Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand/Annual Community Activity Report 2025/26
This page reports the activity of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) and the broader New Zealand community of Wikimedia editors, contributors, and organisers from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated Society (WANZ)
[edit]Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Incorporated Society (WANZ) continues to recruit members. The Membership Policy states that only natural persons can become members of WANZ. Annual membership fees are currently $NZ5 (GST inclusive). As of November 2025, there are 50 financial members.
As at 1 July 2025, the committee (that we now commonly refer to as our Board, for consistency with other Chapters) consisted of:
- Einebillion (President)
- David_Nind (Secretary)
- Marshelec (Treasurer)
- Pakoire (Vice President)
- Schwede66 (Board member)
- Cloventt (Board member)
- Chefcat29 (Board member)
- LilyPadFrog (Board member)
- LynKing1123 (Board member)
We have continued to contract an Executive Advisor, Dianne Skelton and a Communications Coordinator, Sophie Sparrow, who assist the board on a part-time basis.
As at December 2025, the board accepted resignations from Chefcat29 (Board member) and LynKing1123 (Board member), both of whom have accepted international internships.
WMF Funding
[edit]The Chapter received a 3 year General Support Grant from Wikimedia Foundation/ESEAP in June 2023. This funding has supported activities during the period of this report - the third year of the funding round.
Organisational development
[edit]During 2025/26 the Board:
- held a strategy weekend in Wellington on 26-27 July to review our goals and direction
- published a draft strategy 2026-2030 for consultation with the community, as part of preparations for the 2026 funding submission to Wikimedia Foundation. This consultation closes at the end of December to allow the Board to complete our strategy in time for drafting our funding application in the new year.
Grants made
[edit]A list of grants made by WANZ is published on the WANZ meta page.
Major funded projects
[edit]During 2025/26, WANZ provided grant funding to support the following major projects.
Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large
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WANZ provided a grant to Giantflightlessbirds for a 12 month part-time WPAL project from January to December 2025, to improve Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource coverage of Te Pātaka of Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula and help Banks Peninsula institutions engage with Wikimedia projects and build the community of volunteer Wikimedians in Christchurch. For details see the WPAL 2025 project page. Additional funding was also provided to support Giantflightlessbirds's work on the Ashburton Project. Further grant funding was provided to support a Kaikōura project, and a residency with Archaeology Aotearoa.
Background: The first Wikipedian at Large (WPAL) project in Aotearoa New Zealand began in 2018, supported by a one-year grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. Alongside connecting with heritage and research organisations, the project also involved growing and supporting the New Zealand editing community through meetups and workshops, with live talks and editing training sessions providing members of the public opportunities to engage with the movement. Giantflightlessbirds spent that year travelling the length of New Zealand to help raise the profile of the Wikimedia movement. Spending 2–6 weeks at more than 20 organisations, including museums and universities from Auckland to Dunedin, they trained staff and helped them use their expertise to improve Wikipedia and make images, text, and video freely usable by the public. These placements also gave knowledge organisations an opportunity to develop a Wikimedia strategy with experienced input, encouraging sustained engagement with the platform. In 2020, 2022, and 2023 a West Coast Wikimedian at large project was funded by Development West Coast.
This model has proven very effective in supporting the growth of an editor and wiki organiser base in areas where community numbers were few. It also encourages knowledge institutions to engage not only with content contributions but also developing their own programme of wiki events for their local community.
Auckland Museum - Wikipedian in Residence 2025-26
[edit]WANZ provided a grant to Auckland Museum for a further 12 month Wikipedian in Residence project. The Wikipedian in Residence will support the third intake of Wikipedian student summer scholarships, encourage participation in the wikiverse by Auckland Museum staff, conduct outreach to Auckland GLAMs and continue progress on adding Auckland Museum content to the various wiki projects. For details see the GLAM/Auckland Museum project page.
Background: We have a longstanding partnership with Auckland War Memorial Museum, who began engaging with Wikimedia in 2017. Auckland Museum’s collections follow the policy of ‘open access by default, closed by exception’, providing the majority of their resources under an open Creative Commons licence — showing a clear alignment with the goals of the Wikimedia Movement.
