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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 39

• Date: Sunday 23 July 2023
• 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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• David Nind (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• Paora (talk)

Unable to come

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• Einebillion (talk) - Away at Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) committee strategy weekend.
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)

Agenda and notes

Introduction to meet up by organisers

• It was a quieter meeting, with three attendees. Many of the regular attendees were at the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand in person strategy weekend. Despite that, we had some great discussions for about an hour!

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

We've been working on the annual general funds final report for 2022/23 to Wikimedia Foundation. This and the budget are due on 31 July. The committee are also having a strategy weekend this weekend. We're revisiting our ways of working, the overarching strategy of WANZ, and the focus activities and workstreams for 2023/24. We're looking to assign workstream leads to push our activities forward. If you're interested in the activities we're focussing on for the year - check out the grant application that was funded.

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

• No update for this meeting.

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2023

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 during #1Lib1Ref.

New information: Video on how to add thesis to people's pages has been completed.

Project Contacts: DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds and Ambrosia10

• 2023 Annual Wikidata Fellowship Grant One New Zealand and two Australian fellowships available. Applications opened on 9 January and closed on Sunday 26 February 2023. 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 has closed. [Registration] is now open for both inperson and virtual participants.

• 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. Any further update?

Anything to update / discuss?

• Heritage New Zealand would like feedback on their Heritage List website after changing it (and all their identifiers) earlier this year. I was asked to coordinate comments, so please email to tamsin.braisher at otago.ac.nz and I'll collate them (or you can comment on the post I made on our Facebook page). Their request reads as follows:

"I was wondering if I might be able to ask you to provide us with some feedback specifically about your experience of our new website, specifically regarding finding and accessing information on the heritage List Rārangi Kōrero. I’m keen to hear about any issues accessing information on the list, how it appears, the quality of the map information, readability and accessibility of details. This is more about the access and how the information appears rather than the content itself (we’re constantly working on upgrade reports).

If you or any of the team can spare 15 mins trying out a few examples:

• Eg searching for a specific place
• Looking for all the listed places in a particular area
• Looking for specific information eg the list number or extent, or the significance criteria
• Please feel free to include links or screenshots to illustrate."

The heritage list is at https://www.heritage.org.nz/places

Round table for participants

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

• DrThneed: Making slides for Singapore, writing the thesis project paper, and continuing to match thesis authors etc. Annie and I broke 5% on the Mix'n'match for thesis authors! Met with Heritage NZ about running another women and architecture event during the heritage festival. Am contributing a session on Wikidata to a National Library of Singapore workshop after Wikimania.
• MurielMary: Please take a few moments to look at the image in the facebook WPNZ group showing three possible concepts for a new logo for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand - and vote for your preferred concept. Thanks! MurielMary (talk) 00:48, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
• David Nind: Have mainly worked on Wikisource, with some good progress made on the West Coast Task Force books.
• Oronsay: A little bit of everything - Women in Red (behind the scenes), lots of gardening, a lot of Wikidata things, and images.
• Paora: Work on investitures, Matariki-related updates, pages on netballer(s) from the 1967 team that won the world champions, usual gardening, who has died, 2023 deaths (even borderline notable - about 2/3rds - and the odd academic), draft article about John Prince (croquet player).

Review of questions raised during round table

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Further discussion

• Discussed bulk loading of images to Commons. A good video on OpenRefine to bulk upload images was recently published, but there is a bit of learning curve! Similar in many ways to Pattypan, which still works.
• David Nind demonstrated the Wikisource preference that shows which pages you are permitted to validate, i.e. those you have not proofread. Go to your Wikisource Preferences, Gadgets and Editing tools for Index: namespace and tick "Mark pages I can validate: Mark pages in an Index: pagelist that the current user can progress. (documentation)" and Save.

Outcomes

• Organisation time: 1 hr doing notes, 1.5 h adding info after meeting

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 20 August 2023, same time, same place: disucssed moving out a week because of Wikimania - David to post on the Facebook group to gauge interest.