Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 3 August 2024

 

• Date: Saturday 3 August 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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• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• AxonsArachnida (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk)
  
• Noracrentiss (talk)

• Ambrosia10 (talk) Travelling to Wikimania 2024
• Stitchbird2 (talk) Also going to Wikimania 2024!
• Marshelec (talk) sorry, can't make this one
• Einebillion will be in Nelson.
• Quilt Phase (talk)

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• Avocadobabygirl (talk): We had the research expeditions editathon! I've been working more on the Te Maori editathon, and we now have a Museum Studies student to help with the project. The current goal is one editathon in later September and another in October. Local Wikipedians will be extremely welcome, especially to help with newer editors. I've loaded a set of illustrations by Nancy Adams to Commons, which includes a ton of great images of seaweeds. I've made good progress on Te Papa's ability to report on the impact of staff editing, which I'll make available soon on our project page. Staff learning sessions continue, with one on images next week. Soon I should also have new Wikidata items up for the artists and collectives listed on Satellites (for those that are missing), and from there will be working with one of our curators to enrich the items and think ahead to supporting article creation.
• User:Gertrude206 has continued work on the expeditions and expanded the 1954 Chatham Islands expedition. Also did an article on the Auckland church Kāhui St David's and is working on an article on a British women playwright Margaret Macnamara (Women in Red).
• User:Wainuiomartian: Found a wharf omitted from Wharves in Wellington Harbour and has added it. Expanded an existing article on the Wellington Urban Motorway, and took some photos for it too.
• User:AxonsArachnida: Attended expedition editathon. Spider species pages (big chunky spiders).
• User:Noracrentiss: Attended expedition editathon, paired up with a new editor and got a lot done. Meeting with Avocadobabygirl to debrief about the editathon with an eye to the Otari Wilton's Bush editathon later in the year. Have drafted an application for funds from WANZ. Gotten back to working on articles about women.

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• 13 July 2024 Te Papa Research Expeditions Event: Extremely positive! Good turnout and a lot of work done, and lots of great feedback from participants. Made great use of User:Ambrosia10's effort finding expeditions and sources. Feel good about some of the newbies staying involved.
• 7–10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland User:Ambrosia10 and User:Stitchbird2 have received scholarships and will be attending. See this article about scholarship outcomes.
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch

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

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

• Otari-Wilton's Bush / NZ Species Editathon The organising group is Stitchbird, Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss. Dates booked are: Saturday 19 October and Saturday 2 November 2024.The venue is Leonard Cockayne Centre, Otari-Wilton's Bush.Wellington City Council are very supportive. An application to WANZ for funding is being prepared.

• Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?

• Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article. User:Wainuiomartian has substantially expanded the article and added photos. Anybody have any ideas for further improvement? A picture of the Henry Moore sculpture?

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

• 31 August 2024 , same time, same place