Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2025/Events

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Several events are planned for the 2025 Wikipedian at Large project. These include:

• At least one edit-a-thon in Christchurch, and ideally three.
• At least one community presentation on Wikipedia and the project to the Banks Peninsula public, probably in Akaroa.
• At least one in-person workshop for heritage or conservation institutions on the Peninsula, on working with Wikipedia and developing an open information strategy. Interested organisations are welcome to approach the Wikipedian.
• Three Zoom webinars for small heritage/archive/community groups, on engaging with Wikipedia, New Zealand copyright law, and using Creative Commons licences.
• A five-week online course for prospective Wikipedia editors. This will consist of short evening sessions with homework, practical tasks, tuition, assessments, and a final "certificate" for completion. Contributions will be tracked using the WikiEducation project dashboard.

• A face-to-face Wikipedia training course in Christchurch in a centrally-located computer classroom. This will be similar to the online course, but will also be using Paul A. Thomas's Inside Wikipedia (2022, Rowman and Littlefield) as a textbook. Costs will be kept low. The course will give participants the confidence to take part in an in-person edit-a-thon.
• In addition, Christchurch Wikipedians will continue a monthly meetup series in 2025, meeting usually on the first Sunday of the month and alternating morning meetings in a cafe and evening meetings in a pub. This is a friendly space for new editors to turn up and get help.
  This user attends the regular Christchurch Meetup.