Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/7

An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Eveybody's welcome. We have the following focus areas for this meeting:

1. NZ Heritage #3 (report about the state of the project and what's next - Podzemnik)

2. Collaboration with Stuff and upcoming editathon on Sat 29 Feb

3. Macrons and Wikidata – what can we do at this point

Date: Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Time: 7:00 pm onwards
Location: Smash Palace, 172 High Street

Venue

Smash Palace at 172 High Street will host us in their ground floor room. We have access to their data projector so if we want to learn from one another, we can project a 'how to'.

People

Attending

1. Podzemnik (talk) 22:45, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
2. MurielMary (talk) 19:22, 20 January 2020 (UTC) - sorry, likely to be late (will maybe get there at 7.30pm)
3. Schwede66 04:13, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
4. Ratso56 (talk) 21:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Unable to come

1. Herewhy

Agenda

• Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand - briefing on:
  • New logo
  • Press release
  • WLM 2020
  • Email database
  • Website
  • An exemplary project we'll work together - connection between Wikidata, Commons and Wikipedia. Public statues in Christchurch? Churches in Christchurch? Heritage buildings in Christchurch?
• Event on Photos for Wikipedia? (Michal)
• WikiGap event? (Heather) (see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap)

What to bring

• Laptop. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads. There is one spare computer you may use if you don't have a laptop, but BYO if you can.
• Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to the heritage buildings you're interested in.
• Photos you've taken, especially of buildings that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Preparation

1. If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
2. The more you prepare, the more you'll be able to get done. You may want to read up on avoiding common mistakes, but Wikipedia has a "don't bite the newbies" policy, and we'll be there to troubleshoot.
3. Have a think about topics you'd like to work on; do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an expert; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can help improve Wikipedia. The best candidates for Wikipedia articles are buildings that are "notable". In Wikipedia terms, "notable" usually means they're been covered in a number of reliable independent sources, such as news, books, authoritative websites, or newspapers. We can assume that Category I buildings are inherently notable.
4. If you want to bring photos along and add them to Wikipedia, they need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. (What's Creative Commons?) If not, you must be the creator/copyright holder – ask us if you're not certain what's allowed, and we'll help. We will ask you who holds the copyright for all your photos, so make sure you know!

Outcomes

• Ratso to contact Christchurch Libraries team who are digitising archival photographs to explore possible collaboration.
• Schwede working on getting a conclusion to the macron RfC.
• Discussed the FindingGLAMs Challenge: ideal to have a page listing GLAMs in Canterbury with red and blue links listed, and then have an event to write the redlinked articles/expand the blue articles.

Next event/keeping in touch

• Next event is a FindingGLAM editathon focusing on Canterbury GLAM institutions: Thursday 20 February 2020, 7.30pm onwards at Smash Palace
• Following event is an editathon focusing on Stuff.co.nz and related companies, publications and people: Saturday 29 February 2020, 1pm to 4pm at Press House, 158 Gloucester Street, Christchurch
• Next meetup is Tuesday 3 March 2020, 7pm at Smash Palace

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