Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 29

Auckland Meetup #29 – Saturday 2 November 2024

Auckland-based wiki editors in Samoa House Library

Samoa House

• Date: Saturday 2 November 2024
• Time: 10 am - 12 pm
• Location: Samoa House Library, Level 2/283 Karangahape Road, Auckland CBD
• Bring a laptop if you have one.

Venue

Samoa House Library

Future meetups

This is a recurring event every four weeks, but double-check the Wikipedia:Auckland Meetup page to confirm.

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The meetup

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Attending

• Winnieswikiworld
• Prosperosity (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)
• Peter0027 (talk) 06:53, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Agenda and notes from meetup

1. Introduction to meetup by organisers

• General welcome and introductions

2. Round table for participants to say what you’re working on / interested in

Winnieswikiworld - Wikimedian in residence work, profile article pages on WW1 and WW2 veterans - under represented groups particularly veterans of migrant descent, organising editathons.

Peter0027 - Getting back into wikipedia editing! Interest in ceramic/pottery history in Auckland.

Prosperosity - Working on image categories for spiders and is working through a complete endemic species of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Paora - Mostly 'gardening', also uploading photos of Goodwood Heights and doing some category tidying.

Dactylantha - Looking for projects! Have requested permission from National Library for some Mary D. Woodward photo use. Have also requested materials from St Kevins Arcade re: their recent audio history tour event to supply information for a St Kevins Arcade page.

4. Requests for edits

• Body Positive (Q115662739)
• Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa (Q115684298) + photos of new premises
• Don't Dream It's Over (Q121733980)
• Family Bar (Q116814889)
• George Courts (Q79301322)
• H B Building (Q79308990)
• Karanga-a-Hape railway station - construction photos from Samoa House?
• Māori Hall (Q121734033)
• Mercury Plaza, Auckland (Q117841965)
• Naval and Family Hotel (Q79302967)
• Pitt Street Buildings (Q79303572)
• Pitt Street Church (Q79303571)
• Rainbow Bridge (Q122973739)
• Rainbow Youth
• Hopetoun Alpha (Q79304090)
• St Kevins Arcade (Q116814980)
• Te Ara I Whiti / The Lightpath (Q118228607)

Outcomes

• 7 aerial photographs of Goodwood Heights and surrounding area uploaded to Wikicommons.
• Created Wikidata item for Philip Herapath (Q130753383), 19th-century architect of several buildings near Samoa House
• Content added to Ralph Hotere, Jacqueline Fraser, Chris Booth, Stephen Bambury, Jeff Thomson, Robyn Kahukiwa and Greer Twiss using content from the Samoa House library.
• Draft articles on Hopetoun Alpha, Mary D. Woodward, St Kevins Arcade

Next Auckland meetup

Discussion of continued use of Samoa House as meeting location for Auckland meetups, along with changing meeting time to 11AM-1PM and providing kai for editors. A funding request has been instigated by Dactylantha through WANZ. There was also discussion about the name of the meetup group, with consensus arriving at Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Meetup being a good option to avoid confusion and follow naming conventions set by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand's chapter naming precedent.

NEXT MEETING: 30 November 2024, 11AM-1PM, Samoa House Library