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David Nind

@davidnind.bsky.social
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Content Specialist (20+ yrs, web content management, publication preparation). Technical Writer: Docs-as-Code, DITA (topic-based, modular content). Contributor to the Koha library software project + Wikipedia. Loves free + open source software, and tea.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@universityofotago.bsky.social @otagobiochemist.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social @otagoreligion.bsky.social It's a beautiful day to go and take a photo of a student flat so you can enter the Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats photo competition tomorrow! w.wiki/UYBq for more info and to register
Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats Want your flat to be immortalised? Get it into Wikimedia Commons and be in to win, 1–23 October 2026
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Otago is running a Scarfie Flats competition, starting 1 October. It's to get people to document and upload photos of classic Dunedin flats under an open licence, for Wikipedia and the historical record. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...
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Event:Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats 2026 - Wikimedia Commons
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Aotearoa New Zealand Online Wiki Meetup is on this Saturday 19 Sept, 10–11:30am 💻 Wikimedians from across the motu will discuss what they've been up to, share what they've learned lately, and get help with anything they're stuck on. New attendees are always welcome! Details here: w.wiki/UeDA
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If anyone in Ōtautahi wants to help with the Books of Mana project, we’ll be working on lvl 2 of Tūranga all Sunday: let me know if you’d like to join in. A good way to learn some Wikipedia and Wikidata.
The worktable in Ngā Pounamu collection? Level 2 of Tūranga. Books of Mana, 180 Māori-authored books of significance.
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
700,000 🎉🥂❇️ That is how many documents are now on NZLII. And I am already calculating when we will reach 750,000! It would be great if all our users today would donate $7 (or $70 or $700!! - hey a girl can dream) to commemorate this occasion. classic.nzlii.org/nzlii/contri...
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The huhu beetle is today's Featured Article on Wikipedia! Featured Articles celebrate the best content on Wikipedia and the incredible work of editors around the world, including here in Aotearoa 🌏 Visit the Wikipedia homepage over the next 24 hours or jump right to the article here: w.wiki/U938
A screenshot of today's featured article on Wikipedia, the huhu beetle. A photograph of the brown beetle is included.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can someone like Te Papa please release some moa art into the public domain so the media can use it instead of Colossal’s awful (probably-AI-generated) reconstructions?
Colossal moa art where the legs seem to be grafted on from a different, larger species of moa. Small moa skeleton showing the right leg to neck proportions. It’s not hard, there’s no shortage of reference material on the internet.
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Extremely here for this fact-check of the CoC's ongoing claims about the previous government. The only one I got wrong was how much a bank will currently lend a mortgagee (and I wasn't out by much). I got 9/10 on What kind of train wreck are we talking about? www.davidslack.net/borrow-story/
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Trainwreck debt quiz
Christopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers?
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🐐 Happy #WorldGoatDay! This 1832 account of the domestic goat (Capra hircus) describes them as lively and playful, but also quarrelsome, fond of climbing, and prone to getting into places they shouldn't. There's an entire section on “Schaden” (Damage)! 📚🧪 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50885095
An historic illustration of a long-haired long-horned shaggy white and black goat.
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The Old Tech Writer @greenmtndocs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Accessibility is often treated as a compliance checkbox — WCAG guidelines exist, legal requirements exist, you need to meet them and move on. This is technically correct and practically misleading. stevearrants.substack.com/p/writing-fo...
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Writing for Everyone: Accessibility
The guidelines run to hundreds of criteria. As a writer, you’ll touch the same three every day.
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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just a reminder that the online Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki meetup is happening tomorrow at 10am NZST en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #Wikipedia #Wikidata #WikiCommons #Wikisource
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Join LIANZA and Dr Tamsin Braisher (@thneed.bsky.social) to learn how Wikipedia works, how content is created and maintained, and how Wikimedia platforms improve access to information, amplify underrepresented knowledge, and connect local expertise with global audiences. Register: bit.ly/4wmci7V
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨 Scientists have been warning for more than a century that catastrophic weather events were inevitable if humanity kept emitting GHG's. But is it worse than even they expected? Climate scientist @drkatemarvel.bsky.social shares her expert perspective in our latest Insights: bit.ly/4wsYPMw
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
So we wrote up everything we learned, and it's an actual (small) book now. Tamsin is in Paris at Wikimania with a boxful, handing them out, but you can download the whole thing for free. This was all funded by a small grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Wi...
