Museum Student Expands Wikipedia Coverage Of Local Women

A student in the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum’s 2025/26 Sheldon Werner Summer Studentship spent ten weeks improving English Wikipedia coverage of Tāmaki Makaurau local history, focusing on women in art and architecture and co-hosting a 2026 edit-a-thon. The piece highlights systemic representation gaps—Wikimedia editors are 87% male and only 18.13% of content is about women—and notes generative AI (ChatGPT: 400–700 million monthly users in 2025) often draws on Wikipedia, risking bias perpetuation.