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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Community Activity Report July 2023 to June 2024

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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated Society (WANZ)

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The Committee of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated Society (WANZ) continues to recruit members. The Membership Policy states that only natural persons can become members of WANZ and that organisations cannot. Annual membership fees were set at $NZ5 (GST inclusive).

Following the AGM in May, the committee consists of:

Noracrentiss (talk · contribs) and Giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs) decided not to stand for re-election. Noracrentiss (talk · contribs) provided excellent service as secretary and continues to assist with the application for Chapter status. Giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs) has returned to Wikimedian in residence work. Both remain valued members of our community and we thank them for the efforts they've put into the administration of the affiliate.

We have an Executive Advisor, Dianne Skelton who assists the committee.

WMF Funding

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The User Group received a General support grant from ESEAP / Wikimedia Foundation. This funding supported activities during the period of this report.

Some individual editors have received in–kind support such as fee waivers for conference attendance by conference organisers.

Organisational development

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During 2023/24 the committee:

  • approved the grant making policy and application form in July 2023
  • completed the recruitment of an Executive Advisor to assist the committee on 29 August 2023
  • advertised for requests for proposals for the Wikimedian at Large opportunity in July 2023 and awarded the grant.
  • reviewed and updated the financial management policy in July 2023
  • selected and implemented Xero as the accounting software for WANZ with the support of an accounting firm in August 2023
  • published a regularly updated register of grants made by WANZ on the WANZ meta page.
  • approved the Committee workstream lead role description. This role description will permit clear communication with committee delegations to those taking up certain workstreams for the Committee. example Grant Making Workstream Lead October 2023
  • completed the review of the agreement on how the committee will work together in October 2023.
  • reviewed the WANZ long term strategy in October 2023, circulated for community feedback in November and December, and approved by the committee in February 2024.
  • opened a Meetup.com account to assist with communicating upcoming events to the public in October 2023
  • revisited the WANZ logo design with a design firm and updated the logo.
  • designed and purchased 3 pull up banners for events advertising.
  • launched the WANZ website on 22 December 2023
  • recruited two new committee members in December 2023
Kowhaiarewhana
Kowhaiarewhana is a multidisciplinary artist, Pasifika advocate and independent researcher of Niuean (Alofi, Hikutavake), Tahitian, Māori (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi), Italian and Hungarian descent. She began editing Wikipedia when she was involved in the Creative New Zealand Wikipedian in Residence project led by Pakoire in 2022. Kowhaiarewhana administers the talawiki website, presented at the World of Wikipedia event in Sydney in 2023, and was a performer and attendee at Wikimania 2023 Singapore.
Avocadobabygirl
Avocadobabygirl is the Digital Outreach Manager for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She has developed tools and workflows to share Te Papa’s collections, data, and research on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. She works with Te Papa’s curators and content creators to encourage them to engage with Wikimedia projects as outreach channels for specialist subject knowledge. With Stitchbird2, she runs a regular staff lunchtime Wikipedia meetup. Avocadobabygirl was a presenter at Wikimania Singapore and is a regular attendee to the Wellington meet-up.
  • recruited communications adviser on retainer to assist with events communication plans in January 2024
  • organised supply of swag for events in 2024
  • began work on establishing Google Workspace Not for Profit for Committee business
  • held a successful WikCon Aotearoa in Auckland in March 2024.
  • submitted an Application for Chapter Status for our affiliate
  • began drafting the WANZ Communication Policy and Communication Strategy and Action Plan
  • began drafting an events manual for New Zealand organisers
  • began drafting an onboarding manual for committee members and contractors
  • completed a business planning day in Mohua | Golden Bay to plan the budget and activities for the 2024/25 financial year.
  • published a NZ Charities Performance Report for the 2023 calendar year. This was our first report in the Tier 3 reporting format specified by the NZ Charities regulator [1]
  • held the Annual General Meeting of the Society on 21 May 2024, to receive the annual report for 2023 and elect officers.

