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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 5

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  • Date: Sunday 8 November 2020
  • Time: midday to 2pm
  • Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
    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 meet 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

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All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

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:

Welcome new attendee. This group respects your right to remain anonymous. This group has a policy of discouraging lurking as it makes some of us uncomfortable. If you are happy to introduce yourself over voice, please let us know what you've been working on and if you need help with any editing issues.
If you're not comfortable updating the group by voice, then that's okay. You have the option of introducing yourself and adding your user page link into the chat feature. The chat is deleted once the video conference finishes.
If you want to remain completely anonymous and not chat, then this meetup is not for you. We make comprehensive and extensive notes of the meetup that will be included in the meetup page afterwards. That's the best way to catch up with what this meetup has been doing if you don't want to contribute during the video call.
If you're not sure how to use the chat feature you can access it by clicking on the icon that looks like a speech bubble in the bottom left corner.

If, after an appropriate length of time, the new attendee does not participate by video, voice, or chat, the facilitator of the group will remove the attendee from the video call.

If the new attendee persists in logging in, the group will discuss abandoning the meet up.

Chat for sharing pastes, URLs and so on

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The Jitisi video conferencing platform has a chat functionality. This is used to share urls and other commentary while the discussions are occurring. The facilitators may take a copy to help with writing up outcomes from the meeting on the meeting Wikipedia page. Any copies will be deleted once outcomes and notes are completed.

Future Meetups

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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

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Attending

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Unable to come

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Agenda

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1. Introduction to meet up by organisers

  • Welcome to herewhy (despite the audio challenges!).

2. Progress on Action Points

  • Next Cloud account set up by Jon (talk). Still under action, carried forward to the next meetup.
  • Giantflightlessbirds Update on progress with Alexander Turnbull Library Names upload to Mix-n-match. Still under action, carried forward to the next meetup.
  • Annual Reporting to the Affiliates Committee - reminder to group that the draft report needs your additions. Draft Annual Report 2020 Please review and add any items you can think of that are missing by the end of November. Include talks and other initiatives that demonstrate raising awareness externally about Wikipedia.
  • Noracrentiss to consider whether they want to set up a User Group emailing list with the assistance of Giantflightlessbirds. Everyone agreed that this is still required, and would be really helpful. Still under action, carried forward to the next meetup.
  • Einebillion to book in Giantflightlessbirds to deliver presentation on journal wikidata workflow at a later meetup. Under action.
  • Hugh Lilly and Susan Tolich of the Auckland Museum have offered to present a talk on their Women In Red work to this group at the 6 December meeting. Quilt Phase organising, everyone really happy to have and looking forward to it.

3. Update on NZL Meetup / Conference for 2021

  • 22 responses received to the SurveyMonkey about the Hokitika conference plans. 14 people definitely interested in attending, others undecided. Very useful comments show how people are interested in using the conference time. Group plans to submit a rapid grant application between 1 and 15 December, so that we can receive confirmation of funding at the end of December. MurielMary (talk) 20:43, 7 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]
  • Will be part of three events planned for 2021: Hokitika, Auckland, and Wellington.
  • Please check the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand page for progress.

4. Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

  • WikiCite 2020 Virtual Conference. Plenty of Wikidata information to dive into. Ambrosia10 (talk). Margaret commented that it was very well organised and she was impressed - a good format was used, and we should note this for future events.
  • Wikidata WikiProject New Zealand page has been created. Add your name if you are interested!
  • Wikimedia Foundation has emailed to give advance notice of two upcoming surveys of affiliates: "On the 20th November 2020, we will be launching the 2020/21 Affiliates Organizational Data survey. This survey will be sent only to Affiliate primary contacts, and will measure Organization’s governance, membership & conflict resolution practices, as well as Organizational Capacities. Later, on December 2nd, we will launch the 2020/21 Affiliates Experiential Data survey." Anyone interested in collaborating on completing these surveys, let MM know. MurielMary (talk) 20:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]

