Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large/July 2018 Report

Ray Shannon in his flat, 1996: scanned and uploaded to support the Sound of Butterflies exhibit

Auckland Wikipedians meetup, Auckland Museum library

• This month's planning began in June, in visits to Wellington, Palmerston North, and Waiouru, where I met with potential host institutions. I arrived in Auckland to begin the Wikipedian at Large year with presentations at the University's Research Bazaar event.
• For July I was based at Auckland Museum, helping Library staff articulate a vision for Wikipedia inside the Museum. I gae staff presentations, organised one-to-one tutoring, created Wikipedia and Commons material for the Ray Shannon exhibit, and worked with photography staff to prepare collection-object photos for upload. Although lots of potential projects were discussed, I found it hard to get traction and buy-in from Museum staff, although this was possibly because I was new to the role of Wikipedian and still learning how to organise and plan events and collaborations.

Meetings

• 22 Jun: National Library and Wellington City Archives planning meetings, Wellington
• 24 Jun: Forest and Bird staff, and Loo Connor (Dodd-Walls Centre) to plan residencies
• 25 Jun: Massey University staff, administrators, and students, Palmerston North
• 26 Jun: National Army Museum, Waiouru, to plan a possible Anzac Day event
• 2–3 Jul: Public Experience, Learning, Photography, and Natural History teams at Auckland Museum
• 13 Jul: PCAP team to plan possible Pacific culture pages
• 17 Jul: PCAP: formatting topic pages so they'll be usable as Wikipedia sources
• 18 Jul: Jenny Nicholls at Bauer Media to plan presentation to magazine editorial staff
• 25 Jul: Andrew Digby and DOC kākāpō/takahē recovery team to plan trip to Invercargill

Presentations

• 28 June • Engaging with Wikimedia • UoA Libraries and Learning Services staff (c. 50) • University of Auckland
• 29 June • A Science Communication Framework • UoA researchers and grad student • University of Auckland ResBaz, Science Centre
• 4 July • Introduction and discussion on the role of the Wikipedian to Auckland Museum staff at all-staff meeting\
• 10 July • Wikipedia and Wikidata • Data Poets meetup, Te Puna Matatini, University of Auckland

Workshops

• 19 July • Wikipedia Editing Basics and drop-in question session • Museum staff • Waitematā (H88), Auckland Museum

Meetups

• 20 July • Auckland Wikipedians Meetup • Library, lvl 2, Auckland Museum • WP:AUCK8

Media coverage

• Auckland Museum (25 July 2018). "Wikipedian in Residence: Mike Dickison". Auckland Museum Blog.