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2024

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  1. Almost finished on the Massey doctoral advisors list, thanks Annie for your help!
  2. Proposal to Wikify a congress next year has been accepted by the conference organisers, will be seeking funding now. Also looking for a smallish conference or meeting to try things out on in April/May next year.
  3. The thesis paper has finally been accepted by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Wahoo!
  4. Various meetings at Otago to drum up support re Wikimedian in Residence, which is still not signed off at a senior level (probably because everyone's too busy rather than because there is any problem with it). Pushing to get it done before Christmas.
  5. Attended education event by Wikimedia Australia, really useful to learn about Wikiversity.
  6. Down to fewer than 16 women's bios to write before the end of the month and I'll have done 366 start class bios this year! There's still spaces so let me know of the most prominent missing NZ women (as long as they aren't sportswomen).
  7. Am having a lot of fun doing a WikiAdvent Calendar on BlueSky. I also have a starter pack of Wikipedia-related accounts so find me if you join BlueSky and I'll add you (or not, as you prefer), I'm thneed.bsky.social
  • 10 Nov
    1. Meeting with people at Otago re projects for next year.
    2. Thesis project data reused in the wild! This edurank page lists the 100 most viewed Wikipedia articles for alumni of Otago. When it says what degree someone studied, that has often come from the thesis project (e.g. for Grant Robertson (Q1543207) and Kieran McAnulty (Q41498761). There are of course pages like this for all the universities.
    3. Obtained a spreadsheet of Massey doctoral advisors to reconcile with Wikidata.
  • 13 Oct
    1. Wrote a proposal to be Wikipedian in Residence to Otago for six months next year. Provisionally accepted by WANZ. Making lots of plans about what can be done!
    2. Still slightly behind on my #1woman1day pages (8 in arrears), but still planning to finish. Currently working through honours lists, happy to take suggestions of notable women to write about, especially if they have any connection to education, science or academia. (Auckland Museum have a list, check notable deaths)
    3. Working through thesis project people on Wikidata, trying to find at least one publication to connect to each person.
    4. Learned the pipe trick! It's a marginally faster of way of wikilinking to a page.
    5. Wrote a quick stub for Otago Goldfields Cavalcade this morning if anyone is into horseriding and wants to add to it!
    6. Working on a plan to leverage Siobhan's IBC work and the WikiPortraits project into some materials for Wikifying conferences.
    7. Also noted that sources added to Wikidata items are appearing in Wikipedia articles in other languages. This is good motivation for adding useful sources to Wikidata statements.
  • 15 Sep
    1. Attended Wikimania in Katowice, was really good for making connections, and I heartily recommend giving out flyers as a way of raising awareness about a project! see my report here.
    2. I am well behind on #1woman1day work (about 22 pages) but still plan to catch up. There are some people I have a conflict of interest with because I know them, and some others I just can't find enough material on.
    3. Thesis project: Found a new route to match Orcid profiles with thesis authors with quite a high success rate so matched several hundred new authors. Then used the Orcid IDs of everyone in the thesis project to extract identifiers from OpenAlex and add them to Wikidata. OpenAlex profiles contain an 'openness' score for each researcher, showing the % of their papers openly available. I was hoping to be able to use those to compare disciplines and institutions, but sadly it looks like that score specifically it isn't available via API. We are looking at doing another thesis upload of the last two years of dissertations, timing unclear.
    4. Have talked to Otago about possibly matching the research repository to Wikidata - not necessarily adding a lot of new items, but matching up the papers openly available in the repository with their Wikidata record and adding a link to the repository version.
    5. Got a new feature added to the Wikidata and Wikipedia tools extension for Google sheets. Happy to demo for the group or one-on-one if anyone interested.
  • 21 July
    1. Created a new Wikidata WikiProject for early NZ women photographers. Worked on NZ women photographers database with Te Papa, matching 81 women to existing Wikidata records, created records for all the others (400 and something new women). Project page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NZWomenPhotographers
    2. Worked on the paper with Deborah, am overhauling the thesis project Wikipedia page to be a better 'front page' for the project.
    3. Fell behind on page per day work, due to lack of motivation, but am up to 202 pages and it's the 203rd day of the year, so almost back on track!
    4. Finally, heard on Thursday morning that a scholarship has become available so I am hopefully off to Poland for Wikimania! Short notice!
    5. Am making a video for Coolest Tool Award, as am on the selection committee. Will hopefully get to present the award in person!
  • 23 June
    1. Annie matched lots of the Māori writers in Kōromako Māori writers database, for our new identifier, and I'm creating a Mixnmatch catalogue for the rest (https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/6355).
    2. Still keeping nose above water with #1woman1day - 174 start level pages this year. I have conflicts of interest with some people I know on the list, if anyone is keen to cover them (Louise Parr-Brownlie, Tammy Steeves, Hazel Chapman, Emma Wyeth, Dorothy Oorschot - their Wikidata items are linked from my worklist here and the template I use is here)
    3. Thesis project - chugging along, much advisor matching this month (just under 1000 unmatched advisors now).
  • 26 May
    1. Was invited to University of Canterbury to run a Wikidata training event with Zeborah and Mike.
    2. Thesis project: began work (again) on detailing the process for librarians to add data themselves.
    3. Put all new FRSNZs into Wikidata
    4. Made a property proposal for an identifier for the Kōromako Māori writers database
    5. Still keeping up (just about) with 1 start class page per day for #1woman1day. New pages for lots of academics, plus artist Nancy Bolton and architect Nicola Herbst for the editathons Ink on paper and Women in Architecture 2024. About to do a DYK for Sara Templeton.
  • 28 April - missed meeting
  • 31 March 2024
    1. Delivered two training sessions and a lightning talk in Auckland. Now working on sorting out a series of follow-up online sessions to upskill people interested in learning OpenRefine.
    2. Have been invited to go and talk about the thesis project at University of Canterbury. Yay!
    3. Still keeping up with #1woman1day for woman in red. I will eventually run out of NZ-based professors and emeritus professors (less than a hundred to go) so am considering what to focus on next (have a listeria of honours recipients, so may pick the interesting people out of that)
  1. Currently writing training for OpenRefine sessions at the Auckland Wikicon. Current plan is one on Wikidata followed by one on Commons, although I think we're unlikely to get all the way through a Commons upload.
  2. Still just about keeping up with #1woman1day for WomeninRed - one biography of a NZ woman professor (at the moment - I'll run out of professors before the end of the year so can cast my net wider) for every day of the year.
  3. Not much change on Thesis Project work, still partway through adding missing advisors for a batch of ~1000 thesis matched to authors through Orcids. Also trying to write a lightning talk for Auckland on the thesis project.
  1. Talked to the Auckland Museum summer interns this week about the thesis project and Wikidata/Wikipedia interactions. I hope I didn't overwhelm them, they asked some great questions and seem to have been having a very productive summer.
  2. The OpenRefine Train-the-trainers course is progressing - things have been quiet but we had a couple of calls with some really useful details on what has worked well and not so well for trainers in the past. I also had a cocktail meetup with Pru Mitchell in Melbourne which was lovely.
  3. I committed to trying to get all the NZ women professors into Wikipedia this year (currently just under 120 to go, although it's something of a moving target as we don't have a complete list, and I occasionally find more to add to it). I'm going to have a good go at #1woman1day this year (I managed 31 new bios in January, so, so far so good!), and am spurred on by having won a physical barnstar from Women in Red for the education event, which is winging it's way to me in Dunedin. Did I mention the importance of swag? ;)
  4. Am providing support one-on-one to a NZ editor to audit a Wiki dataset in OpenRefine.
  5. Have done a massive amount of author matching on the thesis project, as I did a reconciliation with Orcid and created almost a thousand new records for people who have an Orcid and a thesis but who weren't already in Wikidata (or at least, if they were, they didn't have their Orcid applied).
  6. I nominated Carol Mutch for Did you know to run on 22 Sep, as she does research around schools coping with disasters, which was prompted by her experiences in Chch earthquakes.

