Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 8 June 2024

Wellington Meetup 8 June 2024

 * Date: Saturday 8 June 2024
 * Time: 10:00 am to midday
 * Location: Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
 * Bring a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop, but they are located elsewhere in the library.

Venue
The group meet in the Programme Rooms located on the ground floor of the National Library just behind the main reception area. Group to ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

Future Meetups
This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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Want to meet a Friendly Face first?
We know it can be difficult for some people to walk into a group of strangers without knowing anyone. If you'd like to meet up with a friendly face before the meeting or to have a chat to see if this group is for you please contact Dianne on info @ wikimedia.nz Dianne will be overjoyed to introduce you to one of the group who will be available to meet up with you for coffee and chat. They can also be on hand to meet you prior to the meeting and walk in with you and introduce you to the group. Whatever will make you comfortable.

Attending
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 * Stitchbird2 (talk)
 * Chocmilk03 (talk) (likely ~20 mins late due to bus timetable)
 * Noracrentiss (talk)
 * Quilt Phase (talk)
 * Wainuiomartian (talk)
 * Porrhothele (talk)

Unable to come

 * Gertrude206
 * Avocadobabygirl (talk)
 * Marshelec (talk)
 * Ambrosia10 (talk) - sorry folks, I'm sick with a bad cold I don't want to pass on to anyone else.
 * Einebillion - away in Dunedin.

Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)
General welcome to any new folk who join us.

A friendly wave from the Auckland meetup!

Round table for participants to say what you’re working on

 * Avocadobabygirl (talk) I've been working on events, including a very successful 1Lib1Ref session that got some new editors started and 500 article references added. We've also had an editathon for research expeditions, following on from work done by Ambrosia10, and that's going to be followed by a bigger public one on July 13 - there'll be more info about that soon, and members of the group are eagerly invited to come. I started a project on Wikidata about modelling exhibitions, and welcome anyone who's interested in participating. The project to improve articles related to Te Maori is coming along well.
 * Marshelec reports in absentia: I have helped with work on the article Foveaux Strait since early May. This article has been nominated for GA review by Alexeyevitch but is waiting for a reviewer - would anyone in this group be willing to undertake the GA review ? This is an interesting topic.  I have also added substantial new content to related articles: Stewart Island, Bluff Harbour and Ocean Beach, Bluff.  Did you know that the remote Solander Islands group to the west of Foveaux Strait is part of Fiordland National Park ?  Separately, I have been a GA reviewer for Victoria Square, Christchurch, and that article has now passed. I am also working on content for a new article about Pharazyn Reserve north of Waikanae.
 * Stitchbird2 (talk) With User:Ambrosia10 we have disambiguated 421 botanists who are keynote speakers, conference organisers, or symposium organisers, and are now working on other speakers, for the upcoming International Botanical Congress that we are both attending next month in Madrid. User:Bratwurstmacher and I translated User:Ambrosia10's Wikidata workshop materials into Spanish, and they are now available here: . I only remembered to edit just one Critter of the Week this month Laetiporus portentosus and I also finally added a 1-5 images from Commons to multiple NZ Myosotis wikipedia pages. I've created the next 6 Ourisia pages: Ourisia sessilifolia, Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. sessilifolia, Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. splendida, Ourisia modesta, Ourisia calycina, and Ourisia macrocarpa. For each, I've also pulled images out of iNaturalist into Commons, and added them to the species Wikidata items and Wikipedia pages. I've been helping User:Avocadobabygirl with the staff wiki training and editing sessions at work. And saving the best for last, I had a LOT of fun improving this former stub article on the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition, which might be of interest to User:Marshelec who is working on Fiordland National Park.
 * Ambrosia10 (talk) has finished the WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions project other than holding a public Wikipedia editing event on the 13th of July. SAVE THE DATE! More information on this editathon will be coming soon but we'll be editing expedition Wikipedia articles, locations, ships, participants and species discovered during expeditions. The final report for this project should be delivered to the WANZ committee and shared with the Wiki community by the end of August. I've also updated the wiki community via the GLAMwiki newsletter. I've been busy with the WikiProject IBC 2024 particularly working on Wikidata for both the Ynes Mexia item and the expedition item so that when we come to visualise the data in our poster it looks beautiful. I've also been working on wikifying the conference, as Stitchbird2 has explained above. As part of the Hidden Figures CURE project I and my coauthor produced a lesson which gives guidance on how to create a Wikidata item for a botanical collector. This has been uploaded into Zenodo, been translated into Spanish by Stitchbird2 & her husband, and that translation has also been uploaded into Zenodo, given a DOI and is now ready to be used for our IBC 2024 Wikidata workshop. Other than that I've started creating my 5 presentations I'm likely to be giving at Wikimania as well as sorting out some issues/errors generated from doing OpenRefine edits of Wikidata where I was attempting to run when I only knew how to walk. Boy am I regretting that batch upload.
 * Wainuiomartian (talk) I have been working my way through NZ censuses, adding content to 1878 New Zealand census and creating an article for the 1881 New Zealand census. I'm currently expanding the existing article for Wellington Airport.
 * User:Porrhothele (talk) I have been working on the Te Papa arachnid types project with articles focused on the harvestman subfamily Sorensenellinae. I also expanded two Critter of the Week project articles on the tailed forest spider and the square ended crab spider. I attended the 1Lib!ref event at Te Papa.
 * Chocmilk03 (talk) was a bit quiet for a while, but now getting back into editing (new articles including Emma Hislop and Vernice Wineera, tidying up Evelyn Patuawa-Nathan after it was being rescued from deletion) and also getting into the New pages patrol process. For those who aren't familiar, NPP is about checking new articles to make sure they meet the basic requirements and aren't vandalism/copyvio/etc. You need to apply for the NPP reviewer userright and meet some minimum requirements (which I think most interested NZ editors would meet). I find the sorting function really useful to allow me to focus on new articles about women / Oceania. A couple of pages I've reviewed as part of NPP include Ghazaleh Golbakhsh and Lina Marsh; both of these had enough evidence of notability to get marked as "reviewed" but I enjoyed working on them to improve them further. Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:47, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Future events

