Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 25 October 2025
Wellington Meetup 25 October 2025
[edit]- Date: Saturday 25th October 2025
- Time: 10:00 am to midday
- Location: Te Kupenga room, one floor up from reception - just off the first floor landing 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.
Venue
[edit]The group meet in the Te Kupenga room, one floor up from reception of the National Library of New Zealand. Group to ensure that the area is left how we found it including table and chair locations.
Future Meetups
[edit]This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.
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The Meeting
[edit]Links for engaging with the local community of editors!
[edit]- Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand website
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Want to meet a Friendly Face first?
[edit]We know it can be difficult for some people to walk into a group of strangers without knowing anyone. If you'd like to meet up with a friendly face before the meeting or to have a chat to see if this group is for you please contact Dianne on info @ wikimedia.nz Dianne will be overjoyed to introduce you to one of the group who will be available to meet up with you for coffee and chat. They can also be on hand to meet you prior to the meeting and walk in with you and introduce you to the group. Whatever will make you comfortable.
Attending
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Unable to come
[edit]Agenda and Notes from Meeting
[edit]Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)
[edit]General welcome to any new folk who join us.
Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members
[edit]Round table for participants to say what you’re working on
[edit]Good Article / Featured Article Work
[edit]- Our target article for improvement is Ōtari-Wilton's Bush.
Outstanding Action Points to Progress
[edit]Future events
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Wiki Conferences
[edit]- GLAMwiki 2025 (30 October to 1 November, 2025) - an "in person only" conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The GLAM Wiki community is a worldwide network, with projects, initiatives, and activities spanning every timezone and continent. Giantflightlessbirds is attending. Any others?
- WikidataCon 2025 31 October - 02 November 2025 - online conference only. A conference aimed at connecting people through Linked Open Data.
Content Projects that need help
[edit]- 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 has 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 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.
Outcomes
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Next meeting and Meetup timetables
[edit]- Next regular meetup is 22 November, same time, at Te Kupenga room, one floor up from reception of the National Library of New Zealand, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington