Wikipedia:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large

Dr Mike Dickison was New Zealand Wikipedian at Large from July 2018 through June 2019, funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to help New Zealand organisations and the people of New Zealand engage with Wikipedia and open knowledge.

During his term, he was a Wikipedian in Residence for 2–6 weeks in organisations ranging from museums to nature reserves, from Auckland to Dunedin, training staff and helping them use their expertise to improve Wikipedia and make images, text, and video freely usable by the public. He also worked with the volunteer Wikipedia community, organising meetups and running public workshops and edit-a-thons.

Contact him:

Email Mike at giantflightlessbirdsgmail.com
Leave a message on his Wikipedia talk page
Sign up to the mailing list to be kept informed about upcoming events in your area
Join the Wikipedia New Zealand Facebook group
Coming soon: you can join the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand

Calendar[edit]


Dates	Place	Institution	Activities
2–27 July 2018	Auckland	Auckland War Memorial Museum	Moving biology type specimens and recently-photographed land vertebrates to Commons Set up Wiki-PCAP to improve Pacific Island culture articles with photos and audio/video Sorting out categorisation and linking of Auckland Museum images in Commons Running a Commons Wikiblitz for vertebrate images
30 July – 9 Aug, 14–17 Aug 2018	Auckland	New Zealand Geographic	Negotiating with photographers to release photos to Commons Wikipedia training for staff and freelance journalists Improving web archive citation and testing Wikipedia referrals
10–13 Aug 2018	Wellington	Conservation Communicators hui at Zealandia	Giving a short talk and workshop on Wikipedia Organising a Sunday Wikibrunch
18–22 Aug 2018	Auckland		Auckland Museum Wikiblitz Kauri Dieback Wikiblitz Wikipedia science workshop
25 Aug – 7 Sept 2018	Dunedin	Otago Museum Dodd-Walls Centre	Presenting at SPNHC conference Public talk, Wikipedians meetup, and presentation to Museum staff on engaging with Wikimedia
8–28 Sept 2018	Auckland	Landcare Research	Working with entomology and mycology collections staff Releasing over 1000 Des Helmore images to Commons NZ Fashion Museum Edit-a-thon and Helmore images Wikiblitz
1–5 Oct 2018	Northland	Te Hiku Media, Kaitaia Mission House, Kerikeri	Recording 150+ accurate pronunciations of Te Reo Māori Public presentation on Wikipedia Planning meetings with locals including Heritage New Zealand
6 Oct 2018	Auckland	Auckland War Memorial Museum	Assisting with Art Week Wikipedia Tutorial
8–14 Oct 2018	Wellington	Antistatic	Assisting with four Edit for Equity edit-a-thons
16–18 Oct 2018	Palmerston North	Massey University Horizons Regional Council	Wikipedia workshop for graduate students Two presentations to Regional Council staff
19 Oct – 30 Nov 2018	Wellington	Stout Research Centre for NZ Studies, Victoria University of Wellington	Talks at National Digital Forum and Wellington Archives Presentations and workshops at Archives New Zealand, BRANZ, Forest & Bird. Wikibrunch and "Wiki in the Pub" meetups for local Wikipedians
10–14 Nov 2018	Melbourne	Wikimedia Australia meeting	Presenting on Critter of the Week at Melbourne meetup and Melbourne Museum
3–7 Dec 2018	Invercargill	Department of Conservation kākāpō/takahē recovery team	Improving kākāpō and takahē articles, putting kākāpō into Wikidata
11–21 Dec 2018	Wellington	Wellington City Archives	Adding historic public-domain photos to Commons Completing Commons and Wikidata representation for Mayor of Wellington City One-to-one staff training
9 Jan – 6 Feb 2019	Wellington	Department of Conservation Forest & Bird National Library of NZ	Wikidata workshop Wikipedia meetups and drinks Editing events on threatened species, NZ comics and cartoons, Wellington Botanic Garden Adding Alexander Turnbull Library authority list to Mix'n'Match
7–9 Feb 2019	Hanmer Springs	New Zealand Entomological Society conference	Conference Wikipedian
10–17 Feb 2019	Dunedin	Otago Museum	Workshops for arts community on creating NZ artist articles
18–27 Feb 2019	Wellington	Zealandia National Library of NZ	Running public editing events on NZ libraries, threatened species, and adding photos to Commons
28 Feb – 2 Mar 2019	Auckland	Auckland War Memorial Museum	Critter of the Week editathon
19–21 March 2019	Palmerston North	Massey University	Talks and editing events for faculty and students
22 March – 8 April 2019	Wellington	Zealandia Forest & Bird	Talks and editing events BioBlitz in Wellington Botanic Garden
10 April – 8 May 2019	Dunedin	Otago Museum University of Otago	Public editing events and public talks Wikipedia presentations to local GLAM sector, University faculty, and students Bulk upload of Otago Museum images to Commons
9 May – 9 June 2019	Christchurch	University of Canterbury, Arts Digital lab Christchurch Art Gallery	WikiEducation projects with university faculty and students Presentation and workshops on getting NZ artists and writers into Wikipedia
10–26 June 2019	Nelson	Nelson Provincial Museum	Public talks and an edit-a-thon Creative Commons image uploads from the museum collections
28 June – 2 July 2019	Bangkok, Thailand	ESEAP Strategy Summit	Regional meetup to discuss coordination of Wikimedia projects

