Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 23 November 2024

Wellington Meetup 23 November 2024

National Library of New Zealand Programme Rooms and foyer

• Date: Saturday 23 November 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

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

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The Meeting

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

Wellington Wikimeetup for April

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) 00:41, 19 October 2024 (UTC)
• Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:58, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
• Stitchbird2 (talk) 02:52, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
• Noracrentiss (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk) 21:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
• Eyeup (talk)
• Hoiho49 (talk)
• Richlitt (talk)

Unable to come

• Gertrude206
• AxonsArachnida
• Quilt Phase
  

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

• President Leachman mentions the following

A Special General Meeting for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated (WANZ) will be held online on Tuesday 10 December 2024 from 7.00 pm to 7:30 pm.

Online meeting details: - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88622713021?pwd=1W5q86M2fVXoyUZ0bQe8iRHcsKTlmA.1 - Meeting ID: 886 2271 3021 - Passcode: 445636 - Time zone: Pacific/Auckland

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

• Together with User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss we successfully completed day 2 of our two day NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush on 2 November. We are currently writing up our final report and will share once it's complete. We considered our event to be very successful and got positive feedback from the attendees. I was able to edit Wikipedia pages for NZ plants Azorella polaris, Gunnera hamiltonii and Pachycladon exile as part of this event. I also have extensively edited the Wikipedia pages for Nancy Adams and R. Natalie P. Goodall, and created a page for Helen Margaret Druce, all women botanists. In Wikidata I've done the usual - hundreds of edits for scientific papers and scientists that complement the above Wikipedia page edits, as well as others that catch my eye in electronic Table of Contents for journals that constantly come into my email inbox...
• Ambrosia10 (talk) - I'm pleased to say the Bionomia Module for the Hidden Figures Course based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) has recently been published. We've submitted the Wikidata module for final publication and just have to fill in some final data needs before this happens. I've also been working (along with other organisers of WikiProject IBC 2024) on the Wikidata paper to be published in the Annals of Botany journal. I've recently created the above figure that may end up in that publication. I continue to draft, along with my co-collaborators, a publication on the Women Genera project, which is related to Wikidata. I've helped organise two successful days for the New Zealand species Wikipedia editathon and while participating I've managed to expand several species articles. In a couple of days I've been to Brisbane to attend the Open Education Global 2024 conference and delivering a keynote. I've also received and have accepted an invitation to present at an online workshop on Women in Natural History Museums and Collections (WOMNH) in December. WOMNH is an international network promoting collaborations between researchers and museum professionals examining the roles women have played across the globe in the making of natural history collections and museums. I've been editing Wikimedia Commons, particularly Biodiversity Heritage images, adding depicts statements to the Structured Data on Commons as well as categories as BHL is wanting to be strategic in helping editors gain access to and reuse images of species from Africa and South America. See the Africa category and the South American category. I've been continuing to work in mix'n'match on both the Harvard Index of Botanists and the BHL creator datasets. Started up again with the TDWG research expedition group which is collaborating with Wikidata editors to improve the coverage of research expeditions, using Wikidata to create an identifier for expeditions to put in the collection management systems.
• Einebillion - Very little outside of editathons. Had big data win which will result in an improved Wikidata. Admin and president stuff.
• Pam - Happy stories, made a page Frank Bruger page couple of weeks ago copy article. Posted it into Facebook page that got 500 likes. Tongariro National Park article. Put in sources and maybe now a B article. Great first person article in newsletter about research expeditions
• Noracrentiss - Met Sophie, the new comms and marketing person with WANZ. Met with her as part of the follow up on Wednesday. Gardening mainly!

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

• 19 October 2024 New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon - Starting Out Cost $10 for both Species Edit-a-thon events to cover catering. How did it go?
• Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?

Good Article / Featured Article Work

• Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article. User:Wainuiomartian has substantially expanded the article and added photos. Anybody have any ideas for further improvement? A picture of the Henry Moore sculpture?

Future events

If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a program to the Campaign Dashboard July 2024 - June 2025. 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 you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.

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!

• 2 November 2024 New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon - Embedding Cost $10 for both Species Edit-a-thon events. Tickets available at Humanitix
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch

Content Projects that need help

• 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. Mix'n'match dataset.

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.

• Content: WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by User:Ambrosia10.

• Content: WikiProject New Zealand Women Photographers - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by a group of Te Papa editors. Others welcome to join us. It builds on the research dataset released openly on data.govt.nz and the book Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New zealand 1860 - 1960 published by Te Papa Press.

• Content: WikiProject Aotearoa New Zealand Asian Artist - A project to import and build information on significant Asian New Zealand artists.

Anyone know of or organising any other events or content projects? Note here to let the group know.

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

• GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.
• Wikimedia Commons structured data - depicts statement. A new script has been created by TiagoLubiana to help those adding depicts statements to Wikimedia commons files. You install it to you Wikimedia Commons common.js page. See Ambrosia10's common.js page here. You add the following line to your common.js page:

importScript('User:TiagoLubiana/hasDepicts.js'); This then installs an on/off box for the tool when you are in a Wikimedia Commons category and when the tool is switched on it will show either a green or red dot beneath each file in a particular category showing you which files have depicts statements.

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 18 January , same time, at Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington