Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 4

Date: Saturday, 11 October 2008

Time: 1 - 4 pm

Location: - Galbraith's, Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

Future Meetups
Please watchlist Meetup/Auckland (which is very low traffic) to be informed of future meetups in Auckland or elsewhere in NZ, or New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

Attended

 * 1) SimonLyall
 * 2)  gadfium
 * 3) Richard001 (talk)
 * 4) Onco_p53 (talk)
 * 5) HowiAuckland (talk)

Report

 * Due to some problems with publicity and a couple of late cancellations we only had 5 attendees this time. However we had a good amount of discussion.

Discussion

 * The geonotice did not work, it appears the maintainer of this service is no longer active.
 * Talk about restarting the New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight, perhaps on a monthly basis


 * Some need to tidy the WikiProject New Zealand page.
 * Answer questions people have
 * Provide HOWTO ( Step by Step ) and suggest 10 minute or 2 hour projects
 * Create requested articles
 * Assessments
 * Find photos in Flickr
 * Approach people to write articles or provide background information to base articles on
 * most of the above are not hard just, need somebody with time and inclination.


 * Requested photos
 * Create subcats for NZ photos
 * Need more assessment of articles
 * Lots of missing photos, Some success reported searching flickr and sending authors their requests.
 * Some general articles that cross areas missing ( "sustainability in New Zealand" )
 * Next meeting could perhaps be a copy of "wikis take Manhattan" with groups across Auckland ( and perhaps other centers) taking photos ( and other media) and uploading it to Wikipedia, followed by meeting. Suggested date is February 2009 to take advantage of summer weather.

Did you know?

 * …WikiProject New Zealand

Past Meetups

 * Meetup/Auckland 1 - 26 June 2006
 * Meetup/Auckland 2 - 10 February 2007
 * Meetup/Auckland 3 - 11 August 2007

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

 * Meetup/Auckland 5 - 9 May 2010