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Wellington Meetup 1 October 2022[edit]

  • Date: Saturday 1 October 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.

Venue[edit]

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.

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

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.

Future Meetups[edit]

This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup 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.

The Meeting[edit]

Attending[edit]

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and four 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.

Unable to come[edit]

Agenda and Notes from Meeting[edit]

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

  • Einebillion - caught up with Auckland Museum who are resubmitted funding grant for NZ history curriculum. NZ president work.
  • Ambrosia10 - Attended the #BioDigiCon conference run by iDigBio. It was a three day conference concentrating on natural history digitisation etc. There was a pre recorded presentation on a Wikiproject involving dance that was show to highlight the workflow. The recording for that can be seen here. The other recorded talks will be uploaded to the idigbio Vimeo account over the next week or so. I've also submitted my article to the Linnean Society magazine and this will be published in the very near future. I've been asked to help draft a blog on the very soon to be published scholarly article on disambiguating people paper. I've also been working hard with a group of people making progress on producing a module to be taught to undergraduates on a workflow to increase the visibility of under acknowledged natural history specimen collectors. This is starting to become more intensive work as it progresses. I've started a new project going through Te Papa botanical specimen collectors making sure they are in Wikidiata and Bionomia in anticipation of Te Papa's data being published to GBIF. I've done a small amount of work on NZ thesis project as well as mix'n'match datasets. I've been invited to attend the public workshop of the Berlin Natural History museum concentrating on the Wikidata and Bionomia tracker workflow. I've got the TDWG conference coming up very soon and have recently obtained more information about workshops I'll be either running or assisting the running of in March and July next year. I'm also contributing to an upcoming palaeontology based workshop intended to work on palaeontology fossil sites as well as expeditions in Wikidata. I've also been using this fabulous new Wikidata tool which I'd be happy to show people.
  • Gertrude206 - still working on Blanche Baughan article. Attended, with Pakoire,a meeting with parliamentary people re venue for Wellington Wikicon. The library is keen to provide a room for the conference.
  • Stitchbird2 - working on her project of botany articles on NZ forget-me-nots, getting into Wikidata and supporting Te Papa institution Wikipedia work.
  • Chocmilk03 - working on New Zealand writer articles and also making progress in getting a professional photographer provide his images to Wikicommons.

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.


4. Good Article / Featured Article Work The next focus article is: Matiu / Somes Island

Progress update?

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? Ambrosia10 is at capacity. Willing to present during the conference.

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


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


7. Demonstration of a tool


8. Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes[edit]

Next meeting and Meetup timetables[edit]

  • 29 October 2022, same time, same place
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