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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue I, January 2025

New Zealand report

Student led Edit-a-thon

Student led Edit-a-thon at Auckland Museum

The Wikipedia summer students have been working hard, and have collectively created 25 new articles and added 739 references! They also hosted an edit-a-thon, 'Stub It Out: Developing Tāmaki's Wiki Stub Articles' at the Auckland Museum research library.

Students giving an editing presentation to attendees
New Wiki editor learning how to make their first edit
Setting up userpages
Explaining to what a stub article is

The students led a group of 23 mostly brand editors, in a brief presentation, explaining the rules and guidelines of Wikipedia. They then taught attendees the basics of editing, how to make citations and save their edits. Once everyone was confident to make their first edits, the students helped the new editors to pick topics from a list of stub articles they had prepared. With support from the students, attendees quickly got on to researching and editing, making use of the library resources. By the end of the session, 16 articles were improved, 45 edits were made and 1.65K words were added. Attendees then came together for kai, many reflecting on how fun editing was!

The Auckland Museum WiR (Winnieswikiworld) has been making progress on the content projects, WikiProject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa and Wikiproject x Online Cenotaph. As part of the later project, a page was created for the New Zealand Liberation Museum after staff were encouraged to upload images of the museum to Wikimedia Commons. Winnieswikiworld also hosted a successful #1Lib1Ref event with Auckland Museum staff. Participants were tasked to add citations and make edits on pages related to Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa, focusing on enriching our local and national content on Wikipedia. In the session, edits were made on 25 diverse articles including, Auckland Art Gallery, Crown Lynn, Women’s suffrage in New Zealand, Hoani Waititi Marae Albert Barracks, Crown copyright, Wi Tako Ngātata and TEV Wahine. Overall it was a great day with new editors leaving feeling accomplished!