Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin/Toolcamp

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Dunedin ToolCamp

This weekend meetup in Dunedin, New Zealand, is a place to explore the tools, often volunteer-created, that help us edit Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata. It is a hands-on group event, not a series of presentations. Participants will be expected to install and test multiple new tools, pick one or more for improved documentation, collaborate on a "How To" guide or checklist, and try recording an instructional video. There will be help provided for all these steps, but attendees will expected to have some experience editing with Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata.

When and where

Skinner Annex, cnr Great King St and Albany St

• Date: Saturday and Sunday 17–18 June 2023 We're postponing this event until 2024, dates to be confirmed.
• Time: 09:30–16:00 Saturday, 09:0–14:00 Sunday
• In-person venue: Conservatory, H.D. Skinner Annex, 361 Great King Street North, Dunedin (to confirm—alternate venue if required will be nearby)

We'll be monitoring CO₂ levels, and mask wearing will be strongly encouraged. The downstairs room in the Skinner Annex has French doors and can be well-ventilated.

Timetable

Saturday

• 09.30 — Introductions
• 10:00 – Keynote presentation from Siobhan Leachman (Ambrosia10): "Wikipedia and WikiCommons Tools"
• 11:00 – Discussion and testing tools
• 12.00 — Lunchtime: Museum cafe
• 13:00 – Keynote presentation from Tamsin Briasher (DrThneed): "Wikidata Tools"
• 13:30 – Discussion, installing, and testing tools
• 15.30 — Wrap-up meeting to plan documentation and training project

Sunday

• 09.30 — How to Make a Screenshare Training Video by Tamsin Braisher
• 10:00 – Testing screenshare capturing
• 12.00 — Lunchtime: Museum cafe
• 13:00 – Documentation assembly and editing, video posting
• 13.30 — Wrap-up meeting

To attend

This is an in-person only event, free and open to all. If you're planning on attending the all-weekend Dunedin ToolCamp, register using LilRegie (so we can plan for numbers and organise transportation): (to come)

The focus of the event will be installing and testing the suite of tools Tamsin and Siobhan show us, creating better documentation for them, and recording short screen-sharing video tutorials. The event will appeal to editors who are already experienced users of Wikipedia, Commons, and Wikidata, and who may already have experimented with turning on different preferences and editing their common.js pages. Anyone with experience in technical writing, documentation, IT training, or video and sound editing is very welcome.

Attendees

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• DrThneed (talk)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk)
• David Nind (talk)

Funding

There will likely be some funding available from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to help with transportation for those coming from outside Dunedin.

Otherwise this is a low-budget event: you will organise your own accommodation (the organisers might be able to help), lunch will not be catered.

Useful links

General

• The ToolCamp will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Code of Conduct for the Wikimedia Movement.
• The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and getting started.