One of my favourite things about Wikipedia - that everyone works together to build the awesomeness π₯° (I'm missing it, but looking forward to getting started again once motherhood is less all-consuming!)
Tamsin is an inspiration! #WikiWomen #Wikipedia
This is amazing! Fabulous coverage of your fabulous work π
A common gecko under a glass bowl.
A common gecko under a glass bowl, viewed from above
My husband got a bit of a surprise when he opened the tea cupboard this morning. Turns out we had a guest!
Me, surprised by being sleep deprived with a four month old
Is it dumb that I feel like no one warned me about how hard it would be having a new baby, even though literally everyone warns you
A screenshot of Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red from the 19th Dec, showing 20.003% of 2,040,570 bios are about women, that's 408,183 articles.
20% of English Wikipedia's biographies are about women! This is a huge milestone, but there's so much more work to be done on notable women who are more than qualified for their own Wikipedia biography. Thank you to all of the editors who are taking part in this work π«Ά
#gendergap #wikipedia
Your photos of yesterday's historic hΔ«koi are important. You can add them to the public record with Wikimedia Commons, Category:HΔ«koi to Parliament. I wrote a step-by-step guide (www.rove.wiki/blog/uploadi...) and an accompanying video tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwe-...).
that the author of the Alex novels says they are not semi-autobiographical, even though she was herself a champion teenage swimmer like the protagonist?
Tessa Duder's Alex novels feature on Wikipedia's front page today, in the Did you know? column π #pukapuka
New Zealand MPs featured on the front page of Wikipedia today, thanks to the hard work of Wikiproject Aotearoa NZ members β€οΈ
Absolutely!! I sped through the quartet (I don't think I read the last couple of books as a kid either) and didn't want it to end. I hope you love it too!
Great ideas!!!
Isn't it brilliant? Alex the character has stuck with me for so many years β€οΈ
NgΔ mihi π that's a great idea!! Let me know if you do think of anything else too β€οΈ
I'm keen to focus more on adding books by women to Wikipedia, rather than just biographies. I've added a page today for the Alex quartet by Tessa Duder, which I recently reread. #pukapuka en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(n...
If melancholy dystopian sci fi is your jam, check out this short story #pukapuka
Working on improving RenΓ©e's Wikipedia article. Would welcome other contributors, and if anyone has any photos of her they're willing to release under a free licence by uploading to Wikimedia Commons, please do! #pukapuka en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%...
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Today, we remember playwright & author, RenΓ©e Taylor, who has sadly passed away at 92.
"Books βplays, poetry, short stories, novels, nonfiction β they feed us, they heal the broken places, they teach us new things, lead us back to old. They are still working."
Much aroha to her whΔnau and friends.
Mona Williams is on the front page of Wikipedia today! I don't know who to tag on here, but hoping #pukapuka #nzbooks will get it in front of people. π
Ooh. Interesting. I've put through a request and will let you know how I get on!
Ooh interloan is a good shout. I forget that is possible!! Thank you!!
Alas I am Wellington based! Should have specified - I tried the catalogue, but no dice unfortunately, even though they have lots of his other books π
Blurry & pixilated cover of Talking to Blue
I read this book as a young teen, Talking to Blue by Ken Catran, and want to reread it but can't find it anywhere. Any #aotearoabooks people have a source for me? Would be forever in your debt π
that New Zealand ornithologist Arthur Pycroft ate a huia about two years before the last confirmed sighting of that bird species?
I've voted the beautiful huia for #birdofthecentury / #BOTY. This gives me an opportunity to share one of my favourite "Did you know...?" Wikipedia facts (courtesy of Axel Downard-Wilke). Did you know...
I am so looking forward to this event tomorrow - and just realised Mona Williams doesn't have her own Wikipedia page! π€― definitely something for me to address. #nzbooks
Oh my gosh love that!! β€οΈ thank you for telling me! So glad I posted on here π
Absolutely!!! She was a regular contributor π
Omigosh just from yesterday! That's super cool - so lovely for the kids β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ would love to get in touch with whoever took the photos for the day!
