User:Ambrosia10
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Introducing myself[edit]
Hi I'm Ambrosia10, also known as Siobhan Leachman. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I co-organise the Wikipedians in Wellington Meetup held monthly, as well as the Aotearoa New Zealand Online meetup, also held monthly. For my contributions see this page of statistics. I'm interested in New Zealand, natural history, the OpenGLAM movement, supporting GLAM engagement with WikiProjects, and increasing the participation with and content in English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons of under represented groups. I am keen supporter of Women in Red, events such as #1Lib1Ref, as well as many of the projects undertaken by New Zealand editors and institutions to engage and improve English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
More detail on my contributions are outlined in my ORCID profile.
Recent presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons[edit]
- Wikipedia:Meetup/Wellington/Māori Women Weavers Editathon 7 January 2021. Organiser and participant.
- Attended WikiCon Westcoast 20-21 March 2021.
- 1Lib1Ref presentation to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa staff. 21 May 2021
- Providing support for the joint outreach campaign by Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia user group and Wikimedia Australia for #1Lib1Ref. 15 May - 5 June. Dashboard results for the event can be seen here.
- Presented at Auckland WikiCon 17-18 July 2021 on Editing through the Lens of Auckland Museum Content. See my presentation
- Presented at the WikiMania 2021 on the State of GLAM Wiki in New Zealand.
- Participated in the WikiProject New Zealand Performing Arts project.
- Helped organise (with other NZ editors) NZ's contribution to the Women In Red Ada Lovelace Day 24hr Editathon and then participated in the same.
- Participated in the BiCIKL-Hackathon 2021 giving Wikidata support to those contributing to Project 9 - Hidden Women. See Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity #6 for a summary of results from the project.
- Interviewed for the World of Wikipedia podcast - series 2 episode 10.
- 21 October 2021 Presented on Wikidata to Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC), a sub-committee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH), at their annual meeting.
- 5-6 March 2022 organising and participating in the Aotearoa New Zealand International Women's Day Weekend Editathon.
- 16 March 2022 Presenting on Wikidata to the staff and volunteers of the National Herbarium of Victoria, Australia.
- 29 March - 1 April 2022. Participating in and sharing Wikidata expertise in a "Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology" workshop.
- 7 April presentation to DigiKult 2022 conference.
- 8 April blog post on my WeDigBio workflow including using Wikidata to link collectors.
Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity recordings[edit]
- Edition 1 - 27 February 2021
- Edition 2 - 28 March 2021
- Edition 3 - 24 April 2021
- Edition 4 - 3 July 2021
- Edition 5 - 23 July 2021
- Edition 6 - 24 September 2021
- Edition 7 - 19 February 2022
Previous projects and edit-a-thons[edit]
- Wikipedia:GLAM/BHL/2018 Women Scientific Illustrators - My project to interlink and add women scientific illustrators and content sourced from the Biodiversity Heritage Library to various Wikimedia projects.
- Helped organise 2016 #NZspecies Te Papa Edit-a-thon
- Helped organise 2017 #WikiSciWomen NZ Women in Science workshop
- Helped gather resources for and remotely participated in Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland/NZInsectCards #NZInsectCards
- Presented on Wikidata to Auckland Museum staff at a Wiki workshop Friday 23rd March 2018
- Presented at SPNHC + TDWG conference 2018 on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
- Assisted with the 4 Wellington #EditforEquity edit-a-thons held in October 2018. I helped tutor attendees, contributed to spreadsheet of articles for addition or improvement in Wikipedia, added images to WikiCommons, created articles and interlinked content via Wikidata.
- Presented at WikiCite 2018.
- Assisting with the research and collation of resources for Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Women in Natural History Wikipedia Editing Workshop Wednesday 13th March 2019
- Attending as many New Zealand Wikimedian at Large Wellington based events as I can to support organisers and new editors. (June 2018 - June 2019)
- Advanced Digitizations of Biodiversity Collections Summit 2019. 1 - 3 October 2019. My presentation: "Why Natural History collections should engage with Wikipedia, WikiCommons and Wikidata".
- Biodiversity Next 2019. Symposium: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? 22 October 2019. My presentation: Wikimedia Projects and Citizen Science.
- WikidataCon 2019. 25 - 26 October 2019. My presentation: #HerNaturalHistory
- Dowse Art + Feminism Editathon. 16 November 2019. See this as a great resource. - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend.
- National Digital Forum 2019 - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend. However my resources and presentations were able to be used by User:Giantflightlessbirds to ensure this content was delivered.
