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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 41

• Date: Sunday 17 September 2023
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
  IMPORTANT: The first person joining the meeting needs to sign in as the "Moderator" using a Google, Facebook, or GitHub account; other attendees can then join without any authentication - see the jitsi blog for more information.
  NOTE: This video conferencing software link will ask permission to use your computer camera and microphone. You will need to agree to get full functionality. Google Chrome or Chromium is recommended for the best experience (not all aspects work correctly with other browsers). The Jitsi web-based video conferencing platform is 100% open source and fully encrypted. No account is needed and it's free.
• Cost: Free

Meetup code of conduct and anonymity when meeting via video conference

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an in-person meetup. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.

Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.

If a new attendee joins the group with video and voice disabled, they will be encouraged to participate by the facilitator, using this script:

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Chat for sharing pastes, URLs and so on

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Future meetups

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

Join the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

Attending

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• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Yvanyblog (talk) (with voice)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Panamitsu (talk) (will be late)
• Oronsay (talk)
• Aerozol (talk)
• David Nind (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• Jon (talk)
• Robert (talk)
• Schwede66 (talk)

Unable to come

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• Einebillion (talk) - Will be away in Auckland
• Gertrude206 (talk)

Agenda and notes

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand – update and discussion (15 minutes)

Update from President, WANZ

We've all been thrilled at the success of the New Zealand contingent to Wikimania 2023 in August. The highlight was the recognition of Ambrosia10 as Wikimedia Laureate for 2023. This was a honour well-deserved by Ambrosia10 who has been a supportive member of WANZ and the New Zealand editing community as well as a contributor of a huge amount of mahi to the wider wikiverse and open knowledge movement. We sincerely and enthusatically endorse this acknowledgement of Ambrosia10. This acknowledgement has also led to Ambrosia10 further raising the profile of the WANZ community in New Zealand media. The conference also had a number of WANZ members presenting their work and the marvellous performance by the Tala Wiki Pasifika group. Wikimania 2023 was a pivotal moment in the history of our community as the contingent from Aotearoa New Zealand made a positive impact on our fellow Wikiverse contributors from around the world.

The WANZ Committee has been working on a number of initiatives including:

• finalising the end of year reporting back to the East South East Asia and Pacific funding committee. This included a learning session with the Wikimedia Foundation Programme Officers for ESEAP and two other affiliates from the ESEAP region. The report from the learning session can be read here https://docs.google.com/document/d/14xGGDlbevVpcQ78-ViVEuXKqOB9S9FbA2F4pMSpJFq4/edit
• meeting with those interested in developing a proposal for the Wikipedia-At-Large Project, and
• successfully recruited an Executive Advisor to help the committee with organising and progressing the work of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Dianne Skelton started on 5 September. She's currently working on the website for WANZ and her next tasks will be developing a communication plan and also getting documentation together to start a manual for event organisers. This manual is intended to help those community members who haven't done events before get great advice and help on how to set up and run editathons, wikiblitzes and conferences.

Einebillion (talk) 22:45, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

• Our main challenge for the 2023-24 period is to mobilise and deliver the activities and projects that we included in the grant proposal for the 12 months. We were pleased to be able to support several editors to attend Wikimania in August. Now that we have recruited our Executive Advisor we will promote the other opportunities available from the funding we have received. We welcome applications from the community for funding support for meetups or Wiki-related campaigns. If you have an outline proposal, please get in touch. We have implemented Xero to manage our accounting, and are now gradually getting this into shape to produce suitable financial reports..Marshelec (talk) 05:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2023

Don't forget to add your program to the Campaign Dashboard. The Dashboard is a key tracking tool for reporting back to Wikimedia Foundation and will help us ensure that we get funding in future years. If you are unsure how to add programs to the Campaign dashboard contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page

• New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. Project Page, Project Dashboard. There is a google spreadsheet of theses authors with Wikipedia pages who need their theses adding to their page if folk want to work on this during #1Lib1Ref.

New information: Video on how to add thesis to people's pages has been completed.

Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10

• 2023 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant One New Zealand and two Australian fellowships available. Applications opened on 9 January and closed on Sunday 26 February 2023. Check out the Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant fellowship grant page for more details.

• 2023 August 16–19 Wikimania, Singapore and online
• Links to some Wikimania 2023 talks that participants in the August national online meeting found useful:

• User:Canley: Duplicating Everywhere All at Once (from 4:03) demonstrating the way he has developed to identify and merge duplicates caused by a bot in Ceb Wikipedia and subsequently Wikidata with incorrect coordinates.
• User:DrThneed: A Nation's Dissertations: The New Zealand Thesis Project (from 2:23:48)
• User:Diegodlh: Collaboratively fixing automatic citations in Wikipedia with Web2Cit (from 4:22.03) and Web2Cit for script and user instructions.

• Public Wikipedia Workshop (part of Heritage Festival) by DrThneed

When: 8 October 2023

Where: 201 Princes Street, Dunedin

Topic: Women in New Zealand architecture

• The West Coast Wikipedian at Large project is running for a third time, until 20 October. You can sign up and see what needs doing on the project page, and keep track of progress here.

