Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 18 December 2021

Wellington Meetup 18 December 2021

• Date: Saturday 18 December 2021
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: 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).

Venue

The group is meeting 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

• Einebillion (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds
• Gertrude206
• Marshelec (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• David Nind (talk)

Unable to come

• Noracrentiss

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

2. Progress on Action Points

• Discussion confirming first meeting back in the New Year. 22 January? Discuss whether we want to start back meeting in person? - Ambrosia10 (talk) Check to see if we can get together physically for the first meeting at our normal library.

3. Further discussion on getting to Good Article / Featured Article status. 30 minutes

• Selected page: Kererū - Achieved FEATURED ARTICLE STATUS!!! (See the pageviews here.)

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

• Siobhan User:Ambrosia10 has been working on New Zealand endemic moths, creating new articles, uploading images and improving Wikidata. She's been working on George Hudson's original watercolour scientific illustrations sourced from Te Papa, expanding the description and adding in the most recent taxonomic information. She's also been tutoring a new editor in writing species articles and has started editing this document intending to help other new editors from South America to edit Wikipedia species articles. She has also been collaborating with DrThneed and Giantflightlessbirds on a project to get all of NZ theses into Wikidata.
• Jonathon - working on NZ Wine, keen to get it up to Good article status.
• Marshall - restricted b/c of arm. Has done diagram and learned how to load it up into a Wikipedia article etc. Working with other editor for electricity sector articles. Collaborating with User:Wildman work on town articles - particular Methven.
• Mary - Medical biographies, improving articles that didn't have enough citations in them and improving Stub articles. Projects in minds are parks of Thorndon project and improve article on Tongariro power development.
• Mike - At the Greymouth edit-a-thon last week we had half a dozen participants, and created the article Floods in Greymouth. One of the participants lives near Punakaiki, and was keen to see an edit-a-thon up there. So it looks like on the Saturday of Waitangi weekend we'll be spending the day in the historic Barrytown Settlers Hall, working on improving the articles about Barrytown and the Westland petrel, and creating an article on the Barrytown Flats. I'll create an event soon with details of timing, accommodation, transport and so forth. As part of the Australian Music Project edit-a-thon I created an article about the group Spinifex Gum. And the article about Sue Grey (lawyer) got its first bit of vandalism.
• Annie - Seeing things in paper, updating awards, checking netball articles produced by RoundTheWorld for Oceania competition. Needs to find more NZ born Australian or vice versa. Also a tiny bit of WikiSource.
• Victoria - working on WikiTree, probate, and adding some to Wikidata
• David - Nothing to report for this period!

5. Review of questions raised during round table

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

7. Demonstration of a tool

• Collection Builder - not a demo, more to show (David Nind)

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

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 22 January, same time, same place