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 * If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact admin @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple - we promise!
 * If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a program to the Campaign Dashboard. The Dashboard is a key tracking tool for reporting back to Wikimedia Foundation and will help us ensure that we get funding in future years. If you are unsure how to add programs to the Campaign dashboard you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.


 * If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact admin @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple - we promise!


 * May 2024 ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Any report back? Waiting to hear from attendees except Dianne said it was amazing.
 * Auckland Meetup #24, '''Saturday 8 June 2024, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm at New Lynn War Memorial Library
 * #1Lib1Ref - Giantflightlessbirds did outreach to Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Papa has held two prep sessions and will be holding a staff session on the 29th of May.
 * 13 July 2024 Te Papa Research Expeditions Event
 * 7–10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland User:Ambrosia10 and User:Stitchbird2 have received scholarships and will be attending. See this article about scholarship outcomes.
 * 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch


 * Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. Project Page, Project Dashboard. There is a google spreadsheet of theses authors with Wikipedia pages who need their theses adding to their page if folk want to work on this during #1Lib1Ref. There is also a video on how to add thesis to people's pages. This work is ongoing and could use more editors to help out. Mix'n'match dataset.
 * Project Contacts: DrThneed


 * Content: New Zealand National Parks Project launched with the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Sign up if you want to help.


 * Content: WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by User:Ambrosia10.

Anyone know of or organising any other events or content projects? Note here to let the group know.

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

 * Otari-Wilton's Bush event ideation and organising We need an organiser! Group agreed to move the dates to autumn. User:Noracrentiss will talk with User:Ambrosia10 about organising resource. WANZ application could easily include an event organiser but we need someone to lead it and shape the agenda of the event. - Next steps? Stitchbird and Ambrosia10 are keen to organise but both are committed up to the middle of August due to Wikimania. Both intend to commit to this after that date.


 * Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?
 * Had some discussion about this at today's meeting; we're not sure where this is at or who was taking it forward. Do we have a contact for this at the Parliamentary Library? I have a friend who works there as a librarian and will reach out to her to see if she knows anything. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 22:56, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Good Article / Featured Article Work

 * Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article. User:Wainuiomartian has substantially expanded the article and added photos. Anybody have any ideas for further improvement? A picture of the Henry Moore sculpture?

Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

 * GLAMwiki Newsletter: has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

 * 6 July 2024, same time, same place'''