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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 57

Links for engaging with the local community of editors!

• Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand website
• Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand on Facebook
• Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand on Bluesky
• Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Meta-Wiki page
• The Wikipedia Wikiproject for New Zealand
• The Wikidata Wikiproject for New Zealand
• New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
• Have you edited one of the Wiki projects? Become a member of the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Society to receive emails about events and newsletters. Annual membership subscription is $NZ 5

• Date: Sunday 5 January 2024
• 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:

: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

The Jitsi video conferencing platform has a chat feature. 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

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

Apply for membership of Wikimedia 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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• Schwede66

Unable to come

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Agenda and notes

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2024–25

If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a programme to the Campaign Dashboard July 2024 – June 2025. 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 programmes to the Campaign dashboard you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.

If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact info @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple – we promise!

• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide Any update on how it went?
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Registrations are now open - earlybird tickets at $15/person are available until November. The organising committee is also happy to receive requests for funding for travel and accommodation. The conference programme is constructed based on participant input. When registering, participants can request topics they would like to see included in the programme, and offer topics they are happy to present on. Registration.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Project works on getting New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata and connecting them to their authors, advisors and main subjects. Project Dashboard. Currently adding OpenAlex identifiers to anyone in the project, through matching with the Orcids on OpenAlex's API. Have been in discussion with the Wikimedian in Residence at Edinburgh to see if we can help them get their theses into Wikidata. Am also working with LSE to rewrite our Wikidata thesis-related queries to take account of the Wikidata graph split. Mix'n'match dataset. Project Contacts: DrThneed
• Content: New Zealand National Parks Project launched with the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Sign up if you want to help.
• Content: New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers.

Anyone know of or organising any other events or content projects? Note here to let the group know.

• Content: Good article nominations backlog drive - October 2024: Please consider joining in during October, to review at least one Good Article nomination. This is a great way of developing your own editing skills and knowledge. There are currently around 550 article nominations waiting to be reviewed, across a host of diverse topics. See: Good article nominations

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

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Review of questions raised during round table

• Add your questions here...

Presentations, tips, tools

• Add anything you would like to share at this meeting
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Outcomes

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

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 2 February 2025, same time, same place