Siobhan Leachman / Ambrosia10
Hi I'm User:Ambrosia10, also known as Siobhan Leachman. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I co-organise both the Wikipedians in Wellington Meetup as well as the virtual Aotearoa New Zealand Online Wiki meetup, both of which are held monthly. For my contributions to various WikiProjects see https://wikidata.wikiscan.org/user/Ambrosia10 . 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. I am keen supporter of Women in Red, WikiCite, events such as #1Lib1Ref, as well as Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and Wikidata WikiProject Research Expeditions. I am the chairperson of the BHL-Wiki working group and was awarded the Wikimedia Laureate award in 2023. More detail on my other contributions to the Wiki-verse can be seen on my ORCID profile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-7721.
Sessions
The Hidden Figures working group was formed to develop a course based undergraduate research experience (CURE) to help university students discover ‘hidden figures’ in natural history collections. The aim of this CURE is to train university students in data-sleuthing and Wikidata editing techniques to help ensure marginalised scientists get proper attribution for their scientific contributions, particularly specimens collected and identified by those scientists. This presentation will pay particular attention to the Wikidata module created as part of this course.
Session recording available on today’s Youtube stream;
https://www.youtube.com/live/OyyYA4iWkyA?t=605
This presentation will summarise how the collaborative Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024 (the IBC Project) was conceived and created. It will highlight how the organisers were successful in engaging and collaborating with the botanical and Wiki communities. We intend to outline the challenges faced and successes achieved, including how the project has led to further opportunities for engagement by the organisers, participants and the wider botanical community. This collaborative IBC Project has improved the amount and quality of openly shared data on botanists and their research in Wikidata, and provided training to participants to continue Wikidata editing.
The Women Genera project is an international collaboration between botanists, data analysts and Wikidatians to create a dynamic dataset in Wikidata linking flowering plant genera to women in whose honour those genera were named. The enrichment of data in Wikidata during the project’s research phase ensured that multiple institutions including the International Plant Names Index, Tropicos and the Biodiversity Heritage Library benefited prior to the publication of the research publication based on the research. The presentation will show how the methodology used can be replicated to create future datasets celebrating and amplifying the contributions of marginalised groups.