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Wellington Meetup 23 November 2024

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National Library of New Zealand Programme Rooms and foyer
  • Date: Saturday 23 November 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

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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

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

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The Meeting

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Want to meet a Friendly Face first?

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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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Wellington Wikimeetup for April 2024

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~ It's important to add your name as we are tracking attendence and reporting numbers back to Wikimedia Foundation as metric of the impact of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

Unable to come

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Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)

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General welcome to any new folk who join us.


Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

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  • President Leachman mentions the following
A Special General Meeting for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated (WANZ) will be held online on Tuesday 10 December 2024 from 7.00 pm to 7:30 pm.

Online meeting details: - https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88622713021?pwd=1W5q86M2fVXoyUZ0bQe8iRHcsKTlmA.1 - Meeting ID: 886 2271 3021 - Passcode: 445636 - Time zone: Pacific/Auckland

  • Encouraging the editors and organisers to add to the draft community report for the year. It is six months into the year and I encourage you add to this. This report is really useful for WANZ to submit to Wikimedia Foundation as it gives more of a community view of the activities that are happening than the annual grant report.

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

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  • Stitchbird2 - Together with User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss we successfully completed day 2 of our two day NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush on 2 November. We are currently writing up our final report and will share once it's complete. We considered our event to be very successful and got positive feedback from the attendees. I was able to edit Wikipedia pages for NZ plants Azorella polaris, Gunnera hamiltonii and Pachycladon exile as part of this event. I also have extensively edited the Wikipedia pages for Nancy Adams and R. Natalie P. Goodall, and created a page for Helen Margaret Druce, all women botanists. In Wikidata I've done the usual - hundreds of edits for scientific papers and scientists that complement the above Wikipedia page edits, as well as others that catch my eye in electronic Table of Contents for journals that constantly come into my email inbox.
  • Ambrosia10 (talk) - I'm pleased to say the Bionomia Module for the Hidden Figures Course based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) has recently been published. We've submitted the Wikidata module for final publication and just have to fill in some final data needs before this happens. I've also been working (along with other organisers of WikiProject IBC 2024) on the Wikidata paper to be published in the Annals of Botany journal. I've recently created the above figure that may end up in that publication. I continue to draft, along with my co-collaborators, a publication on the Women Genera project, which is related to Wikidata. I've helped organise two successful days for the New Zealand species Wikipedia editathon and while participating I've managed to expand several species articles. In a couple of days I've been to Brisbane to attend the Open Education Global 2024 conference and delivering a keynote. I've also received and have accepted an invitation to present at an online workshop on Women in Natural History Museums and Collections (WOMNH) in December. WOMNH is an international network promoting collaborations between researchers and museum professionals examining the roles women have played across the globe in the making of natural history collections and museums. I've been editing Wikimedia Commons, particularly Biodiversity Heritage images, adding depicts statements to the Structured Data on Commons as well as categories as BHL is wanting to be strategic in helping editors gain access to and reuse images of species from Africa and South America. See the Africa category and the South American category. I've been continuing to work in mix'n'match on both the Harvard Index of Botanists and the BHL creator datasets. Started up again with the TDWG research expedition group which is collaborating with Wikidata editors to improve the coverage of research expeditions, using Wikidata to create an identifier for expeditions to put in the collection management systems. I also successfully delivered a keynote at the Open Education Global conference 2024 in Brisbane.
  • Wainuiomartian (talk) - Happy story: a while ago I created a page on Wainuiomata businessman Frank Brugger. Recently, someone copied the text of the article into a Wainuiomata Facebook page and it has over 500 likes. I've made significant improvements to theTongariro National Park article by adding sources and content and it is maybe now a B class article. Wainuiomartian also got feedback from the group on how great her first-person article was in the WANZ newsletter about the research expeditions editathon and her subsequent editing.
  • Noracrentiss - Met Sophie, the new comms and marketing person with WANZ. Met with her as part of the follow up on Wednesday for the NZ species editathon. Has also been doing Wiki-gardening mainly!
  • Hoiho49 (talk) - Created my first Wikipedia article (on Aciphylla dieffenbachii), which has since had 69 views. A very small victory!
  • Richlitt (talk) - Made some new species articles, mostly from iNaturalist, but mostly spent my time using SPARQL to mine taxonomy on WikiData.
  • Einebillion - Very little outside of edit-at-hons. Had big data win which will result in an improved Wikidata but more details will come on this later. Admin and president stuff.
  • Eyeup (talk) - Started masters internship. Reading! Leaning into skill set by talking to organisers of Laughfesta - a women's festival - and is considering organising a women in red editathon. She's working on securing a venue. Looking 8 & 9 Feb in Wanganui. The festival has about 100 events over 2 weeks. Venue options include Te Rangi - homestead gifted by Gita and her husband. Available to rent for events and has accommodation. Also an option is Josephite retreat centre. Mike Dickison’s presence in Wanganui has led to experienced editors there but she needs to tap into those established editors. Deadline for the festival - mid December!

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

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  • 19 October 2024 New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon Had a wide ranging discussion on the success of the edit-a-thon and how to replicate that success next year.
  • Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?

Good Article / Featured Article Work

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Future events

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If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a program to the Campaign Dashboard July 2024 - June 2025. 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!

Content Projects that need help

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Project Contacts: DrThneed
  • Content: WikiProject New Zealand Women Photographers - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by a group of Te Papa editors. Others welcome to join us. It builds on the research dataset released openly on data.govt.nz and the book Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New zealand 1860 - 1960 published by Te Papa Press.

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

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

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  • GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors. The current newsletter that needs content can be found here.
  • Wikimedia Commons structured data - depicts statement. A new script has been created by TiagoLubiana to help those adding depicts statements to Wikimedia commons files. You install it to you Wikimedia Commons common.js page. See Ambrosia10's common.js page here. You add the following line to your common.js page:

importScript('User:TiagoLubiana/hasDepicts.js'); This then installs an on/off box for the tool when you are in a Wikimedia Commons category and when the tool is switched on it will show either a green or red dot beneath each file in a particular category showing you which files have depicts statements.

Outcomes

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  • Lots of discussion around AI and LLM and how they can help with work generally but that care should be taken to use these tools appropriately.


Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 18 January , same time, at Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
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