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Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/16

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An opportunity for Wiki people (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia etc) to get together. Everybody's welcome, new or experienced.

Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020 (postponed by a week)
Time: 7pm onwards
Location: Welles Street, 44 Welles Street, Christchurch CBD

Venue

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Welles Street at 44 Welles Street; there is free WiFi. Table booked for 7pm.

Attendees

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  • Some non-WP creative writing, plus created an article on artist Patricia France
  • Review of draft articles
  • Women in Red work
  • Agreed to have another workshop at the Christchurch Art Gallery next year (aim for Feb 2021)
  • Has worked with Dodd-Walls Centre for the last couple of weeks (described as a "Wikipedian on retainer"): sorting image permissions; taught staff how to write WP articles; worked on some bios of the researchers; uploaded physics graphics; ORCID IDs for staff; getting staff and research onto Wikidata
  • Produced final report for West Coast project this week

Agenda items

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  • The list of items in the category is auto generated
  • Only Wikipedia allows uploads of non-free material; discussed what the process is of sorting this out.

Outcomes

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  • Generated some ideas for the conference:
  • How to archive user talk page
  • How to create edit notice (e.g. for a personal talk page)
  • Request for Schwede to present on DYK
  • Request for MurielMary to present on homepage content (On this day; In the News; Recent deaths)
  • How to use HotCat
  • "How do I write" – Herewhy would like to talk about that, in an interactive discussion
  • The process of finding topics to write about
  • What's a sandbox good for?
  • Ratso offered to present to Wikidata queries
  • Much jolliness was expressed about the new Wikipedian. Congratulations, Podzemnik!

Next event/keeping in touch

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