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This Meetup was a takeover by the Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject and consisting of a mini-edit-a-thon on the subject of the Kia Mau Festival.

Wellington Meetup 5 June 2021

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  • Date: Saturday 5 June 2021
  • Time: 10:00 am to midday
  • Location: He Matapihi Molesworth Library at National Library, corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Wellington Come to the main entrance of the National Library on Molesworth Street.
  • Bring: a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue

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The group meet at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library within the National Library. This is a Wellington City Council pop up public library. Drinks are permitted in the library. There is a café next door.

Meetup Code of Conduct

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All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Draft Universal Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.

Future Meetups

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This is a monthly event occurring every four weeks, but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

Join the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand 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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Unable to come

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Agenda and Notes from Meeting

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1. Introduction to meet up by organisers (if there are any newbies joining us)

2. Progress on Action Points and anything that can't be delayed until next meeting

  • In person meet up in Aotearoa 2021 update.
  • Any issues of attendees needing to be addressed?
  • Please look at the schedule for the Auckland WikiCon - there are spaces for presentations on the Sunday if anyone wants to present any workflow or topic of interest.P
  • Letting folk know that there are magazine resources on the Wellington City Library website that may be of use. See this article.
  • Proposed date for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on New Zealand Performing Arts is Saturday 21 August 2021. Further details to be confirmed.

3. Performing Arts Aotearoa Wikiproject[1]: Take over of meeting - Worksheet link

Proposed (updated) run sheet

  • 8am - dashboard begins
  • 9am - coordinator (Lisa) arrive at the library with extra resources - books with bookmarks etc
  • 9am - other keen participants arrive too (get coffee?)
  • 9.15am - start editing on the topic
  • 10.00am - others arrive and the Meet-up starts with a round and other general business including intro to the topic
  • 11.00am - noon - all participants contribute in some way to content on the Kia Mau Festival
  • noon - 1.00pm - editing continues on-site with the resources
  • 1.00pm - de-camp to other locations for anyone who wants to continue (library closes)
  • 3.30pm - video meeting touch base on achievements
  • Midnight - the dashboard finishes

Dashboard link: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Performing_Arts_Aotearoa_Wikiproject/Kia_Mau_Festival_edit-a-thon?enroll=

Project:
Kia Mau Festival Worksheet link
A Māori and Indigenous Peoples theatre festival - been running for a few years and is on in Wellington starting 5th June.

Outcomes - Kia Mau Festival Edit-a-thon

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This mini edit-a-thon on Saturday 5 June was a takeover of an existing Meetup event in Wellington.

Results were tracked over 12 hours tracked with a dashboard:

Articles Created 25 Articles Edited 89 Total Edits 575 Article Views 234
Editors 7 Words Added 57.1K References Added 239 Commons Uploads 8

Articles include Wikidata It was acknowledged by the participants that improvements were time consuming as base information (such as venues or production companies) is also missing

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

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  • 3 July , same time, same place