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Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

2023 New Zealand general election - party vote result map

Thanks so much for your effort in making the result maps for the 2023 NZ general election. Could I ask you please to update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election#/media/File:2023_New_Zealand_general_election_-_List_Results.svg as, the official results confirmed the Green Party as the party vote plurality winner in Rongotai, over turning the election night result of Labour - which the map still indicates. JoltColaOfEvil (talk) 01:48, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Kia ora, I have done so. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 08:07, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, a comment, and a query

Thanks heaps for all your good work on photos.

I'm not sure whether you are watching the deletion discussion for the Debbie Ngawera-Packer photo, but I've done some more digging and have now voted "keep".

We are about to get photos of all current National Party MPs (how good is that?) and there's this DYK nomination under consideration. I've made up a collage of the initial four photos that we had, this became six, and will soon be something like 25 photos. Would you be interested, and do you have the skills and software, to put those 25 photos into a collage? Schwede66 04:45, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Great that we're getting photos for national mps, such a huge missing thing. I can probably collage some photos yeah. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 04:49, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, so much talking about it. Here's the project, in case you'd like to help next time. Schwede66 04:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Ok, the photos have arrived and I've processed them all (e.g. created crops). This spreadsheet identifies the 20 photos that need to be assembled in a collage. Look for column 'E'; everyone with "yes" needs to be in the collage. The ones that aren't in the collage are those where we don't have a photo, or where the article has already run as an individual hook (5 of those; we had to agree to this to keep everyone happy). Appreciate your help. Be in touch if you have questions. Schwede66 09:04, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh, we have 21 photos to process. Nancy Lu was initially missing from my list. How are you placed with putting this together? Schwede66 04:41, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Kia ora, made a collage of the photos File:2023 New Zealand general election new candidates collage.png. Let me know if you want any changes. Uploaded 2 versions there, one with coloured borders, one without (current version) - just as potential options. Cheers TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:16, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Welcome back! Thanks for that. Not sure which one I prefer. I was wondering how you'd arrange 21 of them in a grid, but I see you've just dropped one and that makes it an easy 4x5 grid. Can you remember who you left out? Schwede66 01:59, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Have annotated the image and I see that it's Kahurangi Carter who didn't make the cut :-) Schwede66 02:15, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

DrThneed, could you please have a look to see whether you prefer the collage with or without borders? Schwede66 02:43, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Probably the border version? It's not clearcut though and I think both are fine at DYK scale (nice work @TheLoyalOrder!) DrThneed (talk) 03:03, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Oh didnt realise I dropped one, missed her in the list. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 07:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Ok, what I've done is as follows:

• uploaded the version without borders as a separate file
• copied all details across, e.g. categories and image notes
• reverted this file to the version with borders

That means that the version with borders is now showing with the DYK nomination. Schwede66 19:33, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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Photos in 1996 New Zealand general election

I've reverted you photos changes. License on the old ones looks okay and they are a lot nicer. Could you explain the reason for your substitution? - SimonLyall (talk) 03:44, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

mostly cause they didnt fit time wise for 1996. like Anderton 2010 (+14 years) vs 2000 (+4 years), bolger 2008 (+12) vs 1996 (0), clarke 2005 (+9) vs 1997 (+1), Peters 2008 (+12) vs 1991 (-5). the prebble photo i just cropped cause it looks weird to have heads and then one full body photo. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 03:54, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

okay. It's a bit of a balance between the two requirements. Especially with limited numbers of photos available. I was prompted by this comment on twitter - SimonLyall (talk) 04:54, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

ok im not gonna change it, though i think maybe some compromise could be not the directly most recent photo but closer than the ones you reverted back to TheLoyalOrder (talk) 05:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

im going to copy this conversation over to the talk page for the article TheLoyalOrder (talk) 05:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

2018 Northcote by-election map

That's a very cool map that you've added to the 2018 Northcote by-election article. Would love to see such a map for the West Coast-Tasman electorate for the 2023 general election for the party vote. The reason why that interests me is that it's such a varied electorate. There are all sorts of interesting things going on. Is there much work compiling this? Does the Electoral Commission provide coordinates for the polling stations? Schwede66 04:43, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Nah they just give addresses and I have to manually assign coords (I tried seeing if google maps could do it automatically but it had too many errors.) Currently slowly working through assigning coords to every polling station for the 2023 election. For the candidate by-election vote maps its pretty simple takes 15 minutes, taking a bit longer getting party vote since the data source has votes at the same polling station split into the electorates of the candidate votes. TheLoyalOrder (talk) 05:08, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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Nga wai hono i te Po

I know the impulse to go fast and be first, but don't go too fast on this topic. You've made a mistake on her birth name. Nurg (talk) 23:23, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

ok TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:23, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

could you change it if you know what it is, i just put what i thought rnz was saying TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Don't go too fast on the orthography of her name either. You've used two so far. There are numerous variations, so it may take time and discussion to figure out the best form. Nurg (talk) 23:29, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

yeah i saw the source updated how they were spelling it so i updated it with that, yeah we probably need a discussion to figure it out - i think there's inconsistency rising from waikato vs general maori spellings TheLoyalOrder (talk) 23:31, 4 September 2024 (UTC)