Wiki-PCAP is a collaboration between Wikipedians and the collections and curatorial staff of the Pacific Collections Access Project at Auckland Museum, set up by the New Zealand Wikipedian at Large in August 2018 as part of the Museum's GLAM-Wiki initiatives.

Pacific Basketry

The coverage of Pacific basket-weaving is non-existent, despite the article being level-4 Vital status. This is typical of most Pasifika crafts coverage in Wikipedia, in contrast to Pākehā crafts such as knitting or textile weaving. The goal is for Auckland Museum to improve the coverage of Pacific basketry, using the strengths of the PCAP project in images, terminologies, research, and recorded Pacific-community knowledge. The Museum will work with Wikipedians to:

• Provide Creative Commons open-licensed images of regional basket styles
• Provide a terminology for those regional styles, including recorded sound bites with pronunciation of terms
• Research a short introduction (1–2 paragraphs) to Pacific basketry
• Research and write brief introductions to regional basketry styles, in a similar format to the Native American basketry section; sections where there is obviously sufficient content can be created as linked stand-alone Wikipedia articles
• Provide audio relevant to those regional styles, cleared for upload to Commons, for use in those articles
• Create written content suitable for citing in Wikipedia articles, sourced from knowledge holders and published online through Auckland Museum Topic Pages or Medium articles

Anyone is welcome to sign up for Wiki-PCAP, by doing so making a commitment to regularly helping achieve the project's current goals.

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Articles created or improved will be listed here during the course of the project.