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Ambrosia10

Joined 2 June 2014
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Introducing myself

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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. I'm also the chair of the BHL-Wiki working group and am a participant in multiple WikiProjects, mainly focusing on biodiversity topics. 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 the generation of content in English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons by under represented groups. I am keen supporter of Women in Red, events such as #1Lib1Ref, as well as the projects undertaken by New Zealand and international editors and institutions to engage with and improve English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. In 2023 I was named Wikimedia Laureate.

More detail on my other contributions related to Wiki are outlined in my ORCID profile.

Conflict of interest statements

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

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From January 2023 I have been the Chairperson for BHL-Wiki Working group and thus a volunteer associated with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of natural history, botanical, and research libraries that work together to digitize and make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

In my capacity affiliated with BHL, my contributions to the Wikimedia movement are guided by a commitment to uphold the highest standards of accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability, in alignment with the Wikimedia movement’s core content policies and ethical guidelines:

  • I acknowledge that my affiliation with the Biodiversity Heritage Library may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions.
  • I commit to transparently declare my affiliation with BHL in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by my connection to the organisation.
  • I will refrain from editing content where my contributions could be seen as leading to a direct conflict of interest, and I will instead propose changes on talk or discussion pages or through other appropriate Wikipedia channels.
  • My primary goal in contributing to the Wikimedia movement is to share knowledge and resources available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library that are relevant and beneficial to the Wikimedia movement’s mission of providing free, reliable, and neutral information.
  • I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, verifiability, notability and no original research of the particular project I am contributing to.

This statement is made in the interest of transparency and to uphold the integrity and quality of the Wikimedia movement as a trusted source of information for the world. My commitment is to contribute to the Wikimedia movement in a manner that respects its values and community guidelines. If you believe I have made an error or violated the community’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page.

Currently working on (November 2024)

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  • In January 2024 I accepted the nomination to the chairperson of the BHL-Wiki meetings and am now working with these two communities to help progress our groups aims.
  • I received Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend the International Botanical Congress in July and helped run a Wikidata workshop, to co-author a presentation at the conference portion of the congress, to create a poster on the advantages of using Wikidata and to "wikify" the congress. For further information see Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 My collaborators and I are now writing a scholarly article to promote Wikidata to botanists to be published in the Annals of Botany journal.
  • I am continuing to work on creating the Hidden Figures Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience modules with the Bionomia module nearing completion and the Wikidata module in the feedback stage. My co-collaborators and I are also currently working on a scholarly article about this CURE and are intending to submit this article to an education journal.
  • I am continuing to collaborate with the "Women Genera" research group as we are currently analysing the data that resulted from us researching flowering plant genera named in honour of women and female beings. We are writing a scholarly article on this analysis of data and hope to submit this to an appropriate journal in the near future.
  • I am organising with User:Stitchbird2 and User:Noracrentiss two Editathons at the Otari-Wilton's Bush gardens on the 28th of September and the 19th of October 2024. For more information see this link.
  • I am currently working on my keynote to be given at the Open Education Global conference in Brisbane.
  • I continue to work on editing New Zealand species articles, particular endemic to New Zealand moth articles, work on various Wikidata mix'n'match datasets, add structured data to Wikimedia Commons and jointly run the Aotearoa New Zealand and Wellington Wiki meet ups.

Upcoming presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

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  • I received Wikimedia Foundation funding to work with a group of collaborators where we attend the International Botanical Congress in July and run a Wikidata workshop. We will also be co-authoring a paper for the Annals of Botany journal as a result of this outreach. For further information on this project see Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024
  • I have accepted an invitation to key note at the Open Education Global Conference to be held in Brisbane on the 13 - 15 November.
  • I've accepted an invitation to present at a workshop run by the Women in Natural History Museums and Collections (WOMNH) on 10-11 December.
  • I will be presenting to the Wikipedia interns at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on my wiki work on 6 January 2025

Recent presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

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  • 17 January 2024 I gave a seminar at the Wikipedia Guest Seminars for Summer Studentships - Auckland Museum. The presentation slides can be found here.
  • 23 January 2024 I accepted the nomination as chairperson for the Wiki-Biodiversity Heritage Library Task Group. This task group meets once a month and collaborates to progress the work of the Wikidata WikiProject BHL. I also attend the regular monthly meetings of the Biodiversity Heritage Library cataloguing task group to assist them with any of their Wikidata questions.
  • 5 April 2024 Presentation on my favourite Wikidata project in the Wikidata Leveling Up days event.
  • 13 - 17 May 2024 I attended the BHL annual meeting in Chicago and reported on the BHL-Wiki working group.
  • 16 May 2024 I presented on the BHL and the Wikiverse during the BHL Day celebrations.
  • March - May 2024 I received a Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand grant to run a pilot Wikidata programme at the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on their research expeditions. See the WikiProject Te papa research expeditions page for more information. As part of this programme I and Te Papa staff ran two edit-a-thons to add content related to Te Papa research expeditions to Wikipedia.
  • 24 May I was interviewed for the BioTA podcast on Citizen Science #37 - see this link.
  • On the 9 July a Wikidata related blog I co-authored was published on the Te Papa website. See this link for the blog - Researching the research (expeditions)
  • In July I attended the International Botanical Congress where I collaborated via the Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024 in submitting a poster and running a Wikidata workshop.
  • In August I attended Wikimania 2024 in person and presented on the Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024, the Women Genera collaboration and the Hidden Figures collaboration.
  • On 20 August I had a Wikidata related paper I co-authored published. See this link for the paper - Delving Into Te Papa Research Expedition Data
  • In September I presented at the SPNHC TDWG 2024 conference on the Wikidata:WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions.
  • On 10 October I had a Wikidata related paper I co-authored published. See this link for the paper - Advancing Community Curation of Research Expeditions: A Collaborative Journey with Wikidata and Biodiversity Information Standards.
  • In October 19 and November 2 I helped organise the New Zealand Species Editathon at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush.
  • On 3 November I presented on the WikiProject IBC 2024 to the ESEAP Community Call #42.

Previous presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons

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See this list for projects, presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons previously I've given, contributed to or helped organise, up to the end of 2023. Many of my contributions for 2022 can be found in the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand/Annual Report 2022

Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity recordings

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Currently working on (June 2024)

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As usual I have several projects on the go:

New Zealand focused work

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Endemic species

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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. See this query to get most commonly observed NZ insects species in iNaturalist.

GLAM content work

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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 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 Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Harvard Index of Botanists Wikidata Mix'n'match dataset.

New Zealand Threat Classification work

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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

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  • 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 are of course issues with taxonomy used in New Zealand vs taxonomy used in the rest of the world.

New Zealand theses project

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See the project page. I continue to contribute to this project, linking theses to Wikipedia articles, and working on the NZThesis Wikidata mix'n'match dataset.

General Work

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

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I actively engage with BHL and their affiliates assisting their engagement with the Wiki movement. See the BHL WikiProject page. I'm an invited guest/member on the BHL Cataloguing and Metadata Committee and am the current chair of the BHL-WIKI Working Group.

Women Genera project

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Fake Muse poster illustrating early research results from the Women Genera project

I'm collaborating with an international group of botanists and a data visualisation specialist researching women after whom flowering plant genera have been named. We have published one scholarly article in December 2023 and intend to publish another article analysing the data in 2024.

Hidden Figures project

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I'm collaborating with a group of academics to produce course materials for a CURE (a course based under graduate research experience) aiming to be delivered by multiple educators at multiple colleges. This CURE will cover "hidden figures" in natural history collections, concentrating on people of colour and women and aims to teach under graduates how to research these people, create Wikidata items and/or Wikipedia articles for them and then link these people to their collections, publications and other contributions made to natural history collections. These course materials will be made available to educators under an open license on the QUBES website. In December 2023 the Introductory module along with the ORCID module were published. In 2024 we anticipated the Bionomia module, the Wikidata module and the storytelling module to also be published.

Research expeditions

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I'm collaborating with a group of editors in Wikidata:WikiProject Research Expeditions. This work improves Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles and Wikicommons content on research expeditions. I am exploring the possibility of obtaining funding for and undertaking a Wikimedian in Residence pilot project at Te Papa focusing on trialling the Research Expedition schema being agreed to by the editors active in this WikiProject as well as the TDWG Modelling Research Expeditions Task Group. This pilot project would aim to implement the schema, feed back any suggested improvements to the schema to both the WikiProject as well as the TDWG task force, explore the "roundtripping" possibilities in museum collection management systems for the Wikidata QIDs, and hold events to improve the editing skills of both Te Papa staff, New Zealand based editors and anyone interested from the general public.

Resources for finding locations : Falling Rain; Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Napes ; FuzzyG - JRC Fuzzy Gazetteer

Other participation

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I'm an active participant in the Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and have appeared in the Wikipedia Weekly broadcasts dealing with this subject.

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 various citizen science platforms and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. I have also been using this resource http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/allan-herbarium/new-zealand-botanists to obtain information on New Zealand botanists. And of course I am keen to create Wikipedia articles on any notable New Zealand woman in order to combat the current gender bias in Wikipedia.

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 publications found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

I contribute to the #1Lib1Ref campaign two times a year and am an active member of the WomenInRed WikiProject.

Suggested topics for planning events

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Possible suggests for Event planning

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  • 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
  • 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

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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! This list gives more up to date information about my contributions.

DYK article 17 December 2015
see Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Stenoperla_prasina
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  • Training for #1Lib1Ref
  • Public domain article template (without the colon) {{:PD-notice}}
  • See this for Wikipedian in Residence info.
  • 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 example of a monotypic taxon and how to deal with it in English Wikipedia.
  • See this markup for redirect to correct species name (use without colon) R from alternative scientific name ie Redirect species article template
  • 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
Tool hub
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See this Wikipedia Weekly List of broadcasts that deal with certain tools

Notes to self

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Grant Applications

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See this page for information on where/how to apply for grants from the Wikimedia Foundation. Also see this page on where/how to apply for grants from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

GA and FA applications for Kererū

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Barnstars

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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)
  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your work in responding to all of my comments in the Kererū GA nomination. It's been a pleasure to work with you and all of your dedicated teammates at WikiProject New Zealand. Mover of molehills (talk) 01:08, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
  The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
For proving those pesky deletionists wrong by expanding all of those articles on New Zealand moths. Thank you. Scorpions1325 (talk) 03:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)|}
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