Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/16

An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Everybody's welcome, new or experienced.

Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020 (postponed by a week)

Time: 7pm onwards

Location: Welles Street, 44 Welles Street, Christchurch CBD

Venue
Welles Street at 44 Welles Street; there is free WiFi. Table booked for 7pm.

Attendees
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 * Herewhy (talk)
 * Some non-WP creative writing, plus created an article on artist Patricia France


 *  Schwede 66 
 * 1853 New Zealand provincial elections – lots of fun with that and heaps of related work (WP categories; Commons categories; Wikidata; bio amendments; red links for notable provincial politicians)
 * Set up WikiProject New Zealand/heritage


 * Ratso56 (talk)
 * Has worked on Open Government Partnership Commitment 11 since our last meeting
 * Has worked with public officials on linked data concepts for the NZ public service
 * Knowledge Graphs 2020 is a free training course that comes recommended


 * MurielMary (talk)
 * Review of draft articles
 * Women in Red work
 * Agreed to have another workshop at the Christchurch Art Gallery next year (aim for Feb 2021)


 * User:Giantflightlessbirds
 * Has worked with Dodd-Walls Centre for the last couple of weeks (described as a "Wikipedian on retainer"): sorting image permissions; taught staff how to write WP articles; worked on some bios of the researchers; uploaded physics graphics; ORCID IDs for staff; getting staff and research onto Wikidata
 * Produced final report for West Coast project this week

Agenda items

 * Round the table – what's everyone up to?
 * What’s special about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biography_and_memoir_book_cover_images category? I added a low-resolution image of a book cover into commons, but when I tried to add the category to it didn’t exist. It clearly does, and it has 1,586 book cover images in it.
 * The list of items in the category is auto generated
 * Only Wikipedia allows uploads of non-free material; discussed what the process is of sorting this out.

Outcomes

 * Generated some ideas for the conference:
 * How to archive user talk page
 * How to create edit notice (e.g. for a personal talk page)
 * Request for Schwede to present on DYK
 * Request for MurielMary to present on homepage content (On this day; In the News; Recent deaths)
 * How to use HotCat
 * "How do I write" – Herewhy would like to talk about that, in an interactive discussion
 * The process of finding topics to write about
 * What's a sandbox good for?
 * Ratso offered to present to Wikidata queries


 * Much jolliness was expressed about the new Wikipedian. Congratulations, Podzemnik!

Next event/keeping in touch
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 * Next meetup is on Tuesday, 8 December 2020 – change of venue; we'll try out Salut Salut (also in Welles Street); 7 pm