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Wellington Meetup 31 August 2024

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National Library of New Zealand Programme Rooms and foyer
  • Date: Saturday 31 August 2024
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: Now in Te Kupenga, Level 1, National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington'
  • 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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For this meetup the group is meeting in Te Kupenga, Level 1, National Library. The group normally meet in the Programme Rooms located on the ground floor of the National Library just behind the main reception area. Group to ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

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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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 Wikimeetup for April

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Unable to come

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Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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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.


Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

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

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  • Avocadobabygirl (talk): Added items for artists on Satellites to Wikidata, started an Aotearoa Asian artist project for this group. Started tinkering with Metabase, a structured data repository for work done across the Wiki movement to make it easier to learn from what's been done. Now have a process in place to get analytics data for the contributions made by Te Papa staff [link to come]. Te Maori editathons will be on September 28 and October 12 at Te Papa, and support from Wellington Wikipedians would be amazing. Here are some of the Wikimania talks I've enjoyed:
Student engagement with openness
Impact visualiser
Metabase - Wikibase for movement activities
Charts, the successor to Graphs
The future of the Wikipedian in Residence
Wikiesfera
Content partnerships helpdesk
  • Ambrosia10 (talk): I've been doing heaps of outreach this month including -
The International Botanical Congress (IBC) Wikidata workshop (with Sabine von Mering, Heidi Meudt and Joaquim Santos) - Virtual onboarding workshop 8 July 2024 slides - https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12702151 and the in person at the conference Wikidata Workshop 21 July 2024 slides - https://zenodo.org/records/13363826. And the follow up virtual workshop 28 Aug 2024 slides - https://zenodo.org/records/13384710 to allow participants to ask questions or raise issues.
IBC Wikidata Poster - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBC2024_Wikidata_poster.pdf
IBC 2024 BHL symposium- https://ibcmadrid2024.com/index.php?seccion=scientificArea&subSeccion=detailSubProgramme&id=527&idSub=17 where she did a BHL symposium presentation (presented by Siobhan and Sabine von Mering as Carmen Ulloa was ill) - Ulloa Amplifying Women-IBC Madrid4.pptx
Natural History Museum, London & Kew staff “Wikidata is the way” presentation - https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12741776
Three Wikimania presentations about work undertaken which was reliant on or made use of BHL content or identifiers
I've also been preparing for her WANZ funded attendance at SPNHC TDWG and her presentation on Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions, interviewing candidates for the Biodiversity Heritage Library wikimedian in residence, continuing to work on the Hidden Figures CURE to get it published as well as the scholarly article to get it advertised to the education community, continuing to work on the Women Genera project writing up the scholarly article on the analysis of the data, and preparing two upcoming Wellington based NZ species editathons with Christine and Heidi.
  • Wainuiomartian: I had a look at the documents for the scientific expedition editathon that was held at Te Papa, and thought I'd see if I could add anything. I have expanded the page for the Whitney South Sea Expedition, becoming completely obsessed by the journals written by the expedition members. Help needed with the infobox and a few other things.
  • Marshelec has been going round in circles !.
During a visit to Melbourne in July, we went down to Geelong, and walked around the waterfront. There was a major redevelopment of the waterfront from 1996, and a key feature was the creation of a steel and glass pavilion enclosing a fully-restored Victorian era carousel. We took a ride on the carousel.[1] I was amazed by the work that had gone into restoring this vintage machine, and have created a draft article: Draft:Geelong Carousel. I hope to get feedback on this draft from the city authorities who own and operate the carousel, but if there is no reply to my enquiry, I will publish it anyway. After researching the Geelong Carousel, I found that there is an even older fully-restored carousel at Melbourne Zoo (must see this on my next visit). I have created and published a new article: Melbourne Zoo Carousel. There is also a particularly fancy restored carousel at Luna Park in Melbourne, so I may carry on with this theme and prepare yet another carousel article.:)
On a slightly more serious note, I have made a small contribution to improving Hikurangi Trough - an article about a major submarine trench structure off the east coast of New Zealand. I have also continued expansion of the new article Mawaihakona Stream, and additions to Maidstone Park. I have expanded the article Bushy Park (New Zealand), and nominated it for GA. Hopefully someone will offer to review it reasonably soon.
I have recently promoted an idea for prompting improvements to NZ-related articles that are clearly important (and have high page-views), but where the quality of the article (or parts of it) is disappointing. The idea is that through its various communication channels, WANZ will promote a monthly "article for improvement". This would be a "call for action", drawing attention to the need for improvement – particularly for articles with high page-views. We could also invite people to submit their suggestions for articles for improvement, to go into the queue for promotion. I have prepared a list of articles that could be considered, and the first of these is likely to be Kiwi (bird). It gets a huge number of page-views but is incomplete.
Drafting article on Ethel Hackworth, the first female Fellow of the NZ Society of Accountants and all round good sort in the community. Doing some Turnbull Names Mix'n' Match which can be surprisingly interesting at times. Working with Siobhan and Heidi on planning the NZ Species Editathon; prepared a grant application for consideration by WANZ committee. Interesting site referred to me by Gertrude206: https://memoriesintime.co.nz/pages/the-hidden-women-project
  • Stitchbird2 (talk): Heidi has been at the same conferences as Siobhan that are listed above (IBC and Wikimania, see links above!), and continuing to work on the IBC Wikidata Project to write up the scholarly article we have been invited to write about Wikidata for Botanists in the journal Annals of Botany, and preparing two upcoming Wellington based NZ species editathons with Christine and Siobhan (see below){support from Wellington Wikipedians would be most welcome). I also did an hour-long live editing demo to 4th year Entomology students at Massey University to teach them how to create a Wikipedia page for a NZ species of insect for an assignment for their course. I need to get back into an editing routine now that I'm back in NZ after one month overseas at conferences!
  • Einebillion (talk) has been working on the Wikiproject Women photographers dataset.
  • Jon (talk)
has been a bit snowed lately but the musical instruments photography project is going ahead at 8.30 am(!) at the Pariwhero Studio in Owhiro Bay next Saturday (7 September).