2023

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  • DrThneed is planning two presentations, one for the ESEAP community meeting next week and the other for Wellington WikiCon, exciting! She submitted a scholarship application to go to Wikimania in Singapore in August. She is writing a response to a paper that was published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship, on doctoral theses in Wikidata, but Covid brainfog is holding up finishing that currently. DrThneed also wants to celebrate that Annie passed 300 matches in the NZThesis Mixnmatch catalogue, which is a lot of work! Thanks Annie. DrThneed also wrote her first page this year, Adrian Hailwood.
  • Got back into the Thesis project as explained earlier. She created a wikipedia page yesterday about a trust offering new writers residency - the Casselberg trust . It is a short page but links to all the writers and the two people it’s named after. She's looking forward to being a Wikidata fellowship mentor and there are applications for NZ and she’s also looking forward to the conference. She's been in discussions with Avocadobabygirl on how to disambiguate people via Wikidata for a data project sharing tips and tricks in OpenRefine etc. Einebillion elaborated on what Avocadobabygirl is working on for Te papa. It is the Te Papa mix'n'match creators id dataset. This dataset is actually their agents and includes people who shouldn’t be included and is old and the data has been significantly improved in 6 years. Discussion happened around this project and DrThneed says Magnus will delete if asked. Einebillion explained not Te Papa’s dataset because a third party who created it but that Avocadobabygirl is currrently working through the issues surrounding this.
  • Year has exploded with work so needing to schedule. Put in a proposal to go to Wikimania. There's also Wikidata conference at Taiwan later in the year, while not attending physically, will be on the organising committee. Also put in a proposal to go to LIANZA in Christchurch and talk about Thesis project. Women in Architecture editathon in Auckland on 20 May and likely to support a Dunedin in person event. Also have worked on Scholia for a Zoology department, as a new way of visualising some of the thesis data. Working on two publications and looking over a draft Wikidata toolkit for another editor.
  • Sorting out architecture editathon for May 20. Have done a lot of Wikidata work to support it, creating a NZ Women in Architecture Wikidata project and adding women, books, awards to it (very few buildings so far!). Still need to add some queries to visualise things (suggestions welcome!). Made a Listeria for the project. Created a page for Lynda Simmons and put it forward for a DYK to run on May 20 (would be nice to have a photo).
  • Thesis project: Created a Scholia for Otago Zoology department, to support Mike's Wikimedian in residence work. Submitted a short paper to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Working on a longer paper. Commented on a Wikidata toolkit prepared by the librarians at LSE and York. Submitted a proposal for a talk at Lianza in Christchurch and will apply to Wanz for funding to attend.
  • Other: Changed my Listeria for NZ honours recipients into a women-only list so I could add it to Women in Red list of lists. Made pages for Centre of Research Excellence, Playwrights Association of New Zealand, Maria Bargh, Elspeth Tilley and Eirian Jones.
  • Made a bunch of Wikipedia pages for some academics and architects etc: Ineke Crezee, Diane Menzies, Margaret Bedggood, June Pallot, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, Isabel Castro (biologist), Jodie Hunter, Jackie Benschop, Nicole Moreham, Jackie Gillies, Margaret Munro, Min Hall, Alison Sleigh, Sarah Treadwell, Sargood Centre. DrThneed's proprosal for a presentation at the LIANZA conference (31 Oct/Nov) has been accepted, and is working on slides for that (which will be similar to slides for Wikimania, if talk is accepted) and on a manuscript with Zeborah, Deborah Fitchett. Have also been mentoring my Wikidata fellow who is beginning to get to grips with OpenRefine which is exciting! She has a great dataset which is going to really benefit NZ Wikidata.
