User:Einebillion

I am Victoria Leachman, and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I am a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) professional having worked in museums

User:Einebillion

Introducing myself

Victoria Leachman

I am Victoria Leachman, and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I am a GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) professional having worked in museums for my entire career, initially as a museum collection manager, then as a manager of copyright processes within a museum, and now as an executive and people manager making collections more accessible and reuseable for the public. I have managed teams responsible for a research library, corporate archives and records, copyright clearances and processes, collections information management and data and digital preservation workflows, imaging, publishing, and lending collection items.


Main contributions (as at July 2026)

Historically I contributed to the Wikiverse when I was President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand incorporated society (WANZ) - the Aotearoa New Zealand chapter affiliated with Wikimedia Foundation - from its inception as a User Group in 2019 until May 2026. In this role I did on average 3 hours of organising a week including

  • a weekly meeting with the Executive Advisor planning workload for her and the part time Marketing / Comms person,
  • working with the Executive Advisor on the annual funding application to Wikimedia Foundation along with delivering the associated reporting requirements
  • working with the Executive Advisor on the twice yearly in-person board meetings on the 5 year strategy and the annual business plan
  • confirming the agenda of the monthly board meeting
  • chairing board meetings
  • meeting separately with individual board members
  • recruiting new board members
  • chairing the AGM
  • writing board papers and reports
  • assessing grant applications
  • reporting
  • connecting with Wikimedia Foundation staff and staff and board members of other affiliates
  • attending WANZ events and WANZ funded events in my area
  • advocating within the GLAM and education sectors for more engagement with the Aotearoa New Zealand chapter and the Wikimedia projects in general
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand drinks after the 2024 Strategy day
Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand drinks after the 2024 Strategy day

I also co-founded, co-organised and facilitated two regular user meetups, the Aotearoa New Zealand Online monthly meetup and the Wellington monthly meetup. This has involved working with Ambrosia10 to set up new meta pages for each event, take attendance, facilitate, and tidy up the notes from the meeting. These meetings allow us to share information that is happening in the community and the chapter with other editors, to hear feedback, and to share editing skills with each other.

Wellington Wikimedia Meet Up March 2025

More recently, after stepping down from the Presidency, I've focused back on editing. My content editing contributions vary. At the moment my key area of interest is working in Wikidata. See my Wikidata contributions

My ORCID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2008-1827

Expired Conflict of Interest

From 21 March 2022 until 31 March 2026 when I left Te Papa, I was a member of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa staff wikipedia editing group and, as a manager, I encouraged the Librarians and other knowledge professionals I managed to participate in professional development sessions about Wikimedia projects and to attend events organised by the Digital Outreach Manager e.g. edit-a-thons and #1Lib1Ref events. I regularly supported the Digital Outreach Manager with her initiatives to share Te Papa's content by attending public events and being an experienced editor on hand to assist newbies.

1Lib1Ref Staff event at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

List of some of the Articles I've helped create

This list gives more up to date information about my contributions. Note that these articles are mostly created during edit-a-thons organised or funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. When I have time after my organising duties I work in Wikidata.


Previous highlights (as at March 2026)

Declaration

I had an alternative account User:Islandbaygardener that I had for a few years but in 2017 I decided to have a clean start so started this account. I've retired the previous account as per the Clean Start process. I decided to make this change to mark a new phase in my contributions and commitment to the wiki-verse.

Sandbox

User:Einebillion/sandbox
User:Einebillion/Name Draft Project Page

User:Einebillion/common.js

Template for Welcoming new editors {{subst:Welcome-nz}}

For changing cataloguing of media in Commons check out https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot

Wikidata info boxes for Wikipedia articles {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}}

Favourite Tools


Useful Te Reo (Māori) terms

Te Reo for edit a thon is: Tauoma takatā

Te Reo for a wikipedia editor is: Ringa takatā mātāpunenga

Take outs from Wiki Presentations

  • Notes from Google Day from other attendees

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