Wikipedia:GLAM/OU/Events/Pride Month 2026

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Pride Month 2026

Book display in Central Library

New Zealand Pride Month in 2026 runs throughout March.

Wikipedia is the 8th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. Come along to the Central Library on the 31st March to improve Pride-related reliable information on Wikipedia. PrideNZ have helpfully compiled a list of pages that could be improved or created. New or experienced editors all welcome - biscuits and snacks provided!

What's it about?

An edit-a-thon is an event where volunteer editors tackle a part of Wikipedia that needs improvement. Complete beginners are welcome; training and troubleshooting is provided. All you need to bring is a laptop and any resources you have handy (books, magazines etc)!

This edit-a-thon is being hosted by Tamsin Braisher, the University Wikimedian in Residence, and celebrates Pride Month. We will focus on improving the coverage of related people, places, and things. You don't need to be a expert to take part, anyone can help with editing, researching, proofreading, and adding photos.

When and where

• Tuesday 31 March 2026, 1:00 – 3:00 pm NZST Seminar Room 2, Central Library (look for the Wikipedia banner)

Timetable

Everyone is welcome to stay for the entire duration or only attend the parts of the workshop that are relevant to you.

• 1:00 – 1:15 pm - Opening and introductions, account creation
• 1:15 – 1:45 pm - Wikipedia training - learn how Wikipedia works and how to improve, create, and reference articles, using some of the target edits listed below or your own ideas.
• 1:45 – 2:45 pm - Make some edits! Either improve existing articles or create a new stub.
• 2:45 – 3:00 pm – Finishing up, make sure to record what you did on the event page below. Grab a laptop sticker before you go!

To attend

• The Edit-a-thon is free and open to all.

• This workshop will be following "friendly space" guidelines; check them out. Harassment and disruption won't be tolerated, online or offline.

People attending

To add yourself to the list, click 'edit source' just above this line, then add an asterisk, a space and three tildes ~~~ This is how we sign our names.

• DrThneed (talk) (Organiser)
• Greenchocolate (talk)
• Lavender78

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What to bring

• Laptop and power cord. Laptops are definitely easier to edit on than iPads.
• Any snacks or drink you want. Snacks will be provided, courtesy of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Any resources such as books, journals, magazine or newspaper articles relevant to articles you're interested in - although we also have easy access to the books in the Pride display at the library.
• Photos you've taken or art that could illustrate articles; you'll learn how to donate these to Wikimedia Commons so other Wikipedia articles can use them.

Preparation

1. If you're coming, try to create a Wikipedia account beforehand: don't wait until the day to do it! Here's a form you can use if you like. Creating an account makes editing much easier (here's more info on why you should). You'll need to pick a "handle" for your username; you could use your real name, but it's nice to have the option to be a bit anonymous if you want. Here's some advice on picking a username.
2. The more you prepare, the more you'll be able to get done. You may want to read up on avoiding common mistakes, but Wikipedia has a "don't bite the newbies" policy, and we'll be there to troubleshoot.
3. Have a think about topics you'd like to work on; do a little research first so you're prepared. You don't have to be an expert; anyone who can do library research and write clearly can help improve Wikipedia. The best candidates for Wikipedia articles are people, places, or things that are "notable". In Wikipedia terms, "notable" people are those who've been covered in a number of reliable independent sources, such as news, books, authoritative websites, or magazine interviews. If you're proposing to create a new Wikipedia article it's important to make sure your subject is "notable"; talk to us if you're not sure – we can help.
4. If you want to bring photos along and add them to Commons and Wikipedia, they need to be free of any copyright or released under a Creative Commons license that lets anyone use them. (What's Creative Commons?) If not, you must be the creator/copyright holder – ask us if you're not certain what's allowed, and we'll help.

Useful resources

• The NZ table of the Pride Month display in the library has a number of useful books. You can see if any of them can be used to improve an author or subject's page. In particular "Queer in Aotearoa New Zealand" and "Twenty years on: histories of homosexual law reform in New Zealand" could have info relevant to many pages.
• New Zealand Sociology did a special issue called Queer in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Research, Theory, and Practice in 2025, which you can access here https://search.informit.org/toc/nzs/40/1.

To work on

To improve

• In NZ content, Harriet Morison arguably did more for women's suffrage than Kate Sheppard. You could use this recent Otago Daily Times article by historian Jane Tolerton to improve Morison's page. Tolerton doesn't speculate why Morison was sidelined in our public memory, but possibly because "From 1893 until her death in 1925 she lived with her friend and companion Lilly Wild".
• For any of the NZ books in the book display, you can check if you think it should be mentioned on the LGBTQ literature in New Zealand page, and add it if it is missing.

