Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
	; New Zealand
Location	New Zealand
Country code	NZ
Approval date	17 December 2019
Official language(s)	English, Māori
Affiliations	ESEAP

Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand, known informally as Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, Wikimedia Aotearoa, or WANZ, is a user group of Wikimedians who are interested in organising and participating in outreach activities in New Zealand.

How to joinEdit

Our membership is open to everyone. If you wish to join Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand, simply put your name in the Members section below. We also recommend people join our FB group where we discuss current issues around Wikimedia projects in relation to Aotearoa and share editing tools and ideas. You're welcome to come along to one of our regular meetups as well.

MembersEdit

Add your User name to the list by adding an asterisk and four tildes like this: * ~~~~

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Our Vision and MissionEdit

We are invested in the vision of the Wikimedia Foundation: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That’s our commitment.

Our kaupapa | mission is:

To support the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission in New Zealand: To empower and engage people to collect and develop educational content under a free licence, so it can be shared and reused freely for any purpose
To represent the New Zealand contributors to Wikimedia projects
To provide qualified support to our members and the public
To empower our members and support their activities
To develop and maintain long-lasting supportive relationships with New Zealand institutions that share the same or similar goals

The Strategy of the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated 2022 - 2025Edit

The Committee of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand have developed a strategy and incorporated feedback from members of the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand that are New Zealanders or residents of Pacific islands without an established chapter. The final and accepted strategy can be read using this Google docs link.

2022/23 Top Priority: IncorporationEdit

The User group recognised that incorporation was needed to establish a formal organisation so that we can apply for and receive significant grants to recruit editors and organisers, and promote and support the development of content on Wikimedia Foundation platforms. We need funding to support our activities and increase participation by New Zealand residents and those associated with our country. User Group members created a Wikimeida Aotearoa New Zealand Establishment Working Group (WEWG), wrote a [draft constitition], and held a community meeting to approve establishing Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated ("WANZ Inc") as an Incorporated Society, approve registering the incorporated society as a charitable entity, and elect a committee. The meeting was held on Thursday 17 March 2022.

The committee is:

President Einebillion (Victoria Leachman)
Vice-President Giantflightlessbirds (Mike Dickison)
Treasurer Marshelec (Marshall Clark)
Secretary Noracrentiss (Christine Richardson)
Committee member MurielMary
Committee member Schwede66
Committee member Pakoire

Contact information for the Committee: secretary[at]wikimedia.nz

ProgressEdit

The WANZ Committee commit to:

gathering 15 signatures for the application for incorporation - completed
submitting the application to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies - completed

The incorporation of WANZ was approved by the New Zealand Companies Office on 7 April 2022. The constitution is available as a pdf on this website.

assembling an application for Wikimedia Foundation funding for the April 2022 round to enable the Society to provide funding for outreach activites and administration purposes - completed

The User Group was successful in seeking a General Support grant from Wikimedia Foundation for operational funds and was allocated funds totalling $NZ 45,754.35 for 2022/23.

applying for registration as a charity with Charities Services - completed

The Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated society was registered as a charity in New Zealand on 21 April 2022.

establishing a bank account for the incorporated society and transferring funds - completed
applying for an IRD number with Inland Revenue - completed
working with WMF on next steps for organisational name change - progressing
reviewing and endorsing a set of Standard Operating Procedures. These SOPs will cover the everyday running of WANZ including things like Role Descriptions for Committee Members, a committment to open and transparent record keeping, comms platform selection etc. - progressing
holding an AGM in April 2023 - completed

What will be the entitlements and obligations of being a Member of WANZ Inc?Edit

Entitlements: Members of WANZ Inc can

stand for election to the Committee
vote at the AGM

Obligations:

Members must pay an annual membership fee (determined at the AGM) in order to retain their entitlements as a member. Members can resign their membership at any time.

2022 funding applicationsEdit

Rapid Fund funding application for March 2022Edit

WANZ sought and was granted rapid grant funding to allow the new board of the incorporated society Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to run an in person facilitated strategy weekend. The strategy weekend occurred on the weekend of 28/29 May 2022 and was very successful.

General Fund funding application for April 2022Edit

WANZ sought and was granted general support funding for the period June 2022 to June 2023

A mid year (due 15 Jan 2023) and end of year report (due 31 July 2023) must be drafted and submitted in the Fluxx Wikimedia Foundation Funds Portal detailing activities, metrics and budget spend. The report must refer to the activities documented in the inital application.

2023 funding applicationsEdit

General Fund funding application for April 2023Edit

WANZ is seeking general support funding for our affiliate for the period July 2023 to June 2026. This is the application page.

