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One of the main points of this meeting is to set up a New Zealand user group; hence Wikipedians outside of Christchurch may have an interest in the meeting, too.

Front of Smash Palace in High Street, Christchurch

Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Time: 6:00 pm onwards
Location: Smash Palace, 172 High St, Christchurch

Venue

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We'll be camped out in a corner of their ground floor room and have a row of tables for us. We can also use their projector and they will provide us with WiFi.

Future meetups

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The NZ Wikipedian at Large is based in Christchurch until 9 June, and then he heads up to Nelson. There is a talk on What Wikipedia Means for Libraries and Archives on Wed 5 June, another talk on the UC campus called From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia, wikidrinks at Space Academy on Friday, 7 June, and the Getting New Zealand Writers into Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Saturday, 8 June: see upcoming events for details.

Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

People

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Attending

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Some of the attendees
  1. Giantflightlessbirds
  2. Schwede66
  3. Podzemnik
  4. CHCBOY
  5. MurielMary

Unable to come

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Plans

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Agenda

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  • Troubleshooting: bring along your Wikipedia problems
  • Update on the NZ Wikipedian at Large project
  • Setting up a NZ Wikipedia User Group: the relatively trivial steps required to get the user group started. Let's do this! Be in touch if you'd like to join remotely (e.g. Skype or online).
  • Upcoming workshop: "How to get NZ Writers into Wikipedia" on Saturday, 8 June; who's coming? Who can help?

Items to be brought

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(Please put your username next to the item if you're bringing it.)

Past Meetups

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Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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Outcomes

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User group

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The attendees have decided to form a user group for New Zealand.

  • Poll Kiwi Wikipedians on what the user group is going to be called (Giantflightlessbird)
  • Wikimedia New Zealand User Group
  • Wikimedians of Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Move once we've agreed on the user group name
  • Make application to Wikimedia Foundation (Giantflightlessbird)
  • Nominate regional contacts and encourage other places to become represented, with the expectation for this co-ordinator to be available to help new users, and to organise an informal meet-up twice a year (Giantflightlessbird)
  • Auckland
  • Wellington - Einebillion and Ambrosia10 are keen to coordinate for Wellington if the community is happy with this.
  • Christchurch – Schwede66
  • Dunedin
  • Create draft logo (Giantflightlessbird)
  • Involve wider community on final logo once we apply to become a chapter (i.e. in two years' time)
  • Register wikimedia.nz (Giantflightlessbird)

Wiki Loves Monuments

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Decided to organise this event for NZ. (Giantflightlessbird plus one other person yet to be decided)