Wikifying Te Tiriti-based Futures 

A Te Tiriti-Based Futures + Anti-Racism Associated Event

Expanding Wikipedia and Wikidata alongside the 2026 Te Tiriti-Based Futures + Anti-Racism conference

Wikipedian Lisa Maule will guide you in adding information to Wikipedia articles and creating Wikidata items, improving visibility of Te Tiriti-based futures and anti-racism work across Aotearoa. The event will be a sequence of online workshops that include tutorials, coaching, and community building, with consideration of Māori data sovereignty and governance.   

Experienced Wikipedians welcome. 

Wikipedia is one of the most-visited websites in the world and the content is created by volunteers. Learn how to contribute to Wikipedia, and become part of a group of editors committed to ensuring open knowledge is accessible. 

The information in Wikipedia appears in many spheres, and is widely used by people and AI. These workshops will identify relevant content areas for improvement based on the 2026 Te Tiriti-Based Futures + Anti-Racism conference, and provide guidance on how to contribute content that meets Wikipedia standards and community practice.

Workshop facilitation

Lisa Maule is is lead facilitator of the Wikipedia workshops. She has been active in the Wikipedia since the end of 2019, and brings her education and arts producing experience into editing and leading projects. Lisa is the Vice President of the Wikimedia Foundation Chapter in Aotearoa, Wikipedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ). Lisa is a Pākehā woman with Scottish and English heritage, born in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. He Tangata Tiriti ia. She gratefully stands in Aotearoa because of Te Tiriti Waitangi. 

When, where and how

Two online drop-in sessions each fortnight for ten sessions in the lead up and after the conference. 

Come to all or some, starting the week of Mon 19 Jan 2026 and running until Sun 12 April.

Register for the full timetable. Current planning is 10 sessions held on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings. (Sessions are based in Aotearoa so in our timezone.) 

Introduction and coaching will be adapted to participants with 90 mins sessions to enable workshopping. 

Each participant will create personal goals and be expected to contribute about three to four hours per fortnight, and check-in regulary over three months.  

The purpose is to increase the visibility of people and their projects working in Te Tiriti and anti-racism areas through encyclopaedic information. Verifiable secondary sources will be used as a basis of information, and the conflict of interest guidelines will be followed, which excludes people writing about themselves or their whānau. Sensitivity to Māori data governance will be followed, and some research in this area is being undertaken as part of this project.

The Wikimedia Foundation platforms will be mainly Wikidata and Wikipedia. 

Registration of interest

Please register your interest to get more information and to ask any questions.

For more information about Lisa www.lisamaule.info and on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pakoire