  • has been adding main subject statements to theses in Wikidata, as mentioned above. She is also exploring other visualisations based on main subject statements, e.g. which taxa are best covered, a map of places mentioned in theses, what occupation you should have if you want someone to write a thesis about you, that sort of thing (see the thesis Wikidata project page). She'd love suggestions if you can think of interesting angles to take! DrThneed has had her talk on the thesis project accepted at Wikimania. Also planning a second Women in Architecture event as part of the heritage festival later in the year. Last week DrThneed and Mike did a presentation on copyright for scientists at the Department of Anatomy at Otago.
  • Making slides for Singapore, writing the thesis project paper, and continuing to match thesis authors etc. Annie and I broke 5% on the Mix'n'match for thesis authors! Met with Heritage NZ about running another women and architecture event during the heritage festival. Am contributing a session on Wikidata to a National Library of Singapore workshop after Wikimania.
  • DrThneed learned about the Wikidata Walkabout tool and wants people to know it exists (its purpose is to allow you to query Wikidata without writing any Sparql, by “drilling down” through classes). DrThneed also had her letter on Wikidata theses accepted in the Journal of Academic Librarianship (finally! It was four months in review and then got accepted with no revisions. Now available online). She has also drafted a few stub articles for political candidates (there’s a list of more that need doing here), put all the missing Greens & Labour candidates into Wikidata and added SDC to their images in Commons. Have added the National candidates to Wikidata but haven’t done SDC as their copyright isn’t sorted properly yet so images may get deleted still. Will add all remaining candidates (with electorates and list rankings) to Wikidata when the official Electoral Commission list gets published (any day now). She is also running a Women in Architecture public event in October as part of the Heritage Festival so is planning for that. She's been working on the Web2Cite tool, trying to fix PapersPast automatic citation generator problem that drives us editors nuts and as well as news websites, and has been making some inroads to fixing some. There is meant to be a community who can help but she has only found a few folks who use the tool. User:MargaretRDonald suggests reaching out to Kerry Raymond who knows the most about web2cit in Australia. She has also put in application for a Wikimedia Foundation train the trainers of OpenRefine course and is hoping to get accepted.
  • Architect event report - 3 articles created, 3.5k words , and 51 references
  • LIANZA presentation comming up on Halloween in Christchurch with Deborah on the NZ Thesis Project
  • Open Refine train the trainers course - accepted, need to train group before end of March (session at next Wiki meeting). Focusing on OpenRefine for Commons uploads.
  • Election articles (including updating Wikidata items, e.g. from political candidates to elected, etc.) - final final count required (3rd November).
  • Election Did You Know (DYK) - please help expand bios (list here) and get them ready, we want as many as possible, but definitely more than 19! Also if you DYK, then some QPQ credits would be great.
  1. Content: wrote four pages for women professors (Andrea 't Mannetje, Bronwen Connor, Melinda Webber, Sue Crengle), added award statements for all the RSNZ James Cook Fellows to Wikidata and made a page for the award itself (this was its last year). Added about 50 award statements for Fellows of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology to Wikidata (there are more fellows, but they need Wikidata items created, which I'm probably not going to do). Also created Wikidata items for the award scheme that will replace this and other fellowships. Added the first of the 2023 Royal Society awards statements to Wikidata (the Auckland event has been held, we will have Wellington and Christchurch in the next week). Also worked on expanding new pages for MPs to reach DYK eligibility. There are still lots of MP pages to review for the mass "Did you know" nomination if anyone wants easy QPQs. I'll add the final vote counts and results to Wikidata once the final final recounts are all in (which they might be now? I've lost track a little of the individual recounts in close electorates). Also made Wikidata items for a bunch of Dunedin streets to link to heritage buildings.
  2. Attended Wikidatacon virtually.
  3. Attended the first meeting of the OpenRefine train-the-trainers course (who is interested in being trained in using OpenRefine for Wiki work - Wikidata, WikiCommons?).
  4. Presented the NZ Thesis Project to the LIANZA Conference in Christchurch which was very exciting (report pending). She's had scholia profile nibbles from Canterbury University librarians as a result of the Thesis presentation at LIANZA. Giantflightlessbirds expressed an interest in talking to Canterbury Librarians too.
