Under COVID Alert Level Orange or Red the group meet via video conference call. However, now the definition of COVID alert level Orange has settled a number of the community are interested in going back to in person meet ups and we will be going back on a trial basis for this session. If you do NOT wish to go back to in person meet up please add your name here or contact Einebillion so that a consensus can be met.
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1. Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us) Newbies to the meetup included:
2. Round table for participants to say what you’re working on
3. Progress on Action Points and future events
4. Further discussion on getting to Good Article / Featured Article status.
| Candidate article | Page views (last 30 days) |
Pro | Con | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | 43,000 | Rated Top importance. It’s our place, so we can feel committed to the work. It is already B class. Additional sources should not be too hard to find. Other NZ and Australian city pages are only at B grade at most. It would be great to have Wellington at GA. Probably doesn’t require “specialist knowledge” to review or develop new content | Some of it is written more like a travel advertisement, and needs toning down.
It is rather long (8,470 words of “readable prose”), so getting it all improved to GA level is a really large task (however, it is already in sections that could be divided amongst a small group to share the work). Some aspects may be controversial, leading to protracted debates. Lots of people will consider they are experts on Wellington 😊 There has been lots of discussion/alteration related to the city/ metro area (maybe we spin out a new article on the Wellington metro area as a solution ?) | |
| Tangiwai disaster | 2.960 | Rated High importance. Train was on Wellington-Auckland journey. Major national disaster, receiving international coverage. Many of the dead were probably from Wellington. Lots of good sources available. Large memorial in Karori cemetery | ||
| Te Papa | 1,634 | Rated High Importance. Major visitor attraction in Wellington. Notable as National Museum | ||
| Women's suffrage in New Zealand | 1,539 | Rated High importance. Article is already C class. NZ was (is ?) a world leader. Lots of sources available to cite. Work on this article would broadly align with intentions to address inequality in coverage. | There is a possible difficulty: some of the existing content may perhaps be off-topic, covering wider issues beyond suffrage (the right to vote), such as women being entitled to hold political office, incl being appointed as Prime Minister. I have now found that the topic of women holding political office is covered extensively at Women in New Zealand, so a first step might be to reduce the overlap in content. I note in passing that at present, Women in New Zealand does not mention our female Governor Generals, or list them as notable women. This is a significant gap. | |
| Zealandia (wildlife sanctuary) | 688 | Rated mid-importance. Said to be a world leading initiative. Major contributor to Wellington tourism. Major contributor to recovery of native birdlife in Wellington. Large numbers of sources found in search of Google Scholar. Not likely to be controversial | Presentation of photos needs tidying up (and some culling perhaps) | |
| Matiu / Somes Island | 607 | Rated mid-importance. Many Wellingtonians see this island every day, but know little about its fascinating history, or its current status as a scientific reserve. The existing article has many gaps, but there will be many sources that would help us expand it. Probably doesn’t need specialist knowledge. Small enough in scope that we would hopefully not get bogged down. Not likely to be particularly controversial | Relatively small audience at present. Page views are similar to the articles for the Wellington suburbs of Karori and Khandallah | |
| Kohekohe | 557 | Notable type of tree in Wellington region | Only Start class at present | |
| Old Government Buildings, Wellington | 448 | Rated High importance. Iconic building | Only Start class at present – a long way to go | |
| Wellington green gecko | 121 | It would probably be a reasonably short article, even at GA level, so this could mean a lot less work is needed compared with a large article like Wellington. Not likely to be particularly contentious. Mary says “a search of Google Scholar retrieved 36 items” | Existing article is only Start class (long way to go). It is rated Low importance. It’s not drawing much of an audience. Possibly may be difficult to find lots of new sources to cite, making it hard to substantially expand the article. May require some specialist knowledge to draw out key points |
Group to decided that Matiu / Somes Island will be the next focus.
5. Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of
6. Demonstration of a tool
7. Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting