Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 17 February 2024

Wellington Meetup 17 February 2024

National Library of New Zealand Programme rooms and foyer

• Date: Saturday 17 February 2024
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Programme Rooms (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 Programme Rooms 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

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The Meeting

Socially Anxious or Want to meet a Friendly Face first?

We know it can be difficult for some people to walk into a group of strangers without knowing anyone. If you'd like to meet up with a friendly face before the meeting or to have a chat to see if this group is for you please contact Dianne on info @ wikimedia.nz Dianne will be overjoyed to introduce you to one of the group who will be available to meet up with you for coffee and chat. They can also be on hand to meet you prior to the meeting and walk in with you and introduce you to the group. Whatever will make you comfortable.

Attending

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~ It's important to add your name as we are tracking attendence and reporting numbers back to Wikimedia Foundation as metric of the impact of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

• Einebillion (talk)
• Stitchbird2 (talk) 18:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
• Avocadobabygirl (talk) 01:51, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
  
• Noracrentiss
• Quilt Phase
• Porrhothele (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk)
• CopperAlchemy (talk)
• Little Cat x (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Midstrath (talk)

Unable to come

• Ambrosia10 (talk)) - Away travelling
• Gertrude206
• Pakoire - working. Have a good one!

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

Introduced Little_Cat_x to the group.

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

• Stitchbird2 (talk) 01:22, 16 February 2024 (UTC) I have been editing Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons in February, especially the following.

1) Getting back up to date with Critter of the Week, editing four species for 2024 Powelliphanta superba, Neochanna diversus, Kalotermes brouni, Tachysphex nigerrimus (plus associated Wikidata stuff and using iNat2Wiki tool[1] to import images to Commons and use in Wikipedia).

2) User:Ambrosia10 and I continue to meet fortnightly with international colleagues including some from Wikimedia Spain to plan our Wikidata workshop at the upcoming International Botanical Congress. I am helping User:Ambrosia10 disambiguate several important botanists associated with this conference.

3) I took User:Pakoire's idea from last month's meetup to heart and have a goal of creating one plant species page per week! This month I've done four NZ native Plantago species pages (start or C class): Plantago aucklandica, Plantago triantha, Plantago triandra, Plantago obconica.

4) I'm helping User:marshelec compile a list of plants endemic to Kahurangi National Park (with citations, and making sure references are in Wikidata) .

5) I've made some other Wikipedia edits of scientists (e.g. Mary Sutherland), and Wikidata edits to their scientific stuff like papers, prizes and places e.g. Mary Sutherland, The Ian Wards Prize, The Michael Standish Prize, Colin J. Webb, the Auckland Islands, among others.

• Porrhothele Te Papa has uploaded data on to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata on Te Papa's spider and harvestmen type specimens. Porrhothele has been working on adding Wikipedia pages using this specimen data and images. Completed work on one genus. Still learning to edit.

• Avocadobabygirl (talk) 01:59, 16 February 2024 (UTC) I attended the Mohua Golden Bay editathon, filling in information about Golden Bay Museum on the Tākaka article. With User:Stitchbird2 I presented information about Te Papa's Wiki projects to Auckland Museum's summer scholars. I'm currently preparing directory data for Aotearoa's museums to add/update on Wikidata. Avocadobabygirl also announced that Te Papa has added 250,000 specimens to the Global Biodiversity Information Framework and that this is going to have a fantastic impact on linked open data. Watch out for a Te Papa blog post on Monday.

• Quilt Phase has been working with CopperAlchemy and Angela on marketing for the Photographer event.

• Midstrath has been working on the list of Mozart Fellows.

• Noracrentiss has been working with Wainuiomartian to find full names of contributors to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute on Wikisource.

• Marshelec attended the Mohua / Golden Bay meetup held on 10-11 February, and created two new articles Onekaka Power Station and Langford Store. Also substantially expanded Cobb Power Station and submitted two DYK nominations. Contributed to another new article Mussel Inn (this is also in the DYK queue), and expanded Farewell Spit. The national parks article project is a key focus area for on-going work, and major improvements have been made to Kahurangi National Park. Since commencing work in early January, the article has been expanded more than 12-fold in word count. Prior to the Golden Bay meetup, he created a new article Proposals for a road through North-west Nelson. Other work has included a new article Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve, promoting and improving Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve from the WP:AFC queue, and creating and populating a new Category:Dark-sky preserves in New Zealand. Also assisted with some minor tidyups of Wharves in Wellington Harbour. This article has recently been nominated for GA review by Wainuiomartian, and a reviewer is now required. This would be a great opportunity for a Wellington-based editor to get experience in undertaking a GA review.

• Wainuiomartian worked with Noracrentiss to find full names of contributors to the Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. Also worked on Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park article and Hermitage article.

• Little_Cat_x is a new editor and has been working on background research to update New Zealand endemic species.

• CopperAlchemy has been working on updating WANZ events page. She has hit her first 100 edits. She's also been working on the Erskine College article. Administration work for WANZ has included contributing to events management with the Photography event and the WikiCon.

Future events

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If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact admin @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple - we promise!

• 10-11 February 2024 Mohua / Golden Bay Meetup Update on how it went?

• 23-34 March 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia Conference - Auckland REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

This is the link to register for the event at our ticket provider Humanitix

Please note there is a $NZ10 booking fee for the event. The organising group will be applying for funding to cover the catering and other costs and keep the conference affordable. The cost of the Conference dinner is not included in registration.

Presentations and workshops will be held in two classrooms at the Auckland University of Technology, Sir Paul Reeves WG Building, 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010.

Scholarship funding to cover travel and accommodation information is on the event page. Link above.

• 9 March & 13 March 2024 Photography and Wikimedia Commons Event Currently timetabled for 1 - 5pm at Photospace at 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington .Quilt Phase's WANZ funding application successful. More information to come.

• 7-10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland A number of editors have submitted scholarship applications.

• May 2024 ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Did anyone apply for a scholarship?

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

• Otari-Wilton's Bush event ideation and organising We need an organiser! Group agreed to move the dates to autumn. User:Noracrentiss will talk with User:Ambrosia10 about organising resource. WANZ application could easily include an event organiser but we need someone to lead it and shape the agenda of the event. - Next steps?

• Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project? User:Giantflightlessbirds was organising a lifting of the IP address block on editing Wiki projects. Any update?

• 2024 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant Keep an eye on this if you want to apply for a scholarship to do more with Wikidata.

• International Botanical Congress - members of the Wellington group User:Stitchbird2 and User:Ambrosia10 have funding either from their employment institutions to attend this conference and run a Wikidata workshop for conference attendees.

Good Article / Featured Article Work

• Group is working on Wellington Botanic Garden article

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

• Content: 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

• Content: New Zealand National Parks Project launched with the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Sign up if you want to help.

Questions and Requests for Assistance

The group of editors broke into groups with a natural environment group helping build the knowledge of Little_Cat_x, a group to look at the Mozart Fellowship list page that has a notice put on it by another editor, and a group to talk about the Dashboard for the Photography event.

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 16 March 2024 , same time, same place