Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject

Women in Architecture Aotearoa WikiProject is a project to improve content of New Zealand women architects and their work in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

This project is inspired by the publishing in 2022 of the book Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture edited by Elizabeth Cox.

Project
In December 2022 there were nine women listed in the category "New Zealand women architects". There are over 500 women named in the chapters of Making Space. The project aims to increase the number of articles about women and non-binary people who work in architecture and related fields in or from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Architecture + Women NZ are promoting and supporting this project and there are several existing Wikipedia editors updating and creating information on Wikidata.

New to Wikipedia?
Create an account on Wikipedia, join a meetup or event, read through this article and the guides linked on this page.

Join in
Add missing articles of notable women designers and architects or of their work to the Suggested articles list below.
 * Existing editors list your name in the participants section on this page
 * Check out the resources linked on this page
 * Upload an image of work by notable women architects to Wikimedia Commons
 * New editors familiarise yourself with guides for editing on Wikipedia including notability guidelines and managing a conflict of interest (some of you may work with, be or be close friends with some notable women architects of Aotearoa).

Participants
Add your username below to join this project. Add links to any articles you are working on.

You will receive updates on your talk page from time to time.


 * Pakoire (talk) 03:24, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * DrThneed (talk) 07:01, 14 January 2023 (UTC) – I have no particular focus yet but will be delving into Making Space for inspiration and looking for Dunedin links
 * MurielMary (talk) 21:27, 31 March 2023 (UTC) – interested in architects with a link to Otautahi-Christchurch
 * Marshelec (talk)
 * Noracrentiss (talk) – doing research (in my sandbox) for an article on NAWIC 11am-12pm
 * GButtersnaps (talk) 04:01, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Ambrosia10 (talk) 21:43, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Stitchbird2 (talk) 23:18, 12 May 2023 (UTC) – Created and completed a wikipedia page for Dorita Hannah, plus created or edited numerous associated wikidata items for her
 * Oronsay (talk) 03:46, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Silile
 * Aerohydro (talk) 00:01, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
 * SpicyMandarinCake (talk)
 * Daiana.doc.rll (talk) 00:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Conchalecodelana (talk) 00:18, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Fegnuca (talk) 00:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * WanderingRocket (talk) 00:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Architectureicecream (talk) 00:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Magyar architect (talk) 03:06, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Paora (talk)
 * Prosperosity (talk)
 * GButtersnaps (talk)
 * JaimeLawrence (talk)

Suggested articles
List suggested articles here – many with reference links. Please add your name to articles you are working on to avoid edit conflicts and double ups.


 * Andrea Bell ** (Q115629001)
 * Claire Chambers **(Q117846721)
 * Fiona Christeller (Q115123436) Sources:
 * Denise Civil (Q117791110)
 * Megan Edwards ** (Q118500723)
 * Briar Green ** (Q117846661)
 * Nicola Herbst ** (Q117846751)
 * Judi Keith-Brown ** (Q117846742) Sources:
 * Amanda Reynolds (architect)
 * Rachael Rush
 * Sarah Scott (Q117846759)
 * Judith Taylor (Q117846744)
 * Raukura Turei ** (Q87648433)
 * Kathy Waghorn ACADEMIC (Q117813436) Sources:


 * Names with ** are practioners recommended as being easier to find information.
 * Some award winners and judges of the Dulux Awards don't have articles yet: Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards

Articles to improve

Existing categories/lists
 * Architecture of New Zealand – this article is a very short overview with lots of room to extend and link to significant firms, buildings and people.
 * Biographies
 * Diane Menzies - more about her work
 * Andrea Bell - expand
 * Renate Prince - add images of her buildings: Taylor House at 16A Mays Road, Devonport, and the Bryant House at 81 Forrest Hill Road, Milford, Auckland
 * Annette Jones (architect) - more about her impact in urban design
 * Many of the biographies listed on this page can be expanded
 * List of women architects
 * List of New Zealand architects
 * List of women architects
 * List of New Zealand architects
 * List of women architects
 * List of New Zealand architects

Images needed
 * Suggest that at the 2023 Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards the photographer is requested to upload photos of the finalists and award winners, and the event, to Wikimedia Commons to illustrate articles created in this project. MurielMary (talk) 22:34, 31 March 2023 (UTC) ✅
 * I've added the Taylor House at 16A Mays Road, Devonport, and the Bryant House at 81 Forrest Hill Road, Milford, Auckland to Wikidata with coordinates so hopefully they should come up on Wikishootme. Both these houses were co-designed by Renate Prince and it would be great to get images of them onto her Wikipedia article. – Ambrosia10 (talk)

Wikidata project
An item for the Wikiproject has been created New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject (Q117787843) and can be applied to people, buildings, companies, books etc of interest to the project.

As of April 2023, there are 11 women listed with NZ citizenship and the occupation architect (https://w.wiki/6bnB) and 8 landscape architects (https://w.wiki/6bnW). There are 15 women on the list of the NZThesisProject with the occupation 'architect' (https://w.wiki/6bnA) and 8 with landscape architect. Plus there is 1 architectural historian (https://w.wiki/6euf). Combining we get 35 individuals, our starting point for the project.

New articles
Add your new article below. Please also add new relevant articles to the List of New Zealand architects and List of women architects this helps them not be 'orphan' articles (an orphan article is one with no links on other articles).


 * 1) Architecture + Women NZ (Pakoire)
 * 2) Parlour (women, equity, architecture) (Pakoire)
 * 3) Architecture + Women NZ Dulux Awards – separated from article about the organisation
 * 4) Christina van Bohemen
 * 5) Lynda Simmons – will put forward for DYK
 * 6) Lucy Greenish – have nominated for DYK
 * 7) Julia Gatley ACADEMIC (Q117270922)
 * 8) New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects
 * 9) Diane Menzies
 * 10) Dorothy Wills
 * 11) June Pallot (architect, then accounting prof)
 * 12) Clare Athfield
 * 13) Jane Rooney
 * 14) Cecile Bonnifait
 * 15) Lindley Naismith
 * 16) Jackie Gillies
 * 17) Renate Prince
 * 18) Megan Rule
 * 19) Felicity Wallace
 * 20) Louise Wright
 * 21) Elizabeth Cox
 * 22) Dorita Hannah
 * 23) Margaret Munro
 * 24) Anna Plischke
 * 25) National Association of Women in Construction (New Zealand) Excellence Awards
 * 26) Alison Sleigh
 * 27) Deborah Cranko
 * 28) Merle Greenwood
 * 29) Min Hall
 * 30) Gina Jones
 * 31) Muriel Lamb
 * 32) Jade Kake
 * 33) Jessica Halliday
 * 34) Marianne Reay
 * 35) Jessica Barter
 * 36) Jane Aimer
 * 37) Robin Allison
 * 38) Elisapeta Heta
 * 39) Monica Barham
 * 40) Kimberly Browne
 * 41) Maria Chen
 * 42) Anne Salmond
 * 43) Bronwen Kerr
 * 44) Vanessa Carswell
 * 45) Wendy Shacklock
 * 46) Mary Jowett
 * 47) Annette Jones
 * 48) Katherine Skipper
 * 49) Sharon Jansen
 * 50) Rachel de Lambert
 * 51) Anna-Marie Chin
 * 52) Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei
 * 53) Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Hall
 * 54) NAWIC New Zealand
 * 55) Tere Insley
 * 56) Muriel Mary Watt
 * 57) Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
 * 58) Raukura Turei
 * 59) Felicity Brenchley
 * 60) Andrea Bell
 * 61) Ngā Aho
 * 62) Kathy Waghorn

Improved articles

 * 1) NZIA – removed list of Gold Medal winners (as are listed on separate page), added Distinguished Fellows section & list
 * 2) NZIA - added organisation structure Pakoire (talk) 05:10, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Past event: 18 May 2024 Walking Tour and Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
A+W NZ are bringing back the Walking Tour and Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for 2024. The two events were held on Saturday 18th May 2024.

This was a continuation from last year’s work to increase articles about women and non-binary people who work in architecture and related fields in or from Aotearoa New Zealand. A+W NZ is fortunate enough to be joined by Lisa Maule, who will be our Wikipedia expert on the day. Lisa contributes to a multitude of Wikipedia projects that aim to increase the diversity on Wikipedia, including Women in Red, Pasifika Arts Aotearoa, and Women in STEAM Aotearoa.

Meetup/Auckland 23

Walking Tour
The walking tour will be starting in Auckland CBD and take you to five locations. Free license photos and images are a challenging aspect of filling out Wikipedia articles. Attendees will be asked to take photos during the walking tour and upload them to WikiCommons to contribute to the online database!

Meet outside the Ellen Melville Centre at 10am, we will finish the tour at Auckland Museum. Lunch will be provided, followed by a tutorial on photo uploading by Lisa.

Please bring your own laptop for uploading!

Edit-a-thon
The edit-a-thon will run from 10am-4pm at the Learning Labs at Auckland Museum.

Copies of Making Space and other publications will be available for reference.

All experience levels welcome! A beginners’ course will be held at 10am after introductions, for new editors or experienced ones that need a refresher. If you are new have a look at some of the links on this page and spend some time creating a username. USERNAME TIPS: be anonymous & choose something you like as you will see it a lot.

Feel free to come by any time during the day to join the group.

Please bring your own editing device.

Lunch provided at 1pm.

BOOK TICKETS FOR INFORMATION AND CATERING PURPOSES

https://events.humanitix.com/a-w-nz-wikiproject

Dashboard
A dashboard records activity made by people who sign up with their Wikipedia username. Please click on the link and add yourself to have your contributions added. The timeframe for measuring is 8am to midnight on Saturday 18 May 2024.

