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• Date: Sunday 21 July 2024
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
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• Cost: Free

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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.

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• Alexeyevitch^(talk) (in and out briefly)
• David Nind (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• AxonsArachnida (talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)

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• Einebillion (talk) - I'm spending Sunday writing an essay that's due for my Law and Collection Information diploma. Sorry I can't be there
• Ambrosia10 - away travelling to the International Botanical Congress and Wikimania.

Welcomed two new atteendees (AxonsArachnida and Richlitt), and other attendees introduced themselves.

I'm very pleased to announce that Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand has received a futher year's funding from Wikimedia Foundation. We're in a healthy financial position to continue to support the movement in New Zealand. If you have any projects or events you're thinking of doing that need some financial support please do contact Dianne at dianne [at] wikimedia.nz for information on how to apply. She can also help you with your application. The application form is here. The committee has continued to allocate grants. The most recent grant has been to Auckland War Memorial Museum to fund a year long Wikimedian in Residence position. This postion will not only be doing outreach to other galleries, libraries, archives and museums in the Auckland region but also supervising another intake of the museum's Wikipedia summer scholars and also running edit-a-thons and events. If you're based in Auckland, keep an eye on the meetup calendar for in person events. Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand will also be circulating an expression of interest document for another Wikimedian at Large position. Have a look at what was achieved by Giantflightlessbirds in Canterbury over the January to June period of this year. If you think you could do something similar let us know. I've been busy with Dianne and the Treasurer drafting the extensive annual report back to Wikimedia Foundation for the 2023/24 year. This is almost ready for circulation. If you've got any questions about the affiliate, committee, or its general business leave a message on my talk page and I'll be happy to communicate with you. We try and keep the Meta page up to date with all of the details.

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• #1Lib1Ref: Giantflightlessbirds did outreach to Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Papa held two prep sessions and held a staff session on the 29th of May.
• 13 July 2024 Te Papa Expeditions Event, Wellington: - how did it go?
• 7–10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland: Ambrosia10, Stitchbird2, Giantflightlessbirds, and DrThneed are attending from New Zealand.
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Will be held at the Te Ara Institute (a nice venue and includes a marae and technical facilities). Draft budget prepared. The format will be more free-form, rather than lots of presentations. Will also include a conference dinner.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project aims to get New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata. Project Page, Project Dashboard. There is a google spreadsheet of theses authors with Wikipedia pages who need their theses adding to their page if folk want to work on this during #1Lib1Ref. There is also a video on how to add thesis to people's pages. This work is ongoing and could use more editors to help out. 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 them here to let the group know.

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

• Alexeyevitch^(talk): Just the usual. Cleaning up unorganized content on numerous articles, fixing spelling mistakes, and adding encyclopedic content to articles I'm intersted in. Taking stub articles to a near GA standard and just trying to add content on local articles. I spoke to a few American editors and they were pleasantly suprised with the new content on the Opawa article.
• Einebillion (talk): Sorry I couldn't be there today. I'm running out of time to get my essay finished for a work qualification I'm doing and I need to spend time getting that completed. During the week I'd been working with DrThneed who very kindly helped me with adding a data set into Wikidata so that an editing project could begin at Te Papa. User:Avocadobabygirl has trained a new staff member in using Wikidata as Te Papa works on getting the research information about the women of the early New Zealand photography industry into linked open data form. This research is a result of years of hard work by Lissa Mitchell who wrote the book Through Shaded Glass: Women and photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860-1960. Only around a quarter of the women she researched were featured in the book and the data set we're trying to release is significantly more extensive. We're now in a position to advance the Wikidata Wikiproject New Zealand Women Photographers. We've got the dataset released into data.govt.nz, organised basic information from the dataset to be ingested into Wikidata, established data schemas for women in the photography industry and for photography studios (see the Wikidata project page), and now we're moving into editing wikidata manually.
• DrThneed:
  1. Created a new Wikidata WikiProject for early NZ women photographers. Worked on NZ women photographers database with Te Papa, matching 81 women to existing Wikidata records, created records for all the others (400 and something new women). Project page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NZWomenPhotographers
  2. Worked on the paper with Deborah, am overhauling the thesis project Wikipedia page to be a better 'front page' for the project.
  3. Fell behind on page per day work, due to lack of motivation, but am up to 202 pages and it's the 203rd day of the year, so almost back on track! I have conflicts of interest with some people I know on the list, if anyone is keen to cover them (Louise Parr-Brownlie, Tammy Steeves, Hazel Chapman, Emma Wyeth, Dorothy Oorschot - their Wikidata items are linked from my worklist here and the template I use is here)
  4. Finally, heard on Thursday morning that a scholarship has become available so I am hopefully off to Poland for Wikimania! Short notice!
  5. Am making a video for Coolest Tool Award, as am on the selection committee. Will hopefully get to present the award in person!

