Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/2

One of the main points of this meeting is to set up a New Zealand user group; hence Wikipedians outside of Christchurch may have an interest in the meeting, too.

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Time: 6:00 pm onwards

Location: Smash Palace, 172 High St, Christchurch

Venue
We'll be camped out in a corner of their ground floor room and have a row of tables for us. We can also use their projector and they will provide us with WiFi.

Future meetups
The NZ Wikipedian at Large is based in Christchurch until 9 June, and then he heads up to Nelson. There is a talk on What Wikipedia Means for Libraries and Archives on Wed 5 June, another talk on the UC campus called From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia, wikidrinks at Space Academy on Friday, 7 June, and the Getting New Zealand Writers into Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Saturday, 8 June: see upcoming events for details.

Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

Attending

 * 1) Giantflightlessbirds
 * 2) Schwede66
 * 3) Podzemnik
 * 4) CHCBOY
 * 5) MurielMary

Agenda

 * Troubleshooting: bring along your Wikipedia problems
 * Update on the NZ Wikipedian at Large project
 * Setting up a NZ Wikipedia User Group: the relatively trivial steps required to get the user group started. Let's do this! Be in touch if you'd like to join remotely (e.g. Skype or online).
 * Upcoming workshop: "How to get NZ Writers into Wikipedia" on Saturday, 8 June; who's coming? Who can help?

Items to be brought
(Please put your username next to the item if you're bringing it.)
 * Camera for some nice group portraits: Giantflightlessbirds

Past Meetups

 * The previous Christchurch meetup – 26 Jun 2016
 * Get NZ Artists Online – talk on 14 May, workshop on 19 May 2019

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

 * Wikidrinks, 7 June 2019, 5:00pm onwards (no need to be punctual!), Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St (Facebook)
 * See Wikipedian at Large Upcoming Events for the other Christchurch happenings

User group
The attendees have decided to form a user group for New Zealand.
 * Poll Kiwi Wikipedians on what the user group is going to be called (Giantflightlessbird)
 * Wikimedia New Zealand User Group
 * Wikimedians of Aotearoa New Zealand


 * Create draft page in space that we've already got (Podzemnik)
 * Move once we've agreed on the user group name


 * Make application to Wikimedia Foundation (Giantflightlessbird)
 * Nominate regional contacts and encourage other places to become represented, with the expectation for this co-ordinator to be available to help new users, and to organise an informal meet-up twice a year (Giantflightlessbird)
 * Auckland
 * Wellington - Einebillion and Ambrosia10 are keen to coordinate for Wellington if the community is happy with this.
 * Christchurch – Schwede66
 * Dunedin


 * Create draft logo (Giantflightlessbird)
 * Involve wider community on final logo once we apply to become a chapter (i.e. in two years' time)


 * Register wikimedia.nz (Giantflightlessbird)

Wiki Loves Monuments
Decided to organise this event for NZ. (Giantflightlessbird plus one other person yet to be decided)