Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 12 April 2025

• Date: Saturday 12 April 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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• Stitchbird2 (talk)
• Quilt Phase
• Marshelec (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Wainuiomartian
• Noracrentiss
• Jonathanischoice

• Ambrosia10 - I will be in Berlin, Germany giving the Annual Report for the BHL-Wiki working group, giving a presentation and holding a workshop at the BHL Day celebrations.
• Arnhemcr - taking it easy post-op

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• Some recent news from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand was reported. The updates are all included in the draft community report for the year. Editors and organisers are encouraged to contribute to this report. It will close off at the end of June, as part of the 2024/25 end-of-period report to Wikimedia Foundation.

• Ambrosia10 - Sorry I can't be with everyone today however I did want to let folk know that my "Hidden Figures" paper has had a preprint recently published. This is the final stage of a project to produce undergraduate course materials to empower students to use their research skills in conjunction with tools like ORCID, Bionomia and Wikidata to help reveal "hidden figures" in natural history content. Here's the link to the preprint.
• Stitchbird2 (talk) I've added more scientists and their papers to Wikidata, as usual. I attended the #1Pic1Bio online event in Spanish - where User:Ambrosia10 gave a presentation - and added a few BHL images to species pages with Tiago's new tool. In Wikipedia, I created Ourisia coccinea and Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans, Ourisia breviflora, Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora, and Ourisia breviflora subsp. uniflora, in English and Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea, Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans, Ourisia breviflora, and Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora in Spanish Wikipedia too, using the translation tool.
• Arnhemcr: WikiShootMe:Karori has been completed with photos added for the remaining hidden items, thanks to AxonsArachnida for the two of Homewood, I dealt with Samuel Marsden Collegiate and Lang House; WikiShootMe:Mākara shooting items in the village has been completed; Tom Taylor (sculptor) nominated for GA
• Marshelec: Since early 2024, I have supported the New Zealand National Parks project with improvement of articles, with a particular focus on Kahurangi National Park. The size of this article (in words of readable prose) has been expanded from 347 in January 2024 to 4511 words as it stands today. However, I have not done much over the past 12 months, because I have been seeking detailed content about the complex geology and geomorphology of the park. This is crucial to this article, because one of the main reasons for the designaton of the area as a national park is the extraordinarily diverse landforms and habitats in the area that result from its geology and geomorphology. I persuaded a friend of mine who has a background in geology to search for sources, and prepare content on this topic. He has recently given me a substantial piece of work that warrants its own article. I am currently working to "wikify" it, and hope to publish it as a new article within a few weeks. If you want to see how the working version looks at present, see User:Marshelec/sandbox4. I am grateful to my friend and pleased that this will become a useful improvement to the encylopedia. I am also grateful to User:Panamitsu, who has helped with a large amount of "wikifying" of the content in the working draft. I will need to prepare a suitable summary section to go into the main Kahurangi National Park article, with a link to this new article. After the geology content is improved, the Kahurangi National Park article may be a candidate for GA nomination.
• User:Wainuiomartian I have expanded an existing article on Ngauranga and been looking at expanding a few other articles.
• User:Gertrude206 has been wiki gardening and wrote articles on composers Janet Roddick and Michael Norris. Is planning to add the historic band rotundas to articles on relevant towns.
• Noracrentiss (talk) Continuing to work on Orpheus Beaumont. Acknowledged help from User:DrThneed and various library and archives staff.

• Wellington Botanic Garden article was nominated by User:Wainuiomartian for Good Article review and was promoted in March. Congratulations for all that hard work since April 2024 :)

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.

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• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch
  
• A second NZ Species Editathon is under consideration.

• 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.

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