• Date: Saturday 13 April 2024
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington
  
• 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.

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• Ambrosia10 (talk))
• Stitchbird2 (talk)
  
• Noracrentiss (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk)
• Quilt Phase (talk)

• Einebillion (talk) - weekend in Foxton

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• Stitchbird2 (talk) I have again been busy editing Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons in April. Continuing with Wikipedia:WikiProject_New_Zealand/Critter_of_the_Week, updating Filhollianassa filholi, New Zealand grebe and Bellorchestia quoyana. I've created the last three (of 11 total) NZ native Plantago species pages (start or C class): Plantago picta, Plantago raoulii and Plantago udicola, and created my first Ourisia wikipedia page, Ourisia caespitosa! Only 28 more of those to go... I attended Auckland Wikicon in Auckland, and have followed up on the learning from User:DrThneed's WikiCon workshops by uploading 44 Te Papa Plantago specimen images using Open Refine with the wonderful collaboration of User:Avocadobabygirl, and added several to their wikipedia pages. Then I took a bunch of photos in my neighbourhood guided by Wiki Shoot Me in preparation for the second Commons/photography workshop to be held later today. Otherwise I've made lots of Wikidata edits to disambiguiate dozens (low hundreds?) of botanists as part of a project with User:Ambrosia10 to wikify the International Botanical Congress, plus had fun in Wikidata with Ingeborg Levin, Rosemary Steele, Te Taka Keegan, among others.
• Ambrosia10 (talk) I've been working three days a week on the Te Papa Research Expeditions project. We're in the process of organising three research expedition related events, an internal #1Lib1Ref event, a staff facing Wikipedia editathon and a public facing Wikipedia editathon (the latter editathon likely to be held mid July). I've also been contributing to the BHL structured data on commons workshop trying to decide on the how to model data, preparing presentations for the BHL Annual General meeting in Chicago in May, preparing for the BHL-Wiki working group meeting in April, working on the Wikidata module for the Hidden Figures CURE, I've put in 5 abstracts for Wikimania, one abstract for TDWG/SPNHC 2024 on the Te Papa research expedition project and have been working on the International Botanical Congress WikiProject, wikifying the conference and starting to draft up a Wikidata based poster for the conference and organising the workshop. The Women Genera project I'm contributing to is also still progressing with our research paper still being written.
• Avocadobabygirl (talk) I presented an introduction to Wikidata and Wiki Commons with Ambrosia10, and I've been supporting her as she works on the Research Expeditions project at Te Papa, including working through how it can lead to improvements of our own data modelling and practices, and arranging to host outreach events. I've done the relatively straightforward part of getting NZ museum directory data into Wikidata, and will work with other staff to improve what's left. I'm looking into how content related to Te Maori could be improved around its 40th anniversary. I helped Stitchbird2 load images of Plantago specimens using OpenRefine, and am tidying up the workflow and documentation so other staff can more easily do similar projects. Work to get other Te Papa staff more involved is continuing. I'm also looking into the option of adding full text publications and archival material to Wikisource.
• Marshelec: In the past month, I attended the Auckland Wikicon. I also made some contributions to the National Parks Project, particularly in relation to management plans, and the consequences of the 2018 Supreme Court decision in relation to Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki about applying principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in considering commercial concessions for operations on Rangitoto and Motutapu islands. A significant achievement for the past month has been a joint initiative with Wainuiomartian to prepare a new biography article for Axel Downard-Wilke - a committee member of WANZ, and one of four Wikipedia Admins in New Zealand. A DYK nomination has been submitted for this article, but it is currently awaiting a reviewer. I have also proposed the establishment of a Wikiproject to improve the article Christchurch. See: Talk:Christchurch/Archive 2#Significant improvements needed in many sections. Closer to home, I have discovered that the article Queen Elizabeth Park, Masterton is in a poor state and needs significant improvement. Fortunately, I have found a book giving the history of the park, and this will be a great source. I have noted that the article Masterton is not in great shape either. Perhaps we can recruit someone in the Wairarapa to work on articles in that region ? This coming week, Marshelec and Birdbabe plan to visit Bushy Park, north of Whanganui and hope to improve the article about that special place. Separately from work on-wiki, Marshelec has been finalising the 2023 Performance Report for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand - this report must be available for the upcoming Annual General Meeting, and also needs to be submitted to Charities Services. We are also working through a change of signatories for the WANZ bank account - a long and tiresome process.
• Wainuiomartian (talk) At User:Marshelec's suggestion, I created an article for Axel Downard-Wilke. Apart from that, I have added content to Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, significantly expanded Te Ngākau Civic Square and added content to Coutts Crawford, an early Wellington landowner.
• Giantflightlessbirds: The Wikipedian at Large project had its first official meetup in Christchurch this year, the beginning of a monthly series in the central library Tūranga. There's an edit-a-thon coming up on May 18th in the Christchurch Art Gallery, focussed on the Ink on Paper exhibition artists and works. I made notes on how I think we should model exhibitions. Collaboration with the Biology Department of the University of Canterbury to release historic photos of the Cass area is ongoing, and in April collaborations begin with Christchurch Libraries and the Canterbury Museum entomology collection. The Critter of the Week project project was reorganised after an online meeting of volunteers with the creation of a list of weekly tasks. I presented at Auckland Wikicon on 24 March on "How to be a Wikipedian in Residence/at Large" (slides) and gave a presentation to the Entomological Society of New Zealand on entomology and Wikipedia; this turned out to be relevant to the rediscovery of the Frosted Phoenix. I contacted the photographer and (after explaining copyright law, Creative Commons, and iNaturalist's incompatible default settings), convinced him to change his photo license so the image could be used on the moth's Wikipedia page. This is the beginning of an education project working with iNaturalist NZ. At the urging of User:Ambrosia10, I then blogged my workflow for convincing people to change their photo licences.
• Gertrude206 has done very little recently as has been doing own genealogy work. Has taken photos of historic buildings in Invercargill for the photography workshop. Index New Zealand (INNZ) is being discontinued but the database will continue in a static form. Will write an online submission to the National Library saying the database is invaluable to Wikipedians.
• Noracrentiss - Started decluttering her house. Found a 1982 HerStory diary with NZ women stories who are not in Wikipedia or Wikidata.Ended up not even decluttering this one book! The moral is: when decluttering your house, be prepared to go down Wiki rabbit holes!Created a Wikidata item but realised she needs more tuition. Also thinking about whether we could foster informal "interest groups" eg a photographers group or a "Suffrage Petition Signatories" group. Bit like what Lisa is doing where she is starting a writers space - ie she's fostering this initiative to engage with Pacifica in a suitable space. Also been doing committee work including redrafting the constitution to comply with 2020 act - and also working with the Wikimedia Foundation on getting Chapter status. Thank you to Wainuiomartian who has been a great sleuth!
• Quilt Phase - working on his "Picture This" event presentation. Also notes that the NZ transport agency article is having a discussion about whether it should change its name. See Waka Kotahi.

