Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 23 October 2021

Wellington Meetup 23 October 2021

• Date: Saturday 23 October 2021
• Time: 10:00 am to 10.30am-ish - short meeting today to say hi to any newcomers.
• 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

• Pakoire (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk)

Unable to come

• Einebillion (talk) - currently on a wiki break until likely in the new year.
• Gertrude206 (talk) 00:12, 22 October 2021 (UTC) - probably not attending - fantastic news re Kererū! :)
• Ambrosia10 (talk) - Sorry, I've got a clash with the TDWG online conference which I've been attending all week..
• User:Noracrentiss(talk)
• Quilt Phase
• David Nind

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

2. Progress on Action Points

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

• Selected page: Kererū - GA status ACHIEVED! See the article and it's talk page for info. This article has now been nominated for FA status - see the nomination page for more info on what issues are being raised and how to contribute. If you are dealing with an issue raised please leave a note in this page explaining what you are doing so other editors are aware. It's very much a collaborative effort!

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

Gertrude206 has given 2 talks in the past week about Wikipedia to Seniornet Wellington North and to U3A. The latter was interrupted by an earthquake! Both talks recorded in the draft Annual Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand/Annual_Report_2021#Wellington_talks.

• Oronsay's news:

Talked Pakoire through updating Preferences to enable the Page drop-down menu. Hover over Page to then select Tools | Fix dead links to get all the urls on a page updated automatically. No wonder Ambrosia10 was so excited about it, having manually archived and added URLs to the Kererū page.

Also in the Page menu is Analysis | Copy vio detector which compares a page with the material in the page's references and highlights where identical.

Shared concerns about the proposed March 2022 24-hour editathon being close to but separate from International Women's Day editathons that are usually held around Australia. Will contact WMAU committee for their views.

Advised that one of Women in Red's editathons for November will be Film+Stage – good tie-in with Performing Arts Aotearoa.

Breaking news – has won (but not yet awarded) a community activism award at the 2021 Edna Ryan Awards for contributing women's bios to Wikipedia.

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

• Everyone MUST install this tool - it is so useful. Go to your Preferences, then Gadgets, then"Appearance" section, tick "MoreMenu"! Once installed one of the parts of the tool allows you to bulk edit the references in the article adding the Internet Archive url for the archived webpages to the citations listed in the article. I'd highly recommend you have a play once it is installed. - Ambrosia10 (talk)

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

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 20 November , same time, same place