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Wellington Meetup 29 August 2020 edit

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  • Cost: Free
  • Bring: a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue edit

The group are meeting virtually while the Covid-19 higher alert levels in New Zealand occurs. Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WellingtonWikimediaMeetup

Future Meetups edit

This is a monthy 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 edit

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Attending edit

  1. Einebillion (talk)
  2. Noracrentiss
  3. Gertrude206
  4. Pakoire (talk)
  5. Ambrosia10 (talk)
  6. Oronsay (talk)
  7. MargaretRDonald (talk) 20:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  8. David Nind (talk)
  9. Quilt Phase (talk)

Unable to come edit

Agenda and Notes from Meeting edit

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

2. Progress on Action Points

  • Add action points here

3. 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

  • Giantflightlessbirds launched the West coast Wikipedian At Large page. Travelling there next week. Experimenting on a weekly email with suggestions to build team. Placement will be all September and hopefully halfway through October depending on funding. West Coast Wikipedian at Large project: we have some volunteers (thank you), but people are welcome to sign up. You'll get a weekly notice with tasks for the week and a prize for the best contributions.
  • MargaretRDonald is using a macro for links in Open Refine, adding IDs and working on author disambiguation. How do I change my set of languages? Answer: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:FAQ An Australian institution does not have openly licensed images and would like to encourage them to be open. Oronsay will find link to Australian resources and provide those to MargaretRDonald. The article for Aida Tomescu is undergoing a edit warring a particular article - would like some support on this to get page protection Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. No administrator rights in the room. Are there any friendly admins in the room? No one in the room at this time.
  • Gertrude206 has been working on a number of biographies. NZ doctors, British women playwrights and preparing material for another editor for an article where Gertrude206 has a conflict of interest
  • Noracrentiss Writing an article on taxidermist Jane Yandle.
  • Oronsay is editing in visual editor only in preparation to assisting at the National Gallery of Australia wiki club. She will be introducing some University of Newcastle Librarians to Wikipedia editing next week. Finding it quite a challenge to be cut off from the tools. Also working on transferring the word documents with scraps of information on women writers into Wikipedia stub articles.
  • Ambrosia10 Application to the Smithsonian symposium was declined. Presenting at the Open Access Week. Australasian Open Access Strategy Group is wanting a broader view of Open Access rather than focussing on scientific articles. Still working on early Women Botanists - up to letter R.
  • DrThneed Carrying on with slavery based wikidata data entry. Have a list of about 1000 people that have been identified in the British Slavery database. So working through them to determine who were actually slave owners. Also working on properties and places - the physical legacy of slavery - and matching those areas up in Open Refine. This work also identifies other people so the project keeps growing.
  • Quilt Phase Having an unplanned wiki holiday with other things going on. Got my eye on getting a photograph of founder of the New Zealand Film Archive and getting that into Wikimedia Commons.
  • Pakoire I’ve been sewing masks and community gardening. Found a Wikidata item for a person but with no references to that person. Also uploading information on Cuba Street, Karori, and New Zealand award information. The Editathon worked really well. The sadness is that all the physical resources couldn’t be used but the experienced editors did great work. Advocating for more people to use wikipedia / wikidata and joining the New Zealand Theatre Archive group. Developing a proposal to get some funding to do more advocacy work in this space. Working with Footnote Dance Company to add their images up to Wikicommons.
  • David Nind Completing Wikidata updates and updating Wikimedia Commons "depicts" values. Working on my project of names of North Otago Memorial Oaks. The people they are named after have links in the Cenotaph database at Auckland Museum and I'm using that to check whether they are already in Wikidata already. Do people know that the Governor General’s website has Creative Commons photographs.
  • User:99of9 Supporting new Chrome / Firefox browser extension Entity Explosion Entity Explosion and someone found a performance issue. Fixed that for the latest version. Download stats show that New Zealand is 6th on the list. This extension tool helps when you go to a web page and then pulls up the wikidata item associated with that webpage and shows Wikidata information. Useful way of cross referencing the web using wikidata. e.g. When on a Wikipedia web page allows for a quick check on what Wikidata knows about that article.

4. Review of questions raised during round table

  • How to cite a document held by Te Papa which has a reference number but is not viewable on their website. Einebillion (talk) demoed this and provide advice to group. Notes on Einebillion talk page: Einebillion talk

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

  • Wikicite Grants - refer FB post 22 August - any interest in putting a proposal together?

The WikiCite steering committee is now accepting applications for the following two types of grants. For both types the application deadline is 1 October 2020, and all projects must be completed by 1 May 2021. Project & Event grants Grants between $2,000 and $10,000 (USD equivalent) are available to individuals, groups, and organisations with a project that supports the goals of Wikicite. All the details, the eligibility criteria (especially for in-person events[1]), and the application form are available on the WikiCite project & event grants homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply, and projects may be of any nature. This includes technical (e.g. software, tools), event (online, or in-person), resources (training materials, documentation), or other forms not mentioned – as long as it supports the goals of WikiCite. e-Scholarships The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant in Wikimedia, created in response to an era of COVID-19 quarantines, and the 2030 Movement strategy goals. An e-scholarship provides a per-diem equivalent allowance for 1-5 people to stay at their home(s) and work for 2-4 days on a project supporting the mission of WikiCite. e-scholarship recipients' projects can be the kinds of things they might have previously undertaken with a scholarship for an in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip, for example. All the details, eligibility criteria, program design principles, and the application form are available on the WikiCite e-scholarships homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship Funding will: be provided in advance; be calculated at the WMF per-diem rate for the city where the e-scholarship recipient lives; and (as it is a living allowance) not require recipients to submit expense reports. "Remote group" applications are encouraged, as are projects which focus on content or communities which are historically underrepresented in Wikimedia projects. Building a bot, fixing a tool, wrangling a dataset, writing complete documentation... all are valid e-scholarship projects. A confirmation letter (in advance) and/or participation certificate (afterwards) can also be provided. Liam Wyatt [Wittylama] Program Manager for WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Wikimedia Foundation

  • Facebook post today: Wikimedia foundation is currently accepting applications for funding for conferences in the first half of 2021; minimum application is US$2,000. Smaller grant requests use a different process and fund.

So, questions arise: 1. Is there interest in having an in person meetup in Aotearoa in 2021? 2. If yes, do we think we need more or less than US$2,000 to run it? Any thoughts?

Yes. general agreement that application should come from Aotearoa New Zealand User Group. Those interested in being part of an organising group sign below.


  • Rapid grants can also be used to apply for funds to run edit-a-thons

6. Demonstration of another tool

7. General discussion on the Scottish language wikipedia site issue and the lack of Te Reo editors. Discussion on what the group are doing to encourage Te Reo editors to start and contribute to Te Reo wikipedia. Wondering whether the Te Taura Whiri I Te Reo Maori - Maori Language Commission could be encouraged to support a programme of contributing to Wikipedia. We might be able to help by contributing to short Wikidata labels in Te Reo. There's also the possibility of getting funding to develop Te Reo content - this might be useful if we could engage with Te Reo editing. https://www.tmp.govt.nz/

Outcomes edit

Next meeting and Meetup timetables edit

  • 26 September, same time, same place unless New Zealand gets into COVID Alert Level 1, in which case it's back at the Library!


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