Wikipedia:Meetup/Christchurch/2
One of the main points of this meeting is to set up a New Zealand user group; hence Wikipedians outside of Christchurch may have an interest in the meeting, too.
![Front of Smash Palace in High Street, Christchurch](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Smash_Palace_109.jpg/300px-Smash_Palace_109.jpg)
Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Time: 6:00 pm onwards
Location: Smash Palace, 172 High St, Christchurch
Venue
We'll be camped out in a corner of their ground floor room and have a row of tables for us. We can also use their projector and they will provide us with WiFi.
Future meetups
The NZ Wikipedian at Large is based in Christchurch until 9 June, and then he heads up to Nelson. There is a talk on What Wikipedia Means for Libraries and Archives on Wed 5 June, another talk on the UC campus called From Popper to Ruby Jones: image copyrights in the age of Wikipedia, wikidrinks at Space Academy on Friday, 7 June, and the Getting New Zealand Writers into Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Saturday, 8 June: see upcoming events for details.
Sign up to the NZ Wikipedia mailing list or join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group to be kept informed. Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.
People
Attending
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Christchurch_Meetup_2.jpg/220px-Christchurch_Meetup_2.jpg)
Unable to come
Plans
Agenda
- Troubleshooting: bring along your Wikipedia problems
- Update on the NZ Wikipedian at Large project
- Setting up a NZ Wikipedia User Group: the relatively trivial steps required to get the user group started. Let's do this! Be in touch if you'd like to join remotely (e.g. Skype or online).
- Upcoming workshop: "How to get NZ Writers into Wikipedia" on Saturday, 8 June; who's coming? Who can help?
Items to be brought
(Please put your username next to the item if you're bringing it.)
- Camera for some nice group portraits: Giantflightlessbirds
Past Meetups
- The previous Christchurch meetup – 26 Jun 2016
- Get NZ Artists Online – talk on 14 May, workshop on 19 May 2019
Next meeting and Meetup timetables
- Wikidrinks, 7 June 2019, 5:00pm onwards (no need to be punctual!), Space Academy, 371 St Asaph St (Facebook)
- See Wikipedian at Large Upcoming Events for the other Christchurch happenings
Outcomes
User group
The attendees have decided to form a user group for New Zealand.
- Poll Kiwi Wikipedians on what the user group is going to be called (Giantflightlessbird)
- Wikimedia New Zealand User Group
- Wikimedians of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Create draft page in space that we've already got (Podzemnik)
- Move once we've agreed on the user group name
- Make application to Wikimedia Foundation (Giantflightlessbird)
- Nominate regional contacts and encourage other places to become represented, with the expectation for this co-ordinator to be available to help new users, and to organise an informal meet-up twice a year (Giantflightlessbird)
- Auckland
- Wellington - Einebillion and Ambrosia10 are keen to coordinate for Wellington if the community is happy with this.
- Christchurch – Schwede66
- Dunedin
- Create draft logo (Giantflightlessbird)
- Involve wider community on final logo once we apply to become a chapter (i.e. in two years' time)
- Register wikimedia.nz (Giantflightlessbird)
Wiki Loves Monuments
Decided to organise this event for NZ. (Giantflightlessbird plus one other person yet to be decided)