Cover of Wikifying a Conference by Tamsin Braisher and Mike DickisonA box of wee orange books about to go on an awfully big adventure.Interior of the book with Tamsin on modelling duty. Please don't tell me if you see a typo.
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Had a lovely time giving away the Wikifying a Conference handbook at the Wikimania poster session today. Still have a few copies left! And of course it is on Commons meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Wi...
DrThneed and BabyGlobe and the book in question
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The monthly Aotearoa New Zealand online meetup is on this Saturday 18 July, 10–11:30am. Connect with editors from around the country, find out about the different projects, and get help with anything you're stuck on. New attendees are always welcome! For more info and the URL to join: w.wiki/SXjo
A banner which reads 'Nau mai haere mai' and features the Wikipedia logo, WANZ logo, and images of the editor community.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Arrived in Ōtepoti for the Science Festival. I’ll be staffing the Ask A Wikimedian desk at the Hub (211 George St) all day tomorrow, and giving a public talk on Wikipedia on Friday evening.
Flyer for the NZISF talks, pay what you can afford. Art & Science Panel, Future of Food Panel, and me talking any old nonsense about vandalising Wikipedia—something you Should Not Do (just to head off the BlueSky scolds), but is what we call Dramatic Irony.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I was in the ODT explaining how Wikipedia works. www.odt.co.nz/the-star/pat...
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Patrolling the people’s encyclopedia
An unpaid army keeps the internet honest. A quarter of a century after Wikipedia was founded, about 250,000 volunteer editors guard its 65 million...
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The Old Tech Writer @greenmtndocs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Writers' Table "Mastering Audience Analysis" is live. Ask a technical writer who their audience is, and most will say something like “developers” or “end users” or “IT administrators.” That’s not an audience. That’s a category. stevearrants.substack.com/p/mastering-...
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Mastering Audience Analysis
The Writers' Table 1B
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Coming up in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: Tour Te Toi Uku Clay Museum and West Auckland's clay history, including the iconic story of Crown Lynn Potteries. Then, preserve these stories for years to come through a Wikipedia workshop 💻📸 Sat 18 July 11am–2pm Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/wikipedia-...
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Wikipedia Workshop at Te Toi Uku
Enjoy a tour of Te Toi Uku Museum, before learning how to preserve local histories with Tāmaki Paegna Hira's Wikimedian in Residence.
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And a reminder - NZLII is funded through donations and grants. We would sincerely appreciate your support as we strive to continue to provide you with the legal information you need. www.otago.ac.nz/alumni/donat... classic.nzlii.org/nzlii/contri... Thank you very much
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Whilst we sincerely hope you all love the new look NZLII has, we realise that many still have fondness (or need of) the old look. As someone who is visually challenged I understand! The original look NZLII is still available for use at classic.nzlii.org
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
National Volunteer Week 2026 | Volunteer spotlight: Marshall Clarke 🔍 WANZ is lucky to have Marshall keeping things running smoothly in his role as treasurer. Marshall enjoys editing Wikipedia to contribute “content that is easily accessible and freely available.”
Marshall smiles for the camera, wearing a t-shirt illustrated with native species.
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
You may have noticed your NZLII looks different this morning. NZLII, thanks to funding from the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation, and the expertise of AustLII, now has a refreshed look with added features. Check them out at nzlii.org
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The final #kakapo chick (Pearl-4B) from this year's cohort has fledged the nest (defined as roosting outside the nest for the first time). There are 91 chicks alive. They won't be counted towards the population until they're 150 days old. 📸 Petrus Hedman #conservation #kakapo2026 #parrots #birds
A kākāpō chick receiving a health check on a person's lap. Credit: Petrus Hedman
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Martin Jordan @martinjordan.com · 13/06/2026
It’s real! Great to hold this little publication in my hands. For ‘Creative Bureaucracy: Where next & how?’, I wrote a piece on #AI in government titled ‘A tool to refine, not magic to fall for’. More about the publication here: creativebureaucracy.org/creative-bur...
A hand holding a book in warm grey shade; its title says ‘Creative Bureaucracy: Where next & how?’ With a long list of names of the contributors
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It me!
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The other day I spent an hour explaining to a council's tourism office that they can’t just rewrite Wikipedia articles to promote local attractions and send people to their website. It was a useful conversation so I blogged about it. www.rove.wiki/blog/your-bo...
A pyramid of sheep at the Agrodome (which was not the attraction, or the council, in question).
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We’ve known this was coming. By 1 May 2028 the NZ copyright term will be extended from 50 to 70 years after death, benefiting a few publishers and ensuring nothing will enter the public domain for 20 years. Worst case, it will be retrospective, clawing back things currently freely shareable.
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Oh boy! NZ’s own Mickey Mouse law spurs debate on rights and wrongs of copyright
The law change will help local musicians, but it will also extend copyright protection for multinationals like film studios, drug marketers and medical software firms. Jonathan Milne reports.
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Asher @asherwilsongoldman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm two weeks away from finishing a Masters in Public Management. Robodebt has been a key feature of several of the papers I've done - the damage done to so many people by automation of a process that should always be human (and humane). They literally teach us not to do this.
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The guide has been produced as part of the grant NZLII received from the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation, whom we sincerely thank for their support.
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NZLII @nzlii.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New NZLII guide The Law Primer provides basic information about our legal system. What our users may find most useful is the portion about how to enforce an order made in your favour from places like the Tenancy Tribunal or Disputes Tribunal. austlii.community/foswiki/NZRe...
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
1 Librarian + 1 Reference = A better internet for all! We're teaming up with @wmau.bsky.social for this year’s #1Lib1Ref campaign, 15 May–5 June. Help us combat misinformation by adding citations to Wikipedia. Join our "Intro to Wiki Referencing" workshop: 📅 21 May, 2pm NZST 🔗 w.wiki/LBPv
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Annie Reynolds @anniereynolds.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My thanks to @simonchapman.bsky.social for his article on COVID and for sharing one by Prof Adrian Esterman. If you're over 70, keep getting bosters! medium.com/@adrian.este...
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The world has stopped watching COVID. The risk for older people hasn’t.
An epidemiologist, aged 77, explains what the data still shows - and the simple steps that can still save lives
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you're interested in helping out, the project is live here: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:T.... If you've not worked in Wikisource before, let me know and I'll run a short orientation and walkthrough online on Sunday evening—newbies welcome.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
During May the international Wikisource community has chosen Guthrie-Smith's TUTIRA, a classic work of New Zealand nature writing, as its digitisation exercise. I'm busy re-scanning Beatrix Dobie's line drawings at high resolution, and others are correcting the 1921 text.
Cover of Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station by Herbert Guthrie-Smith (1921)Valley of the Maungahinahina, one of the many illustrations by Beatrix Dobie from Tutira
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Just like that, WikiCon 2026 is a wrap! It was great to have Wikimedians from around the motu come together to learn and share. A huge thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and helped with planning—we couldn't have done it without you. 📷 Panamitsu, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A birthday cake which reads 'Happy birthday Wikipedia. Celebrating 25 years.' The cake has white frosting and blue sprinkles.
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We're counting down the days to WikiCon 2026! 🤩 Wikimedians from across the country will be gathering in Wellington this weekend to celebrate and learn from the work being done by our volunteer editors. There are a couple of spots left if you're interested! Take a look at the programme w.wiki/MMTS
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Wellington WikiCon 2026
Annual conference for editors of Wikimedia platforms from across Aotearoa New Zealand.
