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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 56

• Date: Sunday 8 December 2024
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
  IMPORTANT: The first person joining the meeting needs to sign in as the "Moderator" using a Google, Facebook, or GitHub account; other attendees can then join without any authentication – see the jitsi blog for more information.
  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). The Jitsi web-based video conferencing platform is 100% open source and fully encrypted. No account is needed and it's free.
• Cost: Free

Meetup code of conduct and anonymity when meeting via video conference

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an 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 into 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.

Chat for sharing pastes, URLs and so on

The Jitsi video conferencing platform has a chat feature. This is used to share URLs and other commentary while the discussions are occurring. The facilitators may take a copy to help with writing up outcomes from the meeting on the meeting Wikipedia page. Any copies will be deleted once outcomes and notes are completed.

Future meetups

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

Apply for membership of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

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

People

Attending

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• Schwede66
• DrThneed (talk) 03:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
• David Nind (talk)
• Winnieswikiworld (talk)
• ―Panamitsu (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• TheLoyalOrder (talk) 22:51, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• Stuartyeates (talk) 23:05, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
• Jon (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)

Unable to come

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• Paora (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Alexeyevitch^(talk)

Agenda and notes

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand – update and discussion (15 minutes)

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

We are now almost half-way through the 2024-25 Wikimedia Foundation funding period. We are looking forward to the commencement in January of the Wikipedian-at-Large project 2025 focussed on Banks Peninsula, plus the Wikicon2025 in Christchurch in May. We also have some proposals under consideration for Wikipedian-in-Residence projects.

However, we still have capacity to fund some additional initiatives in the first half of 2025, so we are keen to hear from people with ideas for Wiki events and activities that we could support. In early March 2025, we will finalise our funding submission to WMF for the 2025-26 period. If you have ideas for the next 12-18 months, please get in touch by mid-February.

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2024–25

If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a programme to the Campaign Dashboard July 2024 – June 2025. The Dashboard is a key tracking tool for reporting back to Wikimedia Foundation and will help us ensure that we get funding in future years. If you are unsure how to add programmes to the Campaign dashboard you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.

If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact info @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple – we promise!

• 28 Sept and 12 Oct: Te Māori exhibition edit-a-thons to be held at Te Papa. How did the second one go?
• 19 Oct and 2 Nov: NZ Species Edit-a-thon. To be held at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington. Registrations are now open here: Humanitix link
• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide Any update on how it went?
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Registrations are now open - earlybird tickets at $15/person are available until November. The organising committee is also happy to receive requests for funding for travel and accommodation. The conference programme is constructed based on participant input. When registering, participants can request topics they would like to see included in the programme, and offer topics they are happy to present on. Registration.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Project works on getting New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata and connecting them to their authors, advisors and main subjects. Project Dashboard. Currently adding OpenAlex identifiers to anyone in the project, through matching with the Orcids on OpenAlex's API. Have been in discussion with the Wikimedian in Residence at Edinburgh to see if we can help them get their theses into Wikidata. Am also working with LSE to rewrite our Wikidata thesis-related queries to take account of the Wikidata graph split. Mix'n'match dataset. Project Contacts: DrThneed
• Content: New Zealand National Parks Project launched with the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Sign up if you want to help.
• Content: New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers.

Anyone know of or organising any other events or content projects? Note here to let the group know.

• Content: Good article nominations backlog drive - October 2024: Please consider joining in during October, to review at least one Good Article nomination. This is a great way of developing your own editing skills and knowledge. There are currently around 550 article nominations waiting to be reviewed, across a host of diverse topics. See: Good article nominations

Round table for participants

Opportunity 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

• Ambrosia10 (talk) - With Stitchbird2 has recently presented to the New Zealand Herbarium Network on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. See this link for their slides.
• DrThneed

