|

|

18

|Thomas Wilford

|1910

|1912

|Yes

|6

|

|

19

|David McLaren

|1912

|1913

|Yes

|3

|

|

20

|John Luke

|1913

|1921

|Yes

|3

|

|

21

|Robert Alexander Wright

|1921

|1925

|Yes

|1

|

|

22

|Charles Norwood

|1925

|1927

|No Yes

|1

|

|

23

|George Troup

|1927

|1931

|Yes

|0

|2

|

24

|Thomas Hislop

|1931

|1944

|Yes

|3

|1

|Bad scan

25

|Will Appleton

|1944

|1950

|Yes

|6

|

|

26

|Robert Macalister

|1950

|1956

|Yes

|1

|4

|Need more

27

|Frank Kitts

|1956

|1974

|Yes

|6

|12

|

28

|Michael Fowler

|1974

|1983

|Yes

|3

|1

|Just 1 portrait

29

|Ian Lawrence

|1983

|1986

|Yes

|2

|

|Cropped version of group shot

30

|Jim Belich

|1986

|1992

|Yes

|2

|

|Cropped version of group shot

31

|Fran Wilde

|1992

|1995

|Yes

|3

|

|

32

|Mark Blumsky

|1995

|2001

|Yes

|0

|4

|

33

|Kerry Prendergast

|2001

|2010

|Yes

|5

|

|Two cropped

34

|Celia Wade-Brown

|2010

|2016

|Yes

|15

|

|Three good

35

|Justin Lester

|2016

|present

|Yes

|8

|3

|Most terrible

File:GATroup 1928 Yearbook.jpg|George Troup

File:Mayors of the City, Wgtn, 1928 Yearbook.jpg|Mayors in 1928

File:Wellington Mayoral Chain 1928.jpg|Wellington mayoral chain

File:Justin Lester 2016 (cropped).jpg|Justin Lester

Botanic Garden

Preparing to significantly improve the Wellington Botanic Garden's Wikimedia presence in preparation for its 150th anniversary in 2019, and a BioBlitz in April 2019.

To Do

  • Create To Do list on Talk page
  • Add info from [http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/7573 Heritage NZ] listing
  • Use Winsome Shepherd's book to generate rough article outline
  • Have Ayla add no-known-copyright Botanic Gardens photos to the [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wgtncc/albums Flickr gallery] under CC BY 4.0
  • Locate Gardens photos by Neil Price
  • Organise bulk upload of historic photos to Commons, categorise appropriately

Wellington City Archives article

To Do Done

  • Establish notability of archives from clippings file of media coverage
  • Take Commons photos
  • Sort Commons categories to distinguish categories for photos OF the Archives and IN the Archives
  • Create Wikidata item
  • Create Commons institution template
  • Create Start-class article
  • If more sources are available, upgrade to C-class article Requested reassessment

Misc

  • Check Suzanne Aubert article: possibility of expanding Wellington section with Archives images
  • Ask WCC comms to post images from the 2000 unveiling of the Kupe statue and ask for IDs for people
  • Possible use of Wikidata for public database of Wellington architects and buildings, such as the [http://www.wellingtoncityheritage.org.nz/buildings/301-450/325-wellington-town-hall?q= town hall]

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