User:DrThneed

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At Wikimania 2024 in Katowice

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WikiProject New Zealand.

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West Coast task force.

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This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article University of Otago.

A Brit, living in New Zealand, I have a scientific editing background. I have interests in all sorts of things, but especially women in science, women in New Zealand, science in New Zealand, and history. From the beginning of 2022, I have been mostly working on the NZThesisProject, but have also worked on women in architecture, honours recipients, and early New Zealand women photographers (a Wikidata project).

I was at WikiCon in Hokitika in March 2021, and Auckland in July 2022, and Wellington in March 2023, and Wikimania in Singapore in 2023. I was at Wikimania in Poland in 2024 too (lucky me), here is my report!

For December 2024 I made a Wiki-themed Advent Calendar on BlueSky.

Conflict of interest statement

I am a (very) part-time employee of the University of Otago Department of Anatomy, where I edit publications or grant proposals. My paid work does not involve editing Wikimedia. When I am editing Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons I always strive to abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me through my talk page.

What do I do?

For 2025 I am focusing on article improvement, especially women's biographies, and I'll be keeping track of my work here. During 2024 wrote one new start class biography for a woman every day. The list of those pages is at 1woman1day2024 list. I work a lot on academic biographies, I maintain a list for women professors in New Zealand and a have a template and workflow for academic biographies - see Resources section below. I also add a lot of award-winners and such like to Wikidata in order to create lists of notable people.
Other pages I've created are here. My Accumulated monthly reports to Aotearoa Online meeting for 2023 and 2024, also includes my to-do list for awards etc.

In the past I worked on the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words project. At the start of my work, 24 women had start or better quality pages, leaving 126 pages to be created or improved to start class. 150 women in 150 words project page assessments. I let SuggestBot suggest articles I should edit.

Wikifying a Conference

Mike Dickison (Giantflightlessbirds) and I have been developing guidelines for a conference Wikipedian-in-residence, the Wikifying a Conference project. With the help of a WMF rapid grant this is being tested at three events in New Zealand in 2025.

Resources

Academics

• Template for academic bios
• Workflow for creating a biography for female academic

Academic/prizewinner listeria lists

• Female professors at NZ institutions
• Emeritus professors at NZ institutions
• FRSNZs with images and death dates
• Recipients of the Queen Elisabeth Medal
• Winners of the NZ Women of Influence awards
• Listeria for recipients of New Year Honours
• Listeria for early medical women in New Zealand

Architecture

• Heritage buildings in Hokitika
• Heritage buildings in Dunedin
• Delisted heritage buildings in New Zealand
• Women in architecture Listeria
• User:DrThneed/Template for category I places

Critter of the week

• Critter of the week test page
• Critter of the week Listeria list
• Critter of the week Listeria tables by class

Suffrage medal

• I am not actively writing pages for the recipients of this medal, but I am interested in seeing how they get covered over time, as I added all the recipients to Wikidata in 2021. 544 people (men and women) were given a New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.
  • As of 27 July 2021, 93 of the Suffrage Centennial Medal awardees have an English Wikipedia page, 451 do not. https://w.wiki/3gk$ 7 of those have an image.
  • As of 1 Dec 2021, 101 have a page, 443 do not.
  • As of 5 Dec 2022, 108 have a page, 436 do not.
  • As of 6 May 2023, 115 people have pages (429 do not).
  • As of 24 July 2024, 117 people have pages (427 do not, of which 11 have an image)

Tools and training

Training

• How to use Listeria, May 2025 (Listeria creates dynamic lists on Wikipedia, based off Wikidata)
• How to use Mix'n'match, May 2025 (Mix'n'match matches external datasets to Wikidata)
• How to use the Wiki List tool (coming soon)
• How to use Petscan (coming soon)

Tools

• Tool: Page views of user created pages
• FindLink tool https://edwardbetts.com/find_link/
• Worklist for Web2Cit

Did You Know nominations

• All my Did you know nominations: Did you know nominations for easy counting