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• Date: Sunday 5 January 2025
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
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• Cost: Free

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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.

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• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• TheLoyalOrder (talk)
• Alexeyevitch^(talk)
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds
• Beeswaxcandle (talk) very briefly

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• Winnieswikiworld (talk) apologies! see you all next month.
• David Nind (talk)
• Gertrude206 - lawns to mow before it rains again. :(
• Schwede66

Proposed new constitution approved at the special meeting in December. Working through process to get Incorporated Societies Register approval. David Nind

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• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide Any update on how it went?
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Registrations are now open. The organising committee is happy to receive requests for funding for travel and accommodation. The conference programme is constructed based on participant input. When registering, participants can request topics they would like to see included in the programme, and offer topics they are happy to present on. Registration.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Project works on getting New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata and connecting them to their authors, advisors and main subjects. Project Dashboard. Currently adding OpenAlex identifiers to anyone in the project, through matching with the Orcids on OpenAlex's API. Have been in discussion with the Wikimedian in Residence at Edinburgh to see if we can help them get their theses into Wikidata. Am also working with LSE to rewrite our Wikidata thesis-related queries to take account of the Wikidata graph split. Mix'n'match dataset. Project Contacts: DrThneed
• Content: New Zealand National Parks Project launched with the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Sign up if you want to help.
• Content: New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers.

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

• Content: Good article nominations backlog drive - October 2024: Please consider joining in during October, to review at least one Good Article nomination. This is a great way of developing your own editing skills and knowledge. There are currently around 550 article nominations waiting to be reviewed, across a host of diverse topics. See: Good article nominations

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

• David Nind: Created initial pages for the Waitaki task force. Working on creating a list of geopark sites.
• Ambrosia10: A busy run up to the New Year. The Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE has been published. My co-author and I are now writing a scholarly article about the CURE and hope to be able to submit that for publication in the next month or so. User:Stitchbird2 and I, along with our co-authors, successfully submitted our Wikidata paper to the Annals of Botany journal just before Christmas. We're now awaiting review and feedback. I successfully delivered a keynote at the Open Education Global 2024 conference. This was well received and the presentation & slides can be found [[1]] and a recording is on Youtube starting at the 21min mark. I also presented at an online workshop on Women in Natural History Museums and Collections concentrating on Wikidata and Women Scientific Illustrators. See here for the slides etc. User:Stitchbird2 and I presented to the NZ Herbarium Network. As for actual wiki work, over the Christmas "break" I've been working on New Zealand endemic moth articles. I've updated all the New Zealand species in the genus Erechthias and am now working on completing all the species in the genus Glaucocharis. I've also been editing Wikimedia Commons, particularly Biodiversity Heritage images, adding Structured Data on Commons via OpenRefine, working in Wikidata, particularly the Harvard Index of Botanists. I've got one more firm committment coming up which is talking to the Auckland Museum Wiki interns.
• David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk): I've been super active surprisingly! Did a xmas day GA review for Metrosideros bartlettii; from that decided to GA nominate Kaiapoi Pā; did some wikidata gardening on articles I've worked on in the past, mostly to get location data up to date; discovered an app called "Teleport" for taking Streetview-style 360º photos, and also that Commons supports 360º photo spheres (see this photo I created of the inside of Barnett Park Cave in Redcliffs); did a big-ish tidy-up of the Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch article using Ned Bohan's excellent (if a little optimistic) recent history of the cathedral; also have gotten into Wikisource in a big way, starting with a verification of "Mein Kampf" and "Reminisces of Earliest Canterbury", and now I have embarked on transcribing "The Story of Christchurch, New Zealand" (1916) by Henry Wigram. I've also been in touch with the CCC library with an eye towards getting a copyright release for "The Evolution of a City" (1948) by (Jean) Patricia Morrison to also add there, or at least collaborating with them on other possible local history book digitisations. Book preservation is very satisfying, and a great way to force myself to read a book much more closely than I otherwise might.
• TheLoyalOrder (talk) Not a lot of editing since last month, just minor stuff, error fixes, finding some photos.
• Giantflightlessbirds: I've been occupied setting up the Banks Peninsula Wikipedian at Large project, which formally kicks off on January 15, but has already had some publicity, and I've managed a field trip to Little Akaloa over the break. There is plenty to do in the project, including lots of book digitisation, beetles, photography of scenic reserves, and article on all the bays and settlements on the peninsula. I'm also doing a little work over the next two months with Ashburton District Council to improve articles and photo collections around Ashburton and the Ashburton Lakes district. There will be a big Wikisource component and about 1000 photos coming from their archives, supported by WANZ. I'm also getting ready for the Wikisource conference in Bali in February.
• Oronsay: All the usual behind-the-scenes and tidying up work, including updating Women in Red's statistics to show the 20% achievement on 16 Dec. This was greatly helped by User:Drthneed's 367 contributions for 2024. Doing some Mix'n'Match, including the Harvard Index of Botanists, NZ Thesis authors and The Conversation author ID. Finding and merging Wikidata duplicates. Adding Bluesky handles to Wikidata and resolving some of their ID violations.
• Alexeyevitch has been doing a lot of traveling he went to Asia and Australia at the end of they year in 2024. On Wikipedia, I promoted 3 articles to GA, Corynocarpus laevigatus (Karaka), Statue of Robert Falcon Scott, Christchurch, and Metrosideros bartlettii (one of the rarest trees in NZ!). I think tree-related articles have become somewhat of an editing addiction to me. Also, I have put the Scot Statue article for peer-review and am highly considering taking to Featured Artricle Candidate. Overall, I've been incredibly busy pushing thru New Zealand articles getting some of our native taonga (treasure) to GA and it's been an honor improving accurate, open-access knowledge on Wikipedia.
• Margaret adding public images to pages. Doing it for Australian fauna and flora and New Zealand animals and plants. She's been adding structured data in Wikicommons, linking to Wikidata and add to Wikidata and Wikipedia workflow. Still doing the same thing for Korea projects - for natural monuments, adding IDs (and protected species). Template for putting dates in commons. style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #EEE); color: var(--color-base, black); vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center; " class="table-Un­known" | date Wikicommons template. She also shared this query for New Zealand identifiers in Wikidata.
• Paora (talk) Been doing his normal amazing work with the New Year's honours list, up early to get it updated. Gave praise to the women in red work being done as two of the three women had articles and the third was easily added. He's also been updating deceased people in NZ for 2024, the Bravery honours list awarded people and general wiki gardening.
• BeesWaxCandle - FINISHED CHEESEMAN's Manual of NZ flora! He's been working on this since July 2011.

• Add your questions here...
• Question about the upcoming Chch Wikicon - accommodation. Giantflightlessbirds explained we have a motel near the venue sorted. Will be doing a block booking, Message him for details.
• Discussions were had on 1Lib1Ref and on the popular pages of New Zealand content.
• Annie wanted to encourage the improvement of Te Rā (sail) and its Wikidata item

• Clovermoss, who some of us met at Wikimania in Poland, curates a project about editor reflections. It's great reading, and if you consider yourself an experienced editor (defined as someone who no longer considers themselves a newbie) then you are welcome to contribute your own reflections, no invitation required. You can read other people's reflections and contribute at the project page. DrThneed (talk) 04:45, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Check out WikiMap to see a map with an overlay of Wikipedia articles with {{coord}} templates. I use it as a way to spot possible articles I know of that are maybe missing coords, or articles that possibly have incorrect coords. Similarly, WikiShootMe shows Wikidata items with coordinates, and also marks whether they have photos or not. If you're out an about, consider grabbing photos of local landmarks like schools and churches, adding them to Commons, and then linking them with the relevant Wikidata entry to switch some of the red to green. It can also display images from Commons with location data, which can maybe save you the trouble of taking a photo yourself, if one already exists on Commons. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk)

Yes, I was just doing this in a visit to Blackball: we got our hosts to drive us around on the WikiShootMe map from red item to red item taking photos all the way, a great excuse for a guided tour. Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

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

• 2 February 2025, same time, same place