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• Date: Sunday 28 May 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

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:

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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.

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This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

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

• Einebillion (talk)
• Pakoire (talk) 10: 45, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
• David Nind (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)

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

• Gertrude206 (talk) 07:03, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Ambrosia10 (talk) - is away in San Francisco presenting at SPNHC2023!
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
  
• Noracrentiss (talk) (tied up all day with other (non-Wiki) volunteer responsibilities

1. Introduction to meet up by organisers

• No new members.

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

I'm delighted to announce WANZ was successful in its funding application to WMF. Previously we've sought general grant funding for this financial year. With this latest application we've requested funding for three years and substantially increased the amount we've requested. For next financial year (1 July 2023 - 30 June 2024) we've got four main activities

* hiring a full time contractor to provide executive support

* running a 6 month Wikimedian at Large series of activities

* working in partnership with Pasifika editors to develop a pilot programme intended to increase participation in Wikimedia Foundation platforms in the Pacific Islands

* supporting a group of Pasifika editors to travel to Wikimedia 2023 in Singapore

The budget also includes funding for an annual WikiCon, a number of editathons, and a fund to support Wikipedians to travel to either Wikimedia Foundation conferences or conferences of communities that are likely to engage with editing and/or support contributions of content to Wikimedia Foundation platforms.

If you are interested in funding to support you in organising a community editing event or training new editors or any other content project, please contact the secretary of WANZ for information on requesting funding. A member of the committee will be happy to assist you in your funding application to make it as easy as possible.

The full grant information is available to read.

The WANZ committee are organising an in-person strategy weekend. This is a repeat of a successful weekend last year where we made major strides in identifying the administration tasks that were needed to be accomplished and who would do them, discussed the ways we would work together including platforms and communications styles, and generally ensured that we set ourselves up to work together well and successfully.

Einebillion

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

• The committee will have to think about how we are going to ensure that the large amount of money we are going to be entrusted with is going to be spent appropriately. I'm currently working on a grant policy for the WANZ committee, a grant application form, and a procedure on how we can procure a Wikimedian at Large for the fulfilling the activity. Time passes quickly and we'll need to be organised to ensure that our spending on activities occurs.

Marshelec

3. 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. DrThneed has been doing some work getting citations in other language Wikipedias. Also had presentation on this project accepted for the LIANZA conference in October, 2023.

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 Wikimedia Australia in partnership with Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand announced their 2023 Wikidata fellows Alistair Kwan, Brodie Hoare, and Mike Dickison. The group are looking forward to seeing the projects of the fellows evolve and mature.

• 2023 August 16-19 Wikimania, Singapore and online New Zealand wiki editors are starting to hear if their scholarship applications have been successful. Confirmed attendees are: Ambrosia10, DrThneed, Giantflightlessbirds, Einebillion, Chocmilk03. Please let us know if you've also been successful in your scholarship application.

• Society for the Protection of Natural History Collections 2023 Conference - Ambrosia10 has a rapid funding grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to attend this conference in person. She is currently at this conference!

• 2023 May 15 - June 5 #1Lib1Ref See the #1Lib1Ref website for details.

Te Papa encouraged staff to contribute to an all day editing session on May 9. The Te Papa Library team were there for the whole day and key editors on staff joined Te Papa's Wikipedian in Residence for the day. It was very successful with new sign ups to edit and a lot of upskilling. See dashboard.

• Auckland Women in Architecture editathon 20 May 2023 The Auckland In-Person event had a great turn out of around 25 people. The photography session was rained out but editing and updating was great. Online session also went well.

• Dunedin Women in Architecture editathon 20 May 2023 Small session of with three people attending in the room and connected with the online event at the start and end. Thanks to David and Andy for coming, was great to have company! Made a bunch of new pages, including a Wikidata project for women architects, to store Wikidata queries about them. We went from single figures to 281 items in Wikidata.

• 1st June Open Day in Wadestown Library, Wellington will include a #1Lib!Ref session

• Dunedin ToolCamp is 17–18 June, although we're still confirming which venue is available. But it will be happening! Venue still to be confirmed.

• 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?

