Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 26

Auckland Meetup #26 – Saturday 24 August 2024

New Lynn War Memorial Library

• Date: Saturday 24 August 2024
• Time: 10:00 am to midday
• Location: Meeting Room, New Lynn War Memorial Library, 3 Memorial Drive, New Lynn, Auckland
• Bring a laptop if you have one. There are publicly available computers if you don't have a laptop, but they are located elsewhere in the library.

Venue

The group will meet in the Meeting Room located on the ground floor of New Lynn War Memorial Library. Please ensure that the room is left how we found it including table and chair locations.

The library is a one-minute walk from New Lynn train station and the New Lynn Transport Interchange, served by trains on the Western Line, and numerous bus routes (14, 18, 22N, 24B, 24R, 68, 149, 152, 154, 161, 162, 170, 171, 172, 186, 195, 191, and 670).

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The meetup

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Attending

• Prosperosity (talk)
• Paora (talk)
• B. Jankuloski (talk)
• Dactylantha (talk)

Apologies / unable to come

• Beeswaxcandle (talk)

Agenda and notes from meetup

1. Introduction to meetup by organisers

• General welcome and introductions

3. Discussion of possible collaborative projects and future events

Discussion from B. Jankuloski about new subreferencing tool https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing.

Conversation amongst the wider group about opportunities for enriching information about Maraes in Auckland. Dactylantha to look through https://infocouncil.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/Open/2019/09/WTK_20190926_AGN_8256_AT_files/WTK_20190926_AGN_8256_AT_Attachment_71594_2.PDF and see opportunities for adding material relating to Parawai Pa and Waiti Village. Discussion from Paora about Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae, and intention to add to existing page about Lyonel Grant, master carver associated with the design of the Whakairo in the marae.

B. Jankuloski had an interesting conversation about wikipedia expeditions/road trips - travelling with a photographer to smaller towns and making use of local resources to enrich material relating to less documented townships and settlements.

Dactylantha is going to read Shimmersea: A Memoir, by Mary Woodward and add some pages / Wikidata items for Mary D. Woodward and her other associated literary works (Waitākere's West Coasters, The Piha story, The Bethells of Te Henga, The landscape of my heart: the Bethells and their neighbors, Before the white man, The Woodward story).

4. Requests for edits

• New Lynn Community Centre (Q117452647) (+ associated sculptures)
• New Lynn Stags
• Olympic Park (Q120176232) (+ Olympic Park sculpture trail, Lynrey Gymnasium, EcoMatters Environment Trust, Bay Olympic)

Outcomes

Next Auckland meetup

• 21 September 2024