Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 13 March 2021

Wellington Meetup 13 March 2021

• Date: Saturday 13 March 2021
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• 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.

Venue

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

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

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.

Future Meetups

This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

Join the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

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

People

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Attending

• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Einebillion (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk) 18:14, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
• Gertrude206 (talk) 05:55, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
• David Nind (talk) (will be a little late)
• Arrow94

Unable to come

• Pakoire (talk)
• Noracrentiss (talk) 02:45, 13 March 2021 (UTC) (on holiday in the South Island)

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

1. Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)

2. Progress on Action Points

• In person meet up in Aotearoa 2021 update. The WikiCon pages are here

3. Continuing to edit the InternetNZ page editing to learn about Featured Article Status. (30 minutes)

• Wikipedia describes featured articles
• Here are the assessment criteria for articles with editing suggestions.
• Here is some information on assessing articles.
• Group to work on article

Decision is to stop this piece of work as the secondary sources aren't available other than on the InternetNZ page.

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

David Nind still working slowly on getting New Zealand museums into Wikidata. Work is getting in the way.

Wainuiomartian is a new editor and a librarian. Will be presenting about Wikipedia to a group of teachers. Has questions about how to change a citation needed statement within an info box. Has also been working on the Arthur_Aldrich page.

Arrow94 is a new editor working with Gertrude206 on learning Wikipedia. Is interested in information on New Zealand musicians. Working on the Douglas_Lilburn page.

Gertrude206 delivered a talk to the Friendship Club of Johnsonville which brought Ross in as a new editor. She will be doing other talks to similar groups and will report on these in the draft annual user group report.

The Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand draft report for 2021 is here

Einebillion has finished the Pioneer Land Surveyors of New Zealand. Data is now in Wikidata. Now working on the open data of the William Ocklefild Oldman’s business records to learn more about data cleaning in

Ambrosia10 concentrating on Te Papa specimen images. Although they’ve got an API but it’s technically not possible to extract images from that API so I’m downloading them from the website and upload to Wikipedia Commons and then categorise them with their Getting braver and editing images into other language Wikipedia products.

In absentia:

Noracrentiss is "hosting" Wadestown Wikipedians at Wadestown Library on 2nd Tuesday of the month from 2.30 -3.30pm. The idea is that editors (or prospects) come along, learn a bit about WP if new to it, do a bit of editing, share tips on research and writing articles. Working on Turnbull Names 2 Mix and Match; researching history of Ralph McDonald and siblings - catering innovators in 1950s and 60s

5. Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Group worked on supporting the new editors.

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 10 April, same time, same place