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NZ Species Edit-a-thon, OEGlobal 2024 and Auckland Museum's Summer Students
New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon
A recap on the two day edit-a-thon was published on the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand website. See this link for more.
Open Education Global 2024 Keynote
Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10) was invited to give the keynote at the recently held OEGlobal 2024 conference in Brisbane. The presentation slides and script can be found here. Her keynote was recorded and has been released on Youtube at the 21min mark.
Welcoming Auckland Museum's Wikipedia Summer Students
As part of the annual Summer Scholar programme, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum welcomed a new cohort of five university students to join our Collections & Information Access team and to be introduced into the world of Wikipedia. Our students come from a diverse range of areas including Law, Art History, Economics, Politics, International Relations, Anthropology, Global Studies and Sociology.
The students will take part in a 10 week programme,learning about the Wikimedia movement and how to make meaningful contributions to Wikipedia. The brief centres around creating Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland local histories more visible on Wikipedia to support teachers and students in the new Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum.
During week one, students learnt about how GLAM institutions can utilise Wikimedia platforms and build Wikimedia strategies in sharing the knowledge and resources from their institutions. They learnt the basics of Wikipedia and completed the dashboard training modules. The students created their user pages: Chefcat29, LegionesCataegis, LynKing1123, RW3003, Sid432, and are busy researching and creating articles. Some of the first articles they created are: Charlotte Museum, Goldstein (rabbi), St Heliers Memorial Fountain and Nathan Homestead. We look forward to sharing all their incredible mahi and contributions over the next few months!
Wiki presentation to the New Zealand Herbarium Network
New Zealand editors Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 gave a 15 minute presentation to the New Zealand Herbarium Network on the botany related Wiki work and WikiProjects they have recently been involved with. The slides for this presentation can be found here.
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