Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/19

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

Date: Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Time: 7pm onwards

Location: Welles Street, Christchurch CBD

Venue
Welles Street; there is free WiFi.

Attendees
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 *  Schwede 66 
 * MurielMary (talk) 07:17, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ratso56 (talk) - attended at Salut Salut

Apologies

 * User:Herewhy
 * LukeChandlerNZ (talk)

Agenda items

 * Round the table – what's everyone up to?
 * MurielMary: WP NZ Facebook page, Articles for creation - discussion about assessing notability of writers and about encouraging new editors
 * Schwede: writing biographies e.g. the Mowbray siblings - discussion about how to approach Flickr users about sharing their photos to Commons
 * Reviewed development of people section of Ara Institute of Canterbury and how to create Wikidata items for those people
 * Experimented with Open Refine and how to use it to create a list of NZ artists with work in the Chch Art Gallery and their Wikidata/Wikipedia entries; Schwede to look into this


 * Hokitika debrief; Schwede and MurielMary can report

Next event/keeping in touch

 * Tuesday, 11 May, 7pm at Welles Street