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From November 2023 to February 2024, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira hosted four summer Wikipedia interns, who focused on writing local history content. See their progress on the summer interns dashboard here.

Students focused on developing articles based on what they felt passionate about, including queer history, Te Ao Māori, South Auckland and migrant communities, as well as some natural history, church and park pages. Project highlights include Phomen Singh, the first article to be featured as a Did You Know item on the main page, which received 9,858 views in a single day, List of parks in Papatoetoe (the largest article published by the students), Leilani Tominiko, the most organically popular article (1,822 views in one month) and Maraetai Mission Station, the first article in the project to receive a B-class rating.

By the end of the ten week programme, the four students had developed 33 articles (primarily new articles), added 72,500 words to Wikipedia and 861 new references. In total, pages the students had edited were viewed over 249,000 times by the end date of the project (16 February). The students also planned and lead their own edit-a-thon, which was held in January at Auckland Museum. The students also wrote pieces for the Wikimedia Diff blog:

Week 1

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Mihi whakatau welcoming the 2023/34 summer students to Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira on 20 November 2023
Only four days in, our summer students published their first article, on the historic Our Lady of the Assumption church in Onehunga

Our students began their week with a mihi whakatau, welcoming them to the museum space. Over the first week, they worked their way through two training programmes: Wiki Education's Student Training Modules and the Wiki-GLAMR Training Program developed by Mike Dickison for Wikimedia Australia. Together, the cohort discussed issues surrounding Wikipedia, including notability and copyright, and the students made their first edits to pages.

  • Workshops and tours: Collection Care and Conservation Workshop
  • Milestones:
    • Set up accounts checkY
    • Make first edits checkY
    • Upload a photo checkY
    • First new article checkY

Week 2

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Students continued developing ideas for their projects while working on new articles. By the end of week two, seven new articles had been created. The students held their first planning meeting for the student-led edit-a-thon, currently planned for early 2024.

  • Workshops and tours:
    • Tāmaki Herenga Waka gallery tour. Toured Tāmaki Herenga Waka Stories of Auckland, the new gallery space dedicated to local stories. Discussed factors that go into planning exhibitions, including considering audience engagement.
    • Teu le Vā. A talk by Olivia Taouma discussing the Pacific dimension of the museum, and the importance of Pasifika stories and perspectives in Tāmaki Makaurau
  • Guest speakers:
    • Dr. Mark Sheehan, history education specialist, curriculum developer and senior lecturer at the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. Mark worked together with Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira on the Wikipedia, Auckland Museum and the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories curriculum report, which investigated secondary school teachers' attitudes on using Wikipedia as a resource for teaching the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories (ANZH) curriculum. Mark discussed his background developing the history curriculum, and his thoughts on the benefits of Wikipedia as a teaching resource for history students. Students felt that this brought a lot of context to why editing local history pages is important.
  • Milestones:
    • Total of seven new articles checkY
    • First planning session for edit-a-thon checkY

Week 3

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Students meeting with historian Lucy Mackintosh
  • Milestones:
    • Total of 13 new or improved articles checkY

Week 4

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  • Milestones:
    • First project goal met: 300 references added checkY
    • Second project goal met: 40 articles edited and improved checkY

Week 5 and 6

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Students meeting New Zealand's first Wikimedian in Residence, Susan Tolich

Students had a break between 18 December and 7 January. Discuss Did You Know articles and getting content to the main page, potential for themed Wikipedia books based on articles. Students spoke with 2023 Wikimedia Laureate Siobhan Leachman, and met Susan Tolich, who in 2017 became New Zealand's first Wikimedian in Residence.

Weeks 7 and 8

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Students spoke with Wikimedian at Large Mike Dickison, Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand president Victoria Leachman, organiser of the NZ Thesis Project, Tamsin Braisher and held their first edit-a-thon on 27 January. Trailblazers of Tāmaki Makaurau (Commons) was an event focused on helping new editors learn how to edit Wikipedia, focusing on figures from Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland and beyond. 21 people attended the event at the Auckland Museum Library Te Pātaka Mātāpuna, which was entirely organised and led by the four summer students. In total seven articles were updated, and three new draft articles were created by the participants.

  • Summer student Harry Bird presenting during the event
    Summer student Harry Bird presenting during the event
  • Summer students introducing Wikipedia editing to participants
    Summer students introducing Wikipedia editing to participants
  • Participants editing articles
    Participants editing articles
  • Participants editing articles
    Participants editing articles

Weeks 9 and 10

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Students spoke with Lucy Schrader, Digital Channels Outreach Manager at Te Papa, who works on Wikimedia-focused projects for Te Papa, and Heidi Meudt, Botanist for Te Papa, who focuses on developing pages on native forget-me-not species. Students presented their project to the museum staff, and spent time developing blog posts for the museum website and Wikimedia platforms.

Progress

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87.5% Article goal: 40 new or greatly improved articles

   

100% Editing goal: 40 articles edited and improved

   

100% Reference goal: 300 references added

   

69% Image goal: 100 images added

   

100% Edit-a-thon goal: one event hosted by the students

   

100% Blog goal: blog post on the Auckland Museum website, where students discuss their experiences

   

New and improved articles

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Cumulative weekly progress tracked by the dashboard
Week Articles Created Articles Edited Total Edits Words added References added Article views Commons uploads
Week 1 1 9 42 2.68K 23 3.32K 5
Week 2 7 22 181 14.9K 151 10.4K 20
Week 3 13 32 303 28.7K 280 23.7K 29
Week 4 18 47 388 40.3K 442 39.7K 32
18 47 388 40.3K 442 57K 32
18 47 388 40.3K 442 71.7K 32
18 47 388 40.3K 442 87.9K 32
Week 5 21 53 450 44.5K 517 103K 34
Week 6 25 63 512 49.5K 595 121K 43
Week 7 29 78 586 57.6K 704 139K 47
Week 8 30 81 646 60.1K 739 172K 61
Week 9 33 87 713 71.1K 850 193K 69
Week 10 33 89 728 72.5K 861 249K 69

Natural history

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Queer history

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Te Ao Māori

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Churches and temples

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Parks

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Migrant figures in Tāmaki Makaurau

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South Asian communities and figures in Tāmaki Makaurau

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