#	Article Title	Page Views (1 year)	Number of Lang.	Days Since Last Edit	Quality Progress	Potential Needs	Topics	Countries
1	Alison Laurie	96	0	35	28%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, Literature, Women	New Zealand
2	Anne Speir	264	0	125	14%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content. PrideNZ has an interview with Anne, it can't be used as a source but it might point to where to find others. It can be linked in a new 'External links' section.	Biography, Culture, Women	New Zealand
3	Bruce Burnett	1,315	0	59	25%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
4	The Charlotte Museum	1,856	0	10	37%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media. There may be relevant info in Miriam Saphira's Remember us book from the book display, which is not mentioned on the page.	No topics detected	New Zealand
5	Coalition of Concerned Citizens	812	0	280	25%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	History and Society, Politics and government	New Zealand
6	Dana de Milo	508	0	303	34%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	History and Society, Society	New Zealand
7	Dorian Society	1,047	1	212	19%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content	History and Society, Society	New Zealand
8	Elizabeth Kerekere	5,290	2	3	67%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media. Takatapui is listed in her publications, but it should say somewhere in text that it was published and when.	No topics detected	New Zealand
9	Fran Wilde	6,921	2	3	60%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media	No topics detected	New Zealand
10	GayNZ.com	816	1	234	37%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, Check article for a maintenance message (see if you can find a source that talks about GayNZ that can replace some of the cites to their own website)	History and Society, Society	New Zealand
11	Geoff Braybrooke	810	0	211	49%	Improve article section headings, Add images or other media	No topics detected	New Zealand
12	Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986	5,299	1	72	49%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories. See "Twenty years on"	No topics detected	New Zealand
13	John Banks (New Zealand politician)	9,154	4	2	76%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media	No topics detected	New Zealand
14	Keith Hay	1,204	1	345	27%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
15	Miriam Saphira	564	1	168	32%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content. Doesn't mention Remember us (book in display).	Biography, Culture, Women	New Zealand
16	Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku	3,116	7	55	36%	Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, History and Society, Literature, Society, Women	New Zealand
17	Norman Jones (politician)	1,267	1	31	28%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
18	Peter Tait (mayor)	517	0	4	38%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media	No topics detected	New Zealand
19	Peter Wells (writer)	1,387	5	75	33%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
20	Prue Hyman	533	1	78	33%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	History and Society, Society	New Zealand
21	Robin Duff	357	2	6	19%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add an infobox, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
22	Sisters for Homophile Equality	488	3	101	26%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, History and Society, Society, Women	New Zealand, United States
23	Trevor Mallard	11,355	2	88	84%	Add images or other media	No topics detected	New Zealand, Ireland
24	Venn Young	1,372	0	1	28%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	No topics detected	New Zealand
25	Warren Freer	1,180	1	76	53%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories	No topics detected	New Zealand
26	Anthony Lapwood	315	0	551	24%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, Literature, Women	New Zealand
27	Shaneel Lal	6,820	2	31	52%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Check article for a maintenance message	History and Society, Society	Fiji, New Zealand
28	Kyle Mewburn	986	0	144	34%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Biography, Culture, Women	New Zealand
29	Kay O'Neill	7,399	3	191	30%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, This article is too short, try to expand the content	Comics and Anime, Culture, Literature, Visual arts	New Zealand, United States
30	Takatāpui	18,896	5	66	41%	Add more internal wikilinks, Improve article section headings, Add images or other media, Add an infobox	History and Society, Society	Not a country-based article
31	Robert Lord (playwright)	741	1	68	43%	Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media	Biography, Culture, Literature, Women	New Zealand
32	Joanne Drayton	739	1	99	19%	Add more references, Add more internal wikilinks, Add images or other media, Add more relevant categories, This article is too short, try to expand the content. This article should link to who she has studied (Edith Collier, Anne Perry, Hudson & Halls, and if her name is mentioned in those articles it should link back to Drayton's article).	Biography, Culture, Literature, Women	New Zealand

To create

If you're feeling brave, why not try creating a new stub article? Click a redlink below to start writing an article in mainspace, or you can draft it in your sandbox first (ask me how!). Possible topics and sources include:

• Welby Ings Welby Ings (Q112358071) Sources:Spinoff,Herald (both paywalled, avail. thru Factiva), AUT profile, College, GayExpress, RNZ, Post(paywalled), NZOnScreen, BusinessDesk (paywalled), OneNews, Listener via Herald (paywalled) Two notable doctoral students (add to info box, link to them and back again): Maree Sheehan, Richard Orjis
• Karen Ritchie Karen Ritchie (Q137642276), awarded ONZM in Dec 2026 for services to people with HIV/AIDS and Rainbow communities. Sources: ONZM citation, NZHerald (paywalled, find on PressReader), Waatea News, Franklin Times

Outcomes

Information about editing done during this workshop will be aggregated to create event metrics for our report back to funding organisations (e.g. number of editors involved, number of pages edited (see the dashboard here). If you want to know more about this or object to being included in such metrics, please talk to one of the organisers.