Wikipedia:GLAM/Auckland Museum

Auckland War Memorial Museum Wikipedia GLAM project page

This project page shares the Wikimedia work being done at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum. If you have any questions or are using our data in a project, we would love to hear from you. Contact our team via: wikipedia@aucklandmuseum.com

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Mana (newspaper) was the first multi-lingual Polynesian newspaper published in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The newspaper ran from 1977–78 and represented the voices and issues of Māori and Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand during a period of social upheaval.

Auckland Museum

Founded in 1852, Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s oldest and most significant museums. The Museum tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand, its place in the Pacific and its people. Our collections span human history, natural sciences and documentary heritage which comprise of three million objects and counting. Each telling a story that helps interpret, understand, and illuminate the history of Aotearoa  and reflects the diversity of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Auckland Museum’s collections are open access by default, closed by exception. These exceptions include content depicting Māori and Pacific subjects and taonga. See more about our Museum’s cultural permissions guidelines on Wikimedia platforms here.

Our Team

Auckland Museum has been engaging with Wikimedia since 2017 and currently has two staff undertaking Wikimedia project work.

Charlotte Berry, User:SydneyBridgeUpsideDown, began as the full time Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) funded Wikimedian in Residence in September 2026. This role has a focus on community outreach, organising and mentoring the Wikipedia summer student programme and engaging with other Auckland GLAMs.

Brodie Satherley, User:Dactylantha the Museum's Online Data Analyst, supports the uploads of the Museum’s openly licensed imagery and associated catalogue data through batch-uploading projects on Wikimedia Commons. She has also been exploring the integration and alignment of internal authorities alongside Wikidata authority items, along with other data experiments and efforts to enable data round-tripping between Wikidata and Auckland Museum’s Online Collections.

From 2021 to early 2026 Marty Blayney, User:Prosperosity helped unlock the potential knowledge held within Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum’s academic outputs and research publications, initially funded by a Wikicite Grant. In 2023, Marty worked on the Aotearoa New Zealand local histories project, developing Wikipedia content on local suburbs and areas around Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.

From September 2024 to September 2026, Anjuli Selvadurai, User:Winnieswikiworld was the first full-time Wikimedian in Residence funded by WANZ.

The team's work is managed by Online Collections Information and Partnerships Manager James Taylor, User:Jetaynz.

What's On

Upcoming: Next event in 2026

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Recent events

A+W Walking Tour- University of Auckland B201- 4 August 2026
Wikipedia Workshop at Te Toi Uku- 18 July
A+W Walking Tour & Edit-a-thon- 22 March
Women in Wartime - 7 April
Open Christchurch 2026: Representation in Architecture - 3 May

Community Meetups

The next Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland meet ups are 29 August and 26 September.

The next New Zealand online meet ups are 16 August and 19 Septemeber.

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