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==== Editathons ====

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* [[Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2025/Whakaraupō|Lyttleton Editathon]] – 11 October 2025. This is a public event for Christchurch Heritage Week, based in the Lyttelton Library and working on historic buildings. We then have a lunch break and do a photo walk around Lyttelton, adding images for WikiShootMe. You do have to register: http://lyttelton-edit-a-thon.lilregie.com/

* [[Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2025/Whakaraupō| Editathon]] – 11 October 2025. This is a public event for Christchurch Heritage Week, based in the Lyttelton Library and working on historic buildings. We then have a lunch break and do a photo walk around Lyttelton, adding images for WikiShootMe. You do have to register: http://lyttelton-edit-a-thon.lilregie.com/

* [[Wikipedia:Meetup/T%C4%81maki_Makaurau_Auckland_37|Women in Architecture editathon]] – 20th September 2025. A walking tour and editathon in Auckland. Book [https://events.humanitix.com/a-w-nz-x-wikipedia-walking-tour-edit-a-thon here]

* [[Wikipedia:Meetup/T%C4%81maki_Makaurau_Auckland_37|Women in Architecture editathon]] – 20th September 2025. A walking tour and editathon in Auckland. Book [https://events.humanitix.com/a-w-nz-x-wikipedia-walking-tour-edit-a-thon here]

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• Date: Sunday 14 September 2025
• Time: midday to 2pm
• Location: Virtual Meeting at this link https://meet.jit.si/WikiAotearoa
  IMPORTANT: The first person joining the meeting needs to sign in as the “Moderator” using a Google, Facebook, or GitHub account; other attendees can then join without any authentication – see the jitsi blog for more information.
  NOTE: This video conferencing software link will ask permission to use your computer camera and microphone. You will need to agree to get full functionality. Google Chrome or Chromium is recommended for the best experience (not all aspects work correctly with other browsers). The Jitsi web-based video conferencing platform is 100% open source and fully encrypted. No account is needed and it’s free.
• Cost: Free

All attendees are expected to understand and abide by the Universal Code of Conduct.

This video conferencing meetup is a replacement for an in-person meetup. While attending and remaining anonymous is supported by the group, lurking is not supported and will be actively discouraged. All attendees are expected to use their User name as an identifier on the video conference call and to introduce themselves and their interest in joining the call on the chat channel of the call as a minimum. Participation using video and / or voice in addition to Chat is encouraged but not required.

Some members of the group have been the target of cyber bullying in the past and these measures are intended to support creating a safe space for collaboration.

If a new attendee joins the group with video and voice disabled, they will be encouraged to participate by the facilitator, using this script:

Welcome new attendee. This group respects your right to remain anonymous. This group has a policy of discouraging lurking as it makes some of us uncomfortable. If you are happy to introduce yourself over voice, please let us know what you’ve been working on and if you need help with any editing issues.

If you’re not comfortable updating the group by voice, then that’s okay. You have the option of introducing yourself and adding your user page link into the chat feature. The chat is deleted once the video conference finishes.

If you want to remain completely anonymous and not chat, then this meetup is not for you. We make comprehensive and extensive notes of the meetup that will be included in the meetup page afterwards. That’s the best way to catch up with what this meetup has been doing if you don’t want to contribute during the video call.

If you’re not sure how to use the chat feature you can access it by clicking on the icon that looks like a speech bubble in the bottom left corner.

If, after an appropriate length of time, the new attendee does not participate by video, voice, or chat, the facilitator of the group will remove the attendee from the video call.

If the new attendee persists in logging in, the group will discuss abandoning the meet up.

The Jitsi video conferencing platform has a chat feature. This is used to share URLs and other commentary while the discussions are occurring. The facilitators may take a copy to help with writing up outcomes from the meeting on the meeting Wikipedia page. Any copies will be deleted once outcomes and notes are completed.

This is a monthly event running every 4 weeks, but double check the Aotearoa New Zealand Online page to confirm.

Apply for membership of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to be kept informed.

Also see Wikipedia:New Zealand Wikipedians’ notice board for discussion relevant to New Zealand Wikipedians.

Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: ‘’’* ~~~‘’’

Add your name to the list by adding an asterisk and three tildes like this: * ~~~

Einebillion is on hiatus as President from 31 March until the end of September to travel to Europe. Pakoire, Co-Vice President will be standing in for her.
See this link for updates on WANZ board meetings

• As reported last month, in early March 2026, WANZ must submit a proposal to WMF for a further three years of funding. As part of this submission, we will need to identify major initiatives that we wish to support, particularly in the first funding year (2026-27). We will be calling for expressions of interest later this year, for projects that will require significant funding in the 2026-27 period. Projects that are identified early are more likely to receive funding in the 2026-27 year, subject to the overall limits of our funding capacity. If you have an idea for something that would require a large grant, please get underway with writing up a preliminary proposal. We will likely close-off the EOI round by late November.

