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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 52

• Date: Sunday 18 August 2024
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
  IMPORTANT: The first person joining the meeting needs to sign in as the "Moderator" using a Google, Facebook, or GitHub account; other attendees can then join without any authentication – see the jitsi blog for more information.
  NOTE: This video conferencing software link will ask permission to use your computer camera and microphone. You will need to agree to get full functionality. Google Chrome or Chromium is recommended for the best experience (not all aspects work correctly with other browsers). The Jitsi web-based video conferencing platform is 100% open source and fully encrypted. No account is needed and it's free.
• Cost: Free

Meetup code of conduct and anonymity when meeting via video conference

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an in-person meetup. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.

Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.

If a new attendee joins the group with video and voice disabled, they will be encouraged to participate by the facilitator, using this script:

Welcome new attendee. This group respects your right to remain anonymous. This group has a policy of discouraging lurking as it makes some of us uncomfortable. If you are happy to introduce yourself over voice, please let us know what you've been working on and if you need help with any editing issues.

If you're not comfortable updating the group by voice, then that's okay. You have the option of introducing yourself and adding your user page link into the chat feature. The chat is deleted once the video conference finishes.

If you want to remain completely anonymous and not chat, then this meetup is not for you. We make comprehensive and extensive notes of the meetup that will be included in the meetup page afterwards. That's the best way to catch up with what this meetup has been doing if you don't want to contribute during the video call.

If you're not sure how to use the chat feature you can access it by clicking on the icon that looks like a speech bubble in the bottom left corner.

If, after an appropriate length of time, the new attendee does not participate by video, voice, or chat, the facilitator of the group will remove the attendee from the video call.

If the new attendee persists in logging in, the group will discuss abandoning the meet up.

Chat for sharing pastes, URLs and so on

The Jitsi video conferencing platform has a chat feature. This is used to share URLs and other commentary while the discussions are occurring. The facilitators may take a copy to help with writing up outcomes from the meeting on the meeting Wikipedia page. Any copies will be deleted once outcomes and notes are completed.

Future meetups

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

Apply for membership of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

Attending

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• Einebillion (talk)
• B. Jankuloski (talk)
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Alexeyevitch^(talk)
• David Nind (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Prosperosity (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• Schwede66
• Paora (talk)

Unable to come

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• DrThneed
• Ambrosia10 (talk) – Wellington on a plate event, sorry!
• Beeswaxcandle (talk) power outage

Agenda and notes

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand – update and discussion (15 minutes)

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

Our Incorporated Society currently has 39 financial members. WANZ is underway with deploying bulk funding received from Wikimedia Foundation for the 24/25 grant year. Our first major commitment has been to fund a Wikipedian-in-Residence project at Auckland War Memorial Museum. The museum is currently recruiting for the role. We will also shortly be seeking proposals for a Wikipedian-at-Large. This could be in any location and we can be flexible with the timeframe and whether it is full or part-time.

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2024–25

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!

• 13 July 2024 Te Papa Research Expeditions Event How did it go?

Following up on Ambrosia10's work as Wikipedian in Residence earlier this year, Te Papa hosted a public edit-a-thon using the material she'd collated on research expeditions. The topic let participants work on the expeditions or dive deep into species, people, locations, ships – wherever their interests took them. 13 editors ranging from old hands to almost-newbies got an amazing amount done in just 6 hours, including 570 edits to 121 articles, 45 brand new articles, and 692 added references. For further information see the July GLAMwiki newsletter.

• 7–10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland

All the videos for Wikimania2024 have been placed on youtube and are in the process of being sliced and placed on Wikicommons. Ambrosia10's three formal presentations at Wikimania went well and were each well attended. There were also other informal meet ups held including a Research Expeditions meetup and a Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and iNaturalist meetup. Ambrosia10 also attended an informal Structured Data on Commons meetup.

• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: registrations open now; earlybird tickets at $15/person are available until November. The organising committee is also happy to receive requests for funding for travel and accommodation. The conference programme is constructed based on participant input. When registering, participants can request topics they would like to see included in the programme, and offer topics they are happy to present on. https://events.humanitix.com/2025-wikicon-aotearoa-chch/tickets
• Content: Wikidata WikiProject IBC. Recently two New Zealand editors Ambrosia10 and Stitchbird2, as well as their two Wikidata WikiProject collaborators S.v.Mering and JoaquimSantos78, attended the International Botanical Congress in Madrid. The group successfully delivered a Wikidata workshop at the Congress to 22 new and emerging Wikidata editors, presented a Wikidata related presentation on a research into women after who flowering plant genera have been named and presented a poster on the benefits to botanists in engaging more with Wikidata. This poster generated much interest during the conference and led to two editors of the prestigious botany journal the Annals of Botany inviting the group to submit a paper on the benefits of Wikidata to that journal. A digital copy of the Wikidata poster has been uploaded into Wikimedia Commons and can be found at this link. The informal engagement efforts by the Wikidata WikiProject IBC organisers were assisted by bookmarks created by the ground and funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Organisers were able to hand out the bookmarks which contained a QR code to the project page which contained a copy of not only the Wikidata poster but also contained links to help interested attendees begin their Wikidata editing journey. During the run up to the Congress the organisers of the project attempted to "wikify" the conference with their efforts covered by a German publication. While at the Congress these efforts continued with the organisers taking photos of notable botanists and creating and enriching Wikidata items for the same.
• 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.