- Pre-conference workshop. 18 November 2019. Wikidata for GLAMs: an introduction..
- Conference presentation. 19 - 20 November 2019. Giz it: A journey in reuse.
- 2019 ASBS–NZPCN Joint Conference. 24 November 2019. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Australasian endangered plant species. - Also unable to attend due to my family emergency.
- 2020 VALA Conference. 12 February 2020. Plenary presentation - Collections, catalogues and connections: My engagement escapade.
- Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Open Access Week. October 2020. Biodiversity and linked Open Access data.
- The "Who" in Collections: Revealing the Network of Collectors and Determiners of Bat Specimens. 1 December 2020. Wikidata presentation and notes.
Currently working on (April 2022)[edit]
As usual I have several projects on the go:
New Zealand focused work[edit]
Endemic species[edit]
I'm continuing to work on New Zealand endemic species creating or expanding articles as I go. I'm currently editing Wikipedia articles on New Zealand moths with the assistance of access provided by the Wikipedia Library to academic resources. I also want to start created NZ mayfly articles as they are indicator species for water quality. See this resource for info (currently adding updated info into Wikidata). I'm also continuing to edit species articles that have a NZTCS status.
List of priority work on NZ moth species[edit]
- Eudonia trivirgatus (check species name)
- Mnesictena (Improve genus article and all species articles particular with regard to currently unresolved differences in taxonomy)
I'm also working on New Zealand GLAM content, particularly images sourced from New Zealand GLAM institutions such as Auckland Museum and Te Papa. I organise WikiCommons categories, upload to WikiCommons, adding metadata on paintings to Wikidata, and reusing the images in Wikipedia. I'm using appropriately licensed images from such organisations as the Auckland War Memorial Museum , Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, and iNaturalist to improve New Zealand species articles.
I've been assisting linking the National Library of New Zealand's content in Wikidata via the Mix'n'Match tool and reusing appropriately licensed images and information contained in their collection in WikiCommons and Wikipedia. I'm also working on the BHL Mix'n'match dataset.
New Zealand Threat Classification work[edit]
I am VERY slowly and gradually working through the New Zealand Department of Conservation Threat classification lists updating and creating articles on those New Zealand plants, animals and fungi who are listed as threatened, at risk or data deficient. I'm using these documents as a basis for this work. At some point I would also like to revamp the Wikipedia article outlining the New Zealand Threat Classification system as it appears significantly out of date. I've been reaching out to New Zealand GLAMs and other organisations to obtain photos of endangered or at risk fauna and flora.
Completed NZ Threat Classification work[edit]
- All scientifically described moths in this list now have an expanded or new article.
- Wikidata properties created and "easy to ingest" threat classifications are now uploaded into Wikidata. Still plenty of work to be done as some newly described species don't have wikidata items and there of course is issues with taxonomy used in New Zealand vs taxonomy used in the rest of the world.
New Zealand theses project[edit]
See the project page.
Biographies[edit]
I'm also attempting to create or add to any articles on notable scientists, collectors or illustrators I've come across in my volunteer work with the Smithsonian Transcription Center and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Also using this resource for NZ botanists http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/allan-herbarium/new-zealand-botanists And of course any notable New Zealand woman in order to combat the current bias in Wikipedia
General work[edit]
I'm an active participant in WikiProject Biodiversity and often appear in the Wikipedia Weekly broadcasts dealing with this subject.
I'm continuing to work on zoological and botanical collectors, adding them into Wikidata, editing or creating articles where appropriate and then connecting them to their specimens in GBIF via the Bionomia website. My particular focus is New Zealand and women collectors but I tend to be omnivorous once I start a deep dive into content. I work on datasets in Wikidata mix'n'match including BHL creator ids and Index of Harvard botanists.
I'm also a keen contributor to efforts to improve coverage of early women scientific illustrators. See for example Wikipedia:GLAM/Illustrators of the Biodiversity Heritage Libraryand Artists and Scientific Illustrators. I'm working on various articles, Wikidata items and Wikimedia Commons categories about women especially those covered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library #WomeninNatHist outreach efforts.
I contribute to the #1Lib1Ref campaign two times a year.
Interesting projects and proposed planning[edit]
Possible suggests for Event planning 2023[edit]
- World Wetlands Day Thursday 2 February - Possible editathon the weekend before/after? Could attempt to get at least a stub article done for every notable wetland in NZ? Talk to NZ Wetlands Trust?
