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Aotearoa New Zealand online meetup 33

• Date: Sunday 5 February 2023
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
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• Cost: Free

Meetup code of conduct and anonymity when meeting via video conference

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

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.

Join the Wikimedia User Group of 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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• Giantflightlessbirds (talk) (but only for the beginning, have to hit the road for Dunedin)
• Paora (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• Jon (talk)
• Marshelec (talk) (from 1:00pm)
• Peter0027 (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)

Lateness

• Pakoire (talk) I think I can't attend until the end so maybe it will be over if it is just you Einebillion!

Unable to come

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• Ambrosia10 (talk - travelling in Tasmania but please see notes regarding my application for funds to attend SPNHC 2023 in person.
• Einebillion (talk) - another commitment - please remember to sign in.
• Noracrentiss (talk) another committment

Agenda and notes

1. Introduction to meet up by organisers

• New editor who is helping to facilitate the Auckland Meet up may join.

2. Wikimedia User Group of Aoteaora New Zealand Update and Discussion (15 minutes)

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc (WANZ)

• Note: Transparency of meeting agendas and minutes is limited at the moment due to a lack of a website for WANZ. This is being worked on to make them publicly available. If you want copies please contact secretary-at-wikimedia.nz.

Update from President, WANZ

• Non-scheduled meeting was held by the committee to consider and approve the budget of the Wellington WikiCon. The committee appreciates the work Pakoire and AtticEdit are doing to organise the event. The committee also considered an application to assist with funding to attend an offshore in person conference. The funding allocated by WANZ for this activity did not cover the full cost of the application. The committee encouraged the applicant to apply for an ESEAP rapid grant and will consider increasing this activity line in the next funding round to cover these eventualities.
• The mid-funding year report on funded activities and budget was submitted to Wikimedia Foundation.

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2022

Don't forget to add your program to the Campaign Dashboard. 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 programs to the Campaign dashboard contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page

• 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. Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10.
• 2023 March WikiCon Wellington Registration is open. Please sign up if you're looking to attend so catering numbers can be confirmed.
• 2023 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant One New Zealand and two Australian fellowships available. Applications opened on 9 January and close on Sunday 26 February 2023. We are open to applicants from all backgrounds and skill levels, and support proposals that involve investigations. We are looking for proposals that are enthusiastic and innovative as opposed to requiring pre-existing technical skills. This is an opportunity to get paid to learn. Curate a data set, develop a prototype or undertake an investigation using Wikidata. You will be matched with a Wikimedian who will mentor you throughout your project offering resources, feedback and support. Check out the Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant fellowship grant page for more details.
• 2023 August 16-19 Wikimania, Singapore and online The application process for scholarship to attend closes TODAY! Full scholarships available covering flights, accommodation and food during the conference.
• Resumption of regular Auckland meet-ups and edit-a-thons for 2023, based at Auckland Museum on the 18th of February.
• Other suggestions for themes around events include Library Week, Conservation Week, International Volunteers Day, 24hr editathon for Ada Lovelace Day, WikiSource Women's History Month for Wikisource, Winter Olympics, Matariki Event, Library Week. We should think about the focus of the work - is it to onboard folk or to focus on content? International Museum Day (May 18th) was marked in 2022 by an international Wikidata editing competition; this is the sort of online event we could try.

Anything to update / discuss?

• Society for the Protection of Natural History Collections 2023 Conference - Ambrosia10 has made a rapid funding grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to attend this conference in person. See information on her rapid grant here. She's been successful in obtaining the grant and is now going through the steps to get the agreement signed. The conference is to be held in San Francisco from 28th of May until the 2nd of June 2023. She was sponsored by the Society for the Protection of Natural History Collections to attend the 2022 conference virtually and, in her report back last year at the Aotearoa New Zealand online Wiki meeting, noted she was planning on attempting to attend the 2023 conference in person. She has submitted an abstract entitled Reuse in the Wiki world empowers engagement with Natural History Collections into the Broadening Access and Use of Natural History Collections Through Innovative Approaches and Engagement symposium of the 2023 conference. She has also submit an abstract on her work with the Women Genera project entitled Names, dames and campaigns: a botanical case study in digitally narrowing the gaps. She had previously emailed the WANZ committee asking whether it would be permitted to apply for funding to them but was advised that the money budgeted by the committee for funding conference attendance would not cover her costs. The committee advised she apply for a Wikimedia Foundation rapid grant which she has done so.
• The January edition of #1Lib1Ref is under way. See the #1Lib1Ref website for details. If folk want inspiration here is the WikiProject cleanup listings where you can get to articles needing references.
• Any update on the Internet Archive bot.[1]. Marshelec (talk)?

