Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Meetup 15 February 2020

Wellington Meetup 15 February 2020

• Date: Saturday 15 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. David Nind (talk)
3. Quilt Phase (talk)
4. slow_djinn (talk)

Unable to come

1. Ambrosia10 (talk) 03:23, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
2. Gertrude206
3. Pakoire (talk) 20:39, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
4. Noracrentiss

Agenda

• 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
• Highlighted research resource Library Carpentry, course information on tidying up messy data and has information on wikidata
• Get on with problem solving, editing, and chatting

Outcomes

• Discussion of the group determined that "Resource of the week" would be better spent talking about "Tool of the week" particularly focused on Wikidata tools. The decision of the group is to do a show and tell and then practice.
• Action Point for next meeting: each member will bring a spreadsheet (small or large) to practice Quick Statements - bulk uploading of data to Wikidata and Tabernacle - editing of sets of data live to Wikidata
• Action Point for the following meeting: Each member come to the group with resources to learn Open Refine - a tool for working with messy data
• Quilt Phase (talk) completed a show and tell of the New Zealand Film Commission dataset he is working on in Open Refine with the goal of importing this dataset into Wikidata. He talked through his work process with Open Refine. He noted that one of the pieces of information he was using was from a PDF - he used the Tabula app - a product that extracts the data from tables in a PDF to get the information into a spreadsheet format. Einebillion (talk) noted that any New Zealand Government agency datasets can be requested from the Data.Govt.NZ service who will liaise with the government agency to help release the dataset in an openly licensed and reusable format. The data set in Wikidata was started by using [Mix 'n Match] to create Wikidata Q items for New Zealand feature films using the [NZ On Screen] ID. Once these Wikidata Q numbers were created, Quilt Phase (talk can now add the additional information to Q item.

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• 29 February, same time, same place