Crying Kiwi by Shaun Yeo, donated to Commons after the Christchurch mosque shootingsNZ PM Jacinda Ardern, supplied by the Christchurch City Council after the shootings, who then backpedalledThe second Comics and Cartoons edit-a-thon at the National Library
I spent the first week of March recovering from an E. coli infection in Whanganui, and had to cancel a planned two weeks in the remote Whanganui National Park, accessible only by jetboat and with no phone or internet. Ah well.
This month's planned events were overshadowed by the March 15 Christchurch mosque shootings. In response I put out a call as a public Wikipedian for photos of the attack's aftermath: vigils, street graffiti, floral tributes and so forth. See the Signpost article for more. This was an interesting exercise, as many of the photos were flagged by Commons editors as copyright violations, often incorrectly; one first-time contributor was driven off Commons as a result.
I continued to be based at the National Library, and kept working on the Raper photos and TUrnbull names projects, as well as running staff training and events.
A three-day trip to Massey University in nearby Palmerston North resulted in some well-attended talks to academics and students, and meetings with postgraduate students and the Research Office.
On March 28th I was finally paid the second installment of the year's funding, perhaps a month or two later than ideal…
Mulligan, Jesse, interviewing Mandy Henk. (25 Mar 2019). "Expert feature – Copyright". Radio New Zealand Afternoons. (Mention of role sourcing photographs relating to mosque shootings.)
