Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 30 September 2023

Wellington Meetup 30 September 2023

• Date: Saturday 30 September 2023
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Programmes Room (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of 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

The group meet in the Programmes Room 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

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 three 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.

• Einebillion (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk

Unable to come

• Marshelec (talk) - competing in National Road Relay champs today

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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 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

• 2023 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant Wikimedia Australia in partnership with Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand announced their 2023 Wikidata fellows Alistair Kwan, Brodie Hoare, and Mike Dickison.

• 2023 August 16-19 Wikimania, Singapore and online A number of the Wellington group have received scholarships to travel. The highlights noted by attendees from Aotearoa New Zealand can be found at this link and playlists of all the videoed sessions can be found at this link.

• Parliamentary Library The library has had it's Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. They are in the process of developing their project. Possible workshop and training might eventuate. Pakoire

Requests for Edits

• Ambrosia10 has had a request from Naomi Arnold for the Quota Management System article to be improved. She's sent us this resource that may be of interest if someone wants to edit that article

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 28 October 2023, same time, same place