Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 16 March 2024

• Date: Saturday 16 March 2024
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
  
• Bring a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop, but they are located elsewhere in the library.

The group meet in the Programme Rooms located on the ground floor of the National Library just behind the main reception area. Group to ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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We know it can be difficult for some people to walk into a group of strangers without knowing anyone. If you'd like to meet up with a friendly face before the meeting or to have a chat to see if this group is for you please contact Dianne on info @ wikimedia.nz Dianne will be overjoyed to introduce you to one of the group who will be available to meet up with you for coffee and chat. They can also be on hand to meet you prior to the meeting and walk in with you and introduce you to the group. Whatever will make you comfortable.

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• Einebillion (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk))
• Stitchbird2 (talk)
  
• Noracrentiss (talk)
• Abelidoko49(talk)
  
• Wainuiomartian (talk)
• Gertrude206
• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• Midstrath

• Chocmilk03 (talk); moving house, alas!

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• Stitchbird2 (talk) I have been editing Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons in March. Continuing with Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Critter_of_the_Week, substantially updating Octopus tetricus and Claustula fischeri, plus joined in a 1 hour meetup with User:Giantflightlessbirds and one other to discuss Critter strategy. I've created four more NZ native Plantago species pages (start or C class): Plantago unibracteata, Plantago lanigera, Plantago novae-zelandiae, Plantago spathulata. I attended User:Quilt Phase's Picture This Photography workshop (part 1) which was really fun, and I learned about Wiki Shoot Me and how to take photos of buildings! I've made Wikidata edits to scientific stuff like papers, theses etc. to e.g. Charles Fleming, Jill Smythies Award, Kathleen Maisey Curtis, Eduard Fischer, Ethel-Michele de Villiers, among others. I've also put into Wikidata the electronic Flora fascicles of all 32 fern families and all 9 flowering plant families (still to do: many mosses). And I'm registered for WikiCon 2024 next weekend :)
• Wainuiomartian (talk) My article Wharves in Wellington Harbour passed as a good article (thanks to User:Chocmilk03 for reviewing it). I have added photos and expanded existing articles for Seaview, Lower Hutt and Gracefield, New Zealand and I've started a bio article for an NZ Wikipedia Administrator.
• Ambrosia10 - has now been working on the WANZ funded WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions for two weeks. It has been progressing well. She's currently working through the expeditions on their Collections Online website as well as other lists given by the Te Papa librarians. There appear to be a trend in that historic expeditions with world wide impact often have some coverage in Wikidata. More modern expeditions related to Te Papa often have blogs, websites, youtube videos etc that can be linked but there is a huge swathe of New Zealand based research expeditions or expeditions that have collection items at Te Papa that have little to no data. Researching these takes time and I'm prioritising getting at least the basic information into Wikidata which often requires me to add multiple new items for participants, for publications including scholarly publications and books (often with no DOI). Two favourite research expedition items that I've recently added to Wikidata include the Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919 - 1923 which was now one of the more complete examples of a series of research expeditions. Another favourite is the Dominion Museum expedition 1962-1963 which now has this visualisation now associated with it.

Other news - is that I've been selected to be given a Wikimania scholarship so I'm in the process of drafting up FOUR abstracts in order to present at Wikimania on a variety of my projects. All four will have co-authors and even possibly co-presenters. The four abstracts will cover the Te Papa Research Project, the Hidden Figures CURE university course materials project, the Women Genera project and the International Botanical Congress Project. I'm also considering adding an abstract about BHL-Wiki Project but it will depend on whether I've actually got the capacity to do this as I'm worried I won't get to see any of the conference if I put in five.

