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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

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Quilt Phase (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to come

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

2. Do we want to join MeetUp or similar platforms

Ambrosia10 suggests the group thinks about how we would like to advertise ourselves now we have access to funding to help us do this. The first suggestion she has is to join MeetUp. There were two people who turned up last meeting (unfortunately aiming for the writers group) that came along because of MeetUp advertising. This costs around $10 a month. Is there an alternative that might suit us better? Ideally we want a platform that is used by a lot of people that is a click and forget sort of platform. Do we want to trial it for 6 months? Are there other places we can advertise our group? If we are advertising ourselves she also suggests we plan and lock in our meetings for next year for consistency. Now the group is bigger, more consitent and also can run independent of Ambrosia10 & Einebillion if neither can make it, I think it would be a good idea to make the meeting times and place certain. Also what about signage? Do folk have any ideas about that - something easy to transport and to put outside the room when we meet. Maybe more than one as then the duties of bringing it can be shared. Perhaps a general sign sort of thing so it can also be used for editathons? Anyone have ideas?

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

  • Ambrosia10 - has presented at the Victoria University of Wellington - women and gender minorities in science club. Will be presenting at the Wikimedia Foundation end of year function. Has been preparing for TDWG.
  • Avocadobabygirl - Loaded Te Papa agents to Mix n Match, and lots of new matches have been made! Those are being roundtripped back, plus we're thinking about other properties we can steal. Released a stack of images of Te Papa's interior/exterior, plus one of our Kaihautū. Project to load images of arachnid type specimens is coming along.

3. Progress on Action Points and future events

Event planning for this and all of next year

  • Ambrosia10 proposes a 15min discussion around planning engagement events for the next few months and then into next year. At the Aotearoa New Zealand meetup it was emphasised that applications from the community for funding support for meetups or Wiki-related campaigns were encouraged. I'd like us as a group to have a discussion about possible events until the end of the year and to start planning a range of proposed editathons and events next year - hopefully specific events with a focus to educated the public about editing Wikipedia, to encourage new editors, or events to improve content. Any ideas welcome. Whatever the group is enthusiastic about would make a great editathon!

WikidataCon 2023

WikidataCon 2023 is open for registration. Virtual tickets are free. See this link to register.

Other events/projects

  • 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
  • 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

Dashboard information

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.
Ambrosia10 has created a new campaign dashboard for any New Zealand organised events. See this link for the dashboard and you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard.

4. Good Article / Featured Article Work

  • Decision to be made about the suggestions for a Wellington related article to get to Good or Featured Article status. Suggestions include St. James Theatre, Wellington? Perhaps top Wellington tourist attractions? Recognise some have a conflict of interest but Te Papa is the top attraction and editors with a conflict could make suggestions in the talk page. The second most notable attraction according to trip advisor is Zealandia which obviously has also played a massive role in improving Wellington's biodiversity. Otari-Wilton's Bush is another tourist attraction that should be relatively easy to get to at least good status as a book, Ōtari: Two hundred years of Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush, has recently been published and is available at libraries. This might also feed into the New Zealand history curriculum resources if we ensure the history section is expanded. We could also emphasis the work that goes on in the garden that feeds into scholarly research about New Zealand endemic plants.

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

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. Marshelec said last meeting he would work on it but if others are interested please chip in!

6. Demonstration of a tool

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

  • 28 October 2023, same time, same place
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