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Wellington Meetup 20 January 2024

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  • Date: Saturday 20 January 2024
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: Tiakiwai Seminar Rooms, lower floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington. Go through the main entrance on the ground floor, and either go down a floor using the stairs immediately to your left or the lifts immediately to your right. Room is on the left when you reach the Foyer.
  • Bring a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop, (but they are located elsewhere in the library).

Venue

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CHANGE IN VENUE For the January meeting only - the group are now meeting in one of the lower floor meeting rooms - Tiakiwai Seminar Room. To find the meeting room, go through the main entrance on the ground floor and either walk down the flight of stairs immediately to your left, or take the lift immediately to your right down a floor. The room is on the left when you reach the Foyer. There will be someone there to guide you. The location has changed as the National Library of New Zealand have a function that requires close access to the exhibition area.

Future Meetups

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This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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The Meeting

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Socially Anxious or Want to meet a Friendly Face first?

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We know it can be difficult for some people to walk into a group of strangers without knowing anyone. If you'd like to meet up with a friendly face before the meeting or to have a chat to see if this group is for you please contact Dianne on info @ wikimedia.nz Dianne will be overjoyed to introduce you to one of the group who will be available to meet up with you for coffee and chat. They can also be on hand to meet you prior to the meeting and walk in with you and introduce you to the group. Whatever will make you comfortable.

Attending

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Wellington Wikipedia Meetup

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Unable to come

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Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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1. Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)

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General welcome to any new folk who join us.

2. Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

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Wellington Meetup page has been set up by Executive Advisor WANZ.
WANZ Website
Last meeting Action: Einebillion to update pages with offer to meetup personally prior to meeting so people don't have to walk into a meeting cold. - Feedback on messaging?
Pull up banners underway - need progress update
Last meeting Action: Einebillion to update Wikimedia Commons and WANZ pages.
Last meeting Action: Einebillion to book meetup room with National Library New Zealand for a further series of dates - email sent.