As New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland is a key location for promoting the movement to as many people as possible. Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand has been funding one of the museum’s two current Wikimedians in Residence since 2024, Winnieswikiworld. This role has a focus on community outreach, organising and mentoring the Wikipedia summer student programme, and engaging with other Auckland GLAMs. She organises and hosts regular themed editing events, open for members of the public to come along and learn how to edit. These events have helped develop partnerships and projects, such as the New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject.
The summer student programme has become an integral part of Auckland Museum’s Wikimedia engagement. There have been three cohorts through the programme since it began in 2023, teaching 15 tertiary students everything they need to know about contributing to Wikimedia. The students use their new skills to improve and expand the coverage of topics related to Auckland’s local histories. The students then take their Wikimedia knowledge with them as they continue their studies or join the workforce, with two students from the 2024 cohort contributing some time on our Board. In 2025 the programme expanded to connect with other GLAM institutions, connecting students with opportunities at New Zealand Maritime Museum, MOTAT and the Fletchers Trust Archives.
University of Otago - Wikimedian in Residence 2025 - 2026
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Early in 2025, WANZ provided a grant to DrThneed, supported by Giantflightlesssbirds, for a 6 month part-time Wikimedian in Residence project at University of Otago. For details see the GLAM/Otago University project page. The WANZ Board has agreed to extend the funding for this project into 2026, including an increase in the time commitment.
Background: DrThneed began editing Wikipedia in 2018, and by 2025, she was the first Wikimedian in Residence at Aotearoa New Zealand’s oldest university. Universities are home to experts on a variety of topics, and the role of a Wikimedian in Residence is to facilitate their institution’s engagement with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Hosted by the University’s Central Library, DrThneed is working with staff to release material under open licenses, improve or create Wikipedia articles relevant to university teaching and research, and generally develop the relationship between the institution and the wider Wikipedia community. A key focus of the residency is getting University academics to look at how they can get research covered on Wikipedia. By supporting staff to review pages related to their research areas, and evaluating how they can be improved, there can be more certainty that students are getting good, reliable, up to date information when they check Wikipedia.
The students themselves are another important focus of the residency — helping students read Wikipedia critically by examining aspects like the history of a page, the discussions on its talk page, and the quality of the sources supporting the information on a page. Graduate students might be extended into improving articles as a way of learning research communication skills. Hands-on training sessions, and regular editing meetups, are helping to develop and grow the editing community both within the University, and throughout Dunedin.
Bioeconomy Science Institute - Wikimedian in Residence 2025-26
[edit]WANZ provided a grant to the Bioeconomy Science Institute for a 10 month part time Wikimedian in Residence project. The appointee to the position is Ambrosia10. For details see the GLAM/NZBSI project page.
Background: Our partnership with the Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research group (MWLR) of the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute is the most recent placement of a Wikimedian in Residence. MWLR holds five significant biological collections, rich in endemic species of plants, animals, and fungi. These collections are a critical tool for furthering the understanding and protection of Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique biodiversity. By connecting this knowledge with Wikimedia platforms, Manaaki Whenua aims to increase the visibility and accessibility of its collections.
Avid editor, citizen scientist, and 2023 Wikimedia Laureate Ambrosia10 has taken on the role of Wikimedian in Residence at MWLR. Her role focuses on helping staff engage with the Wikimedia ecosystem, while embedding sustainable practices that will extend the reach and impact of the institution’s research data. Key outcomes will include the development of a strategy for long-term workflows with Wikimedia platforms, engaging with and educating MWLR group staff to provide targeted training on the Wikimedia ecosystem and outreach potential, and facilitating uploads of appropriate MWLR resources.
Ambrosia10 is working closely alongside MWLR staff to ensure the institution’s contributions to Wikimedia are not just one-off projects but part of an ongoing, sustainable approach. The project aims to ensure that images, data, and expertise from Manaaki Whenua reach far beyond traditional academic publications. The hope is by making it more accessible this will help safeguard Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and support the development of modern biodiversity tools.
Other events
[edit]WikiCon Aotearoa 2026
[edit]A conference for Aotearoa New Zealand is planned for the weekend of 2 & 3 May 2026 in Wellington. Needs update on outcomes once event delivered
Edit-a-thons
[edit]In addition to funding the major projects listed above, WANZ has provided funding support for several edit-a-thons:
- 2025 July 1: A workshop was run for the ResBaz Aotearoa conference in 2025.