Future events

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

Content Projects that need help

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  • Content: Kelly Tarlton Today, a notice was posted on the Wikipedia Aotearoa Facebook group page: Hello Wiki NZ - I'm in receipt of a whole lot of background content about Kelly Tarlton from his daughter Fiona, who is hoping to get his Wiki page updated/corrected. Unfortunately I don't have ANY spare time at the moment and can't get to it. Anyone want to take it on as a project? The content will take a bit of unpicking, but it's all interesting. If nobody here wants to do it I'll let Fiona know ASAP so she can approach someone else. Edited to add: Fiona feels there is some urgency, as the existing Wiki article includes wrong information. Is there anyone who would like to take this on, and improve the article about this notable New Zealander ?_Marshelec (talk) 08:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Marshelec: I'm happy to help, even if it's initially just removing the incorrect information for now, which gives us time to go through material after (can it be cited?) Jon (talk) 02:13, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    @Jonathanischoice Hi, that's really great. Thanks for offering. Perhaps it might be necessary to get face-to-face with the person who holds the records, but I guess you can start out by discovering what the sources are. The original request came via the Wikipedia Aotearoa NZ private Facebook page. I think you are a member of that page, so you should be able to find the post from Kirsten Hughes from a few days ago, and take things from there. If you can't access this, let me know, and I will try and set up contact. It would be great to hear how this goes, and I will watch the page :). Thanks again._Marshelec (talk) 09:23, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Content: 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. Mix'n'match dataset.
Project Contacts: DrThneed
  • Content: WikiProject New Zealand Women Photographers - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by a group of Te Papa editors. Others welcome to join us. It builds on the research dataset released openly on data.govt.nz and the book Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New zealand 1860 - 1960 published by Te Papa Press.

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

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

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  • Otari-Wilton's Bush / NZ Species Editathon The organising group is Stitchbird, Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss. Dates booked are: Saturday 19 October and Saturday 2 November 2024.The venue is Leonard Cockayne Centre, Otari-Wilton's Bush.Wellington City Council are very supportive. An application to WANZ for funding has been submitted.
  • Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?

Good Article / Featured Article Work

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  • Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article. User:Wainuiomartian has substantially expanded the article and added photos. Anybody have any ideas for further improvement? A picture of the Henry Moore sculpture?

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

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  • GLAMwiki Newsletter: [2] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.

Outcomes

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 28 September 2024 , same time, place in National Library to be confirmed
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