• Date: Saturday 26 October 2024
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: No meeting rooms are available at the National Library today so we're meeting in Home Cafe
  
• Bring a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop, but they are located elsewhere in the library.

The normal meeting place is not available for us today so we are meeting in the Home Cafe.

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• Einebillion
• Stitchbird2 (talk) 00:57, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Ambrosia10 (talk) 00:58, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Blackballnz (newbie)
• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• Gertrude206
• Jon (talk)
• Eyeup
• Quilt Phase
• Wainuiomartian (talk)
• Noracrentiss
• Marshelec

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• The organisers of Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024 (which include Ambrosia10 and Stitchbird2 have published a report on the WikiProject in Zenodo and uploaded the pdf into Wikimedia Commons The report goes into detail about the formation, challenges, aims and outcomes of the project. Have a read if you are interested in this work.

• Avocadobabygirl (talk). With Eyeup I ran two editathons about Te Maori at Te Papa. There's a blog up about it now. I've had some great chats with Winnieswikiworld and been chipping in on WikiProject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa, which lines up nicely with WikiProject Aotearoa Asian Artists - I've made articles for Bepen Bhana and Dilohana Lekamge. We've held sessions for staff about Women in Red and fixing bias, which has really grabbed their attention.

• Stitchbird2 (talk) I attended both of the two editathons about Te Maori at Te Papa mentioned above. I enjoyed adding information on birth/death dates, iwi affiliation, and other information about contemporary Māori artists to their Wikidata items and Wikipedia pages (if they had one), for example Elizabeth Ellis. I also attended Avocadobabygirl's Te Papa staff session on Women in Red, creating the article on NZ botanist Margaret J.A. Simpson. Together with User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss we have successfully run day 1 of the [NZ species edit-a-thon] held at Ōtari Wilton's Bush on 19 October, with day 2 coming up next Saturday (all welcome). We were 15 people, and an even mix of experienced vs new editors, and it was a brilliant day. Since 15 Sept I've created 3 new pages in English for Ourisia microphylla, Ourisia serpyllifolia and Ourisia polyantha, and as these are South American species, I have used the translation tool to translate them into Spanish, e.g. [Ourisia microphylla].

• Ambrosia10 (talk) 18:03, 25 October 2024 (UTC) attended the two Te Maori editathons and enjoyed them immensely. I learned a lot about the impact of that exhibit and had a great time adding content to articles outside my normal editing sphere. I encourage other editors to take advantage of these events when they can as it is always an opportunity to learn more. As Stitchbird2 has summarised our first New Zealand species editathon went really well and we are well on our way to organising the second event. We recently held the monthly meeting for the BHL-Wiki working group where we got an update on the Internet Archive issues. IA is now again online and as a result so is BHL. I'll update the GLAMwiki newsletter with the meeting highlights. I've been busy with my normal set of projects with progress being made on the Women Genera analysis of data paper, the International Botanical Congress/Annals of Botany paper as well as the paper I'm co-writing for the Hidden Figures CURE. The Bionomia module of that CURE is now in its final stages of being published with it being uploaded to the site and co-authors just giving their final approvals. We're received feedback on the Wikidata module and are now working our way through that feedback before sending it back to the publishers. The end of this project is in sight! I've also been working hard on my Open Education Global keynote with the slides and script being in the final polishing stage. As for editing I've been working on my normal Wikidata mix'n'match datasets, my list of botanists from the International Botanical Congress, creating and enriching articles as well as working on the new book out A guide to the butterflies & moths of Aotearoa New Zealand.[reply]

• Einebillion (talk) Attended one of the Te Maori edit-a-thons and the first of the Species edit-a-thon and I worked on topic items. Working mainly on the New Zealand women photographers dataset from Te Papa and adding to it in Wikidata. Have asked Auckland Libraries to release the dataset of photographers and they have declined. Will try again in 12 months. On the President front I've been talking with Creative Waikato and Manutū Taonga making connections. We've also hired our Mar/Comms coordinator, Sophie Sparrow. She starts on Tuesday.