Grants made

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A list of grants made by WANZ is published on the WANZ meta page. During the 2023/24 period, the WANZ committee made the following grants:

  • June 2023 DrThneed a travel grant to present at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Conference 2023 a paper titled The nation’s dissertations: Academic libraries engaging in Wikidata (October 2023)
  • July 2023 a group of Pasifika editors to attend Wikimania 2023 and provide a performance on the main stage (August 2023)
  • July 2023 two staff from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to attend Wikimania 2023 and present on The Whole GLAM Package project manual A manual for GLAMs releasing packages of collection images, data, and research to Wiki projects. (August 2023)
  • July 2023 Ambrosia10 to attend the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) conference in Hobart, Australia (October 2023).
  • October 2023 to Giantflightlessbirds for a 6–month Aoteaora Wikimedian At Large project based in Christchurch. (15 January 2024 - July 2024).
  • December 2023 to Quilt Phase for Wellington photography events. Two edit-a-thons focussed on training photographers about Wikimedia Commons and adding high quality photography (March 2024)
  • February 2024 for Ambrosia10 to facilitate the Te Papa Research Expeditions project. This project was to trial the current research expeditions schema proposed by the Wikidata WikiProject: Research Expeditions, by creating or enriching Wikidata with data on research expeditions undertaken by Te Papa/ Dominion Museum/Colonial Museum and institutional staff while employed at the museum. (March to May 2024)
  • February 2024 for Pakoire to lead the project: Lisa's Wikipedia Reading and Writing Book Club
  • May 2024 to Architecture+Women NZ for expenses at editathon and walking tour (May 2024)
  • June 2024 to Jonathanischoice for studio photography of unusual musical instruments not currently well covered in Wikimedia Commons
  • June 2024 for Ambrosia10 to attend the joint conference of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and the Biodiversity Data Standards (TDWG) Conference 2024 in Okinawa (September 2024)

Relationships

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The WANZ committee and members:

  • supported the Auckland Museum with advice and feedback on their project and with presentations to their summer scholar editors in December 2023 and January 2024. See Local History Project grant
  • supported the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa with advice, feedback and testing on their work programme.
  • continued to build relationships with staff from Parliamentary Libraries, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Christchurch Art Gallery, and Christchurch Library.
  • had preliminary discussions with a Māori knowledge professional on the best approach to encourage Māori editors.

Conferences

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WikiCon

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WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 was held in Auckland on 23–24 March. There were twenty attendees. The retro report for the conference was accepted by the committee. Highlights included the presentation from the Auckland Museum interns on the challenges they overcame as new editors and the success of the intern programme and the open refine training provided by DrThneed (talk · contribs).

Representation at other conferences

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  • Wikimania 2023 - a large contingent of New Zealanders received scholarships from Wikimedia Foundation or support from WANZ to attend this conference in Singapore in mid August. In the past New Zealanders haven't had much representation on a global level and this is an excellent outcome of the hard work of our community over the past few years. The highlight was our own WANZ member, Ambrosia10 receiving the award as Wikimedia Laureate for 2023.
Reports Back
  • TDWG2023 - Ambrosia10 attended this conference in Hobart, Australia on 9 - 13 October 2023 where a paper she had co-authored was presented by a colleague. The paper covered a collaborative project creating a Wikidata schema for scientific expeditions and then reusing the same to assist natural history folk to add and connect scientific expeditions and their contributions in and via Wikidata. See this link for slides. Further information on the WikiProject relating to this collaboration can be found here. She also co-organised an "unconference" session on how to propose a Wikidata property to the Wikidata community which was well attended by the participants at that conference. She reported back to the Wiki community on the conference and her engagement with participants in a report that can be seen at en:User:Ambrosia10/TDWG2023.
  • LIANZA 2023 - DrThneed presented to the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Conference 2023 in Christchurch, New Zealand on the New Zealand Thesis project. 31 October - 1 November 2023. This led to an invitation to run a Wikidata workshop at the University of Canterbury in 2024.
  • Australian Citizen Science Conference #CitSciOz23 - Ambrosia10 delivered a keynote at this conference at the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia on 21 - 23 November 2023. This keynote included information on her work in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikicommons. See this link for the presentation and slides.
  • GLAM Wiki 2023 – Giantflightlessbirds attended this conference in Montevideo, Uruguay on 16–18 November 2023, helping run two workshops introducing attendees to Wikisource editing. He afterwards met with staff at the Natural History Museum in Montevideo and the Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires and discussed possible Wikimedia GLAM collaborations.

Wikimedia community support

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Community meetups

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Regular meetups were held during the year, both online and in person, around New Zealand. These included:

  • Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup: monthly online meetings open to everyone across the country, including regular attendees from Australia. The first 15 minutes is allocated to Aotearoa New Zealand User Group business. 12 meetings held, 126 total attendances
  • Wellington Meetup: monthly meetings in person. 12 meetings held, 109 total attendances
  • Auckland Meetup: Auckland meetups started up again. Initially run by the Auckland Museum interns, the editors in the Auckland community that met up at the Auckland WikiCon have continued to meet. 3 meetings held, 25 total attendances
  • Christchurch Meetup: Christchurch meetings are once again occurring monthly, beginning in February 2024, as one of the acitivities of the Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large. 4 meetings held, 14 total attendances

Note that total number attending include multiple counts of individuals, as they are counted for each meeting they attended.

WANZ social media activity

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  • Facebook private User group: group is used to assist editors and promote Wikipedia events and meet-ups. 215 members as at 1 July 2024.
  • Facebook public page: this was created with the goals of raising awareness of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in New Zealand, showcasing New Zealand content and highlighting opportunities for people to get involved. 291 likes and 337 Followers at 1 July 2024.
  • Twitter. The Wikimedia Aotearoa twitter handle has 296 followers. Our activity on Twitter, now known as X, has reduced due to the platform's change in direction.
  • LinkedIn. The LinkedIn page was set up for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand in early 2024 and has 104 followers at 1 July 2024.

Events and major projects

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WANZ has changing its reporting cycle to 1 July – 30 June. Campaign Dashboard Campaign Dashboard for 1 July 2023 - 30 June 2024

#1Lib1Ref campaign, 15 May – 5 June 2024 with Wikimedia Australia

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A number of online events were supported and promoted including with the Library Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (LIANZA). Avocadobabygirl (talk · contribs) with Dianne Skelton, Executive Advisor of WANZ met with staff from Alexander Turnbull Library and National Library of New Zealand to encourage involvement with the campaign. Avocadobabygirl (talk · contribs) also ran another successful event at her place of work the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

The #1Lib1Ref campaign in May / June continues to be a focus for the Aotearoa New Zealand committee and community. There remains more work to do to raise awareness among Aotearoa New Zealand librarians and other knowledge professionals as well as refining training provided to new users who are attracted by the ease of updating citations. Progress is steady.

New Zealand Wikidata Thesis Project: Connecting New Zealand dissertations to the world

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This project involves taking metadata for approximately 66,000 theses from 13 New Zealand educational institutions and uploading it to Wikidata, and citing the theses on Wikipedia where relevant (e.g. when the author has a Wikipedia page). It is the first project to upload dissertations data for a nation, and also possibly the first multi-institutional collaboration for thesis data. Background on this project and an update was published in the March 2022 GLAMwiki newsletter.

The work on this project by DrThneed continues with outreach including:

  • Presenting with Zeborah at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Conference, October 2023. A Nation's dissertations: Academic Libraries engaging in Wikidata.[1]
  • Presenting at Wikimania 2023 - A Nation's Dissertations, The New Zealand Thesis Project
  • Publishing a letter on doctoral theses in Wikidata, in the Journal of Academic Librarianship ([2])
  • Presenting to the Auckland Museum Wikipedia summer interns about the project, as an example of what Wikidata can do
  • Running a hands-on Wikidata workshop on editing academics on Wikidata for librarians in Christchurch, in collaboration with Zeborah and Giantflightlessbirds.

Edit-a-thons

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Encouraging GLAM contributions: Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Engagement

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WANZ considers the relationship with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum to be a high strategic priority as Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is investing significantly in engaging and contributing to Wikimedia Foundation projects and is lead exemplar for this type of GLAM Wiki engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Meetings continued between committee members led by Einebillion and James Taylor, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum to discuss the museum's project grant from ESEAP and support for the Understanding Our Past Project including contributions to and support from members of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand for the training of the interns in the Summer Students project. WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 was located in Auckland to help build the editing community and support the work done by Auckland Museum staff in building up editors to contribute to a regular meetup in that location.

Contributions

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  • The Auckland Museum summer students 2023 have had an excellent introduction to the Wikiverse including presentations from a number of WANZ members. |They have contributed content and have exceeding beyond the project's expectations. The students presented at WikiCon Aotearoa 2024 and were agreed by most attendees to be the highlight of the conference. They also presented at the ESEAP 2024 conference on the project.
  • The Auckland Museum Wikipedian in Residence project in 2023, Understanding our past:using Wikipedia as a tool to support local history in Tāmaki Makaurau, supported by the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand, wrapped up. The project focused on developing local suburb and subregion articles in the Auckland Region, in response to the growing need for locally focused history resources for the new school curriculum in Aotearoa New Zealand. Throughout 2023 and early 2024, a total of 95 articles were made or improved for Auckland subregions, regional centres and suburbs.
  • A large number of articles on Aotearoa New Zealand-related topics were created or vastly improved by the Auckland Museum Wikipedian in Residence between July 2023 and June 2024, either as part of the history curriculum project or through general editing.
  • The Wikipedian in Residence also support the training of the summer students.
Auckland Museum Wikipedian in Residence contributions
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Subregions of Auckland
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Auckland suburbs
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Geographic features
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Buildings and sculptures
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Species
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Encouraging GLAM contributions: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Engagement

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WANZ editors with Te Papa editors during the #1Lib1Ref event

WANZ considers the relationship with Te Papa to be a high strategic priority as Te Papa is New Zealand's national museum and national art gallery and engagement with Wikimedia Foundation projects by that institution will strongly influence other GLAM institutions within New Zealand. For the sake of transparency: Einebillion, President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand is an employee of Te Papa and is Head of Collection Access. She has been advocating for more engagement with Wikimedia Foundation projects. Avocadobabygirl, Committee member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, is also an employee of Te Papa and is Te Papa's Digital Channels Outreach Manager. Avocadobabygirl continues to develop Te Papa's Wikimedia strategy and workplan and encourage new editors from Te Papa's staff.

Contributions

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During 2023/24

Encouraging GLAM contributions: New Zealand Parliamentary Library

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The relationship with the New Zealand Parliamentary Library is building. They have received approval from management and are proceeding with their project.

Wikipedia / Radio New Zealand Critter of the Week Project

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Giantflightlessbirds continued to coordinate and expand the Critter of the Week Project. Critter of the Week is a long-running and popular Radio New Zealand show in which Nicola Toki (originally of the Department of Conservation, now head of Forest & Bird) and the host Jesse Mulligan talk about New Zealand species both endangered and neglected. It has been running since 2015 on Friday afternoon programming. Giantflightlessbirds and other volunteers have been creating or improving the corresponding Wikipedia article for each species to coincide with the Friday broadcast. This was initialy coordinated through Twitter. A project page was created in 2017 and now contains a more accurate episode list than Radio New Zealand's own website). Work has continued through 2023/24 on this project by a core group of committed editors.

West Coast Wikisource Project

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With Giantflightlessbirds taking up the Wikimedian at Large opportunity based in Christchurch, the West Coast Task Force was placed on hiatus after January 2024. Those works that have been loaded into Wikisource continue through the proofreading and validation process. There remain a significant number of books that have been scanned and are awaiting loading into Wikisource, however the restricted editor base has meant that this work is being paced to ensure that editors focus on finishing the books already loaded. Giantflightlessbirds is applying for more funding to extend this project to other New Zealand libraries in the second half of 2024.

West Coast Wikipedian at Large

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Development West Coast once again sponsored Giantflightlessbirds as a West Coast Wikipedian at Large over September–October 2023, with a follow-up trip in January 2024. The project focused on the areas Development West Coast identified as needing improving — attractions in the Karamea area, tourism on the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers, and the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve, breeding ground of kōtuku. Online training was provided to new editors and photographers for Wikimedia Commons content in the first three weeks. The project involved 11 editors and created eight new articles, edited 113 articles. 27,000 words and 217 references were added to the focus articles. Those articles had 42,000 views since the project began up to early November 2023. Over 400 photos were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Development West Coast won the Silver (Best Use of Digital and Social Media) and Gold (Most Innovative Campaign) at the 2024 Public Relations Institute of New Zealand awards, and was one of six finalists for the supreme award for their investment in this project.[2] The investment provided by Development West Coast ensured training and coordination to ensure the involvement of the Wiki editing community to improve articles and add content on a local theme.

Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large 2024

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WANZ provided a grant for a 6 month project aimed at assisting Canterbury institutions to engage with the Wikimedia movement and to build the editor base of volunteer Wikimedians in Christchurch, New Zealand. Giantflightlessbirds was the successful applicant and the project ran from January to July 2024.

Invited Presentations, Media Interviews and other Outreach

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  • Marshelec was invited to give a presentation to the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Waiwhetū Stream on 6 November 2023. The presentation focussed on the article Waiwhetū Stream, and briefly introduced the audience to editing Wikipedia articles.
  • Chocmilk03 was interviewed by Re: News about her editing experience. The interview was published on 11 March 2024 and is available to watch here.
  • Giantflightlessbirds appeared in the print newspaper The Greymouth Star on 30 September 2023 on page 2 talking about his West Coast Wikipedian at Large project.
  • Einebillion acting in their role as President of WANZ, wrote a supporting letter for Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research for a Lottery funding application to digitise and conserve photographic slides in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection and openly license for reuse these images via their website. They have an estimated 30,000 photographic slides that contain images of:
  • Sampling trips to offshore islands around New Zealand to discover insect biodiversity and for conservation purposes on these remote islands.
  • People conducting surveys of insect pest damage in the Pacific region (mostly Samoa, Tonga) and interactions with local communities.
  • insect pests and damage to crops and native plants in NZ (some images have been used in pamphlets and factsheets to industry growers)
  • invertebrate biodiversity from around New Zealand
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research have been successful in their grant application and the project will begin digitisation in January 2024.
  • Ambrosia10 has undertaken multiple outreach efforts during this year including:
  • 16 - 19 August 2023 attending Wikimania 2023 where she was named Wikimedia Laureate 2023. As a result of this award she undertook multiple interviews with Singaporian based outlets as well as this Radio New Zealand interview.
  • 31 August 2023 she gave an in person presentation to staff at the Auckland Museum, generally discussing several of her projects and how the Auckland Museum might be able to benefit or become involved in this work. This meeting also involved discussions with the Director of the Museum concerning the state of tools in the Wikiverse giving information and feedback on impact of sharing GLAM collections.
  • 21 September 2023 She gave a presentation at the Women and gender minorities in STEM club at Victoria University of Wellington. See here for slides.
  • 5 October 2023 (NZ time) She gave a keynote to the Wikimedia Foundation staff meeting Wikimedia Connect explaining about some of her Wiki contributions. See here for slides.
  • 4 - 5 November she presented on Connecting Entomological Collectors through the Wikiverse at the Entomological Collections Network annual meeting. See this link for the presentation and slides.
  • 6 December 2023 she presented at the Bionomia Workshop: People Identifiers Roundtrip to Collection Management Systems. Recordings of this workshop and her presentation can be found here. Slides for her presentation can be found here
  • 6 December 2023 a scientific paper she co-authored entitled Creating a multi-linked dynamic dataset: a case study of plant genera named for women was published. See this link to obtain access to this publication. This project used Wikidata to help create this dynamic dataset.
  • 6 December 2023 she co-authored a Pensoft blog entitled Entangled “her”stories – How to create an open multi-linked dynamic dataset of plant genera named for women publicising the above scientific publication.
  • December 2023 She was the lead author of the Introduction and ORCID modules of a Hidden Figures Natural History Collectors CURE. This Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience will also include a module on Wikidata and Bionomia. These latter two modules are currently in draft form and are intended to be published later in 2024.
  • 17 January 2024 She gave a seminar at the Wikipedia Guest Seminars for Summer Studentships - Auckland Museum. The slides for this presentation can be found here.
  • 23 January 2024 She accepted the nomination to be chairperson for the Wiki-Biodiversity Heritage Library Task Group. This task group meets once a month and collaborates to progress the work of the Wikidata WikiProject BHL. She also attends the regular monthly meetings of the Biodiversity Heritage Library cataloguing task group to assist them with any of their Wikidata questions.
  • In the middle of May she reported on the BHL-Wiki working group at the BHL annual meeting and also presented on BHL and the Wikiverse at the BHL day.
  • Schwede66 was interviewed by the Golden Bay Weekly about the Mohua | Golden Bay editathon. Schwede66 was also interviewed on the FreshFM Fresh Start Friday with Grant, Carl and Hahna programme on Friday 2 Februrary 2023 to publicise the event.
  • Einebillion acting in their role as President of WANZ, wrote to the Chief Archivist on behalf of the Wikimedia community in New Zealand expressing disappointment about the planned closure from 30 June 2024 of the Te Maeatanga digitisation programme and on-demand service at Archives New Zealand. The closure of this service returns researchers to being required to travel to one of the four reading rooms located in the regional centres to access undigitised government records.
  • As a part of the Auckland Museum Summer Students programme, members of WANZ held interactive presentations with students, including Sophia Coghini, Victoria Leachman, Tamsin Braisher, Heidi Meudt, Siobhan Leachman and Heidi Meudt.
  • Stuartyeates wrote a diff post on communication priorities for Wikimedia Foundation press releases to attract editors to high priority pages.

