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Wellington Meetup 10 May 2025

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National Library of New Zealand Programme Rooms and foyer
  • Date: Saturday 10 May 2025
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: Malaga Pasifika programme room (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.

Venue

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The group meet in the Programme Rooms located on the ground floor of the National Library just behind the main reception area. Group to ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

Future Meetups

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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

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Want to meet a Friendly Face first?

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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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Wellington Wikimeetup for April 2024

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Unable to come

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Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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

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General welcome to any new folk who join us.


Updates from Meeting organisers, President or committee members

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  • We encourage editors and organisers to contribute to the Draft Community Activity report for the grant year. It will close off at end June. This report is a vital part of maintaining our relationship with Wikimedia Foundation, showing them what we are achieving.
  • The WANZ bulk funding proposal for 2025-26 submitted to Wikimedia Foundation is currently being assessed. For details see: Annual Plan for Year 3.
  • Recent highlights include the award of a Wikipedian-in-Residence grant to DrThneed supported by Giantflightlesssbirds, for a 6 month part-time placement at University of Otago.
  • WANZ also had a presence at the NDF 2025 Conference held in Wellington on 5-6 May.

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

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  • 2 August meeting: Heidi, Christine and Siobhan are organising a New Zealand Species Editathon at Leonard Cockayne Centre at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush. This species editathon will be held on consecutive Saturdays, the 2nd and the 9th of August. As a result of room booking constrains we could only obtain the 2nd and the 9th dates for the two days. Would it be ok if the Species editathon event "take over" this slot similar to Māori editathons at Te Papa? However if the group decides this is ok they will be required to register for the species editathon for tickets and pay the $5 to attend this event. We will be providing morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. If the group does NOT want to do this to happen we can create a new page for the editathon on the 2nd and people can still attend the meet up at the National Library room (which it will still be booked for the Wellington meet up). Decision - take over was agreed!
  • Stitchbird2 (talk) I've just finished creating Wikipedia pages for all 37 species and subspecies in the plant genus Ourisia! It's taken me 13 months, and I've done 56 total pages (37 in English plus 19 in Spanish for the South American species). My last one was Ourisia ruellioides in English and https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourisia_ruellioides in Spanish - I'm pretty proud of it! I've also submitted two funding applications to WANZ with User:Ambrosia10 and User:Noracrentiss for putting on 1) a NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari over two Saturdays in Aug 2025 and 2) upskilling botanists attending the 2025 Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) Conference in Armidale, Australia in Nov 2025.
  • Wainuiomartian (talk) I have finished expanding the existing articles for Ngauranga, Ngauranga Gorge and Ngauranga Interchange and have dabbled in other articles such as Tinakula, a volcano visited by the Whitney South Sea Expedition.
  • Marshelec: With the help of User:Panamitsu over the past month I have "wikified" content donated to me by a friend and have published Geology and geomorphology of Kahurangi National Park. A suitable summary section is needed for the main Kahurangi National Park article, and then the National Park article may be a candidate for GA nomination. I also created a new article for the small settlement of Pākawau in Golden Bay, and have continued to work on Draft:Wharepapa Arthur Marble Aquifer, (this is the aquifer that supplies the renowned Te Waikoropupū Springs). Other work in the past month has included creating East Gippsland Water, about a water utility in Victoria, Australia, and developing Draft:Biodiversity of the Kaikōura region. In the past few days, I have contributed to Draft:May 2025 New Zealand storm , to help create a record of the unusually severe storm that affected New Zealand recently. I have also been expanding SS Erlangen (1929), an article about the fascinating story of the German cargo vessel that escaped from New Zealand at the outbreak of WWII and travelled to a neutral port in Chile, after spending many weeks gathering firewood in Carnley Harbour in the Auckland Islands. There is much more to do on this still.
  • Ambrosia10 - just a reminder to the group that I'm going to be taking a month long break in June from most Wiki work.
In the lead up to that though I've been busy. With Stitchbird2 and Noracress I've been organising two content generation based NZ Species edit-a-thons to happen on the 2 and 9 August. Stitchbird2 and I have also been organising a workshop to be held at the Australasian Systematics Association Botany conference in early November.
I'm very grateful to announce WANZ has awarded me funding to attend virtually the Living Data 2025 conference in October and so I'm in the process of drafting up a abstract hoping to present at that conference virtually on some work I've been doing on research expeditions. I've been extracting information manually from BHL on research expeditions, adding this to a google spreadsheet, then downloading it as a csv file, adding it to OpenRefine, reconciling the data to Wikidata and then enriching or creating new Wikidata items for those expeditions. This work has come about as the WikiProject Research Expeditions/Biodiversity Data Standards group are meeting again. I'm also currently working hard to update the TDWG working group's Github Wiki, transferring discussions and notes the group has made previously in google docs onto this more public repository.
In other news both the Annals of Botany paper and the Women Genera data analysis paper should be published in the very near future as they have both gone through the review process. Both papers have a Wikidata focus.
I've also been working on the Biodiversity Heritage Library documentation for the use of BHL identifiers in the Wikiverse. In other BHL news I've been working in Mix'n'match disambiguating BHL authors as well as adding structured data to the BHL categories of their images. As regards BHL's funding issues I've recently reported back to the Auckland Museum on the BHL Annual meeting I attended in April in Berlin.
Finally I've also been updating and expanding a few English Wikipedia moth articles including the article on Holocola zopherana.
  • Gertrude206 - mostly Wiki gardening but created an article for Ron Jones the doctor who wrote the journal article which led to the Cartwright Inquiry.
  • Avocadobabygirl (talk) presented at NDF 2025 about how GLAM organisations can get their people editing Wiki with leadership support - this was really well received and multiple attendees are already pushing it in their orgs. Blog post about it here! Analytics work for understanding the impact of contributions is coming along. I will be doing some workshops as part of (and recommend) ResBaz, which is an annual free thing that can teach you about useful things like GitHub, tikanga and research ethics, Python, R, open publishing and heaps more.
  • Jon (talk) — working on getting musical instrument articles to WP:GA status, hoping to soon nominate ophicleide, the instrument that evolved from the serpent (GA) and evolved into, after the invention of valves, the tuba (most definitely not a GA). Someone might like to review the soprillo - it's very short!

Good Article / Featured Article Work

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  • 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.
  • While not part of our Wellington work, we must celebrate a milestone today, where a newly promoted Featured Article about a New Zealand endemic plant Metrosideros bartlettii has been the featured article on the main page of Wikipedia for the past 24 hours. Congratulations to User:Alexeyevitch for this amazing achievement.

Outstanding Action Points to Progress

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Future events

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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!

Content Projects that need help

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Project Contacts: DrThneed
  • 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.

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

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  • DrThneed has made a new tutorial on youtube about the Wikidata tool mix'n'match. To find it search for "Using the Mix'n'match tool 2025". Wiki doesn't allow me to add the link here.
  • GLAMwiki Newsletter: [1] has New Zealand and other information that might be of interest to Wellington editors.

Outcomes

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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