Tuesday, November 20 • 3:38pm - 3:45pm

GLAM sector organisations with public outreach as part of their mission have begun exploring partnerships with Wikipedia – the place where most people go for information. Wikipedia is the world's fifth-most-popular website with 70 million unique visitors a day. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers make 350 edits a minute to its pages. To work with this enormous base of volunteers, GLAM organisations have started hosting Wikimedians in Residence who help develop an institutional Wikipedia and Commons strategy and coordinate public editing events. I'll be reporting back on the beginning of my stint as a Wikipedian at Large, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation to work in GLAM and other organisations around the country

Mike Dickison - Wikipedian at Large, Wikimedia Foundation

Former Curator of Natural History at Whanganui Regional Museum, I did my PhD on giant flightless birds but most work on NZ beetles these days. Currently on a one-year contract to work with institutions all over NZ and help them engage with Wikipedia better.