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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 28[edit]

  • Date: Sunday 18 September 2022
  • Time: midday to 2pm
  • Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
    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). The Jitsi web-based video conferencing platform is 100% open source and fully encrypted. No account is needed and it's free.
  • Cost: Free

Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference[edit]

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an 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 into 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.

Chat for sharing pastes, URLs and so on[edit]

The Jitsi video conferencing platform has a chat feature. This is used to share URLs and other commentary while the discussions are occurring. The facilitators may take a copy to help with writing up outcomes from the meeting on the meeting Wikipedia page. Any copies will be deleted once outcomes and notes are completed.

Future Meetups[edit]

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online 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.

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Agenda and Notes[edit]

1. Introduction to meet up by organisers

2. Wikimedia User Group of Aoteaora New Zealand Update and Discussion (15 minutes)

Comms Channels
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc (WANZ) update
  • Funding grant application for 2022/23 successful
  • Note: Transparency of meeting agendas and minutes is limited at the moment due to a lack of a website for WANZ. This is being worked on to make them publicly available. If you want copies please contact secretary-at-wikimedia.nz.
Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2022
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.
Anything to update / discuss?
  • Checking in on who will be attending in person the Ada Lovelace Day in Wellington. -Marshelec not sure as he may have other commitments. Avocadobabygirl will be attending.
  • Regarding Māori Wikipedia Jim suggested scholarships to Celtic Knot Conference if we can find folk who are interested.

3. Wiki News – add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

  • Zeborah, DrThneed and Ambrosia10 presented on the NZ Thesis Project to the NZ Academic Library Institutional Repository Day 2022 conference. Slides can be found here. Ambrosia10 has also started a GLAM newsletter draft for September informing the international community about this update. See the draft GLAM newsletter here. Also included a section on the Te Papa forget-me-not project. If there are other GLAM related projects/content please add it to the draft.
  • Avocadobabygirl will talk about Te Papa's pilot project to share collections and curatorial knowledge on Wikipedia, Wiki Commons, and Wikidata, starting with Aotearoa's native forget-me-nots. In her presentation Avocadobabygirl pointed out that where Te papa staff put their efforts will in some way be guided by the community needs so feedback would be very gratefully received. If the Aotearoa NZ community have particular wants we should definitely let her know. The pilot project has been a challenge but an enjoyable one for staff. Progress and documentation is underway in anticipation of their upcoming upload of images via OpenRefine into WikiCommons. One of the challenges is the ontologies for the Structured Data on Commons metadata accompanying the images as very few natural history institutions appear to have done work in this space. A blog post has been written about the project and Avocadobabygirl gave a link to an example Wikipedia article the Te Papa botany curator has been working on. Avocadobabygirl also gave a link to some examples of images that are intended to be uploaded and a link to the project page with the proposed Structured Data on Commons (SDC) ontology. She welcomes any outreach or feedback on any of this work and can be reached at this email lucy.schrader "at" tepapa.govt.nz.

4. Round table for participants to say what you’re working on and if you need help to do anything or want anything demonstrated – You can add requests for help here prior to the meeting if you want

  • Ambrosia10 - I've been helping organise the Ada Lovelace Day Editathon. I will be attending the BioDigiCon on the 28 to the 30th of September. It's a conference associated with iDigBio (therefore mainly but not exclusively attended by folk in the US) and is aimed at Biodiversity data. This is the community I've been engaging with for a few years, encourage them to use Wikidata and also round trip their data. One of the sessions I'm interested in attending is about "Integrating Wikidata into collection management software". There is also another session about "Including Indigenous Metadata in Collection Records".

I have also accepted an invitation to be the Wikidata support person for a workshop on the 5th of October "Using Wikidata to capture and share information about paleontological collecting sites". A group of Museum professionals and palaeontologists will be up skilling on Wikidata and how to create items for sites and expeditions. I've previously assisted this community with a workshop on getting collectors into Wikidata and have collaborated with them on producing documentation on this.
On the 18th of October I will be attending TDWG the Biodiversity Informatics conference that Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand has funded me to attend and intend to report back to the community after that conference with a report.
I've also accepted invitations to run two workshops next year at two conferences - one at the Association of Southeastern Biologists Conference at Winston-Salem North Carolina and the other at the Botanical Society of America Botany Conference 2023 in Boise Idaho exposing attendees to Wikidata. I'll be running workshops that mainly concentrate on the website Bionomia.net but this also ensures that people will also get interested in Wikidata as that is how collectors are added to Bionomia if they are deceased.
I'm now regularly meeting ie once a week with a group of American college educators to produce an education module entitled "Hidden Figures". This involves a workflow I use to get collectors or GLAM professionals involved in biodiversity work into Wikidata and then into Bionomia.net connecting collectors to specimens they have collected via linked open data.
I've been working on enriching the data about the women who are in our Plant Genera named after Women project. We're now meeting to start drafting a scholarly article about our research.
I've been having meetings with the Biodiversity Heritage Library and staff helping to advocate for them to engage a Wikipedian in Residence. They seem keen. BHL has paid for 10 staff from its partner institutions to undertake the WikiEd course and I've offered to support them if needed. I'm having a meeting with them in November.
As for actual wiki work - I've been editing Wikipedia pages adding information on theses for the NZ Thesis project, I've been doing Wikidata work particularly the BHL creator ids, Harvard Index of Botanists and also the Entomologists of the World datasets. I've also been doing a small amount of editing on reserves around Wellington, improving Wikidata items and Wikipedia articles - of which there are few!

