Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 9 July 2022

Wellington Meetup 9 July 2022

Date: Saturday 9 July 2022
Time: 10:00 am to midday
Location: Under COVID Alert Level ORANGE or 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 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 ORANGE or GREEN): a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue

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

Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference

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

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

Attending

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and four tildes like this: * ~~~~ It's important to add your name as we are tracking attendence and reporting numbers back to Wikimedia Foundation as metric of the impact of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

Unable to come

Marshelec (talk) -- Sorry I cannot make this one. I am the race director for a club race that afternoon.
Einebillion (talk) - family commitments.

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

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

3. Progress on Action Points and future events

Don't forget to add your 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 contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page.

New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. Project Page, Project Dashboard. There is a google spreasheet of theses authors with Wikipedia pages who need their theses adding to their page if folk want to work on this during #1Lib1Ref. Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10
2022 August 11-14 Wikimania 2022
2022 October Ada Lovelace Editathon, Wellington Pakoire will work with AtticEdit organising. Tentatively scheduled for weekend of 14/15 October. Still to confirm date and times. Update?
2022 November 16-18 Worlds of Wikimedia Conference, Sydney Diversity, Diaspora and Digitality
2022 November 18-20 ESEAP Conference, Sydney Regional conference for the East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific.
2023 February The Postponed Wellington WikiCon Now tentatively rescheduled for February 2023. General support funding grant from Wikimedia Foundation is in WANZ bank account. Budget is available. Who would like to be involved in the working committee to organise this? Project lead? Do we agree to set up a trello board to manage the event? Can we confirm date and location?

Group decided a two day conference on either the 18 and 19th of Feb or the 25 and 26th of February. Not enough attendees to decide on focus but need to decide on whether it is experience editors or a outreach based conference. Possibly biodiversity based around Critter of the Week, Wellington fauna, flora, people and places, Te Papa curators, people involved in biodiversity, Wellington places/reserves/rivers etc. Possibly day 2 is more organisation stuff? Hold meeting? Suggestions and discussions needed. Discussion needed about Wifi and alternative if an issue.

Visit to Parliamentary Librarians Any update from Pakoire?

4. Good Article / Featured Article Work The next focus article is: Matiu / Somes Island

Progress update?

I have created and published a new "child" article for the Matiu / Somes Island Lighthouse ---Marshelec (talk)

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

This Photographs needed in Wellington category and it's accompanying Open Street Map was brought up during a twitter exchange and I thought I'd let folk know. - Ambrosia10 (talk)
Noracrentiss reporting back and explaining we still haven't got charitable status for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc under "advancing education". We are still waiting to hear back from Charities Services for this ruling. She also explained a Comms Strategy is being developed by the board of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc. Once the website is up and running the board will be able to be more transparent with its decision making. Active work in underway on membership policy. Discussed generally how a grants fund subcommittee may operate.

6. Demonstration of a tool

Last meeting attendees wanted a "how to" on Barnstars.
Ambrosia10 wanted to show folk this Wikidata tool for generating graphs. See in particular Q1064767 compared to Q1264271! - Ambrosia10 (talk)

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

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

9 July 2022, same time, same place