A telegram group has been created for Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand editors. If you are interested in joining the discussion click this link.

If you’re an event organiser, don’t forget to add your event as a programme to the Campaign Dashboard July 2025 – June 2026. The Dashboard is a key tracking tool for reporting back to Wikimedia Foundation and will help us ensure that we get funding in future years. If you are unsure how to add programmes to the Campaign dashboard you can find further information here on how to create a new event dashboard and how to link it to the overall campaign dashboard. Alternatively contact: Ambrosia10 (talk) on her talk page for help.

If you’re interested in organising a Wiki event, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) provides support funding. Contact info @ wikimedia.nz for more information on how to apply. It’s really simple – we promise!

In April Giantflightlessbirds ran a workshop in Adelaide on adding photos to Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and ultimately Wikipedia. It touched on Freedom of Panorama, moveClaim, DuplicateReferences, WikiShootMe, galleries, CropTool, the Volunteer Response Team, negotiating a licence change, and so on. The response to the workshop was so positive it is now an online webinar series, aimed at beginners who have done some Wikipedia editing or photo uploading but want to build their skills; Wikipedia editors who don’t really upload many photos, or Commons photographers who are not sure exactly what Wikidata is for. The course runs on the 1st, 8th, and 15th of October, 7pm NZDT; the three sessions cost NZ$20 to register online (but if anyone is feeling strapped for cast they can contact Mike and have this refunded). The handout for the workshop is available on Commons.

• WikiCite 2025 Friday 29th to Sunday 31st of August – a hybrid and modular format, 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an ecosystem for bibliographic data to serve as an open infrastructure for research, education, and information quality (specifically authority control) across the web.
• GLAMwiki 2025 (30 October to 1 November, 2025) – an “in person only” conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The GLAM Wiki community is a worldwide network, with projects, initiatives, and activities spanning every timezone and continent. Giantflightlessbirds is attending. Any others?
• WikidataCon 2025 31 October – 02 November 2025 – online conference only. A conference aimed at connecting people through Linked Open Data.

• Scholarships to travel to Wikimania 2026 in Paris have opened. Editors are encouraged to apply. Please see this page and pay particular attention to the extended advice for filling in the scholarship application.

• Content: Critter of the Week: A project to ensure Wikipedia articles are improved of species covered in that Radio New Zealand radio show.

Anyone know of or organising any other events or content projects? Note here to let the group know!

Opportunity to say what you’re working on and if you need help to do anything or want anything demonstrated. You can add requests for help here prior to the meeting if you want