- World Water Day - Wednesday 22 March - Possible editathon in the weekend before/after? Water quality of rivers, species that indicate water quality, information on testing, article sections on water quality in towns and cities, 3 Waters etc
- Earth Day - Saturday 22 April - Possible editathon? Species articles, water quality sections in River articles, Biodiversity sections in town/city articles, DOC publications/reports are all examples of work to be done?
- International Museum Day - Thursday 18 May - Improve/create articles and wikidata items on NZ museums working from lists via sprql query and NZMuseums list. Find/create ontology for fabulous museum item.
- World Bee Day - 20 May
- International Day for Biological Diversity - Sunday 22 May - Biodiversity articles!
- World Environment Day - Monday 5 June
- World Habitat Day - 4 October.
- World Migratory Bird Day - 8 October
- I'm keen to do an invasive species for New Zealand themed effort both in Wikidata and Wikipedia. See https://w.wiki/33b as an example of a wikidata query to assist with this work.
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
- Wikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian Institution/American Women's History Initiative (AWHI) Also see #BecauseHerStory
- National Library of New Zealand See this for fabulous illustrations
- Focus work around International Days? See this resource.
List of some of the Articles I've helped create.[edit]
Some of these articles are stubs created in anticipation of and to assist with various Wikipedia workshops, others have been created while working on NZ moth threat classification status. This is by no means a complete list as I got tired of adding articles to it! Another list.
- Charlotte Cortlandt Ellis
- Rose E. Collom
- Ellen Schulz Quillin
- List of New Zealand women botanists
- Audrey Eagle
- Ella Orr Campbell
- Wilmatte Porter Cockerell
- Mary Isabel McCracken
- Catharine Johnston (illustrator)
- Elsie Wilkins Sexton
- Emily Collins (botanist)
- Caroline Bingham
- Frank Edward Clarke (ichthyologist)
- Northland skink
- Te Kakahu skink
- Burgan skink
- Eyres skink
- Cryptic skink
- Nevis skink
- McCann's skink
- New Zealand spotted skink
- Common skink
- Brown skink
- Green skink
- Catapyrgus sororius
- Hadopyrgus ngataana
- Hadopyrgus rawhiti
- Opacuincola cervicesmadentes
- Opacuincola dulcinella
- Opacuincola eduardstraussi
- Potamopyrgus acus
- Potamopyrgus doci
- Joyce Allan
- Elinor Frances Vallentin
- DYK article 17 December 2015
- Alfred Thomas Elwes
- Edpercivalia
- Opacuincola
- Didymus (genus)
- Pseudoclitarchus
- Celama parvitis
- Turbott's weevil
- Saprosites raoulensis
- Hyphalus wisei
- Lycopodiella diffusa
- Mary Davidson Gunn
- Blosyropus spinosus
- Scolopterus penicillatus
- Didymus metrosideri
- Margaret Roscoe
- Lepidium banksii
- Kikihia ochrina
- Buller's moth
- Carmichaelia petriei
- Cerius otagensis
- Acrothamnus colensoi
- Merlin Owen Pasco
- Macroinvertebrate Community Index
- Agrotis admirationis
- Meterana meyricci
- Asaphodes abrogata
- Adeixis griseata
- Aponotoreas anthracias
- Aponotoreas dissimilis
- Aponotoreas incompta
- Aponotoreas insignis
- Aponotoreas orphnaea
- Aponotoreas synclinalis
- Aponotoreas villosa
- Arctesthes catapyrrha
- Arctesthes siris
- Asaphodes adonis
- Asaphodes albalineata
- Asaphodes aphelias
- Asaphodes beata
- List of Cicadas of New Zealand
- Susan Fereday (botanical artist)
- Sarah Hoare
- Graphania averilla
- Tmetolophota toroneura
- Tmetolophota paraxysta
- Dipaustica epiastra
- George Howes (entomologist)
- Proteuxoa comma
- Physetica caerulea
- Persectania aversa
- Meterana praesignis
- Meterana pansicolor
- Austramathes purpurea
- Bityla defigurata
- Meterana octans
- Graphania agorastis
- Meterana ochthistis
- Xyridacma veronicae
- Helen Kirkland Dalrymple
- Scolopterus
- Hylaeus agilis
- Rhopalum perforator
- Sigara arguta
- Stenoperla
- Xanthorhoe bulbulata
- Culiseta novaezealandiae
- Austrosimulium ungulatum
- Nesameletus ornatus
- Chaetocoelopa littoralis
- Hemideina thoracica
- Weeleus acutus
- Saphobius inflatipes
- Kenocoelus
- Stenoperla
- Carystoterpa fingens
- Winifred M. A. Brooke
- Asaphodes campbellensis
- Annie D. Betts
- Asaphodes cataphracta
- Asaphodes chlamydota
- Aletia cuneata
- Aletia dentata
- Aletia fibriata
- Xanthorhoe orophyla
- Austramathes fortis
- Stenoperla prasina
New Zealand species work links and resources[edit]
- Critter of the Week work
- CC BY insect images at Lincoln need uploading and adding to Wikipedia.