Annual Activity Reports, other reporting, other links to useful documentationEdit

WANZ also reports in the Wiki-GLAM newsletter and in Diff blog posts

2023 Current Annual Report in DraftEdit

DRAFT Annual report for 2023

The WANZ Annual Activity Reports cover the calendar year from January to December. User Group members are encouraged to contribute to the report through the reporting year. Reports must be completed annually and lodged in the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal page in January of each year to ensure the group can retain its User Group status. In 2023 there will be a discussion in the committee about aligning financial reporting with our broader activity reporting.

Past Annual ReportsEdit

Wikimedia Foundation Conferences and Events ReportsEdit

Report for ESEAP 2022

Where we meetEdit

There are regular meetings around New Zealand including in Wellington, Christchurch, Ara Institute of Canterbury City Campus and online. There are irregular meetings in other cities across the country too.

For more information, please see the relevant pages on English Wikipedia:

Upcoming eventsEdit

Wellington WikiCon 2023 Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 March 2023

Priorities updated for 2022Edit

Consolidate our communication channels into an email database.

An email database has been collated by Giantflightlessbirds. Please contact Giantflightlessbirds to be added to this mailing list to receive a regular User Group newsletter.Einebillion (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A 15 minute timeslot at the Aotearoa Online Meetup has been reserved to discuss User Group business.Einebillion (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Keep organising editathons in Wellington, monthly meetings in Christchurch and provide support for our Auckland editors to start regular meetings in our biggest city.

Established and regular meetups are occurring online and in Wellington, Christchurch and the West Coast. As at 9 April 2022 Auckland is holding it's first meeting after a COVID hiatus.

Run and document activities for 2–3 years

See section on annual reporting

Set up a legal structure

Options described here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KyR_-c02d8UfcMFvxPJkp1u4QKSHWJ2H/view?usp=sharing

Members discussed the proposal to incorporate at the 2021 WikiCons and during the Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetups and agreed that incorporation and registration as a Charity was the priority for 2022.

The advances we've made on creating an incorporated society is detailed in this section.

Apply for funding from Wikimedia Foundation that would allow us to cover our running costs including traveling to different cities for appropriate events like book festivals and library conferences where we’d like to promote Wikimedia's projects and WMF mission in New Zealand.

This group has successfully applied for Rapid Grant funding bids for the 2021 WikiCons and project funding bids have been submitted by individual members of this group.

The user group is seeking administrative funding for the period June 2022 to December 2023 from the General Grant Fund. See draft application This funding is intended to pay for costs of administering and advancing the organisation and incorporation of the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand incorporated society.

Find and connect with more active members within the local community
We'd also like to reach out to users of te reo Māori and encourage the revitalisation of Wikipedia Māori
Eventually, we'd like to create a regular chapter that would serve not only contributors from New Zealand but the whole South Pacific including Niue, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tonga or Fiji. New Zealand has strong ties with the Pacific Islands and it’s widely seen as the main center of the Southern Pacific with large Pacific Island populations living in New Zealand. We'd like our chapter to be no different. This is a big vision for us and we know we have a long way to go, but as editors who have been involved with Wikimedia’s movement for many years, we have learned that with patience and hard, consistent work we can reach our goals.

Primary contactsEdit

Process DocumentsEdit

Event Management Information

Useful linksEdit

Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand on English Wikipedia
Wikimedia User Groups Requirements

Affiliations Committee resolutionsEdit

Recognition of Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand

HistoryEdit

There was an attempt to create a local chapter around 2006. One of the goals that drove the formation of this group was to renew a discussion about creating a chapter in the future. Before we can make a chapter, we need to have run a User Group with a range of well-documented activities for two years, so establishing this group was the first step.

From June 2018 to June 2019 Mike Dickison ran activities as the New Zealand Wikipedian at Large. Mike was keen to see a user group start, and created a mailing list of potential members.

A Wellington physical meetup was established which went online during the first New Zealand COVID lockdown. This resulted in more coordinated communication across New Zealand and an increase in participation in User Group activities.

The user group was formally recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation on 17 December 2019.

2021 prioritiesEdit

The Wikimedia Foundation has asked the User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand to identify which of the movement's strategy recommendations are our priorities for implementation in 2021 and what ideas from the Movement Strategy recommendations respond to our needs and will have an impact in the movement. The aim of prioritization is to create an 18-month implementation plan to take some of the initiatives forward starting in 2021. The 10 recommendations are described here

The attendees of the Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup 4 decided on

Improve User Experience
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Provide for Safety and Inclusion.

2021 conference / training / GLAM outreach and inclusion eventsEdit

In October 2020 the User group started work on developing a forward program of weekend events for 2021. The organising committee are:

There are three WikiCon weekends being planned for 2021. The locations are Hokitika in 19-21 March, Auckland in 16-18 July and Wellington in November. For further information please see the WikiCon pages.