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Plant editathon, Moore Library 15 March 2018

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Betty and Gordon Moore Library, on the mathematics campus in west Cambridge

This event hosted from 6 pm to 8 pm by the Betty and Gordon Moore Library is part of the Cambridge Science Festival. You do not need to sign up in advance, but please bring a computer. It is helpful if you create a Wikipedia account in advance.

Buzz pollination, please click

Add {{plant editathon}} to your user page to take part. If you want to participate remotely: we'll find out! For some basic instructional material add {{new user bar}} also.

The event will consist of three activities, centred on Wikimedia coverage of plants and pollination:

Wikipedia articles

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Improve the following articles in the area of pollination, and possibly create new ones. Add and revise text, add images.

Category:Plants and pollinators has plenty to look at.

Article name Comment
List of crop plants pollinated by bees Looks like a good starting point.
pollinator {{refimprove}}
pollinator garden {{globalize}}, In the UK DEFRA has an initiative.
pollination network Image found
pollinator decline Image found
pollination trap
pollination syndrome This article seems to be in good shape. Summary style (WP:SUMMARY) indicates the creation of articles for individual sections. Currently ornithophily exists.
cactus pollination See cactus. This topic seems to be particularly attractive.

Wikidata information added

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Add statements on Wikidata, for properties d:Property:P1703 and d:Property:P1704. The following are pollination databases (a more accurate term is "pollinator database"):


Database Comment
FAO PIMS Concentrates on agricultural crops: enter crop or pollinator species name
CPC Pollinators of Rare Plants Database Enter family, genus or species name, for plants or pollinators. Downloads available.
Database of fly visitation to flowers Access database to download
List of crop plants pollinated by bees Appears to be a copy of the Wikipedia list article in the previous section

One of the outcomes of the event should be a better list, and understanding of the information out there. Please contribute suggestions.

Use of a database tends to mean entering the pollinator species or genus name.

Find images on Wikimedia Commons

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An obvious starting point is commons:Category:Pollination. There are more advanced tools available, some examples being given in the code warehouse.

Particularly using these queries:

with code from the warehouse.

The page d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list has a whole column of "find image" links for groups of plants. On the grand scale:

offers over 9K chances to match images into Wikidata.

Resources

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