- 2025 August 2 and 9: NZ Species Editathons, were hosted at Ōtari: NZ Species editathon 2 August 2025 and NZ Species editathon 9 August 2025. The detailed report on the editathon states that over 27,000 words were added to Wikipedia, 18 new articles were created (some by the attendees themselves on Day 2), 145 articles were edited, and 295 references were added. One of these articles Coprosma foetidissima was subsequently nominated for WP:DYK, and the hook to the article featured on the Wikipedia main page on 5 September. The article received over 4,200 page views in 24 hours.
- 2025 September 20: An edit-a-thon was held by Women + Architecture at the Cultural Collections Reading Room at the University of Auckland, with 10 participants.
- 2025 November: During the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) Conference 2025, a package of wiki outreach was undertaken that included a one hour pre-conference virtual webinar on 14 October attended live by 35 people, a full-day in-person conference on 2 November Wiki for Botanists workshop which 11 botanists attended, a presentation given by Ambrosia10, and a post-conference follow-up virtual webinar taking place on 9 December. In Wikidata, items for 130 ASBS members including all 80 conference attendees were also created or improved, and photos and resources were added to Commons. The organisers' report on this project is available here and a positive report about the in-person workshop written by one of the attendees is included in the December 2025 ASBS newsletter.
Campaign Dashboard
[edit]#1Lib1Ref campaign, with Wikimedia Australia
[edit]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 librarians and other knowledge professionals as well as refining training provided to new users who are attracted by the ease of updating citations. Update for 2025/26 needed.
The Wiki Summer Students who are placed at Auckland Museum, Avawatson03 & CuriosityKat33, over the 10 week programme have been working on the Librarian Project at the Auckland Museum Research Library alongside Winnieswikiworld (WiR) and SecretLibrarian (Museum Collection Access Librarian). Their project has focused on using library resources to create Wikiquote pages for notable New Zealand women, contributing to both the 1Lib1Ref campaign and the Wiki Loves Women #Shesaid campaign.
Wiki Science Photography Competition with Wikimedia Australia
[edit]We partnered with Wikimedia Australia for the 2025 Wiki Science Competition, which ran from 1 November 2025 to 15 December. This international photography contest invites participants to create and upload science-related images to Wikimedia Commons under a free licence. This contest promotes the visualisation and free exchange of scientific images. During the campaign, we ran a free webinar to provide guidance on contributing to Wikimedia Commons. We received over 160 entries, and a panel of judges from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand worked together to select the winning images.
Content projects
[edit]These content projects involve active members of WANZ, and are supported by WANZ in meetups and communications.
Wikidata New Zealand Project: Connecting New Zealand dissertations to the world
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The Wikidata New Zealand Thesis 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 the first multi-institutional collaboration for thesis data. The project started in 2021 with community outreach and has been continuing since then. During 2022 the dataset was prepared and uploaded to Wikidata. Further work continued in 2023 with outreach and promotion of the success of the project by DrThneed the focus in 2024 and 2025. A paper on the project was published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Update for 2025/26 needed.
Wikipedia / Radio New Zealand Critter of the Week Project
[edit]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. The show has been running since 2015 on Friday afternoon programming. The ten year anniversary of the programme was celebrated in November 2025: A Decade of Critter of the Week. Giantflightlessbirds and other volunteers have been creating or improving the corresponding Wikipedia article for each species featured in the Friday broadcast. A project page was created in 2017 and now contains a more accurate episode list than Radio New Zealand's own website.
Wikipedia New Zealand Project: New Zealand National Parks
[edit]The New Zealand National Parks Project has the goal of bringing the articles of the 14 national parks up to Good Article status. Progress for the year included:Update for 2025/26 needed.
Wikidata New Zealand Project: New Zealand Women Photographers
[edit]New Zealand Women Photographers Wikidata Project launched in July 2024 with the aim of improving information about New Zealand women photographers in Wikidata, based on a dataset provided by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The data set is New Zealand Women Photographers (Q127513013) and is available at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/new-zealand-women-photographers. Work has continued in 2025/26 with additional information being researched and added to Wikidata.
