Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 9

Meetup 9 was held on 28 May 2014 at UniSA's City West campus with five participants, including Alex Sims, Bahudhara, Bilby, Doug Butler and Tullyis.

Initial discussion - choosing a date in May 2014
Choice of an evening: I suggest Tuesday or Wednesday - not Monday or Friday, and Thursday is not good for Bahudhara. Pdfpdf (talk) 07:15, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

(The third Wednesday in May is the 21st) When: ? Where: ? What: Edit-a-thon during History Festival History Festival website - Events

The suggestions so far favour Wednesday 28 May, there's been talk of having an edit-a-thon, and with History Month there's an opportunity for us all to go on a tour or event of some kind and come back with photos and fresh ideas. I've got a copy of the catalogue (available from local libraries visitor centres or councils), but haven't had a chance to look through it yet; but this weekend (3-4 May) there will be the chance to get inside buildings that aren't normally open to the public - see Open House Adelaide. (N.B. due to popularity, it may be necessary to book ASAP for particular tours to be sure of getting a place.)

If we lock in Wednesday 28 May for our edit-a-thon, with the same venue as before, we can now start a discussion to clarify some themes for the evening. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 14:24, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I've just been hesitant to disrupt the congregation for the sake of one participant so if more people are available on the third Wednesday you should go with that, but if 28 May works, I'm happy with that.Tullyis (talk) 08:36, 1 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Report on GLAM awareness-raising activities


 * I went to a very interesting lecture last night at the South Australian Museum by Professor Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London, and Imperial College London) "For the learned and the curious: the role of natural history museums in the 21st century". I've uploaded my (admittedly very poor quality, especially the first couple of minutes) audio recording to Dropbox (38 MB, ! hr 22 mins). At the end of the lecture I took the opportunity to ask him whether the Natural History Museum has any involvement with GLAM-Wiki collaborations (my question starts at 1:07:40 on the recording) to which he gave a lengthy but somewhat digressive response, Afterwards I also spoke briefly with Brian Oldman, the new Director of the SAM. He was previously at the British Museum, so he is familiar with the GLAM concept, and said that a week or so ago the matter had been discussed at Board level at the SAM (presumably following my recent email to them publicising our last Meetup); I got the impression that, given the Government's budgetary constraints, they are still anxious to try to maximise any financial return, as well as wanting to maintain control over their material. (It's worth noting that earlier in his lecture, Ian Owens had pointed out that not everything that a museum has is of such high quality, that they can get much of a return from it!)
 * Thanks for the file, Bahudhara I look forward to listening Tullyis (talk) 08:36, 1 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Last week I spent a couple of hours over coffee with Darren Peacock, who is currently with the National Trust of SA. (His name had come up at our last Meetup; he knows Bilby through his earlier involvement with Wikimedia Australia, and Catherine Manning, through his earlier work for History SA.) He showed me the app he is working on for the Adelaide City Council, and I gave him an overview of the various projects I've been undertaking. It was a very good meeting, and it was nice to find that although we are working in different corners, as it were, we are both very much on the same page. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Open House Adelaide - (see link above) places visited this weekend and photographed:
 * Thebarton Incinerator
 * Adelaide Mosque
 * Queen's Theatre (where I bumped into Catherine Manning again)
 * AMP Building
 * St Francis Xavier Cathedral
 * I've also taken some photos of the Thebarton Campus of the University of Adelaide, and am about to go on a tour of waste management facilities at Wingfield today - a topic that is very poorly covered in WP at present. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 22:38, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Update: On Wednesday I have a meeting at Mt Barker at 4pm, but hope to get away by 6pm in time to get to North Tce by 7pm for our Meetup.

Bilby, can you confirm the availability of the venue? And Tullyis, since it was your suggestion that the evening's activity be an edit-a-thon, can you elaborate on how it should be run?

Over the past few weeks I've been taking photos of a number of historic buildings that I haven't yet uploaded to Commons - I imagine that doing it at UniSA will be much faster than via my home broadband connection, and that could be my contribution for the evening.

Despite the lack of postings to this thread over the past three weeks, there have been around 50 page views during this period. Although that's a low number in comparison to the high level of on-line interest prior to our April meetup, if we get even a few new editors coming, that would make it an interesting experience. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 01:14, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * An edit-a-thon for an experienced group like this is simply coming along and doing the editing work there and then. For a more public event, it involves introducing people to the how-to side of Wikipedia and helping them overcome the perceived barriers of editing or creating pages. Participants bring their own ideas of what pages or sections they want to get started on or choose a topic suggested by someone else. I've got the Flinders History of South Australia, published 1986, and thought I might trawl it for ideas for new pages or new sections of pages. I'm trying to establish a series on the history of education in Australia with a focus on South Australia. Tullyis (talk) 02:25, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Tullyis. Some of the photos I intend uploading overlap some of your interests - e.g. Murray House at UniSA's Magill campus, Barbara Hanrahan Lane sign at Mile End. Some of them can be used to populate the List of historic houses in South Australia, which has significant omissions such as Weetunga at Fulham, as well as related articles. I've currently got Gracious Homes of Colonial Adelaide on loan from my local library, and I can also bring my own copies of some local histories along. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 02:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Meetup 9 - Wednesday, 28 May 2014
So it seems we are still planning to hold a meeting tomorrow - Correct? Might it not be a good idea to inform people of this, including the details of When, Where, and What? Might it not also be a good idea to place this information on Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 9? I'm happy to do this if somebody can confirm to me the When, Where, and What. Pdfpdf (talk) 06:26, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Here's a first rough draft of what might appear on Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 9 - E&OE - Please correct / enhance / modify / extend / expand / etc. as you see fit:


 * Meetup 9 - Wednesday, 28 May 2014
 * Time: 7:30pm
 * Location: 27 North Terrace, Adelaide. (UniSA building located in the red SM building next door to the Riviera Hotel, on the corner of Gray St. Signs will be on the front door. Enter via the side door 10-15m down Gray St - Knock loudly).
 * Agenda: Editathon


 * Proposed attendees:
 * Bahudhara
 * Bilby
 * Doug butler
 * Pdfpdf
 * Tullyis
 * Alex Sims (talk) (it's tonight!)
 * Others ...


 * Apologies:
 * I'll be belarded by marking for the next few weeks at least. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 13:02, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Zorry, godda gold-in-da-noze. Pdfpdf (talk) 08:58, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure of the current situation, but I'll be at 27 North Terrace tonight and I can open up and attend. The last couple of weeks have been pretty horrid. - Bilby (talk) 01:05, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

After
How's the editathon going? Pdfpdf (talk) 12:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Had a few people turn up, and we had a lot of really valuable discussion. We've locked in Sunday 6 July as a day long session focused on North Terrace, with cameras to take photos as requried - 11:30 am to 7:30 pm, with pizza provided. We've had a few ideas about promotion. It should be fun. :) - Bilby (talk) 12:40, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Summary
Five people attended, including Alex Sims, Bahudhara, Bilby, Doug Butler and Tullyis. There was useful discussion on a number of topics, including organising an all-day editathon in July, and how we can attract and support new editors. Bahudhara (talk) 07:08, 4 June 2014 (UTC)