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David Palmer @cloventt.net · 21/04/2026
Wellington Wikicon is just a few weeks away! If you'd like to pop along and meet the great people that keep Wikipedia running in Aotearoa, there are a few spots available still en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:WikiCon Aotearoa/Wellington 2026 - Wikipedia
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David Nind @davidnind.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Want to improve accessibility, and you're an NGO, non-profit or community organisation in New Zealand? Accessor Advisors is running free digital accessibility workshops: - Christchurch: 22 & 23 April - Wellington: 4 & 5 May - Taupo: 6 & 7 May - Auckland: 19 & 20 May - Online: 2 & 3 June 1/2
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Free Community Digital Accessibility Workshops - Access Advisors
We are an inclusive digital accessibility consultancy. Our mission is to help Aotearoa New Zealand become more digitally inclusive.
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Siobhan Leachman @siobhanleachman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Just a reminder that the Aotearoa New Zealand Wiki meetup will be happening on SUNDAY the 19th of April - this weekend - from 10am until 11.30am NZST. For more information see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #Wikipedia #WikiCommons #Wikidata #Wikisource
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The Old Tech Writer @greenmtndocs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Had a discussion today about commercial software costing $3500/year per seat. Why not just use docs-as-code? greenmtndocs.com/2026-04-14-d...
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Just Use Docs-as-Code | Green Mountain Docs
Why plain text, open-source tooling, and version control solve most documentation problems — and why it's the right foundation for AI-assisted workflows
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We now interrupt your daily doomscrolling with MOON PICTURES images.nasa.gov
"The Edge of Two Worlds""Earthset""Artemis II in Eclipse"
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yesterday the RSNZ announced their list of latest elected fellows. The only women Fellow who did not already have a Wikipedia page was Cecile de Klein - now fixed! This was my 551st Wikipedia biography for a woman 😀 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecile_...
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Cecile de Klein - Wikipedia
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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 25/03/2026
Siobhan Leachman is a New Zealand citizen scientist, open knowledge advocate and prolific Wikimedian whose work focuses on natural history. She connects museum collections and biodiversity data with the public and champions open access. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)
Black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman wearing glasses, set against a bright blue background with a stylized sunburst pattern in yellow and light blue. Text reads: Her work brings natural history to all of humanity. 2023 Wikimedia Laureate. Siobhan Leachman is a citizen scientist and open knowledge advocate from New Zealand, known for her contributions to natural history on Wikimedia projects.
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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Excellent news: Wikipedia has beefed up its guidelines on the use of LLMs (to "just don't", with some caveats). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
This page in a nutshell: Don't use large language models (LLMs) to generate article content.
Text generated by large language models (LLMs)[1] often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for the exceptions given below.

Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest refinements to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM doesn't introduce content of its own. Caution is required, because LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it isn't supported by the sources cited.

Use of LLMs to translate articles from another language's Wikipedia into English Wikipedia must follow the guidance laid out at Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation.

Some editors may have similar writing styles to LLMs. More evidence than just stylistic or linguistic signs is needed to justify sanctions, and it is best to consider the text's compliance with core content policies and recent edits by the editor in question.
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The monthly Aotearoa New Zealand Online Meetup is on tomorrow 👋 🗓️ Saturday 21 March ⏰ 10am – 11:30am 🔗 w.wiki/K2Gr Come chat with Wikimedians from around the motu. All welcome! 📷 Women in Red Edit-a-thon at Auckland Museum, Sophie Sparrow, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A group of people work on laptops around a table. Two screens are visible with Wikipedia articles displayed.
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Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Check out Aotearoa New Zealand's newest Featured Article ⭐🕷️🤩 Thanks to the work of a dedicated NZ editor, the katipō has recently joined the ranks of featured articles. Did you know its name comes from Māori for "night stinger" which is derived from the words kakati (to sting) and pō (the night)? 😳
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Katipō - Wikipedia
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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
NZ councils yet again bedazzled by the latest techy nonsense - AI data centre - that will suck up our badly needed cheap electricity by a huge foreign firm for 35 years and screw a near pristine ocean environment. How many jobs, doing what? What NZ tax will they pay? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Massive AI factory could impact sea life, cultural values
Datagrid announced it had gained full resource consent meaning it was one step closer to constructing an AI factory in Makarewa.
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