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KnitMeAThneed

@thneed.bsky.social
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I'm a Wikimedian and I run the NZThesisProject from Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand. OpenRefine, Wikidata, Wikipedia... all the Wikis! Inventor of WikiWashiTape. According to skuas, I am too big to carry away and too alive.

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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Opposite yesterday's #WikiLovesScarfieFlats flat is this slightly less attractive one, complete with unidentifiable burnt offering in the gutter outside, and at least one broken window. I hope noone actually lives here! Is is Shrieking Shack or Snack do you think?
Very run down large student house in DunedinEnd of house sign ‘(sh)rieking snack’House sign with different h
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s Buckingham Palace - great name!
Student flat named Buckingham Palace
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another beautiful Ōtepoti Dunedin for taking flat pics to document student life in the South! Who knows the name of this one? #WikiLovesScarfieFlats
Flat with large mural of a crowned celebrity on the side
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why run a photo competition for #Dunedin scarfie flats? Well for a start our named flats are a unique phenomenon. Documenting them is fun! Flat names are often puns like this one from Hyde St. Contribute your pics here w.wiki/UYBq
Image of a student flat named “Hydetide” on Hyde St
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#WikiLovesScarfieFlats And we have our first entry! Disfellowship on York Place! Don't forget to include the address of the flat in your photo, and add your email to your Wikimedia account so we can contact you!
Flat called Disfellowship on York Place
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Dunedin The Wiki Loves Scarfie Flats competition is officially live! See a student flat in Dunedin? Take a snap and upload it to Wikimedia Commons for posterity! w.wiki/UYBq for more details.
An icon of a cute little blue house with a yellow W in the style of the Wikipedia logo, and three red hearts emerging from the chimney (because student flats are traditionally cold). Not shown: ice on the inside of the windows and overflowing recycling bin
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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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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did a leaflet drop through the student area in Dunedin and one of the reasons young people aren’t enrolled at high numbers is they just don’t check their mail (also these are probably for last year’s tenants so why bother?)
Overflowing mailbox with enrolment forms lying on the grass that have clearly been there a while
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Close up shot of wheel that turns Lego model
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Can confirm
Is it snowing in Dunedin website screenshot. Says “yes”
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#nz The Hocken Collections want NZ election ephemera please! They need 2–3 people from each of the electorates listed here. Can you help? DM and I'll give you the details. They will provide a prepaid envelope, for election-related flyers, brochures, stickers, posters etc Please spread the word!
Screenshot: Kia ora koutou,
Since 1966 Hocken staff have been collecting ephemera for every general election and making it available to researchers. Besides contacting every political candidate (with varying success), we are also collecting election ephemera from every electorate. Ideally, we would like to have two or three people from each electorate.
At the moment we still need to find people in the following electorates:

