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Wellington Meetup 3 August 2019 edit

Date: Saturday, 3 August 2019
Time: 10:00 am to midday
Location: net.work space, National Library, Corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
To bring: laptop if you have one

Venue edit

  • The National Library net.work space has good WiFi and internet accessible computers for those that don’t have laptops. The meetup organizer Einebillion (talk · contribs) has spoken with staff and they are happy to have us use the space for a meet up. We'll be there from 10.00am.

Future Meetups edit

This is a fortnightly event but double check the 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

Attending edit

  1. User:Einebillion
  2. User:David Nind
  3. User:Pippipip
  4. Jon (talk)
  5. Quilt Phase
  6. User:Gertrude206

Unable to come edit

  1. User:Ambrosia10 - may be able to come for about an hour at the start but it will depend on timing. Wellington on a Plate function clash is to blame!
  2. User:Barbuliscious - arohamai. see you next time.

Plans edit

Agenda edit

  • Introduction to meet up by organisers
  • 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
  • Highlighted research resource: Gazette for New Zealand (1946 ~ 1992)
  • Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting
  • Suggestion from Mike: folks on Twitter were asking about an article about charity group The Aunties (needs improving) and founder Jackie Clark. Maybe a project for someone? —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:58, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Hawke's Bay Digital Archives Trust edit

The Hawke's Bay Digital Archives Trust have set up their site, Knowledge Bank with a default license of CC-BY-NC, for example this nifty image of Te Mata Peak. In summary, two things about this:

  • The NC (Non-Commercial Use) clause prevents usage on Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons, and
  • Much of the material is in the public domain, and therefore cannot be covered by a Creative Commons license anyway.

Question: is there a way to somehow automatically "mirror" resources onto Wikipedia Commons, given the appropriate license change can be made, or do they need to be (bulk) imported?

Useful links and suggestions:

Wayback Machine plugin edit

David showed us the Wayback Machine browser plug-in for archiving and citing web pages (Internet Archive blog post). Available for Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome.

Gertrude206 reported later a bit of trouble with the plug-in in Safari. After installing it Wikipedia kept logging out when trying to edit. Problem resolved when the plug-in was uninstalled.

Citation bookmarklet edit

Jon (talk) uses a nifty bookmarklet (a scrap of JavaScript, saved as a bookmark) called WebRef, for Firefox and Chrome, that generates the cite template text you need to paste into your Wikipedia article. There are loads of other nifty citation tools over at Help:Citation_tools.

Past Wellington Meetups edit

Next meeting and Meetup timetables edit

  • 17 August, same time, same place (to confirm)


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