Other work - all the above projects are progressing with the Hidden Figures CURE currently going on a bit of a go slow as the publishers are swamped at the moment and are delaying giving us feedback. The Wikidata module is definitely making progress with my colleague testing out our instructions with her graduate students this week. We'll then incorporate their feedback, finalise everything and then submit it to the publishers for their feedback. Once we've incorporated that we can get that module published and the course will be complete at least from my perspective. Makenzie and I are also starting to draft up a scholarly article on the CURE to help advertise it. The Women Genera project is progressing with us continuing to write the data analysis paper. the international Botanical Congress Project is also progressing. In disappointing news our abstract on how Wiki engagement can be of benefit to the botanical community has been rejected. However the organising committee has suggested we do a poster instead. Poster sessions often have less impact so we are now strategising how we can make ours fun, engaging and get folk to come over, make sure they've got a Wikidata item, connect them to their work etc. All the organisers are working hard on "wikifying" the conference and getting resources ready for the workshop. The BHL-Wiki working group is progressing well. I'm the chairperson and help liaise between the Wikimedia Foundation, BHL and editors as well as help organise and run the monthly meeting. If anyone is interested in attending the meeting you can find the agenda and zoom link here. Anyone interested in or working with BHL in any Wiki project are welcome to attend and also add to the agenda. As the chair of this working group I've been invited by BHL to come to Chicago in May to give a presentation to the Annual General Meeting on the progress the BHL-Wiki group are making. As they are flying me out all that way I'm also planning to give another presentation to their public symposium giving some examples of BHL work I've been doing with Wiki and also with institutions that contribute or fund BHL.

• Einebillion presented on copyright and creative commons licensing at the Picture event last week. Has also been working with the Committee to lodge the 2024/25 business plan and budget for WANZ. We've reviewed our position descriptions and accepted these. We're also working on draft policies for operational reserves and grantmaking. Reminder that the WikiCon is happening next weekend. Places still available, please remind anyone from Auckland that there's a fun weekend happening at AUT, cost $10.
• Gertrude206 has been only doing gardening. Has in mind to photograph some buildings associated with Chinese history in Wellington to use for the April photography workshop.
• Midstrath - has been painting his house. But he's done about half a dozen edits. Run a problem about a source being used in a Wikipedia article. It's a book but it's marked as fiction when it is really non-fiction on Google Books. Group discussed and came up with a solution of contacting the British Library to get the metadata organised and pushed out for the book.
• Avocadobabygirl- Been helping/supporting Ambrosia10 with Te Papa research expeditions work. Thinking about what can Te Papa do with this information? Working on a base level of directory of NZ museums into Wikidata. Very light info at first will be uploaded. Intend to do this light at first and then add information. Also working on making Nancy Adams images of collected specimens and water colours openly licensed and uploaded into Wkicommons under a CC BY for image specimens licensed. This is signed off and she is updating data.
• Noracrentiss - mainly committee work but with some wiki gardening. Has also been working on Wikidata but has some questions and wants to discuss these with Ambrosia10.

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• 23-34 March 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia Conference - Auckland REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

This is the link to register for the event at our ticket provider Humanitix

Please note there is a $NZ10 booking fee for the event. The organising group will be applying for funding to cover the catering and other costs and keep the conference affordable. The cost of the Conference dinner is not included in registration.

Presentations and workshops will be held in two classrooms at the Auckland University of Technology, Sir Paul Reeves WG Building, 2 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010.

Scholarship funding to cover travel and accommodation information is on the event page. Link above.

• 13 April 2024 "Picture This" event Currently timetabled for 1 - 5pm at Photospace at 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington. This is a follow-up to the 9 March session. More details here. Quilt Phase (talk)

• 7-10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland A number of editors have submitted scholarship applications and are still waiting to hear about success.

• May 2024 ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Did anyone apply for a scholarship?

• Wikidata Levelling Up Days events This is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata and to provide an introduction to a selection of useful tools and topics so you can start getting involved with Wikidata. During April 5-7 and April 12-14 there will be presentations, live editing and social events.

• Otari-Wilton's Bush event ideation and organising We need an organiser! Group agreed to move the dates to autumn. User:Noracrentiss will talk with User:Ambrosia10 about organising resource. WANZ application could easily include an event organiser but we need someone to lead it and shape the agenda of the event. - Next steps? Stitchbird and Ambrosia10 are keen to organise but both are committed up to the middle of August due to Wikimania. Both intend to commit to this after that date.

• Parliamentary Library The library has had it's Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project? User:Giantflightlessbirds was organising a lifting of the IP address block on editing Wiki projects. Any update?

• 2024 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant Keep an eye on this if you want to apply for a scholarship to do more with Wikidata.

• International Botanical Congress - members of the Wellington group User:Stitchbird2 and User:Ambrosia10 have funding either from their employment institutions to attend this conference and run a Wikidata workshop for conference attendees.

• WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by User:Ambrosia10.

• Group is working on Wellington Botanic Garden article

• 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.

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.
• GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.

• 13 April 2024 , same time, same place