Wikidata Project: Aotearoa Asian Artists
[edit]The Aotearoa Asian Artists Wikidata project aims to improve the data available about artists from the Asian diaspora living in or connected with Aotearoa New Zealand. It is focussed primarily on the source of the Satellites archive. An event in conjunction with this project is being planned for 2026. This will be a collaboration between Auckland Museum and Satellites.
WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model
[edit]The WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model is a collaboration between the Ambrosia10 as Wikimedian in Residence at the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute and Dactylantha, the Online Collections Data Analyst at Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, to support the development, documentation, and improvement of data models for natural history specimens across Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons (SDC). This project aims to create consistent, machine-readable ways to represent specimen records, holotypes, collection events, collectors, taxonomic determinations, and related GLAM-held material. This project will facilitate the creation of natural history holotype specimen Wikidata items as well as the upload of natural history specimen images by both institutions as well as assist and support other institutions both nationally and internationally to replicate this work.
Pride NZ Missing Pages Project
[edit]The Missing Pages project is an online volunteer porject that aims to ensure that significant LGBTQIA+ rainbow people, events, organisations, and legislation in Aotearoa new Zealand are properly documented and made freely available on Wikipedia.
Wikimedia community support and communications
[edit]Community meetups
[edit]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. As at December 2025, 6 meetings were held, with a total of 73 people attending. add total number of meetings, and total attendances January to June 2026
- Wellington Meetup: monthly meetings in person. As at December 2025 7 meetings were held, with a total of 60 people attending. add total number of meetings, and total attendances January to June 2026
- Auckland Meetup: monthly meetings in person. As at December 2025 6 meetings were held, with a total of 39 people attending. add total number of meetings, and total attendances January to June 2026
- Christchurch Meetup: monthly meetings in person. As at December 2025 4 meetings were held, with a total of 12 people attending. add total number of meetings, and total attendances January to June 2026
Note that total number attending include multiple counts of individuals, as they are counted for each meeting they attended.
WANZ social media activity
[edit]- Facebook private User group: group is used to assist editors and promote Wikipedia events and meet-ups. x members as at 30 June 2026.
- 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. x likes and x Followers at 30 June 2026.
- Bluesky. Our Bluesky account has x followers and continues to actively post and share information.
- LinkedIn. The LinkedIn page has x followers at 30 June 2026.
- Twitter. The Wikimedia Aotearoa twitter handle remains but will not longer be contributed to by WANZ. Bluesky is now our preferred channel.
WANZ Newsletters
[edit]A regular monthly newsletter from WANZ was established in August 2024.
Invited presentations, media interviews and other coverage
[edit]- 2025 August 5. Interview on the RNZ Nights programme. Topic: Who edits Wikipedia
- Ambrosia10's work has been featured on the front page of Wikimedia Foundation's website. This is recognising the impact and contribution that she has made to the Wiki community and content.
- "Can anyone edit Wikipedia ?" - a full page article in the weekly magazine New Zealand Listener, published on 14 February 2026
- 2026 February: Interview for PrideNZ. Topic: Victoria Leachman, President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, talks about Wikipedia and how to contribute, with a focus on Pride NZ's Missing Pages Project.
Engagement with the GLAM sector
[edit]Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum
[edit]The relationship with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is 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 led by Einebillion, President and James Taylor (Jetaynz), Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. Staff editors are: Prosperosity, Dactylantha & Winnieswikiworld
WiR & Workplan
- Auckland Museum Wikimedian in Residence Winnieswikiworld has been working toward goals of of engaging with Museum staff, Auckland based GLAMs and local, national and international Wikipedia communities.
- Auckland Museum project page
- The 2025-2026 workplan aligns closely with Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum’s, The Path to 2029, a strategic direction which focuses on meaningful partnerships with communities and sustainable connections with diverse audiences. Through their mahi with Wikimedia platforms, they will continue the foundational work established in 2017 to further focus on community engagement, collaboration and enrichment of content on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other Wiki projects.
2025-2026 Student programme

- Winnieswikiworld supervised the 2024-2025 cohort of Wiki summer students and is now working with the 2025-2026 cohort.
