An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Everybody's welcome, new or experienced.
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020 (postponed by a week)
Time: 7pm onwards
Location: Welles Street, 44 Welles Street, Christchurch CBD
Venue edit
Welles Street at 44 Welles Street; there is free WiFi. Table booked for 7pm.
Attendees edit
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- Some non-WP creative writing, plus created an article on artist Patricia France
- 1853 New Zealand provincial elections – lots of fun with that and heaps of related work (WP categories; Commons categories; Wikidata; bio amendments; red links for notable provincial politicians)
- Set up Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/heritage
- Has worked on Open Government Partnership Commitment 11 since our last meeting
- Has worked with public officials on linked data concepts for the NZ public service
- Knowledge Graphs 2020 is a free training course that comes recommended
- Review of draft articles
- Women in Red work
- Agreed to have another workshop at the Christchurch Art Gallery next year (aim for Feb 2021)
- Has worked with Dodd-Walls Centre for the last couple of weeks (described as a "Wikipedian on retainer"): sorting image permissions; taught staff how to write WP articles; worked on some bios of the researchers; uploaded physics graphics; ORCID IDs for staff; getting staff and research onto Wikidata
- Produced final report for West Coast project this week
Agenda items edit
- Round the table – what's everyone up to?
- What’s special about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Biography_and_memoir_book_cover_images category? I added a low-resolution image of a book cover into commons, but when I tried to add the category to it didn’t exist. It clearly does, and it has 1,586 book cover images in it.
- The list of items in the category is auto generated
- Only Wikipedia allows uploads of non-free material; discussed what the process is of sorting this out.
Outcomes edit
- Generated some ideas for the conference:
- How to archive user talk page
- How to create edit notice (e.g. for a personal talk page)
- Request for Schwede to present on DYK
- Request for MurielMary to present on homepage content (On this day; In the News; Recent deaths)
- How to use HotCat
- "How do I write" – Herewhy would like to talk about that, in an interactive discussion
- The process of finding topics to write about
- What's a sandbox good for?
- Ratso offered to present to Wikidata queries
- Much jolliness was expressed about the new Wikipedian. Congratulations, Podzemnik!
Next event/keeping in touch edit
- Next meetup is on Tuesday, 8 December 2020 – change of venue; we'll try out Salut Salut (also in Welles Street); 7 pm
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