Location: Under COVID Alert Level 1: He Matapihi Molesworth Library at National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington Come to the main entrance of the National Library on Molesworth Street.
Location: Under COVID Alert Level 2: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WellingtonWikimediaMeetup 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).
Bring (if meeting under Alert Level 1): a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.
Under Alert Level 1 the group meet at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library within the National Library. This is a Wellington City Council pop up public library. It was formerly The National Library net.work space. Drinks are permitted in the library.
Under Alert Level 2 or higher the group meet via video conference call.
Meetup Code of Conduct and Anonymity when Meeting Via Video Conference[edit]
The video conferencing meetup is a replacement for the 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 in 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.
1. Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)
2. Progress on Action Points
Siobhan (Ambrosia10) would like to discuss with the group the organisation and facilitation of the meetings of the Wellington Wikimedia meetup group. Explained Victoria stepping back for about 3 - 4 meetings. Jon offered to provide coverage for me.
Lisa gave a presentation on Ada Lovelace Day 24 Hour Women In Red Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, focused on bios of women in STEM on 12 Oct Ada Lovelace Day. Staring at 12noon New Zealand time. Four workshops for new editors and hangout rooms for experienced editors to chat and share with each other. Promoting it amongst Mike's library network. Join an Australian editathon later in NZ time. Caddie reached out to some editors in other timezones - Asia and Africa. Someone to pass the event on between Aus/NZ and then UK. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ada_Lovelace_Day
3. Further discussion on choosing a page to get to Featured Article status. ( Likely to take less than the 30 minutes allocated!)
Selected page: Kererū See the review page to have a look at the process in action.
Going through the process of learning how to nominate the page as a good article and have made my first idiot error. I proposed it in "simple.Wikipedia" rather than English Wikipedia. Here's what the article in Simple Wikipedia looks like! Deleted nomination and then found the correct page to follow. I added the recommended markup onto the talk page. After a few days a reviewer took it on and I got involved in improving the article based on their recommendations. It was a lot more of a time sink than I anticipated but assuming the references turn out ok it looks like I've managed to get it over the line to GA status. - Ambrosia10 (talk) 21:28, 12 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
4. Round table for participants 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
Ambrosia10 - so many things! Along with getting the Kererū article (hopefully) up to GA status I've been recently interviewed for "The World According to Wikipedia" podcast as well as participating in the Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity Ep 5 broadcast (see the Wikinews for the links). I've been attending a week long hackathon virtually at the Meise Botanic Gardens. BiCIKL_H2020 is a hackathon aimed at uniting key research infrastructures across Europe, while solidifying #OpenScience & #FAIRdata practices through the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub. I've been participating in the Hidden Women project at that hackathon and advising the group on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons. I've also been assisting with the organising of the 24hr Ada Lovelace Day editathon helping collate resources but I've attended only the initial meeting as the others have clashed with my conference attendance. Recommend as many editors as are able to get involved but recognise it's on a Tuesday so this may be a challenge! I've had my two Wikidata properties approved - the NZTCS id and the NZTCS conservation status. After the approval process I've been working on adding these statements to the appropriate wikidata items. I'm now at the point where every NZ species that has a conservation status given to it now has this and its NZTCS id on it's Wikidata item. However there are more than a few species that have yet to be added to Wikidata so that's my next project when things calm down a little. I've also been working with Mike and Tamsin to attend a working meeting that will hopefully convince NZ academic libraries to put all NZ theses into Wikidata.
DrThneed Attended an advanced OpenRefine workshop at Griffith Uni online, very useful. Involved in WikiWomen in Red 24 hour editathon planning. Also uploading some sample dissertations into Wikidata. There doesn't appear to be any current way to link a thesis to the qualification it was created for (PhD, Diploma, Honours, Masters, etc) and currently that only seems to happen through the label or description, or the creation of specific Q numbers for different thesis types like instance of "dentistry PhD thesis". Will have some discussion on WikiCite about whether a new property is desirable. In reference to the theses project, does anyone have any experience with using controlled vocabularies to add main subject to publications? (No, but received some recommendations of who to talk to). Also created a page for The Spit Queen Anne Wyllie which was rather fun, and DYKed it.
Gertrude206 Gave an online presentation to SeniorNet Federation on 'How to read a Wikipedia article'. Is scheduled to give two talks in October to another SeniorNet group and U3A. Writing an article on Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs. Had fun trying out the Wikidata query builder.
Building communities of new editors. Due to my Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject I have had requests to introduce to two new communities as well as a number of individuals. This is a session in the national Māori Theatre Hūi to build more editors in that community, and in NZ Asian Music and Musicians - a greatly underseen group - to build editors in that community. And due to my involvement in another group 'Tauiwi mō Matike Mai Aotearoa | Non-Māori for ending colonisation' it is early stages of a group of new editors working on a new Matiki Mai Aotearoa article (a report about a model for an inclusive constitution for Aotearoa is the result of 252 hui between 2012 and 2015) and associated areas such as Margaret Mutu and Moana Jackson.
DYK Learning more about editing by nominating articles for 'did you know' Tungia Baker and Bob Jahnke
Oronsay reported on the UNSW Women in Stem editathon and how that experience may be applied to upcoming Ada Lovelace Day Editathon. After initial training we were sent into breakout rooms for about two hours and, because almost all the newbies were PhD students or UNSW staff, they really got on with it. The three I worked with all submitted articles before the session ended – dashboard. Working with the general public with differing levels of computer experience will prove more challenging, but with a number of experienced editors available to support newbies, possibly even one-on-one in breakouts, hopefully everyone will have a good experience. Otherwise been linking new articles to Wikidata, adding images to Commons and articles and all my usual updating and editing everywhere.
5. Review of questions raised during round table
David: Wikidata query about journals. Siobhan: mentioned the "old" wikisource tool for importing metadata into Wikidata via DOIs. May not fit David's workflow but is useful to know none the less.
6. Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of
