Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 1 February 2020

Wellington Meetup 1 February 2020

 * Date: Saturday 1 Febrary 2020
 * Time: 10:00 am to midday
 * Location: He Matapihi Molesworth Library at National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington Come to the main entrance of the National Library on Molesworth Street.
 * Cost: Free
 * Bring: a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue
User:Einebillion The group meet at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library within the National Library. This is a Wellington City Council pop up public library. It was formerly The National Library net.work space. Drinks are permitted in the library.

Future Meetups
This is a fortnightly event but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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People
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Attending

 * 1) Ambrosia10 (talk) 19:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 2) Quilt Phase (talk) 20:16, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * 3) Gertrude206
 * 4) David Nind (talk)
 * 5) slow_djinn (talk)

Unable to come

 * 1) Einebillion (talk)

Agenda

 * Introduction to meet up by organisers - Ambrosia10 (talk)
 * Round table for participants to say what you’re working on and if you need help with anything - bring along your Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia problems
 * Discussion about organising a proposed editathon called "Know my name" and a request for an organiser in Wellington.
 * Highlighted research resource - LINZ website and NZTopo site
 * Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes
The group used a variety of tools to assist Ambrosia10 create a wikidata item for Hoggard Street Reserve. These included Google Earth, kml data, OpenStreetMap, arcGIS, OGRGeoJSON, text file hacking and a Wellington City Council map publication.

Past Wellington Meetups

 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 18 January 2020
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 7 December 2019 - 7 December 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 23 November 2019 - 23 November 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 9 November 2019 - 9 November 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 26 October 2019 - 26 October 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 12 October 2019 - 12 October 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 28 September 2019 - 28 September 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 14 September 2019 - 14 September 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 31 August 2019 - 31 August 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 17 August 2019 - 17 August 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 3 August 2019 - 3 August 2019
 * Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 20 July 2019 - 20 July 2019
 * Archives NZ Edit-a-thon - 7 July 2019
 * Meetup 22 June 2019 - 22 June 2019
 * Wikiblitz 2019 – 20 February 2019
 * NZ Comics and Cartoons Edit-a-thon – 23 March 2019
 * Chinese history Edit-a-thon – 25 March 2019
 * The previous Wellington meetup – 20 January 2019

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

 * 15 February, same time, same place