  • DrThneed I presented the NZThesisProject at the Institutional Repositories day, along with with Zeborah and Ambrosia10, and attended a bunch of the other talks, which gave me some useful understanding of how the theses fit into other library workflows. Zeborah and I will be using a small dataset of 55 theses from a 14th NZ institution to test our process for getting people to clean and upload their own thesis data. We will also be working on a process for assisting institutions to continue to upload thesis data. I have been assisting a librarian in the US to get her institution's theses into Wikidata using OpenRefine, and have been sharing Sparql queries with the metadata librarian at LSE. I continue to work between times on matching authors and advisors and adding subjects, and intend to turn my attention to adding statements about copyright and access to the thesis items in the next couple of weeks.

Schwede66 asked about getting NZ Rhodes scholars into Wikidata, so I scraped a list and have been matching them to Wikidata. There is a little Mixnmatch catalogue for the remaining scholars if anyone would like to help - only 60 items left to go! In non-Wikidata work, I will be meeting the manager of Olveston (a council-owned historic house & museum round the corner from me) next week about getting some pictures and sources to improve their Wikipedia page. I wrote three pages for NZ Director-Generals of Education (Bill Renwick, in collaboration with Schwede66, Keith Sheen and Ned Dobbs) and have had two DYKs with one more to come.

  • Marshelec continuing to work mostly on articles related to the recent WP:GLAM/WestCoastWPAL/2022 project, with a particular focus on Wangapeka Track, Heaphy Track, Gates of Haast, Haast Pass, Ship Creek (New Zealand), but have also added a bit to New Zealand falcon. Also made a small update to Foulden Maar . Have done a small amount on Wikisource as part of the West Coast Taskforce. Also involved in work for our new Incorporated Society Wikipedia Aotearoa NZ Inc, in establishing a new bank account and drafting various policies to guide the operation of the new entity.--Marshelec (talk) 23:31, 17 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Avocadobabygirl introduced herself as the Digital Channels outreach person of Te Papa. She's aiming to encourage the use of Te Papa content in various Wiki projects including English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons. She'll be giving information on the pilot project Te Papa is undertaking on Aotearoa Forget-me-nots at the Wikinews section of todays meeting.
  • Paora gave a poroporoaki to the Queen and notable New Zealanders who have died in the past month. He has been doing a lot of editing in Wikipedia as a result of the Queen dying, including the resulting turning of "Queen's Counsel" into "King's Counsel". He's also been working on uploading photographs from recent investiture ceremonies.
  • MargaretRDonald has been doing biota work and begs people to attempt to disambiguate authors and other such people in Wikidata, particularly for their scholarly publications. Also been collaborating with other editors to clean up biota wikipedia pages that aren't well linked.
  • Jim Hayes WMDC - Attended the US National Book Festival and working on the Fellows of the American Association of Science in Wikidata. Also working in Wikisource. Been interviewed by a digital sociologist researching the gender gap and efforts to close it in Wikipedia.
  • Oronsay - her recovery from COVID has ensured she's becoming prolific again! She's been doing Wikidata work, constraint violation fixing, working on NZ Thesis folk etc.
  • Beeswaxcandle - has been working on Wikisource and in particular the index to the dictionary of music and musicians. Up to "u" so end is in sight but 1000s of linked needed. Also the Libravox publication of Rambles in New Zealand has been published and he's planning on doing another NZ book soon. He's submitted a couple of abstracts for the ESEAP Conference in Sydney
  • David Nind - he's been working in Wikidata and also doing mix'n'match.

5. Review of questions raised during round table

  • Paora - asked about how comprehensive the thesis project was. DrThneed explained it depended on the institutions themselves as we uploaded only the data they gave us. Some of it was comprehensive from some institutions, others not so much. The hope is that once it is shown to be worthwhile the academic librarians in the institutions will upload more metadata themselves.

6. Further discussion

  • Discussion raised by Marshelec about the committee of the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc reviewing strategy. One of the questions is where should we focus our effort in future periods. If we can get some agreement on high priority aims in English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikisource then these could be incorporated in strategy/ plans and future grant applications. As one example of an area of need he raised the generally poor standard of coverage of NZ national parks in Wikipedia. DrThneed suggested all the people who had been awarded honours while Beeswaxcandle suggested the transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society which is in WikiSource now. David Nind pointed out that Papers Past has had them transcribed see this. Ambrosia10 suggested a repository for things needed to be worked on and Beeswaxcandle suggested placing it in Meta. Marshelec supported this idea but said the User Group meta page is possibly in the process of transforming into the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand meta page.
  • Discussion about 2023 February WikiCon Wellington as Beeswaxcandle would like dates to be decided on as a result of family commitments. Ambrosia10 explained the main issue is getting a venue. This lead Avocadobabygirl to explain that as part of her job she will be liaising with the Te Papa events and outreach folk to work out the best way to organise events that may be including of Wiki folk.

[Not reported at the meeting: Pakoire and Gertrude206 visited the Parliamentary Library on 16 Sept to view potential rooms and facilities for the WikiCon.]

Outcomes[edit]

  • Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.
  • Organisation time - note taking by Ambrosia10 during the meeting 1.5hr . Transferring notes to meeting agenda and comms after completion = 1hrs.

Next meeting and Meetup timetables[edit]

  • 16 October 2022, same time, same place


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