• Ambrosia10 is currently away but has recently seen this. I wonder whether we as a group would consider putting together or adapting a general kit for running a Wikipedia editathon type event. Giving practical steps for folk in NZ about how to go about this to ease more folk to create events. Just a suggestion. (Yes, great idea; this would make a good collective session for different NZ edit-a-thon organisers to sit down together and do when we're in the same city, say at a WikiCon or Wikimania—and there's some other resources that could be adapted too —Giantflightlessbirds)

This has been started by the organisers of the Auckland WikiCon 2021 and build on by the organisers of the Wellington WikiCon 2023. This is one of the tasks that the committee are considering allocating to the executive support contractor next financial year. This can be started and then reflected and built on at the next WikiCon. Einebillion (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

• MargaretRDonald Have been working with Oronsay on Australian cartooning. Also continuing Korean themed articles.

• Oronsay in addition to the Australian Cartooning project also did some work on landscape architects for thesis project and also contributed to the online session for New Zealand architecture.

• DrThneed made a bunch of Wikipedia pages for some academics and architects etc: Ineke Crezee, Diane Menzies, Margaret Bedggood, June Pallot, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, Isabel Castro (biologist), Jodie Hunter, Jackie Benschop, Nicole Moreham, Jackie Gillies, Margaret Munro, Min Hall, Alison Sleigh, Sarah Treadwell, Sargood Centre. DrThneed's proprosal for a presenation at the LIANZA conference (31 Oct/Nov) has been accepted, and is working on slides for that (which will be similar to slides for Wikimania, if talk is accepted) and on a manuscript with Deborah Fitchett. Have also been mentoring my Wikidata fellow who is beginning to get to grips with OpenRefine which is exciting! She has a great dataset which is going to really benefit NZ Wikidata.

• Marshelec has contributed to the WP: WikiProject New Zealand/New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject, creating two new articles for Lucy Greenish and Dorothy Wills who were the first and second women to become Registered Architects in New Zealand (although 20 years apart !). Also substantially expanded an existing article about Nancy Northcroft. Marshelec is continuing as a reviewer for Articles for Creation. His AFCR stats since mid-April are: 9 Accepted, 28 Declined, and loads of comments. Draft articles underway include Draft:Waiwhetū Stream, and working with User:Wainuiomartian on Draft:CentrePort Wellington. Other work for WANZ has included development of some policies, and late contributions to the 2023-24 General Support Grant application. Also hosting a low key Wikipedia Open Day to be held at Wadestown Library during the forthcoming 1lib1ref campaign.

• Pakoire published a performing arts New Zealand article thats been two years in the making. Asked some questions regarding structure and ranking of importance. How do we figure that out?

General Group Discussion on Importance Rankings Users don’t see the importance ratings except on the talk pages. Ranking is the way the WikiProject New Zealand team members determine where we need to put our resources if we have limited time. You become a New Zealand project team by adding your name to the project page. Generally people would expect you to be active on the project rather than only ranking articles. There is likely a need to rerank architecture articles in the past year to see who is using it and reassess importance.

Page views is an important aspect but we can’t count this if it’s brand new or doesn’t exist. What about structural importance? In addition to this there are not structurally important the knowledge equity articles will equally be important. Importance is also based on the value of pages to New Zealanders. Prioritisation of topic provides more information. There is also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Prioritization_of_Wikipedia_Articles research by WMF on this topic.]

Back to Round Table

• David Nind Attended the Dunedin architecture editathon and visited the Hocken Library.

• Beeswaxcandle Real life is a bit crazy with boss away and a COVID breakout with staff has meant focus has been on work. Work on Wikisource contines and completed issue 1-40 of the Transactions in depth articles by author. Noted that the Hokitika booklet has had 9000 views of the talking version!

• Einebillion Also very busy at work so time mostly spent on final work for the General Funding Grant application and organising the upcoming WANZ committee in person strategy weekend. Had a great time contributing to Te Papa's #1Lib1Ref session and big thanks to Avocadobabygirl for organising.

Meeting completed at 1.15pm.

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

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

• 25 June 2023, same time, same place