Improving coverage of New Zealand topics

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  • Multiple articles were improved, and Aoraki Mount Cook National Park was accredited as GA class during the year, alongside Abel Tasman National Park and Fiordland National Park, both of which have been upgraded to B-class.
  • Parallel to this, the project has also focused on improving Wikidata items related to national parks; ensuring that items are located in the correct locations, have improvements to the structured data (such as linked river tributary information and sourced heights for hills/mountains), and ensuring that information related to parks is integrated across Wikimedia platforms (such as ensuring pages have national park-related navigation boxes and that WikiCommons categories are linked to Wikidata items). Work on nine national parks has been completed, alongside all Regional parks of New Zealand with four remaining. User contributions by Prosperosity and Canley were tracked as a part of Coordinate Me 2024 during May 2024, both of whom were among the Top 30 participants.
  • Improved and new articles on New Zealand literature include:
  • Improved content on academics in New Zealand (DrThneed and other editors) by:
  • Adding links to digitised theses on around 1600 English Wikipedia pages, and more than 100 pages in other languages (we cited the thesis on every page for the author at each university with the most pages)
  • Disambiguating more than 18,000 people on Wikidata, and connecting them to a New Zealand thesis, either as author or advisor
  • Adding main subject statements to theses on Wikidata, so that more than 80% of our theses now have at least one subject
  • Keeping statements about awards, honours and professorial promotions up to date on Wikidata to ensure tracking of notability.
  • Ensuring all women Fellows of the Royal Society Te Apārangi have Wikipedia pages in English
  • Creating start class or better biographies for more than 180 women professors. DrThneed is aiming to have all known women full professors covered by the end of 2024, as part of the Women in Red #1woman1day campaign (currently there are 568 NZ women professors on Wikipedia, with 37 known professors yet to be covered).
  • Creating pages for science organisations and fellowships (DrThneed), including James Cook Research Fellowship, New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology, Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowships, Aitken Lectureship, New Zealand Veterinary Association
  • Adding more than 280 images of Royal Society events to Wikimedia Commons, including many academics (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch).
  • A collaborative initiative between multiple editors improved content on NZ politics by:
  • Wellington Harbour collaboration
An on-going collaboration between editors from the Wellington Wikipedia meetup group has produced a wide range of improvements to articles associated with Wellington Harbour. Early in 2023, the Evans Bay Patent Slip article was assessed as GA. One significant achievement for the 2023-24 period was getting a large article about Matiu / Somes Island to GA status. New articles were also created in 2023 for CentrePort Wellington and Waiwhetu Aquifer. The article Wharves in Wellington Harbour was created in 2023 and assessed as GA status in 2024. Extensive improvements were also made to Wellington Harbour, and a group of articles associated with the Wellington Harbour Board and the heritage buildings they established on the Wellington waterfront.
Some related work included development of a new article Waiwhetū Stream, and this led to engagement and a presentation about Wikipedia at a public meeting of the community group Friends of Waiwhetu Stream.
New articles were created for Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, Wairarapa Dark Sky Reserve, Oxford Forest Conservation Area, Wai-iti Dark Sky Park
  • Books about New Zealand continue to be copyedited by the community in Wikisource.
  • Images on a variety of topics are loaded to Wikimedia Commons.
  1. ↑ https://www.lianza.org.nz/lianza-conference/lianza-2023-conference/lianza-2023-programme/
  2. ↑ https://prinz.org.nz/2024-prinz-awards-supreme-winner/ Accessed 1.07.2024
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