Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 4

Date: Saturday, 11 October 2008
Time: 1 - 4 pm
Location: - Galbraith's, Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

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Attended

1. SimonLyall
2. gadfium
3. Richard001 (talk)
4. Onco_p53 (talk)
5. HowiAuckland (talk)

• Due to some problems with publicity and a couple of late cancellations we only had 5 attendees this time. However we had a good amount of discussion.

Discussion

• The geonotice did not work, it appears the maintainer of this service is no longer active.
• Talk about restarting the
  Wikipedia:New Zealand Collaboration of the Fortnight
  , perhaps on a monthly basis

• Some need to tidy the Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand page.
  • Answer questions people have
  • Provide HOWTO ( Step by Step ) and suggest 10 minute or 2 hour projects
    • Create requested articles
    • Assessments
    • Find photos in Flickr
  • Approach people to write articles or provide background information to base articles on
  • most of the above are not hard just, need somebody with time and inclination.

• Requested photos
  • Create subcats for NZ photos
• Need more assessment of articles
• Lots of missing photos, Some success reported searching flickr and sending authors their requests.
• Some general articles that cross areas missing ( "sustainability in New Zealand" )
• Next meeting could perhaps be a copy of "wikis take Manhattan" with groups across Auckland ( and perhaps other centers) taking photos ( and other media) and uploading it to Wikipedia, followed by meeting. Suggested date is February 2009 to take advantage of summer weather.

• …Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 1 - 26 June 2006
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 - 10 February 2007
• Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 3 - 11 August 2007

Next meeting and Meetup timetables

• Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 5 - 9 May 2010