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Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 53

• Date: Sunday 15 September 2024
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
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• Cost: Free

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All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an in-person meetup. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.

Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.

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Future meetups

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

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Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

Attending

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• Alexeyevitch^(talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Oronsay (talk)
• DrThneed (talk)
• B. Jankuloski (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• Beeswaxcandle (talk)
• MargaretRDonald (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Prosperosity (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)
• Jonathanischoice

Unable to come

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• Paora (talk)
• David Nind (talk)

• ...

Agenda and notes

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand – update and discussion (15 minutes)

Update from Treasurer, WANZ

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand now has 41 financial members. Following our funding support of a Wikipedian-in-Residence project at Auckland War Memorial Museum, we are also exploring opportunities for closer relationships with other institutions. In addition, we are currently inviting proposals for a Wikipedian-at-Large project. The closing date for WPAL proposals is 30 September. See: Full details of the role and process

If you have an idea for a Wiki event, and would like a grant to cover venue, catering or travel expenses etc, please get in touch with Dianne at info @ wikimedia.nz

Wiki-Con Weekends, Editathons, Events and Outreach in 2024–25

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 info @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It's really simple – we promise!

• 7–10 August 2024 Wikimania in Katowice, Poland: Ambrosia10, Stitchbird2, Giantflightlessbirds, and DrThneed attended from New Zealand. DrThneed's report is here. All the videos for Wikimania2024 are on YouTube and are in the process of being separated into individual videos and placed on Wikicommons. Ambrosia10's three formal presentations at Wikimania went well and were each well attended. There were also other informal meet ups held including a Research Expeditions meetup and a Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and iNaturalist meetup. Ambrosia10 also attended an informal Structured Data on Commons meetup. DrThneed prompted an OpenRefine users meetup.
• 21-22 September 2024: Women in Architecture NZ Edit-a-thon & walking tour A two-part event, with a walking tour held on Saturday 21 September and and editathon at Auckland War Memorial Museum on Sunday 22 September.
• 5 October 2024 Auckland Meetup at Auckland Central City Library from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
• 19 Oct and 2 Nov: NZ Species Edit-a-thon. To be held at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington. Registrations are now open here: Humanitix link
• 23 November 2024 WikiCon Australia Adelaide
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch: Registrations are now open - earlybird tickets at $15/person are available until November. The organising committee is also happy to receive requests for funding for travel and accommodation. The conference program is constructed based on participant input. When registering, participants can request topics they would like to see included in the programme, and offer topics they are happy to present on. Registration.
• Content: New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Project works on getting New Zealand dissertations into Wikidata and connecting them to their authors, advisors and main subjects. Project Dashboard. Currently adding OpenAlex identifiers to anyone in the project, through matching with the Orcids on OpenAlex's API. Have been in discussion with the Wikimedian in Residence at Edinburgh to see if we can help them get their theses into Wikidata. Am also working with LSE to rewrite our Wikidata thesis-related queries to take account of the Wikidata graph split. 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: New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers.

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

• Content: Good article nominations backlog drive - October 2024: Please consider joining in during October, to review at least one Good Article nomination. This is a great way of developing your own editing skills and knowledge. There are currently around 550 article nominations waiting to be reviewed, across a host of diverse topics. See: Good article nominations

Round table for participants

Opportunity to say what you’re working on and if you need help to do anything or want anything demonstrated. You can add requests for help here prior to the meeting if you want

• Ambrosia10 (talk) - I've recently returned from the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 conference. My attendance was funded by WANZ and I recently published a conference report which can be seen here.

I've been working on the Hidden Figures CURE and we have finalised the Bionomia module. We are awaiting our publishers feedback on the Wikidata module. Once we've received and incorporated that feedback and got the Wikidata module published the whole CURE will be finished. We also continue to work on a scholarly publication about the CURE and it's implementation at a number of institutions.

I, Stitchbird2 and our other collaborators continue to work on the WikiProject IBC 2024 project drafting our scholarly article about how botanists should engage with Wikidata for the Annals of Botany journal. We are also working on continuing to draft a report on our WikiProject IBC efforts. We intend to share this report with the wider Wiki community and also with R. Yael Weissburg, the vice president of Community Growth and Movement Building at the Wikimedia Foundation. We want to ensure this effort is replicated in 2029 for the International Botanical Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.

I've also been working on BHL-Wiki working group content, attending a meeting to create the agenda and the link to join the upcoming monthly meeting which can be found here. The BHL-Wiki meeting for September will be held 6am Tuesday the 17th of September (NZST).

I, Stitchbird2 and Noracrentiss continue to work on organising the 2 Saturday NZ species Wikipedia edit-a-thon event.

I've also recently submitted my title and abstract for my upcoming keynote for the Open Education Global conference in Brisbane in November.

Finally I've been doing some editing! I've been working on the Harvard Index of Botanists dataset in Wikidata via Mix'n'match as well as working on continuing to wikify the presenters at the International Botanical Congress conference.

