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Wellington Meetup 1 February 2020 edit

  • Date: Saturday 1 Febrary 2020
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: 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.
  • Cost: Free
  • Bring: a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue edit

User:Einebillion 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.

Future Meetups edit

This is a fortnightly event but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

Join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed.

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

People edit

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Attending edit

  1. Ambrosia10 (talk) 19:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Quilt Phase (talk) 20:16, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Gertrude206
  4. David Nind (talk)
  5. slow_djinn (talk)

Unable to come edit

  1. Einebillion (talk)

Agenda edit

  • Introduction to meet up by organisers - Ambrosia10 (talk)
  • Round table for participants to say what you’re working on and if you need help with anything - bring along your Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia problems
  • Discussion about organising a proposed editathon called "Know my name" and a request for an organiser in Wellington.
  • Highlighted research resource - LINZ website and NZTopo site
  • Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes edit

The group used a variety of tools to assist Ambrosia10 create a wikidata item for Hoggard Street Reserve. These included Google Earth, kml data, OpenStreetMap, arcGIS, OGRGeoJSON, text file hacking and a Wellington City Council map publication.

Past Wellington Meetups edit

Next meeting and Meetup timetables edit

  • 15 February, same time, same place


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