5. Round table for participants 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

  • Ambrosia10: Has been working on Open Access presentation, slides, and video recording. Wikidata SPARQL maintenance query for items where only a statement for New Zealand: https://w.wiki/jHM - going through and adding additional information to expand Wikidata items. Working through article about female plant collectors: very good article on some, others not so much (for probably/maybe - adding two separate items if can't clearly identify, can be merged if more info available). Also looking at how we can curate and improve usage and impact of Auckland Museum images in Commons so that they are used, rather than just being there - will create a before and after screenshot of usage using https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorgan.html
  • Gertrude206: Has been working on the clean up and tidy up of some articles (including one where there were conflict of interest issues).
  • Quilt Phase: Has added a Wikidata item for the founder of the New Zealand Film archive Jonathan Dennis (Q96049563); has organised for a photograph of Jonathan Dennis (Q96049563) to be released - waiting for OTRS confirmation; added a Wikidata item for Bill Gosden (Q101242928) who died this week - he was the New Zealand International Film Festival director; has uploaded James Taylor's presentation Using Wikimedia Foundation Platforms to Amplify Auckland Museum's Online Collections from the last meetup - to resolve copyright issue with the creator so that it is shown as CC BY 4.0.
  • Schwede66: Has been a very busy time with changes from NZ's General Election. Mass Did You Know item being prepared on new MPs - nearly there! Was able to get Labour to release CC BY photos of all their parliamentary candidates as well! Once election changes over will continuing to work on expanding bios for long dead NZ MPs.
  • Oronsay: Working on stubs for politicians.Also working on Australian historians and women with fellowships or who are Officers of the Order of Australia, occasionally NZ women updating identified. Following Margaret's excellent demo of Scholia, has also been busy doing lots of author disambiguating.
  • DrThneed: Working on the Did You Know articles - has been a learning experience, and thanks to Mike for his help! RNZ's Critter of the Week - looking at updating with Mike (was asked to document the model used and share; also not to confuse with NIWA's critter of the week). Working on an article for Ebenezer Teichelmann - doctor, mountaineer, explorer, conservationist and photographer. Had a great workshop with librarians - was a nice small group, went well, was fun, participants were all very excited!
  • MargaretRDonald: Working on pictures for articles, pictures of weeds and particularly sponges. Very hard to find images of sponges that can go in Commons. Suggestions discussed: iNaturalist - approach authors and see if they will change their licence (is NC by default); Natural History Museum (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/) - pictures should be CC BY; Bionomia is very useful as well.
  • Noracrentiss: Had a practice for help sessions for New Zealand Editors - went well. Wrote an article about (?? - sorry, I missed it!). Has got husband interested in editing. Query about how a young adult soon to leave school could use his photography skills in Wikipedia/Commons - suggestions included helping filling the gaps using WikiShootMe!.
  • David Nind: Minor Wikidata edits. Did some live Wikidata editing at Kohacon20, the annual worldwide Koha Community conference (which was live streamed and recorded) (Koha is free and open source library management software originally developed in Levin, New Zealand but now used by libraries all over the world).

6. Review of questions raised during round table

  • Gertrude206: Is they a way of finding New Zealand article pages that have no references, or not vary many - interested in working on tidying these up where this is the case. General consensus was that there is a way to find out. Can request help to create a query (things related to Wikipedia pages can be queried). Here's a PetScan query (very simple; anyone can modify the query to make it more precise, e.g. search for category "New Zealand women" instead of "New Zealand").
  • Herewhy: Query about locating the death notice/obituary from the Otago Daily Times 11 March 1995. If your library doesn't have access to New Zealand newspapers microfiche, it is available in the National Library (not sure if all libraries have access). Gertrude206 volunteered to look up at the National Library if doesn't have access. DrThneed also volunteered, as can access in Dunedin.
  • David Nind: Wikidata query about building and place names where there is no English equivalent for the Māori name, such as Tūranga (Q61748664). Use the Māori name for the English label as that is how it is referred to, and also its official name.

7. Demonstration of another tool

  • Wikidata SPARQL Query https://w.wiki/hnP - All works by an artist and what they depict, in graph form. If you go into the SPARQL query you can edit it for any author. I did it for Charles Heaphy https://w.wiki/isL as I've done work on his art. - Ambrosia10 (talk)
  • SDC: Useful tool to let you add bulk structured data statements to items in Wikimedia Commons, rather than having to edit individually. To setup:
 1. Create a commons.js page under your user if it doesn't exist (go to your commons user page, add /commons.js to the end of the URL).
 2. Edit source and add this to the page including the semi colon at the end: importScript( 'User:Magnus_Manske/sdc_tool.js' );
 3. Got to a category page in Commons, or a page with lots of images, and Shift + Refresh to reload the page: a link with SDC link should appear in the bottom right hand corner of the page, click on this to toggle the tool. (See example.)

8. Useful resources and items identified during meetup

Outcomes

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 6 December, same time, same place


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