• Marshelec visited Australia in July, and went to Geelong.

1. There was a major redevelopment of the Geelong waterfront from 1996 to 2000, and a key feature is a steel and glass pavilion enclosing a fully-restored Victorian era carousel. We took a ride on the carousel.[1] and I created a new article: Geelong Carousel. After researching the Geelong Carousel, I found that there is an even older fully-restored carousel at Melbourne Zoo (must see this on my next visit). I have published another new article: Melbourne Zoo Carousel. There is also a particularly fancy restored carousel at Luna Park in Melbourne, so I may carry on with this theme and prepare yet another carousel article.
2. I have recently prepared two new articles about dark-sky preserves that have been accredited this year: Kawarau Gibbston Dark Sky Park, and Draft:Kaikōura Dark Sky Sanctuary - still in draft. (I have contacted the organisers to ask for a photo).
3. In other work, I have expanded the article Bushy Park (New Zealand), and nominated it for GA. Hopefully someone will offer to review it reasonably soon.
4. I have recently promoted an idea for prompting improvements to NZ-related articles that are clearly important (and have high page-views), but where the quality of the article (or parts of it) is disappointing. WANZ will promote a monthly "article for improvement", drawing attention to the need for improvement – particularly for articles with high page-views. I have prepared a list of articles that could be considered. One of these is Kiwi (bird). It gets a huge number of page-views but is incomplete. We could also invite people to submit their suggestions for articles for improvement, to go into the queue for promotion.

• DrThneed:

• Attended Wikimania in Katowice, was really good for making connections, and I heartily recommend giving out flyers as a way of raising awareness about a project! User:DrThneed/Wikimania_2024_report .

1. I am well behind on #1woman1day work (about 22 pages) but still plan to catch up. There are some people I have a conflict of interest with because I know them, and some others I just can't find enough material on.
2. Thesis project: Found a new route to match Orcid profiles with thesis authors with quite a high success rate so matched several hundred new authors. Then used the Orcid IDs of everyone in the thesis project to extract identifiers from OpenAlex and add them to Wikidata. OpenAlex profiles contain an 'openness' score for each researcher, showing the % of their papers openly available. I was hoping to be able to use those to compare disciplines and institutions, but sadly it looks like that score specifically it isn't available via API. We are looking at doing another thesis upload of the last two years of dissertations, timing unclear.
3. Have talked to Otago about possibly matching the research repository to Wikidata - not necessarily adding a lot of new items, but matching up the papers openly available in the repository with their Wikidata record and adding a link to the repository version.
4. Got a new feature added to the Wikidata and Wikipedia tools extension for Google sheets. Happy to demo for the group or one-on-one if anyone interested.

• Paora (talk)
  • Uploaded to WikiCommons all of the photos from the recent round of investitures at Government House, Wellington, as well as cropped images of the recipients, and created a Commons category for each recipient where not already existing, added image and made other updates to their Wikidata, added the photo to the appropriate honours list article—mostly 2024 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)—and to their article page if existing.
• David Nind (talk): Helped with validating The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6, 1840, including adding Wikidata items, Commons category, and updating the Open Library entry. Otherwise, mainly WANZ tasks.
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)

1. For the last month following Wikimania I've wrapping up work with three different National Science Challenges (see the projects for Our Land and Water, Resilience to Nature's Challenges, and Science for Technological Innovation), which has included converting and uploading a dozen videos released under an open licence. I've been able to clip out useful snippets from the videos and reuse them on other pages: for example the article on pepeha now has a freely-licensed video of someone giving a pepeha, with subtitles.
2. Our Land and Water has asked me to run lunchtime webinars for their scientists on Wikipedia, Creative Commons, and WikiCommons, and if these go well I'll be repeating them for a wider audience in October/November.
3. Applying for grants, conferences, and pitching to other research organisations for funding for Summer is the main priority now. I've part of an embryonic Wikimedia Consultants network Jake Orlowitz is organising. Have been accepted for a presentation (and webinar) on the Science Challenge Wikipedia work at the Science Communicators of NZ conference in Auckland in November.
4. Will be coming up to Wellington for both NZ Species edit-a-thons, and plan to run a similar one in Christchurch.
5. Lots of behind-the-scenes work on Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō.
6. Alexeyevitch. An American is reviewing a GA currently but he said it would be put on hold for a but until a acquire more book sources. Furthermore, I'm nominating another Christchurch suburb for GA, one which is rich in Maori history and has a unique geography. Also need new photographs of new buildings. A thing I learned from the American editor's suggestions is to prioritize using reliable secondary sources rather than using sources from the city council.

