Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 29 February 2020

Wellington Meetup 29 February 2020

• Date: Saturday 29 February 2020
• 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.
• Cost: Free
• Bring: a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop.

Venue

User:Einebillion The group meet at the He Matapihi Molesworth Library within the National Library. This is a Wellington City Council pop up public library. It was formerly The National Library net.work space. Drinks are permitted in the library.

Future Meetups

This is a fortnightly event but double check the Wikipedia:Wellington Meetup page to confirm.

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People

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Attending

1. Einebillion (talk)
2. Ambrosia10 (talk) 21:25, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
3. Gertrude206
4. David Nind
5. Quilt Phase (talk) 19:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
6. Pakoire

Agenda

Last meeting the attendees discussed what could be improved to make the meetups more effective. The decision was more focus on tools and demonstrations of tools. Please bring a data set with you to practice the quick statements tool to add data into Wikidata.

Einebillion (talk) has approached Wellington City Council Library staff and they have agreed the group can use the large screen TV above the magazine high table for demonstrations. The librarians will provide a cable so laptops can connect to the TV. Ask for the cable at the Librarian desk.

• Introduction to meet up by organisers
• Round table for participants to say what you’re working on and if you need help with anything - bring along your Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia problems
• News - the release of 2.8 million images by the Smithsonian under a CC0 license.
• Demonstration of Quick Statements tool
• Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes

• Feel free to comment on my request for open data from the NZ Film Commission Quilt Phase (talk) 21:08, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
• Video of Siobhan's keynote presentation to VALA Library conference. You may have to sign in to the website to get access - VALA Presentation
• Einebillion (talk) demonstrated the workflow she has developed for getting data into Wikidata via quick statements. The workflow is:

1. Get dataset and add into Google sheets
2. Mind map the wikidata properties I want to add to wikidata. It's helpful to review an example of a Q item that is well populated to work out your template "best practice"
3. Go to Mix n' Match and enter value to see if Q item is already available on Wikidata and to add identifiers
4. Either find or create a Q value for the item
5. Add Q value to column in the google sheet dataset
6. Add columns into the spreadsheet for the properties you want to populate in wikidata
7. Then tidy / add data to the spreadsheets so there are values for the properties you've identified
8. Then review the data and use Quick Statements tool to add that data
9. Helpful information can be found in the links below - these are also available on the main wellington meetup page.

• Mass edits on Wikidata - how to use Google spreadsheets and Quickstatements (9:42)
• Asaf Bartov's Beyond the Basics presentation to New Zealand wikidata editors

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 14 March, same time, same place