4. Round table for participants 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 : Continued with project of plant genera named after women. Two publications coming up, one requiring a very clean dataset, so Siobhan continues to manually link the genera list to Wikidata items, making sure the journals are linked, and putting in Biodiversity Heritage Library requests to scan missing ones. The #EditingforEffie editathon was very successful world wide effort to honour Effie Kapsalis, an open access advocate. Ambrosia10 with Einebillion and Pakoire had an impromptu in person mini New Zealand editathon held on the 8th at Ambrosia's home as well as other New Zealand and Australian editors contributing virtually over the 8th and 9th, a Smithsonian editathon held on the 9th in the US and a productive Indianapolis event . Her "Hidden Figures" Course based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) group is progressing with two of the modules being complete and a US NSF incubator grant is being applied for. She had a meeting with BHL and the Wikimedia Foundation to discuss strategies for improved engagement between BHL and Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikicommons and Wikisource working with some members on that group as well as other Wikipedia people to improve BHL collaborations with the Movement. She has also had a BHL cataloguing group meeting and is currently giving feedback on that group's Wikimedia engagement strategy. She's also attended a WeDigBio board meeting. WeDigBio is a transcription event and although not directly related to the wiki movement Ambrosia10's workflow of getting specimen collectors into Wikidata and then linking to specimens via Bionomia and GBIF data has a keen following with some of the WeDigBio organisers and participants. She has also applied to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand for funding to attend SPNHC 2023 in person. It is a conference to be held in San Francisco. As Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand are unable to fund this because of administrative funding constraints she is making a rapid grant to the WMF. See here for the grant and the chance to give feedback/endorsement. Other than that she's been doing Wiki gardening, mix'n'match and general bits & bobs in WikiCommons. Her article in the Linnean titled "Visibility Matters: Giving credit where it's due in natural history collections" was published in December last year and can now be seen on this link.
• Einebillion has been working on committee business including talking with Auckland Museum and Te Papa about their project plans for the upcoming year, writing the mid-term report back to Wikimedia Foundation. Also been setting up future meetup pages for Wellington and Online and meeting with one of the Auckland Meetup facilitators to provide advice on the admin of meetups.
• Giantflightlessbirds has begun a part-time Wikipedian in Residence project with the University of Otago, starting with the Zoology Department (hopefully other departments will come on board when they see the results). The project page is here; he is spending the coming week in Dunedin meeting with researchers and clearing photo collections for Commons. He's also running an Edit-a-thon on Saturday 11th in Dunedin to tie in with the announcement of the Bug of the Year: almost all the candidates for BotY have Wikipedia articles, but they're often stubs. If you're in Dunedin, feel free to help on the day, or help online via the event page.
• Jon (talk) — editing New Zealand wine, would like to review for WP:GA; arguments about whether we capitalise wine varieties, i.e. Pinot Noir rather than pinot noir (or even less convincingly, Pinot noir); removing excess nonsense from the St James Theatre article; adding books used as references in NZ articles to Wikidata (and OpenLibrary while I'm at it), along with their missing authors and publishers, so that {{Cite Q}} works nicely; musical instruments - cornett, serpent, sackbut, A♭ clarinet, bugle, keyed bugle, piccolo trumpet, keyed trumpet, sarrusophones; yoink CC-BY images from the online Edinburgh University instruments collection; prepare cimbasso and contrabass trombone for WP:GA review; tweaks to Kapiti Expressway and Transmission Gully Motorway; fixed up the Tip Top (ice cream) article, added image, refs, infobox, removed puffery; removing and fighting off marketing and untruths on Savannah cat; got confused about the Draft:Chief Historian of New Zealand position.
• Paora has been adding deaths of notable NZers to the 2023 in New Zealand page. There are a number of redlinks if anyone would like to tackle any of them, including: Jim Howland, local politician, mayor of Putāruru (1974–1989), Waikato District Councillor (1989–2007) (born 1929); Ewing Stevens, Presbyterian minister, writer, newspaper editor and radio talkback host (Radio Pacific, Radio Live) (born 1926); Geoff Harrow, mountaineer and environmentalist, first ascent of Baruntse (1954), rediscovered Hutton's shearwater breeding colonies (1964) (born 1926); Rodney Macann, operatic bass-baritone and Baptist minister (born 1942); Bob Jackson, Hall of Fame croquet player, world doubles champion (1989) and world singles bronze medallist (1993), and table tennis player (born 1931); and Matthew During, neuroscientist, number 72 of New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers (2005) (born 1956). Lots of updates following the change of PM and deputy PM, and the subsequent cabinet reshuffle, and uploading to Commons of photos of the swearing-in ceremonies from the governor-general's website. Macronising following recent gazetting of Ōtorohanga and Te Kūiti. General gardening.
• Gertrude206 has been 'gardening' and wrote an article on the Wellington Sculpture Trust.
• Beeswaxcandle has completed four works on enWS (Elizabeth's Pretenders, The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast, Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon); and has contributed to several LibriVox recordings (including the completion of The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent).
• DrThneed is planning two presentations, one for the ESEAP community meeting next week and the other for Wellington WikiCon, exciting! She submitted a scholarship application to go to Wikimania in Singapore in August. She is writing a response to a paper that was published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship, on doctoral theses in Wikidata, but Covid brainfog is holding up finishing that currently. DrThneed also wants to celebrate that Annie passed 300 matches in the NZThesis Mixnmatch catalogue, which is a lot of work! Thanks Annie. DrThneed also wrote her first page this year, Adrian Hailwood.

• Marshelec has been working on a new article for Puysegur Point Lighthouse. Has also been working with Wainuiomartian on a new article Wellington Central Library that we split out from Wellington City Libraries. We have recently also begun improvements to National War Memorial (New Zealand).

• Oronsay has completed proofreading Fairy Tales and Folk-Lore of New Zealand and the South Seas by Tregear on WikiSource, was encouraged by Beeswaxcandle to begin transcluding but found process tricky and stopped; been linking authors to their theses and supervisors via Mix'Match and Wikidata in the NZThesis Project. While merging dups via ORCID iD Constraints report and employer/educated at to resolve The Conservation author ID violations have discovered a few for NZ Thesis Project. No new articles this year yet.

5. Review of questions raised during round table

6. Further discussion

• Some (inconclusive) discussion of the copyright status of screenshots of emergency alert text messages sent during the recent Auckland flooding. @Einebillion: you may wish to comment.
• DrThneed provided some suggestions for getting started in Wikidata, including use of mix n match
• Some interest shown in Wikisource session online

Outcomes

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

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 5 March 2023, same time, same place