• Beeswaxcandle—enWS. now at 75% pages completed for Cheeseman's Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Some new NZ editors recently because of the Colenso work that David mentions above. General admin tasks on enWS as well.Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:36, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
• User:Oronsay has been adding images (photos and caricatures) found in the 50th jubilee edition (1930) of The Bulletin to Commons using template PD-Australia, then to Wikidata and Wikipedia. Her two new editors are starting to add External links from women's WP bios to their portraits in the National Portrait Gallery - independent of handholding she hopes. Also using Petscan to add missing Trove IDs to Wikidata, refreshing the Wikipedia bio and seeing the update. Updated various literary awards in OZ and NZ.
• Gertrude206: Has been expanding the article on Lydia Larden but has been going round in circles as not sure if she or her daughter Ethel Birch is the artist. Sources are conflicting. The paintings are in the Sarjent Gallery in Whanganui so will contact them and ask them to clarify who painted the pictures and the information in the online records.
• Dactylantha-Creating a draft Wikipedia article. Doing a research Mary D. Woodward, author published books about West Auckland. She was also beauty queen and an ambassador for the air force.
• B. Jankuloski - Has been on a hunt for images needed for Auckland. He's been finding schools and shops using Wikishootme as well as natural features etc such as streams. Mentioned needing a better camera, camera on phone isn’t really a good one unless the light is ideal. There was a discussion about a grant application for WANZ to obtain a camera that can then be let out to editors for events or projects. He's also been organising recordings for Samoan pronouncation of names and people. Community was very supportive of this effort.
• Jonathanischoice-Has been continuing with this efforts funded by the grant. He's been (slowly) going through the photos and uploading them to Commons.
• Prosperosity (talk) - Doing a lot of NZ National Park cleanup work of location data in Wikidata, also working on people related to Auckland Museum , mid 20th century people with species named after these people. He's been creating species articles about species named after those people including the recently killed Thorpe and the species named in his honour.
• Alexeyevitch^(talk) - He's nominating another Christchurch suburb for GA, one which is rich in Maori history and has a unique geography. There is also a need for photographs of new buildings popping up arround the city. A thing he learned is to prioritize using reliable secondary sources (e.g. books, journals, reliable newspaper publications) rather than using sources from the city council.
• MargaretRDonald (talk) has been working on taxa, using queries to find taxa without images. She will be presenting this at Wikicon Australia in November, and hopes that many, many new images will be added to Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata as a result. She also prepared a New Zealand query for this, but found that most of the NZ animals without images are not represented at quite high levels in the taxonomic tree. She also discussed species work particularly with respect to turning black into blue for authorities and the importance of linking author and original publications. She also commented on the taxonomic disagreements for small animals like insects. Ambrosia10 gave her a link to the Catalogue of Life github issue raising link which Ambrosia10 uses to help resolve issues.

Review of questions raised during round table

• Wikidata property proposal: Athletics New Zealand athlete ID
• Add your questions here...

Presentations, tips, tools

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• Ambrosia10 (talk) - I recently uploaded the slides and script of the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 presentation co-authored with User:Avocardobabygirl and titled Delving into Te Papa's research expedition data into Zenodo. These can be seen at this link. Prior to this presentation our extended abstract for this presentation was published in the Biodiversity Information Science and Standards journal and can be seen at this link.
• Anyone organising an editathon or other event to improve Wikipedia or Wikidata might like to check out the Wiki List tool. User:DrThneed recently asked the developer of the Google Sheets extension for Wikipedia and Wikidata to add support for fetching the names of Wikipedia articles. This means you can now simply add the QIDs of your target items, and it will fetch the Wikipedia page title, and page scores and views, as well as information on the Wikidata item such as whether there is an image or specified identifiers. A Google sheet example is here, feel free to make a copy and then adapt to your needs.

Note that if you wanted to use this information on Wiki instead of on a Google sheet, you can copy the information into this conversion page, and it will convert to Wiki format, although you will have to reinsert links.

• NZ Ancestor Search Helper: May be useful - while primarily aimed at NZ genealogists, it may be useful for Wikipedians. It collates results from NZ DIA's Births, Deaths and Marriages, Archives NZ, dozens of council cemetery websites, military records from Auckland Museum Online Cenotaph, and many other online history resources.
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk) Vivian Chandra (who does a lot of work in tech equity and diversity, including for the Pam Fergusson Trust and OMG Tech Rangers) would like to see an article about the company OMGTech! which is being wound up after 10 years operating. I suggested she compile media coverage and photos of people and events they could release under an open licence, and I would pass those on to anyone interested.

Outcomes

• Add anything you worked on or learned during the meetup.
• Alexeyevitch asked question about ante meridiem and post meridiem (e.g. 10 P.M. or 10 PM vs 10 p.m. or 10 pm). Both AM/PM and a.m./p.m. are acceptable, but style guides overwhelmingly prefer a.m./p.m. He's also aware that some Christchurch sources seem to prefer the use of periods rather than no periods. Alexeyevitch was given advice by Beeswaxcandle and Giantflightlessbirds pointed to [2]. User:Beeswaxcandle mentioned that both styles are acceptable but it is important to have consistency in an article.

Next meeting and meetup timetables

• 13 October 2024, same time, same place