Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 7 June 2025

Wellington Meetup 7 June 2025

Date: Saturday 7 June 2025
Time: 10:00 am to midday
Location: Pipitea Room on the lower 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.

Venue

The group meet in the Pipitea Room located on the Lower Ground floor of the National Library. Group to ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

Future Meetups

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

Links for engaging with the local community of editors!

Want to meet a Friendly Face first?

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

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~ It's important to add your name as we are tracking attendence and reporting numbers back to Wikimedia Foundation as metric of the impact of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

Stitchbird2 (talk) 04:35, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Gertrude206 (talk) 03:33, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Marshelec (talk)
Noracrentiss (talk) (till about 11am)
Deluxe-Apple (talk) 22:10, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to come

Agenda and Notes from Meeting

Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

Encouraging the editors and organisers to contribute to the draft community report for the year.Last chance !! We must wrap this up at the end of June.
We have received advice that the bulk funding proposal for 2025-26 submitted to Wikimedia Foundation is approved. Yay !! For details see: Annual Plan for Year 3.
Recent highlights include the award of grants for:

a Wikipedian-in-Residence grant to DrThneed supported by Giantflightlesssbirds, for a 6 month part-time placement at University of Otago.
a 12 month extension to the Wikipedian-in-Residence project at Auckland Museum
two NZ species editathons to be held at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush on 2 and 9 August
a substantial contribution by Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 to the Australasian Systematic Botany Society conference, to be held in Armidale in November 2025.

We are also supporting DrThneed and Giantflightlesssbirds by administering a WMF Rapid Grant for their project: How to Wikify a Conference.

In sad news, I have to report the sudden passing of Herewhy who had attended Wikicon2025 in Christchurch. See a condolences page: User talk:Herewhy
Jonathanischoice, who regularly attends our Wellington meetups, has also had a sudden and serious illness, although seems to be on the mend. See User talk:Jonathanischoice#Hiatus.

Round table for participants to say what you’re working on

Stitchbird2 (talk) I attended and thoroughly enjoyed [WikiCon 2025] in Christchurch. The two submitted two funding applications to WANZ with User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss were successful, so we continue to meet weekly or fortnightly to plan for these events coming up in August and November, respectively. I participated remotely in Te Papa's staff #1Lib1Ref event on 28 May, getting through 20 of the 50 botanists listed in Common Ground Who's who in New Zealand botanical names Supplement Two by adding this reference and the information within to various related Wikipedia pages and Wikidata items for people and species named after them. I carried on with this work for the duration of the #1Lib1Ref campaign and got through all 50 botanists! Note there are two additional books in this series to get through at some stage containing 100 and 250 more botanists, respectively (the work never ends...)
Marshelec. I also really enjoyed Wikicon2025. However, over the past 2 weeks, I have been stuck at home with a nasty Influenza type A. Despite a bit of brain fog, I have managed to keep busy with various Wikipedia projects. In particular, I have put time into supporting Mike Dickison with Wikipedia:GLAM/Ashburton. I have written new articles: Ashburton Clock Tower, Ashburton Lakes, Lake Camp, Lake Emma, Lake Emily, Lake Roundabout, and Māori Lakes. I have also substantially expanded Lake Clearwater, Lake Clearwater (village), and Lake Heron. Another major expansion was Ashburton Domain. There is lots more to do on Ashburton project. In other work, I have just published a new article Wharepapa Arthur Marble Aquifer, and expanded Te Waikoropupū Springs.
Gertrude206 has been working on an article on the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Auckland which has had 2 name changes in its history. Will sort out redirect pages and Wikidata items for all three entities.
Noracrentiss (talk) Not much editing recently. Assisting User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss with admin for August NZ Species Editathon scheduled

Good Article / Featured Article Work

Wellington Botanic Garden was promoted to Good Article in March. Congratulations to Wainuiomartian for all that hard work since April 2024 :)
At the April meeting, those present suggested that our next target article should be Ōtari-Wilton's Bush.

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

Future events

If you're an event organiser, don't forget to add your event as a program to the Campaign Dashboard July 2024 - June 2025. 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 you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.

If you're interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact admin @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple - we promise!

16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch - Did anyone from the group attend and if so how was it?

Content Projects that need help

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 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.

Wiki News - add any news from the wider Wiki movement the group may be unaware of

Are you a QuickStatements user? There's a new version launching on 24 Feb 2025, read about it here on diff: Developing a new QuickStatements version
Note to Wikidata users: Default values for labels and aliases is now Live! This page shows you how and why to use them: Default values for labels and aliases
At the ESEAP 26 January 2025 community call, there was a demo about this new CampaignEvents Extension that can be used to organise Wiki events, including Event Registration. See CampaignEvents for more details. A really neat feature is the Collaboration List to be able to see all other events happening worldwide using this extension, and be able to sign up for those events directly.
GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.
Wikimedia Commons structured data: The depicts statement. A new script has been created by TiagoLubiana to help those adding depicts statements to Wikimedia commons files. You install it to your Wikimedia Commons common.js page. See Ambrosia10's common.js page as an example here. You add the following line to your common.js page:

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

This code 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.

Outcomes

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

5 July, same time, at Programme Rooms (behind the reception desk), Ground Floor of National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington