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{{GLAM/Newsletter/Title|Summer students at Auckland Museum|By [[User:Prosperosity|Prosperosity]]}}

=== Summer students at Auckland Museum ===
[[File:Auckland Museum Summer Students Mihi Whakatau, 20 November 2023.png|thumb|The museum held a {{lang|mi|Mihi whakatau}} (welcoming ceremony) for our summer students]]

Earlier in 2023, [[w:en:Auckland War Memorial Museum|Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira]] successfully applied for [[m:Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Understanding our past:using Wikipedia as a tool to support local history in Tāmaki Makaurau|a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation]] to improve articles on local suburbs and local history. As a part of this project, the Wikimedia Foundation and the museum co-funded four Wikipedia interns to join our summer student cohort, learning how to edit Wikipedia over the 2023/24 summer period.

The brief for our students is simple: create or improve articles related to the Auckland Region/Tāmaki Makaurau, based on what you feel passionate about, and what you feel will be beneficial for students learning about history. Currently, the students have discussed focusing on a few different aspects, including:
*More content on [[w:en:Māori culture|Te Ao Māori]] and [[w:en:Māori history|Māori history]]
*Queer history
*Elevating Pasifika voices, and showcasing [[w:en:South Auckland|South Auckland]] culture
*Natural history
*Wikipedia pages on immigrant communities, including [[w:en:Indian New Zealanders|South Asian]] communities

Students spent the first two weeks learning about Wikimedia, including the limitations and benefits of the platform, issues such as conflicts of interest, and learnt how to edit. We'd planned for students to start posting articles by week three, but one student wrote and published [[w:en:Our Lady of the Assumption, Auckland|her first article]] only four days into the programme! By the end of week two, the students had published seven articles. The second week also included a guest speaker, history education specialist [[d:Q116545387|Mark Sheehan]].

Check out our [[w:en:Wikipedia:GLAM/Auckland_Museum/2023SummerStudents|weekly progress updates]] and the [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Auckland_War_Memorial_Museum/Understanding_our_past_-_Auckland_Museum_summer_interns_(December_2023_-_February_2024)/home project dashboard], and read some extracts from their articles below.

==== Natural history ====
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The [[w:en:Almorah Rock Forest|Almorah Rock Forest]] is a micro-ecoregion, restricted to 0.032 km<sup>2</sup> on the [[w:en:Auckland isthmus|Auckland isthmus]]. The forest formed 28,000 years ago, growing atop the vocalic scoria left by the [[w:en:Maungawhau / Mount Eden|Maungawhau / Mount Eden]] eruption. The rock forest is a unique environment, favouring plants that grow well in poor-soil environments. Most of the forest area was destroyed as the suburbs of [[w:en:Epsom, New Zealand|Epsom]] and [[w:en:Newmarket, New Zealand|Newmarket]] developed. A large block of the rock forest, called Withiel Thomas Reserve, was gifted to the city of Auckland in 1948 by the family of naturalist [[w:en:Algernon Thomas|Algernon Thomas]].

[[w:en:Takapuna Fossil Forest|Takapuna Fossil Forest]] is a petrified forest that formed approximately 190,000 years ago after lava flows from the [[w:en:Lake Pupuke|Lake Pupuke volcano]] encased broadleaf forests in lava. The forest was likely exposed to the surface within the last 7,000 years, and much of the forest was destroyed in the 1970s. Currently, the forest is protected under the Auckland Unitary Plan as an Outstanding Natural Feature.

==== People ====

[[w:en:Tara Te Irirangi|Tara Te Irirangi]] was the paramount chief of [[w:en:Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki|Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki]] in the 19th century, during the early colonial period of Auckland. A figure in the Musket Wars and early land sales, Tara Te Irirangi is memorialised in many place names including the suburb of [[w:en:Ōtara|Ōtara]] and Te Irirangi Drive, a major arterial road in Auckland.

[[w:en:Ron Brownson|Ron Brownson]] was a prominent New Zealand curator at the [[w:en:Auckland Art Gallery|Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki]] and a figure in [[w:en:LGBT in New Zealand|Aotearoa New Zealand's Gay Liberation Movement]]. Brownson was a major supporter of Pasifika art and artists, and was awarded an [[w:en:Ockham New Zealand Book Awards|Montana New Zealand Book Award]] in 2008 for contributions to the book ''Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning''.

==== Churches ====

[[w:en:Our Lady of the Assumption, Auckland|Our Lady of the Assumption]] is a heritage-listed Catholic church located in [[w:en:Onehunga|Onehunga]]. Built in the [[w:en:Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] style by [[w:en:E. Mahoney and Son|E. Mahoney and Son]] in 1889, the church has been a major feature of the Onehunga community for over 100 years.

[[w:en:St Barnabas Anglican Church, Auckland|St Barnabas Anglican Church]] in [[w:en:Mount Eden|Mount Eden]] and [[w:en:St Peter's Anglican Church, Onehunga|St Peter's Anglican Church]] in Onehunga are two of the [[w:en:Selwyn churches|Selwyn churches]]: historic Anglican churches in Auckland built in the 1840s. The first woman mayor in the British Empire, [[w:en:Elizabeth Yates (mayor)|Elizabeth Yates]], is buried at St Peter's cemetery.

==== Gallery ====
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Almorah Road Rock Forest.jpg|[[w:en:Almorah Rock Forest|Almorah Rock Forest]]
Ron Brownson with Patsy Reddy and David Gascoigne (cropped).jpg|[[w:en:Ron Brownson|Ron Brownson]]
Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 2023.jpg|[[w:en:Our Lady of the Assumption, Auckland|Our Lady of the Assumption]]
NZ AK St Barnabas Church (1).jpg|[[w:en:St Barnabas Anglican Church, Auckland|St Barnabas Anglican Church]]
St Peter's Church Tower, Onehunga (cropped).jpg|[[w:en:St Peter's Anglican Church, Onehunga|St Peter's Anglican Church]]
Takapuna Fossil Forest 4.jpg|[[w:en:Takapuna Fossil Forest|Takapuna Fossil Forest]] 
TARA OR IRIRANGI, PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE NGA TI TAI TRIBE, The New Zealanders Illustrated, 1847 (cropped).jpg|[[w:en:Tara Te Irirangi|Tara Te Irirangi]]
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