- See this article on a B class genus as example to work from.
- Crosby codes ie New Zealand Area Codes for recording specimen localities definitely needs creation!
- Archive of Maanaki Whenau type specimen images
- BUGZ website
- Example of article using NZTCS status
- CofL example and the link to raise a new issue
- The Coastal Reference Database Resource has lots of Conservation etc reports
- TL2 - great resource for collectors
- Australian Faunal Directory - to be used 1st if a joint NZ/Aussie moth!
- Great markup for insect body part terms See apex
Tools, links and reminders to self[edit]
- Training for #1Lib1Ref
- Application for WikiLibrary card. Wanting access to this resource - https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/anh
- Resource - see this for Wikipedian in Residence info.
- To create more sandbox's see Help:Sandbox tutorial
- Licensing markup for images out of copyright in NZ is PD-New Zealand without :
- Best practice for attribution for CC licensed works here
- Use this markup for empty sections Empty section markup without the :
- For open access journals/article links (esp BHL) use curly bracket x2 open access
- Hashtag tool
- Species synonym list template here
- Etymology
- See this for external image where no image exists in Wikicommons. Nice way of dealing with issue.
- See Huia as example of "how to" for range map.
- See Victor Adam to note text incorporated from public domain publications. eg
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), by George Vernon Hudson (1898) See also Mount Peel for CC BY attribution quotes.
- See this for redirect for synonym of species
- See this article for genus/species stuff
- See this markup for redirect to correct species name (use without colon) R from alternative scientific name
- See this as a great resource for beginner editors.
- See plant host species link here
- Grant metrics - tools.wmflabs.org For Wikipedia editathons REALLY helpful.
- Wikishootme.
- Infoboxes generated from wikidata see Template:Infobox person/Wikidata
- Statistics on the Gender gap in Wikipedia see this
- {{Wikidata infobox makup see double bracket Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}}
- Note this as have contacted them. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Existing_Practices_for_Identifying_and_Mitigating_Knowledge_Gaps?fbclid=IwAR0uHl_WUAt5uRBiQ_jxwSvf-XtLlXTW8jLdvJ83QXm4tOHIi-SqMR9hUZ8
- You can add datasets to WikiCommons https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data
- Redirect species article template
- Open Library workflow - remember David's presentation. Openly licensed, add to internet archive, catalogue via Open library, add identifiers to Wikidata.
- Copyright violation finder tool
- Cleanup page listings
- OpenStreetMap has shape info. See Kings Park about how to add markup to infobox and also remember how to add Wikidata item to info in OpenStreetMap.
- How to get full pdfs of out of copyright books into Google Books.
- Wikimeta GLAM structured data
- Wikipedia Weekly show link
- If I have redirect issues.
- Markup for visual editor for non visual editor pages VEFriendly
- Wikipedia Weekly show lists
- WIR-211 for #WikiAda24
- GLAM Wiki Newsletter
Tool hub[edit]
See this
Things to explore or learn more about[edit]
- See Zoological code 32.5.
- African beetles
- See Twinkle gadget and have an explore of it.
- See Template:Cite Q
- See Magnus' bio tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
- Tool to work out Wikipedia:Prosesize
- My common js page
- Wikisource and Wikisource Guides from Scotland Library
- Streamyard
- Mikes Blog about WikiSource
- See WP:ROUNDROBIN where the redirect page has a history otherwise just use an ordinary move.
- Rater
Rapid Grant Applications[edit]
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Ambrosia10/NDF2021_Conference
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Ambrosia10/NDF2021_Conference/Report
GA and FA applications for Kererū[edit]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kerer%C5%AB - achieved!
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kererū/archive1#Kererū - achieved!
Barnstars[edit]
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The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit | |
For outstanding leadership in creating a multi-site, multi-day, multi-project editing event. Tino pai! MurielMary (talk) 04:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC) | ||
this WikiAward was given to Ambrosia10 by MurielMary (talk) on 04:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC) |