• Marshelec – In the past month, I have created new articles The Queen’s Closet (ensemble), The Loons (venue), Lake Kaurapataka, Tāhuna Glenorchy Dark Sky Sanctuary and Dark sky movement in New Zealand– this last one had a lot of input from Wainuiomartian. I have also supported several articles through the Articles for Creation process, and done a catchup on missing episodes from Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Critter of the Week. I have also done significant work on improving the bio article Leslie Van Gelder. Currently working on Draft:Lyttelton Circus Theatre Company, as a contribution to the upcoming editathon. As part of the NZ Species editathon, I made significant improvements to Euphrasia cuneata and Drosera stenopetala. I also substantially expanded Coprosma foetidissima and nominated it for DYK. The hook appeared on the main page on 5 September and the article received over 4,200 page-views. In other news, I have accepted an offer of appointment to the ESEAP Regional Funds Committee.
• User:Ambrosia10 – Very pleased to announce I’ve been appointed Wikimedian in Residence at the Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research group of the New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute. This appointment started on the 8th of September and will run through to the 30th of June next year. I started work on this last week. Over the last month I’ve been working hard preparing for both the Wiki Introductory Webinar to be delivered on the 14th of October and the in person Wiki workshop to be delivered to the ASBS 2025 conference in early November. I’ve also continued to work on an error report produced by the Biodiversity Heritage Library after they refreshed their ingest of Wikidata identifiers fixing errors in Wikidata. I’ve written a summary of the work I’ve undertaken fixing errors in Wikidata. I’ve been working on learning more about OpenRefine editing of structured data of Wikicommons files and also using OpenRefine to upload files (mainly sourced from BHL) into Wikimedia Commons. A big thank you to DrThneed and Dactylantha for their help with my learning journey! I’ve been editing various species articles mainly adding images. I’ve also been preparing a Wiki themed presentation to the upcoming LivingData Conference. This included creating slides and adding a recording to Youtube and then sharing that recording with conference organisers. It was A LOT of work for an 8 min presentation! In other news the paper I contributed to called Wikidata for botanists has been reviewed in the Wiki Research newsletter. Finally a reminder to add anything GLAM related they’ve been doing to the GLAM wiki newsletter. Also worth considering doing Diff blogs given questions and links needed for Wikimania scholarships.
• TheLoyalOrder – More general work on local election articles. Created a results page for the 2022 regional elections. Made some maps for by-election articles, including for the recent 2025 Tāmaki Makaurau by-election. Also made a map for 2025 Samoan general election. Tidied up Te Whakakitenga which is the Waikato-Tainui parliament, still barebones.
• MargaretRDonald – Still working on insects: The KNSL ids have now reached nearly 12000. I am uploading these via openRefine and have been working on finding authorities. As I upload each batch I start an insect or two on enwiki. Apart from Betyla karamoa (an NZ wasp), I have been working on aphids, in particular, Tuberculatus which has led me to suggest the use of {{scholia|topic|position=left}} after having uploaded the description of articles into wikidata, together with the property “main subject“.
• Giantflightlessbirds – Continuing with Banks Peninsula project, including photo trips and new articles for Ellangowan Scenic Reserve, Ahuriri Scenic Reserve, and Otepatotu Scenic Reserve. Now working on endemic spcies like Celmisia mackaui; User:AxonsArachnida has been great to collaborate with, and I’m doing my first Good Article reviews. Working with the Akaroa Museum photo collection and preparing a bulk upload in time for a public event in November. Photographed Christchurch council candidate Tom Roud and assisted his campaign photographer to upload images to Commons. I’ve also put together a three-session webinar for Wikimedians (see above).
• AxonsArachnida – My supergiant amphipod article (Alicella gigantea) passed FA review. I’ve submitted it for TFA. I’ve gone ahead and had my saltpool mosuqito (Opifex fuscus) peer reviewed and then submitted for FA review today. A few of my articles have passed GA review, these are Robsonella huttoni (octopus species), Trite auricoma (jumping spider), Desis marina (spider that lives in the interitdal zone), Mecodema howittii and Megadromus guerinii (both ground beetles that live in Banks Peninsula). I’ve also got a few waiting for GA review such as Prolasius advenus (ant species, Mike is reviewing it), Cormocephalus rubriceps (NZs giant centipede) and Upogebia hirtifrons (a species of mud shrimp I keep finding). Now I’m working on Austrosimulium ungulatum (West Coast black fly) which I think I can get up to GA. I’m looking into making an article on biodiversity in Banks Peninsula with Mike. Also my tunnelweb species description paper just came this week (although the publishers messed up my tables/figures). I’m going to upload the figures from that when I get a chance so they can be used in an article at some point.
• David Nind – Pretty quiet this month:
• DrThneed

1. Gave a 30 minute invited talk on the New Zealand Thesis Project, to open the second day of WikiCite 2025. This was great fun, and I’m looking forward to catching up with the rest of the presentations when recordings are released.
2. Otago: Made some changes to the writer John Mulgan‘s page after one of the librarians at Otago noticed it was a bit light on details around why there was speculation about his death. Improved and created some Wikidata items relating to Dunedin architects Arthur Louis Salmond, Henry Burt and Robert Vanes, connecting them to the archive held at the Hocken, and uploaded some new images by a university photographer Axel helped tracked down. Gave a talk to the Department of Anatomy, started working with the dental school, and discovered another way of dealing with COI, when you are autopatrolled (thanks Oronsay). So I intend to use that process (marking articles ‘unreviewed’) for Otago-related pages unless I think they might be controversial, in which case I might still put them AFC or ask someone else to look them over.
3. Joined the Science hub, waiting to see what activities it gets involved in. Also joined the September Memory of the World Challenge, just to support the initiative.

• Paora After four weeks overseas, I have been catching up on the past month’s death notices, and updating articles and updating / creating Wikidata items. Took lots of photos on my travels and have begun added selected photos to Wikicommons. Suggests Peggy Koopman-Boyden could do with improvement!
• CopperAlchemy (talk) Preparing for our Board/Committee meeting next week. Also working on our Business Activity Plan for the current 12 months, along with an associated outreach plan. Alongside this working on our 3 – 5 year Strategic Plan which will form the basis of our grant application in the new year. We will be seeking community input to help us plan for our growth and what the future focus of WANZ should be, more information to come. The paid team, along with Siobhan and Mike, have met Australia’s paid team to collaboration on the Commons:Wiki Science Competition 2025. Sophie and Dianne are focusing on building our skills for training and supporting new editors, and appreciate the support and links from Siobhan.
• Dactylantha – discussed work she has been doing including a large proposal for deletion due to copyright issues for some recent uploads. Also created this meta page template for WANZ members to add to their meta page.

• A “Christmas list” of issues was given to the group as a result of work done by User:Oronsay on new New Zealand articles and everyone attempted to resolve the issues raised.
• A discussion on the use of the BHL2Wiki tool and also the Cites tool linked to in the BHL2Wiki tool.
• …

• 12 October 2025, same time, same place