1. Almost finished on the Massey doctoral advisors list, thanks Annie for your help!
2. Proposal to Wikify a congress next year has been accepted by the conference organisers, will be seeking funding now. Also looking for a smallish conference or meeting to try things out on in April/May next year.
3. The thesis paper has finally been accepted by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Wahoo!
4. Various meetings at Otago to drum up support re Wikimedian in Residence, which is still not signed off at a senior level (probably because everyone's too busy rather than because there is any problem with it). Pushing to get it done before Christmas.
5. Attended education event by Wikimedia Australia, really useful to learn about Wikiversity.
6. Down to fewer than 16 women's bios to write before the end of the month and I'll have done 366 start class bios this year! There's still spaces so let me know of the most prominent missing NZ women (as long as they aren't sportswomen).
7. Am having a lot of fun doing a WikiAdvent Calendar on BlueSky. I also have a starter pack of Wikipedia-related accounts so find me if you join BlueSky and I'll add you (or not, as you prefer), I'm thneed.bsky.social
8. Also, cautionary tale - created my first fictional human on Wikidata, for a fake researcher, see here https://bsky.app/profile/thneed.bsky.social/post/3lcjbwdzs4f27
9. And forgot to mention but I uploaded the first set of images from Royal Society honours for the year, here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2024_RSNZ_Research_Honours_Wellington

• Marshelec: Not particularly active in the past month because of other commitments, including a cycle trip in Nelson, but I have been working on biography articles. I created a new article Colin Miskelly (NZ ornithologist and museum curator, and recent recipient of the Cranwell Medal), and expanded existing articles: Shirley Murray (NZ hymnwriter), and Jim Lynch (conservationist).
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) got some photos at Ferrymead Heritage Park uploaded to commons. Attended the Christchurch meetup and started looking into the history of the UC Engineering Faculty for a new a editor trying to get an article over the line. Also have started reading up on the history of Cathedral Square with an eye towards moving that toward GA.
• Winnieswikiworld (talk): The Auckland Museum Wikipedia summer students started their 10 week internship. Our cohort of five are Chefcat29, LegionesCataegis, LynKing1123, RW3003 & Sid432. They have successfully published their first articles: The Charlotte Museum, Samuel Goldstein (rabbi), St Heliers Memorial Fountain,Nathan Homestead & Statue of George Grey, Auckland. Here is the project page for more information and weekly updates! They are doing some really great research and I’m very pleased with their work and involvement in the programme so far.

I have been continuing creating and enriching content for my wiki projects WikiProject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa & Wikiproject x OnlineCenotaph.

We were also very happy to have had two of our students join us at Samoa House library for our Tamaki Makaurau meetup last week.

• User:Oronsay: Gave two talks at WikiConAustralia 2024 on Where do the gender stats come from? and Improving Wikidata one Wikipedia category at a time - slides still to be uploaded to Commons. Enjoyed User:Pakoire's collage session. WMAU set up dashboard to collect WikiCon's participants' edits for a month. Been adding Bluesky handles to Wikidata, 2532 added so far (not all my work!). Was shocked and saddened by news of User:JarrahTree's death last Monday – Wikimedia Australia is working on ways to honour and celebrate his massive contribution. One way is to upload your own photos to Commons and consider how you want your archives and paraphernalia to be handled. Added two sets of Aussie fellows to Wikidata and updated Wikipedia bios. In NZ wiki work, been enjoying searching for Massey thesis supervisors - probably should write up my workflow, which always involves downloading the whole theses.
• User:Panamitsu I've created the articles 2019 Timaru hailstorm, the book Lights Out General Electric and the 1984 Southland floods (worked with Andykatib on the last one). Brought Paora the kiwi and the Edmonds brand to good article status. I've also been creating an article on Happy Feet, the emperor penguin that arrived here in 2011. It was a great surprise as I expected it to be a small article with about 10 sources, but I am currently at 70 sources. I've also enrolled in an introductory emergency management course which may be of use to my Wikipedia disaster interest.
• User:TheLoyalOrder - worked on local government articles and Hīkoi mō te Tiriti which was ITN

Review of questions raised during round table

• What links to external profiles would you like to see shown on Open Library author pages? (David Nind) The Open Library just launched external profile links powered by Wikidata in an update this week. This means that author pages now link to external profiles for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Google Scholar. Some example Open Library author pages: Lily Duval, Alice Te Punga Somerville, William Colenso, Ian Michael St George The Open Library is hoping to make these links customisable for each user in the future (and a dropdown to show many more), but are interested in:
  • Which external profiles would be most valuable to see?
  • What would help you and our patrons the most?
• Add your questions here...

Presentations, tips, tools

• Add anything you would like to share at this meeting
• I've (Ambrosia10) been asked by another editor whether any New Zealand editor would be interested in participating in this project aimed at obtaining sound clips for Wikimedia Commons of famous people's voices introducing themselves. Have a look and see if you are interested.

Outcomes

• Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 5 January 2025, same time, same place