- Date: Saturday 3 September 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.
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.
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.
This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.
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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
- Wainuiomartian She has been working on state housing articles and having fun creating and expanding them.
- Pakoire - a little bit of editing, rather than organising. Wainuiomata article. Planning to go to a conference in Sydney, talk about a project. Airfares - applied for rapid grant for airfares and accommodation. Also over ESAP - expenses - accommodation etc for NZ Aotearoa group. Question about presentation. STEAM woman editathon in October. Question reference things that aren’t books etc. Cite template info. link to Rapid grant for going to WOW in Sydney.
- User:Marshelec has been continuing with work on West Coast articles as part of the WPAL2022 project. Has also been working in Wikisource on proofreading or validating pages of books as part of the West Coast taskforce [1]. Also working on admin tasks for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc, including developing policies and applying for a bank account for the Society.
- Ambrosia10 - working on organising Ada Lovelace Day editathon, meeting with Te Papa about their Wikicommons bulk uploads, meeting with Stitchbird2 tutoring her on Wikipedia and Wikidata, has submitted her article on Wikidata to the Linnean Society of London editor and it will be edited and then published in their upcoming news letter, is currently meeting with QUBES Biome hidden figures group to create course materials for undergraduates using Wikidata and BionomiaTracker workflow, has had nibbles about running several workshops on Wikidata at two American conferences - more will be discussed on this in the near future, also a possibility of attending a meetup in relation to WeDigBio work, co authored scholarly article which has a Wikidata element has finally been accepted after the review process and going to be published - will let folk know on facebook & twitter when the article is actually published, is working with her Women and Genera project group (which is used Wikidata) as they are now starting to written up research and work as a scholarly paper, Thesis of NZ work adding citations of theses to Wikipedia articles AND Mix’n’match work on NZ Thesis authors, as well as a entomologist dataset and the Harvard Index of Botanists dataset. Occasional moth articles editing.
- Gertrude206 - has been working on an article about Blanche Baughan and is currently waiting for access to her newly published biography in order to expand it further.
- Einebillion - has been doing significant administration and committee work. Setting up new Wiki meetup pages. The Committee are circulating the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc strategy document needs feedback. PLEASE DO THIS! Has been having discussions about Te Papa can support this Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Digital channels group continues to meet with Ambrosia10 and implementing that workflow for adding content. Also Tuhunga publication peer review journal is being added to Wikidata - most recent year needs to be done but progress is being made.
- Jonathanischoice working on brass instrument articles and making good progress. Has recently convinced a dealer of instruments to openly license his images which helps enrich the articles with photos. Has also been creating diagrams (lead to a discussion with Marshelec about how to do this. Also discussed using the CiteQ template which interested other editors in the group.
- AtticEdit - Duck stamp illustration competition every year and she's been doing editing million dollar duck stamp. She also pointed out that the Compassion NZ article needs work. If an editor could please help as she has a conflict of interest but would like the sources improved so the warning template of the article can be removed. Sources can be found in the Wikipedia talk page of Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion as their archivist has made a new list of sources. Also mentioned that when the Poet Laureate was announced both her and Chocmilk03edited pages at the same time!
- Long discussion on open access publishing and latest report from Office of Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor. See this report, public domain photography being restricted by Nelson Provincial Museum, success in getting images of brass instrument photography being assigned CC BY by photographer. Questions were asked about WikiCommons markup for public domain images in both New Zealand and the US. The templates are the Public Domain New Zealand template and the Public Domain in the US as a result of being in the public domain of the source country as at 1996 template.
- Gertrude206 mentioned that the The British Newspaper Archive can be accessed for free at the National library although you'd need to create an account. The Times digital archive can be accessed through the Wellington public library website.
3. Progress on Action Points and future events
- Don't forget to add your program to the 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 - see the Project Page for links. Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10. Update: There will be a meeting next week where Zeborah, DrThneed, and Ambrosia10 will be presenting to a conference of New Zealand academic librarians about the project, and asking for more thesis data if the librarian's institutions have it. Also as a result of this project there has been an approach by a librarian at the Hocken Collections wanting to discuss with us about them wanting to do more in the Wiki space.
