Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 10 April 2021

Wellington Meetup 10 April 2021

• Date: Saturday 10 April 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

• Gertrude206 (talk) 06:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
• Noracrentiss (talk) 07:50, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
• David Nind (talk)
• Marshelec (talk) 22:11, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Unable to come

• Einebillion (talk) Social engagement preparations are clashing.
• Ambrosia10 (talk) I also have social engagements that clash. Hope to see everyone next month.

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

visitor Alison to see what we're up to

2. Progress on Action Points

• In person meet up in Aotearoa 2021 update.
  • Marshelec is updating (with MurielMary) the new public Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand Facebook page to boost the Auckland WikiCon; also trying to extend the reach of the page.
  • Auckland WikiCon in July. Nothing to update.
  • Wellington WikiCon in November. The VUW contact will help with programme planning and link into university systems; Noracrentiss will do grant application, food, transport. The goals of the WikiCon still being worked out but need to be written to attract non-Wikipedians. A logistics team of 4–5 people will be needed; Marshelec offered to help, perhaps registrations and comms and to contact Royal Society. A local organising committee would be best. A banner would be useful and could be used for the Wellington meet ups. Programme planning team also needed with convenors for different streams e.g. performing arts, science/biodiversity, history/biography, open data/government information. Suggestion to try and involve other people and organisations in planning and presentation e.g. Royal Society, academics; also to bring in some comms people from different organisation who can use value statements to attract non-Wikipedians. David Nind is taking over national newsletter and NZ mailing list which can be used for publicity.

3. InternetNZ page editing to learn about Featured Article Status.

• Previous meeting had decided not to continue work on editing the page to FA status. Discussion to continue at next meeting on selecting another page, preferably a Wellington 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 preparing photos from Ross cemetery to upload. Watched Wikidata live stream on YouTube about gadget that will calculate number of statements on Wikidata items.
• Marshelec inspired by trip to S Island. Has been working article on the unique geology of Ward Beach, the concretions and uplifting. Article in draft. Also updating Aurora Energy article.
• Gertrude206 still working on West Coast articles. Has added content to and reorganised Reefton and Stillwater and created articles on Reefton School of Mines, Reefton Hospital and Westland Hospital. Will be doing a presentation on Wikipedia to SeniorNet later this month followed up by some hands-on sessions.
• Noracrentiss has been researching hot chips and ice cream! Doing Wadestown Wikipedia meet ups on 2nd Tuesday afternoons of the month. Has set up bank account with Einebillion. Starting on the road to incorporation for the NZ Chapter by creating a draft. MBIE has useful information. In about 2006 someone had done some work on creating a constitution which is on the NZ meta-wiki page (which is now deactivated).

5. Review of questions raised during round table No discussion

6. Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

• A three module teacher’s guide about Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is now available on Commons - these guides look really good on first glance, and useful to new editors as well. (David Nind 21:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)). Print outs available for anyone who'd like to see them.

7. Demonstration of a tool

• Ran out of time

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

• Ran out of time

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 8 May, same time, same place