• Oronsay: Busy preparing names and editing jobs for Franklin Women editathons next Wed (Sydney) and Thu (Canberra), expecting 25-30 mostly new editors each day. Need to finish Mix'n'Match for Kōmako author id, checked all but 135 of the 1339 names, which I plan to do in the next week. Plus all the normal gardening and Women in Red statistics updates, now over 400,000 women's bios and 18.87% of the total.

• wikisource:User:Beeswaxcandle: Continuing with Cheeseman, Manual of the New Zealand Flora on English Wikisource (enWS). Have passed the two thirds point. Various bits of gardening on enWS. Attended Auckland meetup and work on Auckland Museum medal recipients. Thinking of doing some short videos on using enWS—once current flurry of activity for work dies down.

• User:MargaretRDonald: Working on adding Camill Heller's papers into wikidata, using zobodat (Camill Heller publications). This will help in adding both his name in blue and his publication (in blue) in taxon articles found by this query. One of my very long term aims is to link the authority name in the taxonbox to the author, and add the publication (s)he authored, to every taxon article in enwiki, and add [[Category:Taxa added by .....]] to every article. Useful sites for working out authority names for animal taxa are the link in the taxonbar to WoRMS and the link to AFD. Both these (usually) give the name of the taxon, the author with his initials and the paper. WoRMS often gives a BHL link. (For plants it is easier as the author abbreviation is intended to be unique, and most links the taxonbar will get you to the author via the abbreviation. APNI almost always gives the name of the paper, and initials for the author.) The name of the paper almost inevitably allows you to find the author, not just an author string. If there is no enwiki article for your author write his/her full name and create a redlink. (Usually good to turn this into blue as soon as possible.) Also working on Adelaide WikiCon, on 23 November - 1 day conference, submissions for presentations close on 31st - please consider a pre-recorded sessin if you can't make it in person.

• Giantflightlessbirds (belatedly): Finishing up the Aotearoa Wikipedian at large project with a new initiative documenting the history of biology at the University of Canterbury, continuing on into September/October, and working with Canterbury Museum and emeritus researcher Peter Johns on NZ cockroaches. Christchurch meetups are continuing and another edit-a-thon is planned for September. Has also recruited new editors to Wikisource, looking at working on National Science challenges in September (10 years of funding has ended and loooking at getting photo libraries into commons and other data into Wikidata). Also now going to Wikimania along with Tamsin.

• Paora: Not too much over the last month - adding Lincoln University people from the living heritage website annual magazine (which includes photopgraphs and biograpies of PhD graduates (2022)), general gardening, 2024 recent deaths, etc.
• AxonsArachnida: Working on spiders of New Zealand pages (including tunnelwebs - 80 species, and species pages). Using 1968 publication as the basis.
• David Nind: Not very much over the last month. Still working on setting up a Waitaki area taskforce, and this would cover the UNESCO Waitaki Geopark. Did a presentation to the local tramping club on 10 June (North Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club) about adding photos to commons, and the National Parks project.

• A couple of draft articles about NZ activists a friend has asked for help with: Draft:Mike_Smith_(activist), and Draft:Susi Newborn. It would be great if people could take a look and help clean them up. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• I may have headed off citogenesis of the word "chairbler" in Chair-maker. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk). (This was a great discussion!)
• An example of a hoax material in an article was also discussed. In 2008 an IP based in Wellington added Goblin Street in Christchurch as a notable goblin-related place name to the goblin article - this street does not exist, and was probably added by someone who wanted a laugh. It stayed there till 2024!

• Alexeyevitch learned the word "chairbler", literally meaning "chair-maker".

• MargaretRDonald: See update - walked through the process of linking the authority name in the taxonbox to the author (used Asterocarpa and Beryl Brewin as an example). This is also an easy first task for new editors. Some resources:
  • World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): https://www.marinespecies.org/index.php
  • List of botanists: List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation
  • Useful for plants: https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/

• 18 August 2024, same time, same place