- ::*2022 October Ada Lovelace Editathon, Wellington Pakoire and Ambrosia10 will work with AtticEdit organising. Scheduled for 8 October 11am - 2pm. Update: Group have organised a project page, a dashboard, communications folk at Home of Compassion have done a banner, and work was done on COVID advice for the event. A quote is being obtained from catering and other needs such as masks etc. Discussion about advertising event is underway and the organising people will be meeting on September 9th to finalise these details. Once organisers have all the quotes in for needs and a general quote is available, the organisers will email the secretary hoping to obtain a fundraising grant from the committee so that they can to order supplies and catering for the event. This will happen after on or around the 9th of September. The meeting will also be used to brainstorm a communication strategy. Lisa suggested reaching out to DrThneed for her email list from the last Ada Lovelace editathon to let organisations know we are holding the event.
- 2023 February The Postponed Wellington WikiCon Tentatively rescheduled for February 2023. Dependent on success of grant from Wikimedia Foundation. Noting also that there maybe an Australian Wikicon in the same month. There was a discussion on this and the group decided were worried about the quality of the wifi at Otari-Wilton bush. Instead it was decided to sound out the Parliamentary Services about using the Parliamentary Library for an editathon. Pakoire will reach out to them. Einebillion will also see if Te Papa is able to provide a venue.
- Visit to Parliamentary Librarians Any update from Pakoire?
4. Good Article / Featured Article Work
The next focus article is: Matiu / Somes Island - No discussion on this at the meeting.
5. Wikicon Wellington Discussion
Audience Group agreed that the Wikicon in February is for editors that have some experience. Newbies should be encouraged to attend a training session that could be run a week or fortnight prior. This information should be included in the promotional material.
Duration Group agreed that the Wikicon should be over two days and should start later on the Saturday to ensure those that arrive by flights in the morning have time to get to the location.
Presentation ideas Group brainstormed options for the programme.
- Manager of Otari Wilton’s Bush could be invited to talk about 3 to 5 of their selected rare plants and then take the group into the bush to show them the specimens.
- DrThneed could be invited to talk about the Thesis project
- Ambrosia10 could be invited to talk about species boxes / info boxes including template creation and how the templates works with Wikidata.
- Avocadobabygirl could be invited to talk about Te Papa’s Wikimedia Commons project
- Beeswaxcandle or Giantflightlessbirds could be invited to deliver a Wikisource tutorial
- Project lead for Te Papa’s Spencer Digby Ronald D. Woolf project could be invited to present on how a digitisation project works and show what resources are available for the community to use.
- An editor could be invited to discuss how to get books into Wikidata and how to use Cite-Q
- How many newish editors will attend? Do we need a general introduction to all Wikimedia Foundation projects? Ambrosia10 has a presentation that was delivered to the Auckland Wikicon last year.
Support for Presenters. Group agreed that the Wikicon funding should include paying for the travel and accommodation of speakers.
Action points: Ask Ambrosia10 whether she could coordinate contacting speakers and book the venue. - Progress?
Next Steps and progress
- Venue confirmation
- Registration set up
- Covid safety
- Food preferences / allergies
- Disability accommodation - is the venue wheelchair accessible, options for hard of hearing,
- Communication and promotion including programme, event listing, Wiki pages, comms channels
- Catering
- Transport
- Accommodation recommendation
- Speaker confirmation
- Programme confirmation
- There was a discussion on this and the group decided they were worried about the quality of the wifi at Otari-Wilton bush. Instead it was decided to sound out the Parliamentary Services about using the Parliamentary Library for an editathon. Pakoire will reach out to them via email. The attendees of the group were all very enthusiastic about that venue if we could get permission. As a backup Einebillion will also see if Te Papa is able to provide a venue. The group expressed a desire for a venue to be confirmed that had great Wifi. If Parliament was agreed on it was suggested that the conference organisers reach out to * Schwede66 as editing Wikipedia from Parliament Wifi could cause an issue.
6. Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of
7. Demonstration of a tool
- Two meetings ago attendees wanted a "how to" on Barnstars. Meeting attendees had their attention drawn to the "how to" page and have been handing out barn-stars in appreciation of work done by editors.
8. Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting
Admin: Ambrosia10 working 1.5 hrs doing agenda notes, links etc
Next meeting and Meetup timetables
- 1 October 2022, same time, same place