3. Round table for participants to say what you’re working on

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  • Stitchbird2 I have consistently been editing Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons in January, especially the following. 1) Getting the 2020 book Lost Gold: Ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands into Wikidata, AND getting ALL 19 chapters of the book into Wikidata as well! Then linking the chapters to the book (and vice versa), and making sure most of them are cited at least once in Wikipedia articles about the Auckland Islands and Auckland Island birds. 2) After somehow getting awarded the Order of the Robust Grasshopper for helping occasionally on Critter of the Week, which I felt was quite undeserved considering other team members such as User:Ambrosia10 and User:Marshelec do way more than me, I decided I needed to take drastic action. I went back through the excellent Critter emails I got from User:Giantflightlessbirds and the project page and edited 13 recent Critter wikipedia pages that I had not yet helped edit (not to mention numerous associated Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons pages), spending 0.5-2 hours on each page. I still don't know if I've earned the award, but I feel better now :) 3) I also applied for a Wikimania 2024 scholarship (Krakow, Poland, August 2024), and am planning to submit a proposal to organise and run a Wikidata workshop with User:Ambrosia10 and two other international colleagues at the upcoming International Botanical Congress, which happens every 6 years and attracts thousands of botanists, and this year will be in Madrid in July. 4) I commented on or edited harvestman draft wikipedia articles for User:Porrhothele prior to publication. 5) And finally I just found this lovely little paper about 19 plants named after one or both of our amazing NZ botanists Lucy Moore and Lucy Cranwell, so I got it into Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124313556, listed all the names in "Main subject", and linked almost all of the names already in Wikidata to the botanists' Wikidata items with the "Named after" property.
During discussion Marshelec pointed out that there were some NZ coin articles that had been put up for review for good article status and that Jon might be interested in doing those.
  • Ambrosia10 Since our last meeting I have presented at a Bionomia Workshop: People Identifiers Roundtrip to Collection Management Systems on how to disambiguate a woman scientific collector and add them to Wikidata. Recordings of this workshop can be found here. I have also been disambiguating botanical author names for TL2 in Wikidata in an effort to ensure the digital version of TL2 links to the appropriate Wikidata item. All authors should now have Wikidata items for them, many of which are also linked to VIAF, BHL creator id and Bionomia. I've been doing a bit of a NZ moth Wikipedia article blitz improving articles, Wikidata items and commons categories for various species. I've raised a few Catalogue of Life github issues to get that taxonomic database up to date so that specimens and iNat observations in GBIF are appropriately aggregated. I've presented to the Wikipedia interns at Auckland Museum, mainly on getting women scientists into Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons. I've accepted the chairperson role for the BHL-Wiki Working Group. This group has members from both organisations and the Wikimedia Foundation in an attempt to improve both BHL's engagement with Wiki and the Wikiverses use of BHL content. See this link for the agenda of that meeting if folk want to participate. I've also jointed the WikiProject New Zealand national parks collaboration - if you feel like joining me please click the link and add your name. I'm currently working on a funding application for a wikimedian in residence project at Te Papa on research expeditions - this is slow going as it's my first attempt at this. I've also been successful in obtaining funding from the Wikimedia Foundation to attend the International Botanical Congress in Madrid Spain in July. I'm collaborating with editors from New Zealand, Berlin and Portugal and we will be meeting with Wikimedia Spain to discuss on our planned Wikidata workshop, our presentations at that conference and our efforts to Wikify this important gathering. Other than that I've been doing general work in Mix'n'match on Harvard Index of Botanists, BHL creator ids, BUGZ datasets etc and general wiki gardening. Ambrosia10 (talk)
  • Marshelec has signed up to the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/National parks, and in the past couple of weeks has made extensive additions to Kahurangi National Park. The prose size of the article is now ten times what it was when improvements began in early January. All the National Parks articles need major improvements to bring them to a level of quality that is consistent with their importance in New Zealand, so it is great to see this project underway. A group of editors have signed up to work on National Park articles through the rest of this year. More help is welcome !
  • Gertrude206 has just been wiki gardening. Following another editor's discussions about the use of the [citation needed] template. Quite justified to use it as there are editors who specialise in replacing them with references, especially #1Lib1Ref.
  • Noracrentiss has been doing a lot of WANZ committee work including progressing WANZ from affiliate status to chapter status. She's also been progressing an application to the Committee for funds to run a photography/Wikicommons meetup to be run by Quilt Phase. She's been researching author names for journal in Wikisource and researching for an article about a notable ice cream sales person from Christchurch.
  • Midstrath He has bee an editor for over 10 years and does a lot of "wiki gardening". Also concentrates on articles on New Zealand history, aviation accidents in Nepal, laughing sickness article, as well as copy editing etc.
  • ScurryfungeQueen She is a completely new editor and wants help on how to create an article, learn how to edit etc.
  • CopperAlchemy Executive officer of WANZ. Has done a few edits but mainly involved in administrative tasks to ensure the better running of Wikimedia Aotearoa. She's been supporting Quilt Phase organise his event. Proposed date is the 9th of March 1pm - 5pm
  • Pakoire - Member of the WANZ committee - is currently thinking about a project where she runs regular workshops in the areas of: 1. Treaty of Waitangi related informaion in Wikipedia artciles, 2. NZ history to improve coverage of Māori history and POV especially using Māori authors, 3. Arts in it's broadest sense. Ambrosia10 suggested she talk to Marty and Auckland Museum as there may be a history element to these workshops. She may be flying up to Auckland for a Women in Architecture editathon. Ambrosia10 suggested she talk to DrThneed re: Women in Architecture. She's booking the band practice rooms in Cuba Street and proposing a Tuesday night after work session. She's intending also to write one article a week women in red campaign. She would like folk to look at the draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dulcie_Stocker she's helped on (my question is - what can be done? Perhaps getting an org to create a blog about her? Any ideas?) She also wanted help with the Scholia tool and template and the author disambiguator tool for a Tina Ngata article. Ambrosia10 said she would help.
  • Kowhaiarewhana has been working on self improvement and hasn't done much editing. She's been copy editing and improving her grammar of her articles.
  • Wainuiomartian has been working on articles on the NZ census - both the general article and specific articles for specific censuses. She's started going through and giving each one an article. She's also signed up to task force about National Parks. and has also expanded St Patricks Church in Waimate. Found out about Hobday organs and their builder/creator Arthur Hobday. She's planning on writing an article for him.
  • Einebillion Had a two week hiatus from digital. Mostly been doing chairperson work for WANZ. Discussed the Golden Bay / Mohua meetup/editathon in Feb. There is a direct flight from Wellington to Golden Bay return Friday to Sunday. She's also been organising the National WikiCon 2024 - to be held in Auckland on the 23/24 March. - remember if you want to do a session or lightning talk let her know. To be held at the AUT.
  • Marshelec - Has been working on the Business plan for Financial year. If folk have funding needs they need to submit to him or the committee for this this. Other thing is happening - half way point for the activity report is coming up so people should think about contributing to that.

4. Progress on Action Points and future events

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If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a 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 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, support funding is available from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Contact admin @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple - we promise!
  • Otari-Wilton's Bush event ideation and organising We need an organiser! Group agreed to move the dates to autumn. Noracrentiss will talk with Ambrosia10 about organising resource. WANZ application could easily include an event organiser but we need someone to lead it and shape the agenda of the event. - Next steps?
  • Photography event Quilt Phase's funding application successful - thank you WANZ, and Noracrentiss & Marshelec! Preparations are going well. Dianne has been amazing. Due to time slipping away we are now looking at dates of Saturday 9 March and reconvening Saturday 13 April (in the pm, after meetup - date TBC). Both sessions will be held at Photospace on Courtenay Place. Quilt Phase (talk)
  • 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. There is also a video on how to add thesis to people's pages. This work is ongoing and could use more editors to help out.
Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10
  • Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?
  • International Botanical Congress - members of the Wellington group User:Stitchbird2 and User:Ambrosia10 have funding either from their employment institutions to attend this conference and run a Wikidata workshop.

5. Good Article / Featured Article Work

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

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7. Requests for Edits

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8. Demonstration of a tool

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If you choose "All articles needing copy edit" as your category, with a Depth of 5, you'll get a list of all articles that require a copy edit (i.e. that have been tagged with {{copy edit}} or related templates). You can add another category, e.g. New Zealand or Music, to filter it to a list aligned with your interests. There are lots of useful filters in the other tabs: on the "Page properties" tab, you can restrict to smaller (or larger) articles based on word count, and on the "Templates&links" tab, you can add "Copy edit section" to the "Has all of these templates" box to only get articles where a single section has been tagged for editing (rather than the whole article). — Jon (talk) 23:07, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Outcomes

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 17 February 2024 , same time, same place
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