Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/55

Edit with VisualEditor

Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 55

• Date: Sunday 10 November 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

Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: ‘’’* ~~~‘’’

• Paora (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Winnieswikiworld (talk)
• Jon (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:56, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk)
• Pakoire (talk)
• B. Jankuloski (talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)

Unable to come

Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~

• Marshelec. Would like to attend but this clashes with my commitments to officiating at a Junior Track & Field meet the same day
• Gertrude206
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Prosperosity (talk)

Agenda and notes

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 programme 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 programmes 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 info @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple – we promise!

• 28 Sept and 12 Oct: Te Māori exhibition edit-a-thons to be held at Te Papa. How did it go? Ambrosia10 gave an update on her experiences attending these two editathons and expressed disappointment there were few attendees. However she expressed how grateful she was at the work being done by Te Papa and the organisers to create a framework for running a Tauoma Takatā. See the October GLAMwiki newsletter for more information on this.
• 2 November 2024 Auckland Meetup at Samoa House Library from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. How was this? A successful event was held with very positive feedback about the location, particularly how it is possible to eat and drink at that library. There is also an artist in residence which may result in a Wiki collaboration and the resources available were able to be put to good use.
• 19 Oct and 2 Nov: NZ Species Edit-a-thon. To be held at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington. How did it go? Ambrosia10 reported back on this two day event, explaining it was very successful and also that the organisers are intending to report back to community on what works and what could be improved, hoping to help organisers of other events improve their own engagement efforts.
• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide Margaret gave an update on the event and explained that the NZ editor Pakoire will be attending and presenting.
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Registrations are now open - 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. Registration.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Project works on getting New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata and connecting them to their authors, advisors and main subjects. Project Dashboard. Currently adding OpenAlex identifiers to anyone in the project, through matching with the Orcids on OpenAlex's API. Have been in discussion with the Wikimedian in Residence at Edinburgh to see if we can help them get their theses into Wikidata. Am also working with LSE to rewrite our Wikidata thesis-related queries to take account of the Wikidata graph split. 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: New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers.

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

• Content: Good article nominations backlog drive - October 2024: Please consider joining in during October, to review at least one Good Article nomination. This is a great way of developing your own editing skills and knowledge. There are currently around 550 article nominations waiting to be reviewed, across a host of diverse topics. See: Good article nominations
• Event: Global GLAM calls: these are now monthly, alternating in a NZ-friendly time slot. The first such one is at 9pm NZ time, Tuesday 12 November. Those attending will likely be GLAM professionals who work with Wikimedia projects, or Wikimedians who work a lot with GLAMs. This is a new initiative from Wikimania Poland to let those in our time zone take part in global conversations.
• Event: Commons community calls are being held to encourage discussion between the Wikimedia Foundation and the editing community about Wikimedia Commons. See the link for further information, when the calls are and how to sign up.
• BHL-Wiki working group meeting These are held once every month. See this agenda document for the timing of the calls and the link to use to join them.
• Wikimania 2025 - Wikimania scholarships are now open. See this link for more information.

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

Diagram showing examples of Wikidata properties that can be used on a Wikidata item for a taxon.

