Wikipedians in Wellington hold regular, informal meetups. At the meetup we usually have some experienced users available to provide advice with joining the Wikipedia platforms, learning editing and uploading new content to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons, and generally improving skills.
This is an informal and social meetup where the goal is to be accessible and friendly to all and to talk about what you are doing or want to do. Ask questions, get some help, or just get editing. The group is committed to providing a safe space. Children are welcome. When we meet in person we aim to meet at disabled-accessible locations that have free wifi, are near a public transport hub, and ideally have publicly accessible computer equipment.
Newbies Complete beginners are welcome. If you want to meet up with a friendly wikipedian before the meetup please contact admin @ wikimedia.nz and Dianne will put you in touch with someone who can help. This is something we are putting in place because we know it can be a bit off putting to walk into a meeting by yourself. A one-on-one meeting with an editor that regularly attends this meeting will mean you'll already have someone you know at the meeting. Alternatively do just pop along. If you are a complete beginner and you need some help on how to sign up and set up your account on Wikipedia before you get to the meetup, check out the first five minutes of this YouTube video. If you want to find out more about the meetup before attending check out the agenda for the next meet up page or leave messages on the talk pages of the Meet Up coordinators Einebillion ( talk) or Ambrosia10 ( talk) and we'll be happy to chat with you and answer your questions.
At the meeting of 15 February 2020 the attendees discussed what could be improved to make these meetups more effective. The decision was more focus on tools, demonstrations of tools and how-to, and a focus on solving the issues attendees were having. The group is very welcoming to new editors and those interested in watching before diving into to editing or adding to any of the Wikiverse platforms.
All attendees are expected to understand and abide by Wikimedia's Universal Code of Conduct.
Video conferencing meetups are a replacement for in-person meetups. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.
Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.
If a new attendee joins the group with video and voice disabled, they will be encouraged to participate by the facilitator, using this script:
If, after an appropriate length of time, the new attendee does not participate by video, voice, or chat, the facilitator of the group will remove the attendee from the video call.
If the new attendee persists in logging in, the group will discuss abandoning the meet up.
Here are a number of useful introductory videos on Wikidata and why it's great. They are ranked by complexity and depth of information.
Videos and other content useful for experienced editors of Wikidata
Videos on Wikidata gadgets
Software tools, including scripts and bots related to maintaining WMF projects, can be hosted on the Wikimedia Toolforge servers. Additional help for developers may be found at wikitech:Help:Toolforge. A complete listing of tools can be found at Toolforge:admin/tools, and a more detailed list of some of them at toolforge:hay/directory. see also https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toolforge_tools
Here's a useful video demonstrating how to use the Mix'n'Match tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9ZvwYCNnQ&t=446s
To make all the other possible mix'n'match authority control id suggestions appear at the top of a Wikidata record
importScript( 'User:Magnus_Manske/mixnmatch_gadget.js' );
Tool to create items following certain templates
Jon ( talk) has been fiddling with maps a little bit and has learned a few things about using Open Street Map data.
For a nifty zoomable Open Street Map, we can use the {{
mapframe}} template. For a map in an infobox for towns, locations, buildings and the like (any infobox that has a map
parameter), use the special {{
infobox mapframe}} template. At their simplest, they take a coord
parameter (use the {{
coord}} template for the value), and a zoom
parameter, which you can tweak to suit. For instance, the infobox in the article for the
Harbour View suburb of Lower Hutt contains the following:
map = {{infobox mapframe | coord = {{coord|41|12|07|S|174|53|56|E}} | zoom = 14}}
But these two templates and their various siblings are very powerful - it's worth reading their documentation for more advanced use. For instance, instead of guessing an arbitrary zoom number, you can instead specify the object's size with length_km
or area_km2
and it will figure it out for you. Instead of coordinates, you can specify a Wikidata item with id
, as long as it has geodata properties (coordinates, geoshape, or OSM relation). For an example, see
Transmission Gully Motorway.
{{post-nominals | country = NZL | CNZM | OBE | size = 85%}}
{{copy-edit}}
to the top of the article.If you have and use IRC, join #wpwellington on freenode. Otherwise pop along to webchat.freenode.net and choose a username (you may need to tell it you're not a robot). Once in, at the bottom is the bit where you can type messages. Type this to join the #wpwellington chat room:
/join #wpwellington