Becoming a member

Are you a Wikipedia editor? If you already have some experience with editing, we invite you to become a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand!

Membership cost: $NZ 5 per year

Sign up here: bit.ly/WANZmembership 

Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) is the New Zealand affiliate of the international Wikimedia Foundation. We support people and organisations to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia platforms through events, training and partnerships.

Becoming a member shows you are dedicated to the mission of the global Wikimedia movement - to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free licence or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

Being a member supports the Aotearoa / New Zealand affiliate. Our affiliate is a registered charity and not-for-profit incorporated society.

Benefits include:

  • Belonging to a group of like-minded individuals
  • Having knowledge of what’s being planned and happening with upcoming events and group activities in New Zealand and globally
  • Participation in WANZ-led initiatives
  • Having early access to ticketing for WANZ events
  • Being eligible for WANZ member discounts
  • Assistance with drafting funding applications to Wikimedia Foundation to support your projects
  • Help organise events in your community
  • Help improving editing practice
  • Opportunity to initiate, lead or contribute to projects that enhance content of particular relevance to New Zealand, through participation in WANZ planning, funding rounds and delivery
  • You can be eligible to stand for election or be appointed as a member of our management committee
  • You can vote at our Annual General Meetings, where our management committee is elected and administrative motions are passed

Eligibility

Membership of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand Inc is open to all individuals; you do not have to live in New Zealand, or be over a certain age. However, we ask that members agree to be bound by the rules of the society (the Constitution), and comply with the Wikimedia Foundation Universal Code of Conduct.

When applying for membership you must disclose your full name and contact details including residential address, as part of legal requirements of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. This personal data is included in the society's register of members and may be made available to members and committee members under s39 of the Constitution.

We also ask that you disclose your username on any of the Wikimedia projects. The reason is so that when members of the committee review applications for membership, they can take editing history into account and ensure that you are in good standing with the Wikimedia community. Your username information will not be included in the register of members or be included in the information that may be made available for inspection by members under s39 of the Constitution. If you aren't comfortable disclosing this information, please still consider donating to the society instead, and supporting our activities by your participation.