• Other suggestions for themes around events include Library Week, Conservation Week, International Volunteers Day, 24hr editathon for Ada Lovelace Day, WikiSource Women's History Month for Wikisource, Winter Olympics, Matariki Event, Library Week. We should think about the focus of the work – is it to onboard folk or to focus on content. Any further update?

Anything to update / discuss?

• Ambrosia10 has created a new campaign dashboard for any New Zealand organised events. See this link for the dashboard and you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard.
• User:Oronsay - ESEAP is seeking endorsement for their Wikimedia Foundation funding application for their ESEAP Conference 2024. The link to their application can be found here and there is a section at the bottom of that application to show your support if you so wish.
• User:Beeswaxcandle - Warns that there will be a complete outage of all things Wiki as they will be testing a switch over at 2am NZST on Thursday 21 September. See this link for further information.

Round table for participants

Opportunity to say what you’re working on and if you need help to do anything or want anything demonstrated. You can add requests for help here prior to the meeting if you want

• Yvanyblog has been improving New Zealand-related articles. He introduced himself and explained he was a teenage editor working mainly in Wikipedia. His pronouns are he/him and he was enthusiastically welcomed by the group.
• Panamitsu has been adding macrons to Māori names and words using AutoWikiBrowser, created articles: Murders of the Dickason children, Big Lemon & Paeroa bottle, Waitomo Big Apple, Springfield Doughnut, 2022 New Zealand floods among others; significantly expanded Kapiti Island and Lemon & Paeroa articles. Panamitsu would like others to copy edit these. Marshelec expressed an interest in helping improve the Kapiti Island article. User:Giantflightlessbirds expressed gratitude at Panamitsu's creation of the white heron colony article.
• DrThneed learned about the Wikidata Walkabout tool and wants people to know it exists (its purpose is to allow you to query Wikidata without writing any Sparql, by “drilling down” through classes). DrThneed also had her letter on Wikidata theses accepted in the Journal of Academic Librarianship (finally! It was four months in review and then got accepted with no revisions. Now available online). She has also drafted a few stub articles for political candidates (there’s a list of more that need doing here), put all the missing Greens & Labour candidates into Wikidata and added SDC to their images in Commons. Have added the National candidates to Wikidata but haven’t done SDC as their copyright isn’t sorted properly yet so images may get deleted still. Will add all remaining candidates (with electorates and list rankings) to Wikidata when the official Electoral Commission list gets published (any day now). She is also running a Women in Architecture public event in October as part of the Heritage Festival so is planning for that. She's been working on the Web2Cite tool, trying to fix PapersPast automatic citation generator problem that drives us editors nuts and as well as news websites, and has been making some inroads to fixing some. There is meant to be a community who can help but she has only found a few folks who use the tool. User:MargaretRDonald suggests reaching out to Kerry Raymond who knows the most about web2cit in Australia. She has also put in application for a Wikimedia Foundation train the trainers of OpenRefine course and is hoping to get accepted.
• Marshelec has recently published Waiwhetū Stream - it had been in draft for ages, but there was an opportunity to attend a meeting of the Friends of Waiwhetū Stream, and this seemed like a great opportunity to make some contacts and get further material for the article (it still needs more history filled in). The people at the meeting seemed pleased that there was now a Wikipedia article about “their” stream, and I have been invited to their AGM in November to possibly give a short presentation. Along the way, I also made improvements to Naenae - that article was in a poor state, and still needs a lot more work. Other work has included improvements to Mount John University Observatory. I have also worked on improvements to draft articles from the WP:AFC process: Mark II (film) about a New Zealand film, and Ian Hoskins about an Australian historian. These are both now published. Also attended a meeting of the History Club at Johnsonville Library. There was an interesting presentation by one of the librarians, about the historical impact of earthquakes on Wellington. I may attend their next meeting. I have also signed up for the WP:GLAM/WestCoastWPAL/2023, and done some minor work on WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Critter of the Week. In the past few days, I have worked on Gloriavale Christian Community, with a major restructure and addition of some content. I intend to do more on this article.
• aerozol is a consultant for the MetaBrainz Foundation, based in NZ. Invited by Dactylantha to observe how you all run a community meeting, to potentially apply learnings at MeB. MetaBrainz/MusicBrainz incorporates wikidata/wikipedia objects, and editors often crossover between the two.
• Giantflightlessbirds is back after three weeks in Singapore and Malaysia, and is running the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project again for six weeks—one week down, all welcome to join in. He has been discussing Wikisource possibilities with Auckland Museum and the Wikimedia Foundation. He's also continuing as a Wikipedian in Residence with the Healthier Lives project in Dunedin, and other National Science Challenges may be interested. The project with the Left Bank Art Gallery in Greymouth has finished, with some new articles created and photos released. He's been accepted to the GLAM-Wiki conference November 15–18 in Uruguay, and will be in Sydney for three weeks before that and happy to hang out with Australian Wikimedians.
