Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 16 April 2022

Wellington Meetup 16 April 2022

• Date: Saturday 16 April 2022
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Under COVID Alert Level ORANGE or RED : 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).
• Location: Under COVID Alert Level GREEN : 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.
• Bring (if meeting under Alert Level GREEN): a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue

Under COVID Alert Level Yellow or Red the group meet via video conference call.

Under COVID Alert Level Green 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.

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.

The Meeting

Attending

Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and four tildes like this: * ~~~~

• Einebillion (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• David Nind (talk)
• MargaretRDonald

Unable to come

• Noracrentiss (talk) 22:00, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

No newbies.

2. Round table for participants to say what you’re working on

• Einebillion has been working on the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand application to Wikimedia Foundation General Support Fund. This was submitted yesterday. Will be focussed on talking about metrics and making editors aware of how to record their efforts so that the User Group can do effective reporting back to WMF. The User Group has an overarching campaign page Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand 2022. If you're developing any programs I encourage you to talk with users about how to create a corresponding dashboard for reporting impact purposes. Earlier in the week met with a Curator of Botany at Te Papa with Ambrosia10 to discuss using Wikipedia as an outreach mechanism and possible work program.

• Ambrosia10 - Since the last meeting I have presented at DigiKult2022 - slides and script can be found here. It was a virtual conference and so it was difficult to judge the impact of the presentation. Saying that I got supportive feedback on both in conference platform chatroom as well as over twitter so I was pleased how the presentation went. I have also been participating in the WeDigBio campaign- where folk the world over transcribe specimen labels. I normally contribute via the Australian Museum DigiVol platform. As part of my workflow I add collectors of specimens to Wikidata and then use Bionomia.net to link to their specimen data in GBIF. I publicised this workflow on twitter and got a good reception from participating volunteers. I was invited to write a blog post about the workflow which was publicised by WeDigBio on social media. I've been continuing to work on Wikidata wrangling to assist with a scholarly publication on genera named after women and have been proof reading the almost ready for publication scholarly publication on disambiguation of people names. I also now have capacity to work more on assisting DrThneed on the Aotearoa New Zealand Theses project and hope to meet with her in the coming days about this. Finally I've been working on the Harvard Index of Botanists in Mix'n'match getting them into Wikidata.

• Marshelec has recently visited Bushy Park in Whanganui and the paddle steamer PS Waimarie and has worked on improving their wikipedia articles. Has also started an article on the proposed fenced sanctuary in Wainuiomata, Puketahā. Is intending to attend the local workshop on QGIS mapping at Victoria University.

• David Nind is starting to reassess his worklist to determine what he wants to finish off. Looking at the work on North Otago Memorial Oaks and also some work in Wikisource. He's got a trip up north planned soon and will take the photographs of Ashburton requested by Marshelec.

• Oronsay hasn’t done much for New Zealanders for the last couple of weeks. We had a Franklin women editathon in Sydney last week. 30 new editors participated at the Sibyl Centre at the University of Sydney. A follow up session was also held this week and was considered to be a good idea, allowing three new editors to receive Wikipedia editing training, plus q+as from some attendees. Unfortunately, the women who attended were not those whose bios had been moved from mainspace to draft.

• MargaretRDonald has done a lot of author disambiguation for the Franklin women editathon. Has also been working on wikidata taxonomy and synonyms. There is a group that can help answer questions for Wikidata in this area of knowledge.

3. Progress on Action Points and future events

• International Women's Day Editathon on weekend of 5 and 6 March Any update from Ambrosia10 and Pakoire - See the editathon page as well as the dashboard for final tallies and impact. In summary, it was a great editathon with 39 new articles, 31 improved articles and multiple improvements and additions to Wikidata and WikiCommons. We're intending to do the same or a similar event next year so keep an eye out for women in need of an article and leave a note on your user page or alternatively add them to this google doc.
• Edit-a-thons at Te Papa Any update from Pakoire or Einebillion This was associated with Pakoire's Pacific Arts Aotearoa Project. With the disruption of the omicron COVID19 outbreak and the completion of the project this is no longer happening.
• One Lib One Ref campaign Australia Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand are working on the One Lib One Ref campaign in June. Any update from Ambrosia10? - No update as yet although those wanting to find out more can see this page for the event. Organisers will be meeting again in the lead up and we'd appreciate folk publicising the event closer to the date. Project is moving into a communication phase to publicise the event.
• New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. The project now has a project page. The GLAMWiki newsletter had a report on the latest updates for this project - at the moment we're in the OpenRefine data wrangling prep stage before the mass upload happens.
• The Postponed Wellington WikiCon Any update from Pakoire or Giantflightlessbirds This is on the activity list for the general support funding application. If the application is successful it is tentatively proposed for November 2022.
• Visit to Parliamentary Librarians Any update from Marshelec No update
• National Digital Forum is due to occur in February 2022. Any update from Ambrosia10? - Conference report
• SPNHC 2022 conference happening from 5-10 June 2022

4. Further discussion on getting to Good Article / Featured Article status. Group discussed ideas for the next article to focus on. Group to review nominated candidates and come to the next meeting knowing their preferred option from the list. Nominated candidates are.

• Women's suffrage in New Zealand - C class
• Wellington - B class
• Te Papa - C class
• Kohekohe - Start class
• Wellington Tree Weta - B class
• Wellington green gecko - Start Class

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

• Open Refine Development work is happening with Open Refine]. Last year the Wikipedia editing community suffered from the months long crash of Pattypan - the only tool for bulk uploading images into Wikimedia Commons. Pattypan is back online and working. As part of the desire to add resiliance to tools for Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation have provided funding to develop Open Refine further to assist both with adding structured data to files on Wikimedia Commons and to assist with bulk uploading images to Wikimedia Commons.

We will keep a watching brief on this work to see whether we should set up a workshop for New Zealand users in this additional functionality after it's in production after June as a number of meetup participants are interested in learning about this.

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

Discussion on WikiProject New Zealand and whether setting up a New Zealand biota sub-project or task force might be useful. General consensus was that this is a huge piece of work and users are busy with other activities right now.

Member of group asked whether Critter of the Week was continuing. It is still appearing in Radio NZ but the Wikipedia project work is lagging behind.

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 14 May 2022, same time, same place