Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington 5

Habramphus spinipennis, the coxella weevil, featured on Critter of the Week on 21 October 2016

Date: Sat, 12 January, 2019
Time: 10:30 am (brunchtime)
Location: Home Cafe, National Library, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington

Venue

• Home is the cafe at the front of the National Library building. We'll be there from 10:30 until it closes at 1:00 pm.

Future Meetups

The NZ Wikipedian at Large is based in Wellington October 2018 – March 2019, so there will be regular meetups over summer. Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or 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

Attending

1. Giantflightlessbirds
2. The Sick Bay
3. Ambrosia10
4. Rosie Goble (DOC)
5. William Brocklesby (DOC)

Unable to come

1. Markanderson72 (skyped in briefly)

Plans

Critter of the Week Task Force

The Critter of the Week (CotW) project has been a great science outreach success, and Wikipedia support has been an important part of that. Currently the "critters" discussed each week have their Wikipedia presence enhanced at short notice by an ad hoc team of volunteers. The goal of this meetup is to set up a CotW Task Force, with editors actively recruited and asked to commit to assisting each week. The Task Force would liaise with DOC's CotW coordinator in scheduling critters ahead of time, with time to source photos and research new articles when needed. The Task Force would also promote CotW on social media. Volunteers could receive small rewards for continued dedicated participation: a virtual Critter medal, or even DOC or RNZ merchandise such as a Critter teatowel.

Items to be brought

(Please put your username next to the item if you're bringing it.)

• Camera for some nice group portraits: Giantflightlessbirds Forgot to take a portrait!

Report

• As part of her Wikidata work on female science illustrators Ambrosia10 is liaising with the Universität Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators, concerned that their upcoming server shift may break URLs.
• Two DOC staffers were able to attend, so we discussed a better workflow for Critter of the Week, with notifications for the Critter Task Force of upcoming species to help planning and securing photos
• Task Force members should post suggestions for future critters with links to media coverage and justifications for why the species is a good candidate.
• We also discussed the state of the DOC image library, and how much of it might be able to be released into Commons. The photographs donated by Philip J. Moors of the Subantarctic Islands was suggested as a manageable collection of about 1000 scanned slides that would work as a test case.

Past Meetups

• Art and Feminism theatre 2015 – 8 August 2015
• NZ Species Edit-a-thon – 29 May 2016
• Women in Science Edit-a-thon – 6 August 2017
• The previous Wellington meetup – 21 Oct 2018

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• The next Wellington meetup – 20 Jan 2018
• See Wikipedian at Large Upcoming Events for Feb–April happenings