• Ambrosia10 - received an email congratulating me on my Wikimedia Laureate award which was gratefully received. Have been working on the Wikidata Research Expeditions project and TDWG presentation (which will be presented by Dag Endresen). Progress is being made on the first of two Women Genera project publications. We're just tying up the last few bits of the dataset and are polishing the draft paper before presenting it for publication. Two of the "course based undergraduate research experience" (CURE) Hidden Figures modules have been published - the introduction and the ORCID module. A couple of tweaks needed not least having the license changed from CC BY NC to CC BY and also getting a DOI for each of them. The Wikidata and Bionomia modules are progressing well and will be published in the QUBES platform in the near future. I've been preparing presentations for a Victoria University STEM club which will take place next week, a presentation for the US Entomological Collections Network, helping prepare the presentation by Dag for TDWG2023 and starting to draft up slides and a presentation for my keynote at the Australian Citizen Science Conference happening in November. I've been working on mix'n'match datasets including Te Papa, Entomologists of the World, Harvard Index of Botanists and the BHL creator id sets. I'm very much looking forward to attending the Biodiversity Standards conference TDWG2023 from October 9th until October 13th which has been funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Also had a meeting with Auckland Museum folk with the new director David Reeves attending. She presented on various topics - see this document for notes.
• User:David Nind - been working on Wikisource and doing the occasional Wikidata "gardening". Beeswaxcandle has been working on a book about Auckland published in 1922 which contains a lot of images and David has been validating this.
• User:MargaretRDonald - has been working on Korean Wikidata and has been invited to a conference in Seoul Korea to present on her work. She's a little concerned how it will go.
• User:Beeswaxcandle - Finished the book that David mentioned a few weeks ago, and David has now been validating and editing the proofreading. Issue - some images split over two pages but he has no tools to "unsplit" these images. Asks any other editors with tools (perhaps User:Giantflightlessbirds) to help so they can complete the book. He has also been doing recordings for Librevox - which works as a double proofread see Dave Porter in the Gold Fields]. Another book he has been working on is this one. Ambrosia10 asked whether David and Beeswaxcandle are planning to let Auckland Museum and their Wikipedian in residence know of the Auckland book as a resource for their Auckand History Wiki project. Beeswaxcandle says they will inform them when the book is finished.
• User:Paora - Recent round of investitures have happened so he has been working on the Wikicommons images, cropped them and adding to Wikipedia pages, also adding structured data. Had a battle saving the Wikipedia page of Blare Telford a Winter olympian. He also helped save an article on a 100m champion who received the first scholarship to an American collage for football. He's joined the Westcoast Wiki Project group and he’s considering what he’s going to do there. Likely to concentrate on Māori guides, several of whom have very basic stubs at the moment but are notable as they have guided on alps and glaciers.
• User:Oronsay - Keen to meet up with GiantFlightlessBirds when he is in Sydney. She has been working on the NZ Thesis project mix'n'match dataset and making progress. Has also been working on the in new People in Te Papa's collections mix'n'match set. Also been helping with bits of “wiki gardening" work.
• User:Vandemonian - relatively new at editing and is grateful for the invite from User:Marshelec to attend the meeting. He did a few articles a few years ago but is getting back into it and is grateful for the help he has been receiving from User:Marshelec. He has been working on buildings in Tasmania articles and is learning best practice. He is keen to meet up with other Sydney based editors including GiantFlightlessBirds when he visits.
• User:Jonathanischoice has been concentrating on musical instrument articles including A flat clarinet. He's also been working on Wikicommons categorising images. Still aiming to work on New Zealand wine articles. And has been doing general wiki "gardening".
• Schwede66 - He has been editing mainly main page stuff, admin stuff, terribly busy work life at the moment but did write little article the other day for NZ mountain biker - which did appear on the DYK section of the main page. DrThneed asks whether there will be a mass DYK again for the articles created for new MPs after the election. Answer is yes. As a result a request for assistance of other editors for the WikiProject New Zealand New MPs project and asks folk who do review articles for DYK to get ahead of the game with their review count so they can nominate MP articles closer to the date.

Further discussion

• User:David Nind Shared that User: Oronsay had been working on the new Wikidata property - Google scholar organisation id, making sure New Zealand universities had this id on their items. See the New Zealand Google Scholar Organization ID map.
• User:Aerozol gave more detail about the Musicbrainz website and how it interlinks with Wikidata and Wikipedia. As a result of the more general discussion about this User:Jonathanischoice discussed a possible collaboration for getting the Sounz website data into Wikidata and then Musicbrainz being able to reuse the same. The two exchanged emails to further the conversation around this possible project.
• User:Giantflightlessbirds announced the news of Critter of the Week's 8th anniversary and its book launch. He's looking to do an editathon to improve existing articles as there is now a bit of a backlog.

Outcomes

• Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.

• Organisation time: 1 hr doing notes, 1.5 h adding info after meeting

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 15 October 2023, same time, same place