I also discussed the copyright clause I have in my will waiving ownership in all my creative works. The clause is:

To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in contravention of, applicable law I HEREBY overtly, fully, permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waive, abandon and surrender all of my Copyright and Related Rights and associated claims and causes of action, whether now known or unknown (including existing as well as future claims and causes of action) in the creative works in which I hold Copyright or Related Rights:

(i) in all territories worldwide,

(ii) for the maximum duration provided by applicable law or treaty (including future time extensions),

(iii) in any current or future medium and for any number of copies; and

(iv) for any purpose whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or promotional purposes.

I request my trustee to release and distribute the creative works in which I hold Copyright or Related Rights to the public using the Creative Commons Zero CC0 Public Domain Dedication

• Jon (talk) — a busy month, just a bit of copy editing around the bass trombone, serpent, keyed trumpet and cornett from the amazing trumpet books from Sabine Klaus. Got a mention in the September 2024 issue of the Serpent Newsletter for my efforts/sins.

• Marshelec has recently been in Kaikōura and has been working on articles related to the town. Two new articles include: Kaikōura Dark Sky Sanctuary and Whale Trail (New Zealand). In the past month, I have had an article I nominated accepted as a Good Article. See: Bushy Park (New Zealand).
• Wainuiomartian has created an article for the Fahnestock South Sea Expeditions after working on the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

• Gertrude206 Edited pages for artist Lydia Larden and her daughter Ethel Birch with help from the Sarjeant Gallery who had to verify the artist. Photos of Larden's paintings on Commons had to be moved and renamed. Now working on creating pages for composers who’ve won APRA SOUNZ contemporary awards e.g. Michael Norris and Janet Roddick. Enjoyed recent edit-a-thons Te Māori and Species at Ōtari.

• 28 September 10am to 4pm Te Māori Edit-a-thon at Te Papa. - How did it go?
• 12 October TBC 10am to 4pm Te Māori Edit-a-thon at Te Papa. - How did it go?
• 19 October 2024 New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon - Starting Out Cost $10 for both Species Edit-a-thon events to cover catering. Tickets available at Humanitix - How did it go?
• Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project?

• Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article. User:Wainuiomartian has substantially expanded the article and added photos. Anybody have any ideas for further improvement? A picture of the Henry Moore sculpture? (Done. Quilt Phase)

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• 2 November 2024 New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon - Embedding Cost $10 for both Species Edit-a-thon events. Tickets available at Humanitix
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch

• Content: 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. There is also a video on how to add thesis to people's pages. This work is ongoing and could use more editors to help out. 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: WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by User:Ambrosia10.

• Content: WikiProject New Zealand Women Photographers - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by a group of Te Papa editors. Others welcome to join us. It builds on the research dataset released openly on data.govt.nz and the book Through Shaded Glass: Women and Photography in Aotearoa New zealand 1860 - 1960 published by Te Papa Press.

• Content: WikiProject Aotearoa New Zealand Asian Artist - A project to import and build information on significant Asian New Zealand artists.

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

• GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.
• Wikimedia Commons structured data - depicts statement. A new script has been created by TiagoLubiana to help those adding depicts statements to Wikimedia commons files. You install it to you Wikimedia Commons common.js page. See Ambrosia10's common.js page here. You add the following line to your common.js page:

importScript('User:TiagoLubiana/hasDepicts.js');

This then installs an on/off box for the tool when you are in a Wikimedia Commons category and when the tool is switched on it will show either a green or red dot beneath each file in a particular category showing you which files have depicts statements.

• Here is the Wikipedia Task Centre
• This is the Whisper transcription tool Jon talked about
• Here is the National Library's Oral History page

• Group had a detailed discussion on copyright, CC0 licensing, and wills.

• 23 November 2024 , same time, at Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington