• Date: Saturday 15 March 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.

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• Stitchbird2 (talk)
• Noracrentiss (talk)
• Einebillion (talk)
• Jon (talk)
• Gertrude206 (talk)
• Kiwichris (talk)
• AxonsArachnida (talk)
• Ambrosia10 (talk)
• Pakoire
• Richlitt
• Marshelec (talk)
• Wainuiomartian
• Avocadobabygirl (talk)
• CrawfordRoll - new editor!

• Arnhemcr (talk) - unwell

General welcome to any new folk who join us.

• Encouraging the editors and organisers to contribute to the draft community report for the year. Einebillion has done a big edit and it's got a comprehensive overview of achievements to date. If there's anything missing be bold and dive in

• Committee have completed an in-person business planning day in February. Einebillion and Dianne have used this information to draft the 2025/26 business plan and budget for the Year 3 grant application to Wikimedia Foundation. Submitted it on Friday. Information is being updated on the WANZ meta page.

• WANZ continues to seek Chapter status. (We are currently a user group). This is progressing with the application on the agenda for the next WMF affiliates committee meeting.

• Einebillion is travelling to Europe for 6 months. Pakoire, Vice President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Soc. Inc. will be taking of the presidental duties during Einebillion's abscence.

• Despite many other commitments, Marshall managed to keep up with requirements as the Treasurer of WANZ. The Annual Performance Report 2024 is almost finished and will be ready for the upcoming Annual General Meeting.

User:Paora at that meet up pointed out that Te Raukura was recently nominated for deletion. This has been rejected but the article on this Wellington landmark needs work, and is in particular need of citations! Ambrosia10 has added one but if anyone is interested please add citations and reference to this article.

• Stitchbird2 (talk) User:Ambrosia10 and I have published an article in the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Newsletter called, Ten online contributions you can make right now to the biodiversity and openscience communities, from easy to advanced. It's aim is to get some of the 1000+ members of the NZPCN to take actions on iNaturalist, Bionomica, ORCiD, and of course the Wiki platforms in the biodiversity space. I've added more scientists and their papers to Wikidata, as usual, and have added all 52 Flora of New Zealand Mosses fascicles, which now completes all 98 Flora of New Zealand fascicles published 2014-2024 including all 9 Seed Plant and 37 Fern fascicles (see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Q124683035&limit=500). In Wikipedia I created Ourisia coccinea and Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea in English and Ourisia coccinea in Spanish Wikipedia too, using the translation tool. Plus adding some amazing iNaturalist photos to Commons from a user who recently visited Poor Knights Islands, and adding 26 of my own images from Pasifika Festival 2025 in Auckland, especially of the Tuvalu stage.
• Arnhemcr (talk) I've finished Tom Taylor (sculptor) and started on WikiShootMe:Mākara.
• Ambrosia10 (talk) I've been working with Stitchbird2 and two other colleagues on our Annals of Botany article which hopefully will be submitted by MONDAY!

I've also been doing a lot of Biodiversity Heritage Library edits, particularly adding Structured Data on Commons edits to BHL images in Wikimedia Commons and then adding those images to appropriate Wikidata items and Wikipedia articles. I've also been adding the BHL author template to various articles. I've been working on the mix'n'match BHL creator id dataset. More info on the Wikimedia in Residence see. There will be three upcoming events in South America as a part of the BHL Wikimedian in Residence position and I've been asked to do a short presentation at each of these on BHL. I've also been working on two presentations I may be giving in person in Berlin, Germany (or more likely virtually if the US Govt shutdown goes ahead) on the BHL-Wiki Working Group annual report to the BHL Annual Meeting as well as a presentation for BHL Day on the use of BHL content for our WikiProject Research Expeditions/TDWG research expeditions working group.

The paper I've co-written on the "Hidden Figures" course which includes a module on Wikidata has been submitted to the Natural Sciences Education journal. Hopefully we'll receive feedback on whether this has been accepted soon.

I've been doing a LOT of improvements to NZ endemic moth articles in the genus Harmologa (still a work in progress) and managed to expand to the best of my ability ALL NZ endemic moth articles in the genus Epichorista.