- This year the Tamaki Makaurau Auckland Local Histories Project is being expanded with the addition of three other Auckland GLAMs (MOTAT, New Zealand Maritime Museum and The Fletchers Trust Archives). There will be a total of six Wikipedia students; two at Auckland Museum and Maritime Museum and one at MOTAT and The Fletchers Trust Archives. This marks an exciting development in the wider Summer Student programme encourages youth editors into the movement.
Content
- Wikiproject x Online Cenotaph has been the primary focus with an accompanying event, Women in Wartime. The success of this event has led to a series which will resume in 2026.
- Auckland Museum Librarian Project supports the Women in Red movement and aims to utilise the Museum’s research library resources to enrich content about New Zealand women and history by involving the library team.
- WikiProject Aotearoa Asian Artists
- WikiProject Migrants of Colour Stories Aotearoa
Wikimedia Commons Uploads
Auckland Museum remains committed to uploading openly licensed, culturally appropriate content where possible - to make this workflow as sustainable as possible, different batch uploading processes were tested and documented during this Museum Batch Uploading Project.
Templates Created
The following custom templates were created or significantly edited to support Auckland Museum uploads:
{{AWMM}}– Institutional attribution template{{AWMMHumanHistory}}– Template for Human History collections{{AWMMDocumentaryHeritage}}– Template for Documentary Heritage items{{AWMMNaturalSciences}}– Template for Natural Science specimens
All templates are documented under: Category:Auckland War Memorial Museum templates
Commons Categories Created
- Category:Biodiversity Heritage Library Auckland War Memorial Museum collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Annual Reports
- Category:Auckland_Museum_Covid-19_Pandemic_Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Henry Winkelmann Collection
- Category:Auckland_Museum Ex libris Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Arthur Breckon Collection
- Auckland Museum Fun! Ho! Toys Collection
- Auckland Museum Enos Pegler Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Emily Harris Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Propaganda Posters Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Clement Wragge Collection
- Category:Auckland Museum Arthur William Baden Powell Collection
Each upload batch is organized into its own Commons category and linked to its corresponding Wikidata item.
Current Uploads Total: There are 182,726 files in Images from Auckland Museum, as of November 2025. Following the development of the revised Batch Uploading methodology we have contributed 4,465 files.
- These images span across 19th and 20th century photography, object catalogue photography, biodiversity heritage illustrations, and official historic museum documents
- All uploads are tagged with source metadata and structured data where possible
Direct Image Extraction for Commons as an Online Repository
In addition to serving as a long-term preservation and access platform, Wikimedia Commons functions as a practical image repository for derivative workflows. Auckland Museum has developed an approach demonstrating how Commons URLs can be repurposed for reuse across other digital platforms, reducing duplication of effort and ensuring a single, openly licensed master file remains at the center of distribution.
By using structured Commons URLs for each file, images can be referenced directly in bulk uploads to other platforms (such as Pinterest) without re-hosting or recompression. This method has been particularly valuable for GLAM organisations that do not yet have an internal API capable of delivering high-resolution images at scale. The process leverages the openness of Commons to streamline cross-platform publishing.
Detailed guidance on this workflow is available here:
OpenRefine Direct Image Extraction - demonstrates how to generate direct file URLs for Commons images suitable for reuse or export workflows.
Roundtrip Workflow: Uploading Auckland Museum Images from Wikimedia Commons to Pinterest - outlines the CSV format, field mapping, and metadata retention approach for reusing Commons images in external environments.
Events
- The Charlotte Museum Walking Tour (11 October 2025)
- Women in Architecture: A Trip into the Archives & Edit-a-thon (20 September 2025)
- UoA Art History Wiki Event (1 August 2025)
- Women in Wartime (15 July 2025)
- Women in Architecture Walking Tour & Edit-a-thon (5/6 April 2025)
- Wiki 101 (15 March 2025)
- Stub It Out: Developing Tāmaki’s Wiki Stub Articles (25 January 2025)

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Auckland Museum staff #1Lib1Ref, January 2025
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2024-2025 Summer Student event, January 2025
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A+W Parnell Baths walking tour, April 2025
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A+W A trip into the archives, September 2025
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The Charlotte Museum event, October 2025
Media
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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The relationship with Te Papa is another 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. Avocardobabygirl, a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, is also an employee of Te Papa and is Te Papa's Digital Channels Outreach Manager. Avocardobabygirl continues to develop Te Papa's Wikimedia strategy and workplan and encourage new editors from Te Papa's staff. Stitchbird2 is also a Te Papa employee (Curator Botany) who works with Avocardobabygirl to plan and implement staff training and editing opportunities.
