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Wellington Meetup 22 January 2022

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  • Date: Saturday 22 January 2022
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: Under COVID Alert Level GREEN : He Matapihi Molesworth Library at National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
    Come to the main entrance of the National Library on Molesworth Street.
  • Location: Under COVID Alert Level ORANGE or RED : Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WellingtonWikimediaMeetup
    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).
  • Bring (if meeting under Alert Level GREEN): a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue

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Under Alert Level Green the group meet at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library within the National Library. This is a Wellington City Council pop up public library. It was formerly The National Library net.work space. Drinks are permitted in the library.

Under Alert Level Yellow or Red the group meet via video conference call.

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.

The video conferencing meetup is a replacement for the 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 in 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.


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.

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.

The Meeting

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Attending

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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)

Kowhaiarewhana was welcomed as a new member of the group and the attendees explained that the meetup was a place where she could bring her questions and people could give her help and help her find answers in the most supportive way possible. Group expressed delight at her attendence.


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

  • Einebillion Working on getting data on the articles for Tuhinga 32 - the peer reviewed journal of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa into Wikidata.
  • David Nind Working on Wikisource - a way of transcribing public domain and new zealand books. Working on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Kea,_a_New_Zealand_problem_(1909).pdf/64
  • Oronsay explained she focuses on articles about women and doesn’t start articles about men but does update if she sees issues. She lives in Australia and her aim this year is to complete a biography a day.
  • Gertrude206 lives in Wellington and mostly writes articles and biographies on New Zealand medical history, but does dabble in other histories. Is currently working on this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongariro_Power_Scheme
  • Ambrosia10 Is focussed on an article about a particular species of freshwater insect at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenoperla_prasina She has been working with Schwede66 who is looking to nominate for a Did You Know for the specimen of that genus collected from Otari Wilton’s Bush that was the 5th million specimen digitised by Natural History Museum, London. She has also been working on the current One Lib One Ref campaign and focussing on the Department of Conservation and off shore islands. She’s received an invitiation to present at a conference in Sweden.https://www.digikult.se/in-english/ Ambrosia10 has finished a genus of moths.
  • Pakoire has started the Pacific arts project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Pacific_Arts_Aotearoa She has received funding from Creative New Zealand to run this project. The project is also supporting new editors and diversity by paying 3 Pacifica people to learn how to edit Wikipedia. This is a really positive and exciting project. She’s also made contact with Rachel Yates, Senior Curator Pacific Histories and Cultures at Te Papa about setting up some Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Te Papa associated with the project. As a personal project she’s also working on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matike_Mai_Aotearoa
  • Kowhaiarewhana is a new editor learning about Wikipedia as a participant in the Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Pacific_Arts_Aotearoa She is currently playing about with her user page. She’s a very new editor as she started in December 2021. She is based in Wellington, coached by Pakoire, and focused on pacific articles. The Pacifika community has diverse points of view. She approached her work in a spirit of Manaakitanga which resonates with the principles of Wikipedia. She’s interested in adding more visual representations. Partly for the artists to showcase their art and also acknowledge their achievements.
  • DrThneed She has had some time off editing over the summer but is currently working on creating a completely female Did You Know section for 24 hours for the International Women’s Day on 8 March. Please let her know if you create any articles that might be suitable for this project. Also doing alot of Wikidata work including a new workflow for putting english descriptions for those peer review articles without descriptions. Also working with a small group of editors adding controlled vocabs in Wikidata and Mix’n’Match. This work is associated with the New Zealand Thesis project. https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/December_2021/Contents/New_Zealand_report If you’re interested in helping out wit the Mix’n’Match work see this document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-EPUNJ1vG_rt23IjzCR6AmznB0-5ntCxqHjuQ5N3A4/edit#heading=h.ubdrk1o58esk
  • Marshelec is a Wellingtonian. He really connected with the community at the WikiCon at Hokitika in early 2021 and it has been really inspiring. He’s currently working on biographies for the people from Hokitika that were on the New Year’s Honours in 2021..


3. Progress on Action Points and future events

  • Proposed International Women's Day Editathon The actual day is on Tuesday the 8th of March. Ambrosia10 proposed an editathon on the weekend before - either/or/both 5th to 6th March. Group agreed that the focus will be on content creation and that it will be an all weekend event with zoom running the entire time and people coming and going as required with formal catch up times designated for twice a day - morning and afternoon. One of the days may be a Meetup day but this can be a take over event instead. Pakoire will provide the zoom account, Ambrosia10 will start to work on content creation documentation.
  • Edit-a-thons at Te Papa Einebillion was approached about supporting this by the Head of Public Programmes at Te Papa. After conversations with Pakoire it's clear that this has been raised due to the conversations Pakoire has been having with Rachel Yates at Te Papa. Einebillion will follow up with Rachel Yates, Pakoire will add Einebillion and Ambrosia10 to the meetings to support the project. Other members of the meetup also expressed an interest in contributing.
  • One Lib One Ref campaign Australia Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand are working on the One Lib One Ref campaign in June. Ambrosia10 is starting planning for this with Caddie in Australia. The proposal is for zoom meetings who want to learn to add references or liaise about setting up an event for the middle of the year.
  • New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. It kicked off in December 2021 including meetings with various librarians in New Zealand Universities. The project looks to capture data, cleaning it and uploading it. Also figuring out how many librarians want to do this themselves including connecting the articles with the authors and citing the references in Wikipedia articles. The group discussed linking this project with the One Lib One Ref movement. Academic librarians haven’t seen why they should be adding data to Wikidata and showing this use may help.
  • The Postponed Wellington Wikithon Pakoire and Giantflightlessbirds are thinking about what this might look like now COVID is in the New Zealand community. The idea is a virtual WikiCon so we don’t have to worry about COVID levels. It is planned to be timetabled for at the end of 2022. The WikiCon would have no theme to allow for a diversity of presentations. Looking to pull in the Parliamentary Library folk who want to connect with us. Marshelec is happy to go and visit the Parliamentary librarians to talk about engagement. Gertrude206 is also happy to contribute. Kowhaiarewhana would like to come along as well. Marshelec will organise a visit. Jessie Flannery is the contact and is part of the Parliamentary Engagement and Library Information/Research team.
  • National Digital Forum is due to occur in February 2022. Ambrosia10 has received funding to attend and link up with representatives of the attending institutions and organisations to encourage them to get involved with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource etc..


4. Further discussion on getting to Good Article / Featured Article status.

The selected page: Kererū has reached featured article status and is going to be the today's featured article on the main page of English Wikipedia for 19 February 2022. Marshall will be doing some comms on Facebook to promote this activity with other organisations including Forest & Bird, Zealandia and possibly Te Papa. The featured article stays up for 24 hours and works on UTC and clicks over at 1pm New Zealand time.


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

  • #1Lib1Ref is currently underway. See this for information on the campaign and how to participate. - Ambrosia10 (talk)


6. Demonstration of a tool

  • IABot: https://iabot.toolforge.org/ - will check links for a Wikipedia article and archive those links into Internet Archive Wayback Machine if not there and still available, and will update the references in the article (Marshelec)
  • MoreMenu: adds a really useful menu to your user account pages, for example lets you list the subpages you've created under your user page (Page > Subpages). To enable: Your account > Preferences > Gadgets > MoreMenu and then Save. (Oronsay)


8. Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 19 February 2022, same time, same place
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