• Einebillion Admin, Admin, Admin. Who wants to take over creating new event pages for the meetup while I'm away? OpenRefine historic dataset for NZ photographers into Wikidata. Finish off historic NZ photographers Lisa's book Te Papa press - women photographers.
• Jon (talk) — Reviewing Wellington Botanic Garden for GA, minor gardening and reference-rescuing with Internet Archive Bot, and went down a contrabass ophicleide musical instrument rabbit hole. Sort-of-nearly finished an English translation of a French serpent method on WikiSource, while narrowly avoiding being eaten by a grue. If you have a Phabricator account, and care about music notation, can you pretty please add your +1 to ticket T49578 (and/or its sub, T385404) so my 3yo fix to a 12yo request for SVG output can get deployed, thanks!
• Pakoire planning a Wikipedia drop-in space in June or July this year in Wellington in collaboration with the Urban Dream Brokerage community arts spaces. Welcome feedback. Getting draft articles into main space example the secondary schools kapa haka competition article: Ngā Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua o Aotearoa
• Gertrude206 created pages for orchestra conductor Juan Matteucci and Eden Hore, farmer and collector of NZ designer fashion from the '70s and '80s. A book has just been published about his collection.
• Noracrentiss has been drafting an article about Orpheus Beaumont, New Zealand inventor of the Salvus Life jacket in the 1900s.
• Kiwichris - has been on holiday so hasn't been doing much. Has created an article on Chris Seed who took over from Phil Gough. Started off as a Stub article but has been expanded since then. Has a question reagarding previously rejected/unsuccessful "Requested move" requests. It was suggested he reach out to Schwede66 for advice.
• AxonsArachnida (User talk:AxonsArachnida|talk]]) I'm back from my various PhD fieldwork trips (I was gone almost all of January) and am getting back into Wikipedia. My main project continues to be creating basic articles for all of New Zealand's spider species. By my estimate I've got about 167 articles remaining, which I'm hoping to complete before the month is over. I've become addicted to WikiShootMe and have been spending a bit of time clearing out red dots from the map. I want to more fully clear out sections of the map but have stopped myself for a couple of reasons. Firstly I'm not sure if it would actually be useful for me to photograph every hotel/motel and school (which seems to be a large chunk of WikiShootMe). I'm also not sure if it would be a good idea to shoot places like Māori Urupā as I'm not sure if that would be culturally insensitive or not. Similar to this, I'm unclear whether it would be fine to take pictures of a historically significant private residence, as I imagine most homeowners would be uncomfortable with that. I'm contemplating projects to take on after my wiki spiders are done. I'm leaning towards getting various NZ insects/spiders up to "Great Article" status as I've seen a few species here and there that I think would be great candidates for this. I might also try going through all the species on iNaturalist and uploading representative images to wikicommons for all species they have.
• Marshelec has been over-committed with volunteer support of track and field athletics in the past 6 weeks, and has not done much on Wikipedia apart from some work on expanding a draft article about Puhi Peaks, a high country station in the Seaward Kaikōura Ranges that has a bush reserve area and also hosts an eco-tourism venture.
• Wainuiomartian has expanded an existing article about Courtenay Place, Wellington and is currently working on a new article for organ builder Arthur Hobday.
• Richlitt has been working on a few things: Continuing to make a Wikipedia article a day for species seen in the Wellington Botanical Society Summer Camp that don't have articles yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Richlitt/Wellington_BotSoc_Summer_Camp_2025_List; I made copies of the Huia call for its page using my own whistles, but I'm not sure about the copyright for it; I managed to get photos for Gordons Knob; and I've been doing a lot of OpenRefine thanks to my grant from WANZ, which has been useful for my thesis. I have mainly focused on reviewing 33k bird names for Avilist, and also editing 35k records for the Royal Naval Birdwatching Society.

• Wellington Botanic Garden article has been nominated for Good Article status by User:Wainuiomartian. Article has been changed following review and is awaiting reviewer's further comments.
• Does someone want to GA review Soprillo? It's really short! 😀 Jon (talk) 03:41, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• 2025 March 15 Wiki101 Edit-a-thon, Auckland
• 2025 April 6 New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject and Edit-a-thon, Auckland
• 16–18 May 2025 Aotearoa WikiCon 2025 Christchurch
• 2025 May 23-25 Wikimedia Strategy Summit] - Dianne is going to represent WANZ.

• 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.

• The book, "Inside Wikipedia: How it works and how you can be an editor" by Paul A. Thomas (2022) is now at the Wellington Public Library, and was passed around the table. It is also available on ResearchGate and you can get the pdf by asking the author for it here
• 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.

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