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• 23-34 March 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia Conference - Auckland How did it go?

• 13 April 2024 "Picture This" event, 1 - 5pm at Photospace at 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington. This is a follow-up to the 9 March session. More details here. Quilt Phase (talk)

• 18 May: Christchurch Art Gallery edit-a-thon

• May 2024 ESEAP Conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Did anyone apply for a scholarship?

• 7-10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland A number of editors have submitted scholarship applications. Who has been confirmed? Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 are going.

• Wikidata Levelling Up Days events This is an online event designed to welcome new people to Wikidata and to provide an introduction to a selection of useful tools and topics so you can start getting involved with Wikidata. During April 5-7 and April 12-14 there will be presentations, live editing and social events.

• Otari-Wilton's Bush event ideation and organising We need an organiser! Group agreed to move the dates to autumn. User:Noracrentiss will talk with User:Ambrosia10 about organising resource. WANZ application could easily include an event organiser but we need someone to lead it and shape the agenda of the event. - Next steps? Stitchbird and Ambrosia10 are keen to organise but both are committed up to the middle of August due to Wikimania. Both intend to commit to this after that date.

• Parliamentary Library The library has had its Wikipedia guidance for staff approved. Any update on support for project? User:Giantflightlessbirds was organising a lifting of the IP address block on editing Wiki projects. Any update?

• International Botanical Congress - members of the Wellington group User:Stitchbird2 and User:Ambrosia10 have funding either from their employment institutions to attend this conference and run a Wikidata workshop for conference attendees.

• WikiProject Te Papa Research Expeditions - A WANZ funded project being implemented at Te Papa by User:Ambrosia10.

• Group is planning to work on Wellington Botanic Garden article

• 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.

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.

• GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.

• Stitchbird2 wants information on the placement of images.
• Is there a way the signatories of the women who signed the women vote petition - notable for Wikidata? Some yes are but you'd have to find them. Solution mix'n'match. Biographies. Database? No identifier. Discussion was involved with this and compared it to the Declaration of Independence Wikidata item.
• Thesis question. Copy what DrThneed has done on a thesis.
• Honours - getting better references for this.
• Wikidata resources See this website for beginner training.
• Barnstars for editors link - how to

• Check out the pipe trick —Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

• 11 May 2024 , same time, same place