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New Zealand report

Looking for Aotearoa's next roving Wikipedian, a Wikidata Te Papa research expeditions publication & the Wikidata WikiProject IBC follow-up workshop

Wrapping up the first Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large

Editing at Cass Field Station, January 2024

The Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large position spends between six and twelve months doing short projects with different groups and organisations, sometimes all around the country, sometimes in a particular region. They might spend one week helping a gallery load images of artworks into Wikimedia Commons, the next running training workshops for school librarians, and the one after that in the bush getting students to take openly-licensed bird photos.

Giantflightlessbirds spent the first six months of 2024 as a Wikipedian at Large based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, working with multiple institutions. Highlights include:

  • A week on a field trip into the Canterbury High Country with biology students, introducing them to Creative Commons and Wikipedia, uploading their openly-licensed phtoography, and creating an article about the Cass Field Station.
  • Working with Christchurch Art Gallery to create Ink on Paper, one of their 2023 exhibitions, in Wikidata and Commons, improving the way museum exhibitions are modelled in the process, and running an editathon on the overlooked artists featured in the show.
  • Setting up monthly meetups for the Christchurch editor community
  • Beginning an entomology collaboration with Canterbury Museum, involving iNaturalist and the local branch of the NZ Entomological Society
  • Working with University of Canterbury Biology Department on a Wikipedia drive to celebrate their 21st anniversary

Applications are open for the 2025 Wikipedian at Large

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) has opened funding applications for the Wikipedian at Large, a role that takes Wikipedia to the people. If this sounds good to you and you're an Aotearoa-based Wikipedian, check the WANZ website to see how to apply. Proposals are due by 30 September 2024 and the successful applicant will be announced by 15 October 2024.

Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions publication

Ambrosia10 & Avocadobabygirl have co-authored an extended abstract on the Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions for a presentation that will be presented by Ambrosia10 at the SPNHC TDWG 2024 conference. This extended abstract was published in the Biodiversity Information Science and Standards journal and can be found here.

Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical Congress follow-up workshop

The organisers of the Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024 including Ambrosia10 and Stitchbird2 successfully held their last virtual workshop following up with attendees of the online introductory Wikidata workshop held in early July and the in person attendees at the IBC Wikidata workshop. The slides for the follow up workshop can be found here. This project will be running for another 6 months the organisers been invited by the Annals of Botany to publish an article in that journal on Wikidata as a result of our successful poster and engagement work at the International Congress.


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