Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 2 September 2023

Wellington Meetup 2 September 2023

• Date: Saturday 2 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
• Stitchbird2 (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• Quilt Phase
  
• Noracrentiss (talk)
• B'art homme
• Wainuiomartian (talk)

Unable to come

• Chocmilk03 (talk) – out of town this weekend, unfortunately
• Gertrude206

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

• Avocadobabygirl (talk) is prepping a new Mix n Match dataset of Te Papa agents. Also working on getting the Tala Wiki group in to use the museum's resources (and hopefully staff) for an edit-a-thon about Pasifika artists, and investigating matching Kōtuia directory data up to Wikidata. Talking with Auckland Museum folk with strategy focus etc.
• Marshelec helped with responses to the GA review of Matiu / Somes Island. Also led the GA reviews of Serpent (instrument) and Soprano trombone (all three articles have now passed). Also worked in WP:AFC. Helped improve and then accepted HIT Lab NZ, Richard Waugh (writer), and Luke Bird. Worked on several articles related to the weekly RNZ programme Critter of the Week, and helped a new editor to create and publish a bio about the artist Walter Armiger Bowring.

Also supported an Australian editor with work on Draft:Forestry Building, Hobart. Made major improvements to Haast, New Zealand. Also prepared Draft:Simon Keller about a professor and head of department at Victoria University. Helped with some preparatory work for the forthcoming West Coast Wikipedian at Large project being led by Giantflightlessbirds. Also working with Wainuiomartian on further improvements to articles about Wellington Harbour and the port.

• Ambrosia10 - had meeting with Auckland museum folk this week, is working on Women Genera project, Hidden Figures CURE Wikidata module, Wikidata WikiProject Research expeditions, a presentation to the Entomology Collections Network annual conference, and a keynote to the Australian Citizen Science conference.
• Einebillion (talk) has been settling back in after attending Wikimania and a week's holiday in Singapore. Has been doing a little bit of Alexander Turnbull Library mix'n'match and committee work.
• Stitchbird2 (talk) is recovering from an amazing Wikimania Singapore 2023. Co-presented a talk at Wikimania with Avocadobabygirl, wrote up my conference notes on this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2023_WANZ, and made over 200 iNat observations whilst in Singapore (all photos CC BY of course). Need to write up our report for WANZ (who funded Lucy and I go to to Wikimania) & also Te Papa (who supported this as a work trip).

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

4. Good Article / Featured Article Work

Our focus article was: Matiu / Somes Island. It has now passed GA :). With many thanks to the nominator Wainuiomartian and GA reviewer Jonathanischoice.

Should we choose another article ?

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

• 30 September 2023, same time, same place