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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. From the beginning of 2022, I have led the NZThesisProject. For December 2024 I made a Wiki-themed Advent Calendar on BlueSky, just for fun. I am currently Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Otago.

Conflict of interest statement – Wikimedian in Residence

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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 am helping students understand how to read Wikipedia critically, encouraging staff to contribute on topics they teach or research, and helping the university to release images to Wikimedia Commons. You can find details of the work, including resources I have produced, on the 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?

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For 2025 I am focusing on article improvement, especially women's biographies, and I'll be keeping track of my work here. During 2024 I 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 below. I also add a lot of award-winners and such like to Wikidata in order to create lists of notable people. In 2025 I joined WikiProject Edit requests.

I've written more than 680 new Wikipedia pages - listed here. My Accumulated monthly reports to Aotearoa Online meeting for 2023–2025, 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 rapid grant

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In trying to work on academic subjects and people, I realised that academic conferences are a great outreach opportunity for the Wikimedia community. I wrote a WMF rapid grant to test out some ideas, and brought in Mike Dickison (Giantflightlessbirds) to help. I have been developing guidelines for a conference Wikipedian-in-residence, the Wikifying a Conference project. We tested our ideas at three events in New Zealand in 2025, and are writing a Wikifying handbook for Wikimedians.

Community participation

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Most recently, I was invited to open the second day of WikiCite 2025, which was an online and in-person event. I presented on the New Zealand Thesis Project (slides are on Commons). I was also invited to present a talk called Listful Thinking, about the tools Petscan, Listeria and the Wiki List, at the Wikidata and Sister Projects 2025 event in May. I run local editing events and meetups, and participate in challenges - I was runner-up in the 2025 Great European Destubathon, and participated in the Memory of the World challenge. Previously, I have attended all the NZ WikiCon, beginning with Hokitika in March 2021, and attended my first 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!

I am an active 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

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Tools and training

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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

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Academic/prizewinner listeria lists

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Suffrage medal

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  • 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)

Useful tools I use:

Did You Know nominations

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