Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 10 May 2025

• 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.

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.

This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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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.

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• Ambrosia10
• Stitchbird2 (talk)
• Marshelec (talk)
• Wainuiomartian (talk)

• 𓆣🕷️AxonsArachnida🕷️𓆣 (talk) I'm out at a ghost diving event. Will come in if that gets cancelled.

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• 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.

• 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).
• 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!
• 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.

• 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.

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• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch

• 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.

• 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.

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