·         Māori electorates
·         Botany
·         East Coast Bays
·         Epsom
·         Hamilton West
·         Henderson
·         Kaipara ki Mahurangi
·         Māngere
·         Mt Albert
·         Mt Roskill
·         Napier
·         North Shore
·         Ōtāhuhu
·         Rangitīkei
·         Takanini
·         Tāmaki
·         Tauranga
·         Upper Harbour
·         Waikato
·         Waimakariri
·         Whangārei
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A gem from PapersPast (Lyttelton Times 1902). Yes I lol'd.
Screenshot from newspaper: "Miss Aimee Mills continues her very successful career at Edinburgh University. At the last examinations she gained first-class honours in practical pathology, first-class with the Bow Prize in Public Health, first-class and prize in forensic medicine, and first-class honours in insanity."
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The “better science” version has an Otago academic forbetterscience.com/wp-content/u...
List of names
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Now available in German! wikimedia.be/trustwikigame/
Can I trust Wikipedia? Kann ich Wikipedia vertrauen?
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
LOL didn't the first version of this headline this morning claim that Luxon is a decent person and this is painful to watch? 😂 Still not reading it.
Headline to opinion piece by Damien Grant in Stuff: Luxon is in office but not in control. It's painful to watch
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cool tool showing that we need some enrolment work at the uni I think!
Enrolment information in Dunedin showing big gap for under 24 year olds
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Heading out!
Wikipedian cold weather gear
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blackbird came calling at the window so yesterday’s uneaten lunchbox jam sandwich has been provided. Four tuis in the plum blossom.
Tuis making the most of the plum blossom
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
More on the way Dunedin #DunnerStunner of a different kind
Heavy clouds, looking south from Dunedin hills
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sugar water feeder v busy with silvereyes and bellbirds this morning. School open from 10 apparently but no way am I driving on those roads
Backyard with a light dusting of snow
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hedging their bets rn
Is it snowing in Dunedin website
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Baby Globe finally meets desk. Back to work! And very happy to report that Can I trust Wikipedia? works on the big touchscreen! 😁 (yes I will do a video! But not today)
Baby Globe hanging out by DrThneed’s Truffula tree phone stand.
New electronic version of the Can I trust Wikipedia? activity
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Finally home and restoring with tea and a recap of everything that has happened since I left (and showing the fam all my Paris photos). Thanks to all the Wikimania team and the Wikimedians I met and Wikimedia Aotearoa NZ for sending me!
Baby Globe and a I love Lamp…reys mug of much needed tea
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Baby Globe and I doing a quick bit of editing whilst waiting for the last flight home from Wikimania. Travelled in an ever-decreasing group of Wikimedians until parting just now with @siobhanleachman.bsky.social at Christchurch. Nearly there!
Crocheted baby globe, a chai and a laptop
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Having adventures getting the bus to Charles de Gaulle but on the plus side I met someone whose mother wrote this Croatian Wikipedia article! 😂
Screenshot of the Croatian Wikipedia article about the scientific journal Geologia Croatica
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Au revoir Paris! A relaxing last morning before heading to the airport for the looooong journey to New Zealand. #Wikimania
Embroidery of a small Wikimedian with a lightbulb for a head standing on the Eiffel Tower, based on a design by Eclos Production for Wikimedia France, CC BY SA 4.0 A coffee eclair and a cup of very English tea
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thomas interviewing Axel on his favourite Wikipedia articles! Using a chocolate fish as a microphone!
Interview in progress
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Improved Baby Globe carrier at the Wikineedles meetup
Improved baby globe carrier
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
WikiCuteness in the house! #nerdmaxxing
A bunch of Wiki Cuteness Society members
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking pretty, Paris. Wikimania Day 3, let the nerdmaxxing continue
Pairs in the morning, with Montmartre and the Eiffel Tower looking lovely
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So shiny…just needs puzzle pieces
Huge silver globe
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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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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This was a surprise!
Greetings from a Wikipedia fan on the international space station!!!
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Opening ceremony! Wikimania #BabyGlobe
Baby Globe wondering if she’ll see giant Baby Globe
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
BabyGlobe meets BabyGlobe poster!
BabyGlobe at the poster that caused her creation
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Conference swag at Wikimania! Love the BabyGlobe keyring
Conference swag, water bottle postcards fan eye mask pen and notebook and keyring
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Pulling BabyGlobe out of my bag every time I wanted to show her off was getting tiring for both of us, so I improvised a Baby Carrier, which also doubles as a Wiki Washi tape dispenser! 😂
Baby Globe looking comfy and ready for Wikimania proper, Day 1
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Eek! Just did a completely improvised lightning talk for the WikiWomen Summit about the Wikifying a Conference book! Hope I didn’t go too fast for the poor translators #Wikimania #WikifyingAConference
The book in question
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pssst @wmau.bsky.social, @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social a bit of cross-Tasman competition on gender stats on Wikipedia? (Lovely new gender stats tool)
Map showing NZ women are better covered on Wikipedia than Australian women (but let’s not talk about Norfolk Island’s 80%)
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Found the WikifyingAConference poster in real life!! Sorry exclamation marks are proliferating this is exciting….!!!
BabyGlobe leaving flyers
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
About to begin the WikiWomen+ Summit, so excited!!!
Baby Globe about to get stuck into the WikiWomen+ SummitAnd swag from the lovely Reisen8!!!
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Had an afternoon trip to the fabric/yarn/haberdashery quarter at the base of Montmartre. Now imagining Baby Globe in a whole world of colours and yarns!
Baby Globe enjoying some shade after walking up Montmartre
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From a UNESCO City of Literature to …UNESCO!
Baby Globe relaxing in the general assembly room at UNESCO
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An extremely large Picasso
Baby globe feeling very small
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Where is BabyGlobe today? #JourneyToWikimania
Baby Globe in front of 194 flags
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Here’s mine
Sunset in Paris
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Went to a wonderful French Wiki meetup for Le sans pagEs where Baby Globe met Le Baby Globe and there were 10th birthday biscuits and a good time was had by all!
Baby Globe twinsies
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A violet drink at the Violette bookshop!
Baby globe and a drink that matches my shirt which you can’t see!
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#BabyGlobe at her first Wikipedia meetup! Which also happens to be the launch of the FrancAutrices game about French women
Baby Globe and the brand new WikiQuote game
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KnitMeAThneed @thneed.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Me and BabyGlobe after queuing to go up and queueing to come down. Nice and cool in the shade!
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