Contributions
[edit]- Avocadobabygirl is investigating analytics data-driven storytelling about the impact of open GLAM collections and projects, and GLAM staff who edit. This has so far been used internally to demonstrate the strategic alignment of GLAMs being active on Wiki and support staff in having their Wiki work recognised.
- Avocadobabygirl supervised Science in Society Master's student Livelydog49 in a placement to develop a resource for tertiary educators who want to incorporate Wikipedia into their lesson planning and assessments. The draft resource is aimed at science educators in Aotearoa, and forefronts this educational and social context. We will be soliciting feedback on the draft from teaching staff and Wikipedians shortly, with the goal of WANZ taking ownership when published.
- Livelydog49 ran a session for her Master's class to demonstrate the value of Wiki in the scientific information landscape and introduce them to editing. All students and the course supervisor are now able to edit and motivated to continue.
- Te Papa continues to maintain roundtripped links between Wikidata items for people significant to the collections and their own collections management system, with monthly checking for new or updated connections in both directions.
Conferences
[edit]Representation at non-wiki conferences
[edit]WANZ has funded members to attend several non-wiki conferences:
- September 23-24, LIANZA 2025 Conference, Wellington. Wainuiomartian and Giantflightlessbirds attended
- October 21 - 24. Living Data 2025, held at Bogotá, Columbia. Ambrosia10 attended virtually and presented a paper in the Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem session.
- November 2–6. Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) Conference, held at University of New England in Armidale, Australia. Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 attended and hosted a series of Wiki outreach events as part of the programme. For more information see the WikiProject ASBS 2025 project page.
ESEAP Conference 2026
[edit]The ESEAP Conference 2026 will be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from May 15th (Fri) to 17th (Sun) 2026
There were a number of attendees from New Zealand including:
Wikimania 2026
[edit]Although just outside the time period for this report, Wikimania 2026 will take place in Paris, from 21-25 July 2026.
Attendees from Aotearoa New Zealand include:
Contributions by other Aotearoa Wikimedians
[edit]Work done by this Aotearoan Wikimedian in 2025/2026 included continuing to facilitate the Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) engagement with the Wikiverse and the wider Wiki community. Ambrosia10 regularly attends cataloguing and community meetings assisting with Wiki queries and requests for support or assistance from the many BHL affiliate organisations. She has been funded by BHL to the BHL Annual Meeting in April/May 2026.
Ambrosia10 has also been collaborating with Dactylantha from Auckland War Memorial Museum on Wikidata WikiProject Natural History Specimen Data Model to produced data models for type specimen Wikidata items and the Structured Data on Commons for natural history specimen images.
Good articles:
- Zecicindela feredayi 16 July 2025
- Neocicindela tuberculata 28 July 2025
- Opifex fuscus 21 August 2025
- Mecodema howittii 25 August 2025
- Trite auricoma 26 August 2025
- Robsonella huttoni 1 September 2025
- Megadromus guerinii 2 September 2025
- Desis marina 12 September 2025
- Cormocephalus rubriceps 25 September 2025
- Upogebia hirtifrons 10 October 2025
- Melangyna novaezelandiae 22 October 2025
- Epiphryne verriculata 9 November 2025
- Oncacontias 16 December 2025
- Zorion opacum 7 January 2026
- Prolasius advenus 31 January 2026
- Austrosimulium ungulatum 11 February 2026
Featured articles:
- Alicella gigantea 15 July 2025
- Opifex fuscus 2 November 2025
Did you know?:
- Alicella gigantea 31 August 2025
- Neocicindela tuberculata 18 September 2025
- Opifex fuscus 29 September 2025
- Desis marina 16 October 2025
- Cormocephalus rubriceps 17 October 2025
- Mecodema howittii 20 October 2025
- Epiphryne verriculata 8 January 2026
Good articles (see list):
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