Dashboard link Women in Architecture 18-05-2024

Outcomes
Many images were uploaded, see the categories Category:A+W NZ Awards and Category:Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon, 18 May 2024.

This has enabled images to be connected to Wikidata and Wikipedia articles making women more visible on the internet. See the event page for full outcomes Walking Tour and Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for 2024

Past event: Edit-a-thon Saturday 20 May 2023
New Zealand Women in Architecture Edit-a-Thon: 20 May 2023 (time 10.00am – 4pm). On-line (NZST).

Registration was through:https://women-in-architecture-edit-a-thon-online.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new New Zealand Women in Architecture Edit-a-Thon: 20 May 2023 (time 1pm – 4pm). In-person in Auckland at the Auckland Museum and also on-line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland_20

New Zealand Women in Architecture Edit-a-Thon: 20 May 2023 Dunedin in-person at the Hocken seminar room (10.30–4pm). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin_6

Dunedin Southern Heritage Festival in-person event 7 October 2023, sign up link here and event page here.

Dashboard for 20 May Edit-a-Thon

 * Dashboard

Outcomes
Tracked by the dashboard over 12 hours on 20 May 2023 across Wikidata and Wikipedia there were 130 articles edited with a total of 964 edits by 25 people. They added a total of 58.4K words and 351 references. There were 17 images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The editors created 17 new Wikipedia biographies of women – an amazing effort. One new awards page was created too, the National Association of Women in Construction (New Zealand) Excellence Awards. In Wikidata there were 22 new items created including quite a few books useful for referencing in Wikipedia.

Follow up
Follow up on content creation, tidy or expand articles. Create new articles. Join a community to address Wikipedia questions and find sources of information. Post your progress on this page so the collective efforts can be tracked.

Books

 * Adding this reference or chapters is possible by using the CiteQ template
 * History of NZIA
 * History of the Auckland School of Architecture
 * All books published by Architecture+Women for Dulux Awards – PDF is linked from this page
 * Architecture in an expanded field, Sarah Treadwell and Lucy Treep – PDF linked from this page
 * Snapshot 500: Architecture+Women New Zealand
 * Snapshot 500: Architecture+Women New Zealand

Categories
navigate through categories to search by clicking on categories at the bottom.

Images in Wikimedia Commons
It is important to add at least one category so the image can be found. Being more specific is better. Often you can find a similar image to see what categories are used. Adding categories to existing images is a valuable contribution to Wikimedia projects.

For images of the Wikipedia events:


 * Category:Women in Architecture Edit-a-thon

For building images add one or more categories:


 * Category:Buildings in Auckland

For people images:


 * Category:Architects from New Zealand

Articles in Wikipedia
Please add at least one category. Another editor will come and add more if you are not sure or forget.


 * Category:New Zealand women architects
 * Category:New Zealand landscape architects
 * Category:Architecture in New Zealand
 * Category:New Zealand design

Notability guidelines
From Notability (people) People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

Additional biography

Fast links:
 * 1) The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times; or
 * 2) The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in a specific field; or
 * 3) The person has an entry in a country's standard national biographical dictionary (e.g. the Dictionary of National Biography).

Notability (people) – directors, writers, choreographers, designers, artists

Notability (people) – actors and also assume dancers

Conflict of interest (COI)
Conflict of interest Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest. That someone has a conflict of interest is a description of a situation, not a judgement about that person's opinions, integrity, or good faith.

Purpose of Wikipedia: As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's mission is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, written neutrally and sourced reliably. Readers expect to find neutral articles written independently of their subject, not corporate or personal webpages, or platforms for advertising and self-promotion.

Finding sources – Papers Past
We are fortunate to have access to digitised newspapers from around 1850 through to 1970 (for The Press anyway). The search engine is powerful and effective, and this can be a great way to find sources for content from prior to 1970. No subscription or login is required. See: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/. One hint is that if you cite a source from Papers Past, it is good practice to include the attribute: via = in the citation (ie via= Papers Past). You may also choose to put Papers Past in double square brackets as a Wikilink to the article about Papers Past. Marshelec (talk) 08:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Finding sources – ProQuest
Through the Wikipedia Library, or alternatively through your own local library, you can get subscription access to a database that has vast numbers of newspaper articles, mostly from periods later than is currently covered by Papers Past. If your local library has a subscription to ProQuest, just go to the ProQuest home page, and login via your local institution (in my case with Wellington City Libraries, this involves entering my library card number and passcode, and it remembers this for next time :) ). There is a useful template that can be used for citing sources from ProQuest . To see several examples of how to use the ProQuest template, look at the article Christina van Bohemen. The numeric code in the ProQuest template comes from the middle of the ProQuest source url (once you find a reference of interest).Marshelec (talk) 08:53, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Contact us
Leave a message on our talk page or email lisamaule.info@gmail.com