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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 53

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  • Date: Sunday 15 September 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

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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

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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

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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

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Attending

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Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: ‘’’* ~~~‘’’

Unable to come

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Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~

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Agenda and notes

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Introduction to meet up by organisers

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

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Reporting to Wikimedia Foundation

WANZ Campaign Dashboard

GLAM Newsletter WANZ Annual Community Activity Report June 2023 – July 2024

Diff blog posts
Funding

Funding Grant Application for 2023–26

User Group community members can apply for rapid grants via the East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) funding hub

Update from President, WANZ

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Update from Treasurer, WANZ

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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand now has 41 financial members. Following our funding support of Wikipedian-in-Residence project at Auckland War Memorial Museum, we are also exploring opportunities for closer relationships with other institutions. In addition, we are currently inviting proposals for a Wikipedian-at-Large project. The closing date for WPAL proposals is 30 September. See: Full details of the role and process

If you have an idea for a Wiki event, and would like a grant to cover venue, catering or travel expenses etc, please get in touch with Dianne at info @ wikimedia.nz

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

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If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a program 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 programs 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!

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

Round table for participants

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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) - Recently returned from the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 conference. Her attendance was funded by WANZ and she recently published a conference report which can be seen here.
  • Marshelec visited Australia in July, and went to Geelong. There was a major redevelopment of the Geelong waterfront from 1996 to 2000, and a key feature is a steel and glass pavilion enclosing a fully-restored Victorian era carousel. We took a ride on the carousel.[1] and I created a new article: Geelong Carousel. After researching the Geelong Carousel, I found that there is an even older fully-restored carousel at Melbourne Zoo (must see this on my next visit). I have published another new article: Melbourne Zoo Carousel. There is also a particularly fancy restored carousel at Luna Park in Melbourne, so I may carry on with this theme and prepare yet another carousel article.
I have recently prepared two new articles about dark-sky preserves that have been accredited this year: Kawarau Gibbston Dark Sky Park, and Draft:Kaikōura Dark Sky Sanctuary - still in draft. (I have contacted the organisers to ask for a photo).
In other work, I have expanded the article Bushy Park (New Zealand), and nominated it for GA. Hopefully someone will offer to review it reasonably soon.
I have recently promoted an idea for prompting improvements to NZ-related articles that are clearly important (and have high page-views), but where the quality of the article (or parts of it) is disappointing. WANZ will promote a monthly "article for improvement", drawing attention to the need for improvement – particularly for articles with high page-views. I have prepared a list of articles that could be considered. One of these is Kiwi (bird). It gets a huge number of page-views but is incomplete. We could also invite people to submit their suggestions for articles for improvement, to go into the queue for promotion.
  • Attended Wikimania in Katowice, was really good for making connections, and I heartily recommend giving out flyers as a way of raising awareness about a project! see my report here.
  1. I am well behind on #1woman1day work (about 22 pages) but still plan to catch up. There are some people I have a conflict of interest with because I know them, and some others I just can't find enough material on.
  2. Thesis project: Found a new route to match Orcid profiles with thesis authors with quite a high success rate so matched several hundred new authors. Then used the Orcid IDs of everyone in the thesis project to extract identifiers from OpenAlex and add them to Wikidata. OpenAlex profiles contain an 'openness' score for each researcher, showing the % of their papers openly available. I was hoping to be able to use those to compare disciplines and institutions, but sadly it looks like that score specifically it isn't available via API. We are looking at doing another thesis upload of the last two years of dissertations, timing unclear.
  3. Have talked to Otago about possibly matching the research repository to Wikidata - not necessarily adding a lot of new items, but matching up the papers openly available in the repository with their Wikidata record and adding a link to the repository version.
  4. Got a new feature added to the Wikidata and Wikipedia tools extension for Google sheets. Happy to demo for the group or one-on-one if anyone interested.
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Review of questions raised during round table

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Presentations, tips, tools

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  • Add anything you would like to share at this meeting
  • Ambrosia10 (talk) - I recently uploaded the slides and script of the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 presentation co-authored with User:Avocardobabygirl and titled Delving into Te Papa's research expedition data into Zenodo. These can be seen at this link. Prior to this presentation our extended abstract for this presentation was published in the Biodiversity Information Science and Standards journal and can be seen at this link.
  • Anyone organising an editathon or other event to improve Wikipedia or Wikidata might like to check out the Wiki List tool. User:DrThneed recently asked the developer of the Google Sheets extension for Wikipedia and Wikidata to add support for fetching the names of Wikipedia articles. This means you can now simply add the QIDs of your target items, and it will fetch the Wikipedia page title, and page scores and views, as well as information on the Wikidata item such as whether there is an image or specified identifiers. A Google sheet example is here, feel free to make a copy and then adapt to your needs.
Note that if you wanted to use this information on Wiki instead of on a Google sheet, you can copy the information into this conversion page, and it will convert to Wiki format, although you will have to reinsert links.

Outcomes

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

Next meeting and meetup timetables

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  • 13 October 2024, same time, same place


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