Media[edit]

I'm happy to talk to media for a story about Wikipedia. Email above, bio and background information here. Pick any publicity photos you like from the gallery at Category: Mike Dickison. Note that these photos are free to use, provided you credit the photographer by name (i.e.: not "Wikipedia" or "supplied").

Here's a selection of media coverage: see monthly reports for all.

Ryan, Kathryn. (25 May 2018). "New Zealand's New Wikipedian-at-Large" (audio). RNZ Nine to Noon. (Radio interview.)
Wikimedia GLAM Newsletter (June 2018). "New Zealand Report: A New Zealand Wikipedian at Large".
Easther, Elisabeth. (Sept 2018). "Mr Wiki: Mike Dickison is New Zealand’s first Wikipedian-at-Large". North and South, p.18
Macdonald, Nikki. (20 Oct 2018). "National Portrait: Mike Dickison, conservationist and Wikipedian". Dominion Post, p.C3
Macdonald, Nikki. (10 Nov 2018). "Who is Wiki-worthy?". Dominion Post, p. A8.
Graham-McLay, Charlotte. (17 Nov 2018). "From Encyclopedic Collector to ‘Wikipedian-at-Large’ in New Zealand". New York Times, A6
Ryan, Kathryn. (20 Dec 2018). "NZ's Wikipedian: is he winning the battle for content?" (audio). RNZ Nine to Noon. (Radio interview.)
Hancock, Farah. (10 July 2019). "The travelling Wikipedia salesperson." Newsroom.

Reports and blog posts[edit]


Month	Institution(s)	Project pages	Report	Writing
May 2018				New Zealand Wikipedian-at-large
July 2018	Auckland Museum	GLAM/Auckland Museum	July	Why engage with Wikipedia?
Aug 2018	New Zealand Geographic	GLAM/NZGeo	August
Sept 2018	Landcare Research	GLAM/Landcare	September
Oct 2018	Te Hiku Media, Antistatic, Massey University, Ministry for the Environment	Edit for Equity 1, 2, 3, 4	October
Nov 2018	Melbourne Museum, Archives NZ, National Digital Forum	NZWPAL/Melbourne	November
Dec 2018	Department of Conservation, Wellington City Archives	GLAM/DOC GLAM/WCC Archives	December
Jan 2019	Department of Conservation, National Library	GLAM/DOC GLAM/NLNZ GLAM/Blue Oyster	January	NZ Comics and Cartoons edit-a-thon
Feb 2019	National Library, Forest and Bird, Zealandia	GLAM/NLNZ	February
Mar 2019	National Library, Massey University	NZWPAL/Chch mosque shootings	March	Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings
Apr 2019	Otago Museum, Otago University	GLAM/Wellington Botanic Garden BioBlitz NZWPAL/Wikifying GLAM GLAM/Otago Museum	April
May 2019	University of Canterbury	GLAM/UCNZ	May	A digital strategy for a small museum
June 2019	Nelson Provincial Museum	GLAM/Nelson Provincial Museum	June	A Wikimedia strategy for a radio station