• 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 also received detailed feedback from the publisher about our Wikidata module and are currently working through this before submitting that module for final publication. 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'll be flying 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.
• DrThneed
  1. Meeting with people at Otago re projects for next year.
  2. Thesis project data reused in the wild! This edurank page lists the 100 most viewed Wikipedia articles for alumni of Otago. When it says what degree someone studied, that has often come from the thesis project (e.g. for Grant Robertson (Q1543207) and Kieran McAnulty (Q41498761). There are of course pages like this for all the universities.
  3. Obtained a spreadsheet of Massey doctoral advisors to reconcile with Wikidata.
• Paora. Attended Auckland meetup at new venue (Samoa House Library): great venue, thanks to Dactylantha for finding it! Usual gardening. Scanning obituaries and creating / updating Wikidata for notable people and any with honours or doctorates, and related people. Uploaded various images I've taken and some from GG website to Wikicommons.
• Jon (talk): the correct technical term for a wind instrument sounded by use of a "buzzing" or vibrating lip embouchure is labrosone (most brass instruments, didjeridu, etc.) The term was coined in 1976 by musicologist Anthony Baines. However the brass instrument article also contended the term labrophone was also used, but it was made up by an editor ~ 2010 and its appearance anywhere in internet search results seems to be a result of WP:CIRCULAR. its only other occurrence in Wikipedia articles was in alphorn, which I've now corrected, so searching for "labrophone" seems to now result in stuff about alphorns. I fixed a similar thing with the article about the soprillo (the teeny-tiny saxophone), for which someone c. 2008 invented the name sopranissimo saxophone, which has since abated more or less.
• Giantflightlessbirds: I've been working with National Science Challenges as they've wrapped up their 10 year research programmes; this has involved three lunchtime webinars for researchers, that last of which, on Creative Commons, is on the 19th. I was awarded the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large grant for 2025, so that will be half-time for the whole year focussed on Banks Peninsula; ideas and volunteers welcome! Thanks to WANZ and Siobhan's hospitality I was able to come up to Wellington twice and help with the NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari, which was a blast.
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
  1. Wrote a bot for identifying suspicious removals or omissions of macrons from te reo Māori words, you can find out more at User:MacronMonitor. Fun experience using some of the APIs and backend stuff that Wikimedia provides.
  2. Attended the chch meetup and as a result of a discussion there I have been cleaning up and expanding the article for the Ferrymead Heritage Park here in Ōtautahi. Also started organising the next meetup for next Month (December 1st at the Pegasus Arms, please do come along if you're in our part of the motu).
  3. Granted access to AfC and started dabbling with patrolling draft pages.
  4. Threw a few cents in the fountain at AfD for NZ articles.
  5. Did some research after a request for support for the article on former broadcaster Lindsay Yeo. Kudos to the editors (mostly DrThneed and Gertrude206) that have hugely improved that article in the last week or two.
  6. Engaged in some arguing on the WPNZ noticeboard regarding the Auckland Library WiR.
• Oronsay: Been updating newly elected Fellows on Wikidata and Wikipedia. Celebrated Wikidata's 12th birthday on 1 Nov on WMAU's zoom which was attended by more than a dozen whose experience ranged from minimal to the amazing 99of9, pleasing that Dianne dropped in for a while from NZ. 99of9 helped me create a query for people receiving a particular award in a given year as I'd previously only searched for all, then ordered by date received. Been running queries to find gaps in Aussie people entries on Wikidata, e.g. with Australian Dictionary of Biography ID but without Trove ID and searching for the missing IDs and adding that and more to the items.
• Winnieswikiworld (talk)

I have been continuing the Wikiprojects I have started in my Auckland Museum Wikimedian in Residency. These projects are:

• Wikiproject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa
• WikiProject Aotearoa Asian Artists
• Wikiproject x Online Cenotaph

I attended the Auckland November meetup at Samoa House Library which was an amazing venue with some incredible resources. I am also excited to welcome the new cohort of Wikipedia Summer Students as part of the Auckland Museum Summer Internship programme. We have five students joining us for the next couple of months, I’m very much looking forward to mentoring these students and seeing what they contribute.

• MargaretRDonald (talk) has been working extensively on biodiversity content but also had an execution question as she was having difficulty finding sources. Because the topic was uncomfortable to some she was asked to add her requests for assistance in more detail at the bottom of the agenda under further questions.
• Dactylantha (talk) helped organise and discussed attending the Auckland meetup. She's also been assisting with getting the speakers presenting to the student interns lined up and organised. She has also been in contact with them organisers of the Saint Kevans Arcade tour getting her hands on the historic sources used to create the tour and hopes to hand this onto one of the students to obtain an article about this historically important place in Auckland.
• Pakoire (talk) has been doing only a few edits but mainly concentrating on her WANZ committee work. She's going to attend the WikiCon Australia and will be presenting there. Is also keen to learn more about the report the Wikimedia Australia committee commissioned about indigenous views and engagement with Wikipedia hoping to bring her knowledge back to WANZ.
• Panamitsu - I haven't been doing much recently. Made an article on GeoNet and created a script that adds macrons

Review of questions raised during round table

• Discussion about the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Wiki meet up and its location and timing. Feedback from Auckland editors about their preferred location, time and date of the meeting can be placed on the meetup talk page.
• General discussion about the BHL-Wiki working group and the work of that group. I've included the link to the BHL-Wiki working group meeting agenda and meeting link as well as the most recent GLAMwiki newsletter update.

Presentations, tips, tools

• Add anything you would like to share at this meeting
• Oronsay shared this Wikidata query around awards for a specific time. This can be edited for New Zealand based awards.

Outcomes

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

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 8 December 2024, same time, same place