In 1955 a Levin librarian began to collect a material on the "status and way of life of New Zealand women", and these newspaper clippings and magazine articles soon grew into a large collection that would be acquired by Auckland Museum. Nearly 8000 articles and biographies were amassed over the 30 years it was active, with a crowd-sourced curation strategy and weekly maintenance each Tuesday by the Women's Archive Committee. With only optimism guiding their efforts to capture notable women in a time where gender precluded women from entering the history books, these records were painstakingly stored and catalogued, with little possibility of knowing what would be possible in the eventual advent of the Information Age. "Notability" is a prerequisite for the creation of articles on Wikipedia, requiring coverage from secondary source to prove "significant coverage" of the person and/or topic: the Women behind the Women's Archiving had unwittingly created a data goldmine of women published in secondary sources, and although they had no idea at the time what Wikipedia or Wikidata, or even the internet, would be... Their efforts ensured that these women's names would eventually be able to be recorded in the largest encyclopedia in the world.