  5. 2023 Election: DYK for new MPs has been an interesting experience for DrThneed this year. New MP articles totalled 19. Last year everybody leapt on them and reviewed them quickly. This year there was a debate on whether the articles should exist as a multi-hook. The articles are really easy to review. So if you are not involved in the articles they are great if you want to increase your review total. They are just sitting there just waiting to be done. Discussed this article for New MP come through on the recount. DrThneed needs help for an issue where someone has become an MP based on preliminary results but then lost this. Group agreed that often such people achieve notability even if they loose.
  1. DrThneed wrote pages for 21 women, one science organisation and one science funding scheme (Katherine Ravenswood, Merilyn Manley-Harris, Holly Thorpe, Verica Rupar, Johanna Montgomery, Siew-Young Quek, Renate Meyer, Ngaio Beausoleil, Pamela von Hurst, Rita Krishnamurthi, Juliana Mansvelt, Annika Hinze, Sarah Ross, Anita Wreford, Georgina Stewart, Heike Schänzel, Roslyn Kerr, Karen Hoare, Elizabeth Macpherson, Beverley Lawton, Lisa Te Morenga, New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology, Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowships). Also thanks to David, as the video he posted last meeting about bringing in sourced Wikidata info into ordinary (non-Wikidata) infoboxes was fantastic and I'm now using it on all my bios.
  2. The DYK multihook for new MPS is still waiting for 13 more reviews although progress has been made. It now has a lovely 20-person image!
  3. Wikidata: added new professors and associate professors as per press releases from AUT, Canterbury and Massey. The list of women professors needing pages is now 142 women long and getting longer, despite my efforts above! If anyone wants to chip in, I especially appreciate help with Otago staff. I also added to Wikidata lists of fellows for a couple of societies, and the new Royal Society awards as they were announced.
  4. Commons: Have downloaded around 150 photos from the Royal Society award events, and have them teed up in OpenRefine with their depicts statements and captions etc just waiting to be uploaded, the RS just hasn't yet put a license statement on the Google albums. I will be walking through how I've done this as a demo with the OpenRefine Train the Trainers group on Friday so will get feedback if there are any improvements I can make. I'm also working with a batch of over 100 images of Otago professors from the Hocken, which I'm going to share as a training/scraping dataset with other people on the TTT course.

To do:

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  1. Birthday honours in Wikidata 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and back
  2. New Year honours 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and back
  3. Female FRSNZs with no Wikipedia page (as at April 2023, 2024): NONE!!!
  4. Add new professors to Wikidata as they are announced in 2023 for 2024: Auckland, AUT, Canterbury, Massey, Otago, Lincoln, VUW, Waikato
  5. Rutherford Discovery fellows for 2023
  6. Robert Burns fellows in Wikidata Robert Burns Fellowship
  7. Frances Hodgkins Fellows in Wikidata Frances Hodgkins Fellowship
  8. Caroline Plummer Fellowship (needs Wp page, Wd creation, then list) Wp page not done
  9. University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellow[1]
  10. NZIFST fellows and honorary fellows into Wikidata, page for NZIFST itself and note other awards such as JC Andrews award
  11. Emeritus professors at University of Auckland, AUT (not in calendar), Canterbury, Massey (2021 done, can't read calendar), Otago, Lincoln, VUW, Waikato
  12. Jane Prichard, Tere Gilbert (Waikato), Deborah Manning (KiwiHarvest), Gretchen Kivell (1st woman president Engineering NZ), Ruth Lilian Spearing CNZM,
  13. Council protected buildings list - cross-check with Wikidata, add missing items, find way to record items on council list as opposed to HNZ list.
  14. In progress pages: Karole Hogarth waiting Wd tools, Mary Isabel Turnbull, first female humanities academic at Otago (related to Barbara Calvert), Orpheus Beaumont lifejacket inventor.
  15. Find more professors: check Wikidata against lists at Auckland, AUT, Massey, Waikato, Lincoln, Canterbury, Victoria, Otago
  1. ^ Humanities, Division of (2023-03-06). "Otago Fellows". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2023-09-20.