Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2024/Events/18 Feb 2024 meetup

Foundation Café, Tūranga

The first meetup for the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large project was at Foundation Cafe, on the ground floor of Tūranga, the Christchurch Central Library, on Sunday 17 March 2024.

Attendees

• Aerohydro (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• -- David Palmer aka cloventt (talk)

Outcomes

• Discussion of Fair Use rules allowing local upload of copyrighted files to Wikipedia
• The process of requesting people change their license to allow a photo to be uploaded to Commons (some examples of emails seeking permission here)
• Contributing to OpenStreetMap
• Use of the free open-source reference manager Zotero, and its ability to export a bibliography in Wikipedia format (and different references formatting styles in Wikipedia)
• The regular monthly Aotearoa Wikimedia meetings online
• A possible volunteer project on the buildings featured in the John Walsh (Q124612946) book Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture (2023 revised edition) (Q124612956)

Next event

• Sunday 17 March, same time and venue