User:DrThneed

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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.

My projects

Conflict of interest statement – Wikimedian in Residence

From 26 May 2025 I am the Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, funded by a grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ. I help students understand how to read Wikipedia critically, encourage staff to contribute on topics they teach or research, and help the university to release images to Wikimedia Commons. University of Otago Wikimedian in Residence project pages here.

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?

Community participation

  • Opened the second day of WikiCite 2025, presenting on the New Zealand Thesis Project (slides are on Commons)
  • Listful Thinking, about the tools Petscan, Listeria and the Wiki List, at the Wikidata and Sister Projects 2025.
  • I run weekly local editing events (Lunchipedia) and meetups
  • I was runner-up in the 2025 Great European Destubathon, and participated in the Memory of the World challenge. I've attended all the NZ WikiCon, beginning with Hokitika in March 2021, and attended my first in-person Wikimania in Singapore in 2023. I was at Wikimania in Poland in 2024 too (lucky me), where I was part of the Cool Tool Academy. Here is my report from Poland!
  • Member of Women in Red, the Wikimedian in Residence Network, the GLAM global monthly call, the Australian and New Zealand Libraries and Wikidata group, and because I am a Wikimedian in Residence in an academic library, interact with Wiki communities for libraries, GLAMs and higher education.

Media coverage

Tools and training

I occasionally make training videos to show how to do things on Wikidata or Wikipedia or OpenRefine. These are collected in the "Tamsin's Tool Tips" category on Wikimedia Commons, and uploaded to YouTube channel @drthneed6733 Training videos I've made:

  • How to use Petscan, May 2025 (Petscan can query Wikipedia and Wikidata at the same time, see the video description for some example uses)

Templates and workflows

Academic/prizewinner listeria lists

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)
    • As of 10 Sep 2025, 127 people have pages (417 do not, of which 10 have an image)

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