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

Round table for participants

Opportunity to say what you’re working on and if you need help to do anything or want anything demonstrated. You can add requests for help here prior to the meeting if you want

• Alexeyevitch^(talk) – together with Marshelec managed to get the Foveaux Strait article up to GA status . I hope this article can be a guide what other notable strait article should be (e.g. Cook Strait , Strait of Gibraltar , Bass Strait etc.) The Cook Strait article definitely has potential to be a GA but I'm focusing on other articles at present and might improve content there in the future. Anyways, I've also been working on the Opawa article. I managed to take it from a borderline stub to now having encyclopedic information about the suburb and its surroundings (hopefully a reader would find the article useful). Also, I'm now just seeing how things work at GA review circles. It seems like a nice project and would love to be involved in reviewing GANs. Just started progress on the Fiordland National Park article. I don't want to get too involved at present time because I'm finding offline sources at the moment.

• Marshelec: In the past month or so, I have worked on improving articles grouped in several topic areas: (1) Foveaux Strait: although the article was nominated for GA by Alexeyevitch, I have made significant contributions and helped to get it accepted as a good article. There was also associated work on List of shipwrecks of Southland – although the vast majority of work on this substantial list article was done by Gadfium (2) Eco-restoration projects: I made extensive improvements to Bushy Park (New Zealand), and then nominated it for GA. Plus I created a new article: Mawaihakona Stream – where an eco-restoration project has been underway for 20 years (3) Christchurch – as a member of the Christchurch taskforce, I worked to improve the main article by removing poorly structured content about sports, and creating a new article Sport in Christchurch. Flow-on work has included creating Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub. There is more to do on sports-related topics. (4) Maidstone Park (in Upper Hutt) – I made significant additions to this small article, mostly as a result of finding out about the new sports hub building, and the Rideable miniature railway that is operated in the park by the Maidstone Model Engineering Society (but there is more to do on the article). (5) Carousel – after visiting (and riding on) a wonderful historic carousel now operating on the waterfront in the city of Geelong, south of Melbourne, I am keen to create a new article for this carousel, and am currently collecting sources.

Finally, I am working on an idea for prompting improvements to NZ-related articles that are clearly important (and have high page-views), but where the quality of the article (or parts of it) is disappointing. The idea is that through its various communication channels, WANZ might promote a "monthly article of the week for improvement". This would be a "call for action", drawing attention to the need for improvement – particularly for articles with high page-views. We could also invite people to submit their suggestions for articles for improvement, to go into the queue for promotion. Any thoughts about this proposal ??

I support this proposal, because I was unsatisfied with some of the content in our 'high-priority' articles. Some high page-views New Zealand related articles include: Taika Waititi (could easily be a GA), Māori people, Sam Neill, and kiwi. Significant geography-related pages include: Lake Taupō and Aoraki / Mount Cook. Libraries have various books relating to this content so it might be better to plan in advance to acquire the books. I think the kākā article could see some improvement. Kākā is a significant bird found both on the North and South Islands. Kākā were highly prized by Māori and their fethers were treasured by chiefs as a symbol of high rank. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 11:25, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

• Over the last month, I spent most of my time on Wikipedia co-ordinating the efforts of getting Olympics-related articles to the 'Did you know' section of the homepage. Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Olympics debrief gives a short overview what was involved. Apart from that, I've done a lot of work on Commons and Wikidata on scientists, working my way through c:Category:Marsden Fund 30th anniversary. Schwede66 00:20, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

• Gertrude206: Went to Te Papa edit-a-thon on expeditions which was very worthwhile. Worked on Chathams expeditions. Been working on biographies of doctors expanding from Stub to Start and will be revising more articles. Pet gripe at the moment is editors who edit pages and add unsourced information and having to do tidying up work. Schwede66 suggested putting a note on other editors' talk pages alerting them to the need to reference properly.Gertrude206 (talk) 00:35, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

• Prosperosity: Have been working on fixin gup location Wikidata items for Te Urewera as part of the National Parks project, as well as making articles on NZ endemic caddiesflies.

• Oronsay has been doing her usual Wikipedia gardening, plus lots of links to Wikidata items so that new bios are counted in the weekly statistics updates. Unfortunately, Humaniki, which handles the stats for all Wikis, is out of action at the moment. Is mentoring two former subeditors who used to work for a trade journal as they begin to edit Wikipedia, finding them tasks and fielding their many questions. User:Schwede66 kindly offered to help if a question defeats her. Also, forgot to mention assisted at two-day Franklin Women event (Sydney and Canberra) where 50 editors (most new) created 34 articles (mostly bios).

Review of questions raised during round table

• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk): Alexeyevitch raised a good question about NZ spelling. Specific examples were "spelt" vs "spelled" and "wagon" vs "waggon". I recommend checking out the Oxford English Dictionary online. Chch city library card holders can access it with their library card or on library wifi. It has some great etymology and usage notes for most entries, for example it mentions that "waggon" is the original English, and is rarely used in the US. I think the NZ Government technical writing MoS is probably useful also: here.

Outcomes

• Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 15 September 2024, same time, same place