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Introducing myself
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I am Victoria Leachman, and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I am a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) professional having worked in museums for my entire career, initially as a museum collection manager, then as a manager of copyright processes within a museum, and now as an executive and people manager making collections more accessible and reuseable for the public. I manage teams responsible for a research library, corporate archives and records, copyright clearances and processes, collections information management and data and digital preservation workflows, imaging, publishing, and lending collection items.
I contribute to the Wikiverse through my contribution as President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand incorporated society - the New Zealand affiliate to Wikimedia Foundation. With Ambrosia10 I co-organise and facilitate two regular user meetups - the Aotearoa New Zealand Online monthly meetup and the Wellington monthly meetup. My content editing contributions vary. At the moment my key area of interest is working in Wikidata. See my Wikidata user page here
My ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-1827
Te Reo for edit a thon is: Tauoma takatā
Te Reo for a wikipedia editor is: Ringa takatā mātāpunenga
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Previous highlights (as at August 2023)
edit- Chairing the organising committee of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand, the New Zealand affiliate.
- Organisation of the 2023 Strategy weekend for the Committee of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
- Organisation and writing of the successful funding appplication for the 2023-2026 General Support grant application for WIkimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
- Contributing to writing then copy-editing and submitting the 2022 Annual report of the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Organisation and writing of the funding application and reporting for the 2022/23 General Support grant application and reports for Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Organisation of the 2021 New Zealand WikiCon in Auckland
- Contributing to writing then copy-editing and submitting the 2021 Annual report of the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Writing, copy-editing and submitting the 2020 Annual report of the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand
Favourite Tools
edit- Mix-n-Match - Linking external datasets with Q numbers. I focus on the PIC database
- Tabernacle - editing of sets of data live to Wikidata
- Quick Statements - bulk uploading of data to Wikidata
- Open Refine - still learning - my Open Refine notes
- My notes for training Wikidata beginners
Take outs from Wikimania 2023
edit- Asaf's presentation on Wikidata Basics and Sparql queries. See resources on his wikidata User:Ijon page
- NOTE FOR SELF Control space whilst hovering in the wdt: or wd: area gives you a search function!!!
- Asaf's talk on Sparql queries https://youtube.com/watch?v=eEfTTODS_8E
- Notes from Google Day from other attendees
- Doing this google course with Heidi. https://iamremarkable.withgoogle.com/
- Read this paper on Wikipedia Library
- Talk to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand committee about the ESEAP Hub update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Strategy_Summit_2023/Program
Conflict of Interest
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About meI am a paid employee of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), an autonomous Crown entity of New Zealand that provides a forum in which the nation may present, explore, and preserve both the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the natural environment in order to better understand and treasure the past, enrich the present, and meet the challenges of the future. We are working to make our holdings, publications, and other resources more accessible to the public by engaging directly with the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. | ||
Conflict of interest statementWhen I am editing the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons as part of my official professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. Because Te Papa's educational mission is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. Therefore, I will not make substantive edits to articles related to Te Papa as an agency (e.g. Te Papa), or its personnel. Instead, my edits and contributions will be to contribute subject matter expertise, for example to improve articles about Te Papa holdings or subjects relating to New Zealand (e.g. Phar Lap, New Zealand art). You can find out more about this project at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa WikiProject. Te Papa’s work on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons is being governed by internal guidelines, which we have published on-wiki in our WikiProject page. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me. My email is also listed on this page in case I am not regularly checking my talk page. | ||
Declaration
editI had an alternative account User:Islandbaygardener that I had for a few years but in 2017 I decided to have a clean start so started this account. I've retired the previous account as per the Clean Start process. I decided to make this change to mark a new phase in my contributions and commitment to the wiki-verse.
Sandbox
editTemplate for Welcoming new editors {{subst:Welcome-nz}}
For changing cataloguing of media in Commons check out https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot