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Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times
Edit for Equity
This year marks the 125th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in New Zealand – the first country in which it happened. Women's suffrage has been marked by numerous commemorative events, including a series of Wikipedia workshops. Sisters Anna and Kelly Pendergrast of Antistatic (AnnaStatic and KellyStatic) applied for support from the Suffrage125 fund and ran five Edit for Equity workshops. The final one, on 28 November, marked the 125th anniversary of the first suffrage election. All the events were extremely professionally organised, with custom stickers and postcards, fabulous catering, good publicity, and documentation and evaluation of each session. Almost all attendees were female, and 38 were editing Wikipedia for the first time. Local Wikipedians Ambrosia10 and myself ran training and troubleshooting at each one.
| Event | Date | Attended | New editors | Pages created | Pages improved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STEM | 9 Oct | 18 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| Film, TV and Music | 11 Oct | 9 | 4 | 1 | 16 |
| Art and Literature | 13 Oct | 19 | 12 | 7 | 28 |
| Politics and Social Change | 14 Oct | 17 | 7 | 11 | 50 |
| History | 28 Nov | 14 | 5 | 1 | 26 |
| 77 | 38 | 23 | 133 |
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Getting started -
Mike giving an intro -
Two editors work on a Wikipedia article together at the Edit for Equity event at the Sustainability Trust in Wellington, October 2018. -
Editors discussing Wikipedia updates at Edit for Equity event in Wellington, New Zealand. -
Editors hard at workFile:Edit for Equity event 01.jpg -
Materials at check-in table, Edit for Equity event, Wellington -
Materials at check-in table, Edit for Equity event, Wellington -
Participants in the third Edit for Equity edit-a-thon -
New editors -
Snacks -
Asaf Bartov visit
As well as a brunch with local Wikimedians, we were able to take Asaf to Zealandia, a local wildlife sanctuary, where he got to experience endangered birds and that icon of New Zealand evolution, the tuatara.
- 23 Nov: Wikidata Masterclass with Asaf Bartov • Dragonfly Data Science, 158 Victoria St, Wellington • Link
Wikipedian at Large
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In November in the role of NZ Wikipedian at Large I gave presentations to Archives New Zealand, to Australian Wikimedians at the meetup in Melbourne, to staff at Melbourne Museum and the Building Research Association NZ (BRANZ). I also gave two talks at the NZ Ecological Society conference in Wellington: one on the students' day, and one called "How to get your research into Wikipedia", and ran a drop-in Wikipedia clinic for researchers. Wellington Wikipedians had a Wikibrunch meetup and a Wiki in the Pub evening.
There has been plenty of positive media coverage of Wikipedia and of the Wikipedian at Large project, including in the New York Times and the Independent. Wellington journalist Nikki Macdonald wrote two stories examining the issue of notability in Wikipedia, compared to encyclopedias and Who's Who – more in-depth than most of the Wikipedia coverage in mainstream media.
Media coverage
- White, Rebekah. (Nov–Dec 2018). "What's an adzebill?". New Zealand Geographic 154.
- Boughen, Brendan. (7 Nov 2018). "Updating Godzone". Tohatoha (profile of Siobhan Leachman, User:Ambrosia10)
- Macdonald, Nikki. (10 Nov 2018). "Who is Wiki-worthy?". Dominion Post, p. A8.
- Macdonald, Nikki. (10 Nov 2018)."Who gets to wear the cloak?". (Notability in Wikipedia, Who's Who, and Queen's Honours.) Dominion Post, p.C1–C2.
- Graham-McLay, Charlotte. (17 Nov 2018). "From Encyclopedic Collector to ‘Wikipedian-at-Large’ in New Zealand". New York Times, A6
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