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Women in Architecture, BHL, and the Commons Workflow
Women in Architecture Walking Tour and Edit-a-thon April 2025
A+W, Auckland Museum and Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ, as part of the New Zealand Women in Architecture Wikiproject, collaborated on a two day walking tour and edit-a-thon over the weekend of 5-6th April.
Day one consisted of a walking tour led by GButtersnap around the iconic Parnell Baths. In 2003, Jane Matthews of Matthews & Matthews Architects led the conservational redevelopment of the baths. The facilities were refurbished while still maintaining their 1950s lido charm. The tour covered the history of the baths, its social importance and highlighted its interesting design features. Participants had the chance to wander the baths and were encouraged to take photographs.
The walking tour of 14 then made their way to Residium Design + Building Centre were they were taken through a step by step tutorial led by Winnieswikiworld and Pakoire of how to upload their images to Wikimedia Commons.
The edit-a-thon took place in the Auckland Museum research library, where a group of 11 participants learnt from Pakoire, how to edit, draft and create Wikipedia articles.
Participants worked across Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the end of the weekend there were 21 articles created, 54 articles edited, 704 total edits, 31.6K words added, 136 references added and 158 commons uploads!
BHL Day 2025
New Zealand editor Ambrosia10 jointly presented with Sabine von Mering from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin at the Biodiversity Heritage Library Day 2025 event. They presented on the Wikidata and Biodiversity Data Standards work they and their collaborators have been undertaking on research expeditions and how vital the Biodiversity Heritage Library is for this work. The slides and script for the presentation can be found at this link and a recording can be found on Youtube at the 10min30s point.
For more information on this work see Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions.
The Commons Workflow
