Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/2

One of the main points of this meeting is to set up a New Zealand user group; hence Wikipedians outside of Christchurch may have an interest in the meeting, too.

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Time: 6:00 pm onwards
Location: Smash Palace, 172 High St, Christchurch

Venue

We'll be camped out in a corner of their ground floor room and have a row of tables for us. We can also use their projector and they will provide us with WiFi.

Future meetups

The NZ Wikipedian at Large is based in Christchurch until 9 June, and then he heads up to Nelson. There is a talk on What Wikipedia Means for Libraries and Archives on Wed 5 June, another talk on the UC campus called From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia, wikidrinks at Space Academy on Friday, 7 June, and the Getting New Zealand Writers into Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Saturday, 8 June: see upcoming events for details.

Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

Attending

Some of the attendees

1. Giantflightlessbirds
2. Schwede66
3. Podzemnik
4. CHCBOY
5. MurielMary

Plans

Agenda

• Troubleshooting: bring along your Wikipedia problems
• Update on the NZ Wikipedian at Large project
• Setting up a NZ Wikipedia User Group: the relatively trivial steps required to get the user group started. Let's do this! Be in touch if you'd like to join remotely (e.g. Skype or online).
• Upcoming workshop: "How to get NZ Writers into Wikipedia" on Saturday, 8 June; who's coming? Who can help?

Items to be brought

(Please put your username next to the item if you're bringing it.)

• Camera for some nice group portraits: Giantflightlessbirds

Past Meetups

• The previous Christchurch meetup – 26 Jun 2016
• Get NZ Artists Online – talk on 14 May, workshop on 19 May 2019

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• Wikidrinks, 7 June 2019, 5:00pm onwards (no need to be punctual!), Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St (Facebook)
• See Wikipedian at Large Upcoming Events for the other Christchurch happenings

Outcomes

User group

The attendees have decided to form a user group for New Zealand.

• Poll Kiwi Wikipedians on what the user group is going to be called (Giantflightlessbird)

• Wikimedia New Zealand User Group
• Wikimedians of Aotearoa New Zealand

• Create draft page in space that we've already got (Podzemnik)

• Move once we've agreed on the user group name

• Make application to Wikimedia Foundation (Giantflightlessbird)
• Nominate regional contacts and encourage other places to become represented, with the expectation for this co-ordinator to be available to help new users, and to organise an informal meet-up twice a year (Giantflightlessbird)

• Auckland
• Wellington - Einebillion and Ambrosia10 are keen to coordinate for Wellington if the community is happy with this.
• Christchurch – Schwede66
• Dunedin

• Create draft logo (Giantflightlessbird)

• Involve wider community on final logo once we apply to become a chapter (i.e. in two years' time)

• Register wikimedia.nz (Giantflightlessbird)

Wiki Loves Monuments

Decided to organise this event for NZ. (Giantflightlessbird plus one other person yet to be decided)