GLAM/Newsletter/September 2024/Contents/New Zealand report

This Month in GLAM – Volume XIV, Issue IX, September 2024

New Zealand report

Report on the Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical 2024, Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024 and the upcoming New Zealand species edit-a-thon

Conference report for SPNHC-TDWG 2024

Ambrosia10 obtained funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) to attend and present at the joint Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Association conference held in Okinawa, Japan on the 2nd to the 6th of September.

She successfully presented on the recently completed Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa Research expeditions. The slides and script of that presentation were uploaded both into Wikimedia Commons as well as published on Zenodo.

Ambrosia10 also produced a conference report reporting back to WANZ and the wider Wiki community on the sessions she attended and reporting back to WANZ and the Wiki related engagement undertaken at the Conference. This report was uploaded into Zenodo and can be read on that site.

Report on Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024

The organisers of Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024, which includes two New Zealand based editors Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 have completed a report on the WikiProject, outlining how it came about, its aims and outcomes. This report has been published on Zenodo and uploaded into Wikimedia Commons.

The organisers of the WikiProject have shared the report with the Wikimedia Foundation, with Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Florencia Claes (President of Wikimedia España) and Victoria Leachman (President of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand). We have emailed Wikimedia South Africa to encourage and offer support for that community to replicate this project in 2029. We also shared this report with the Wellington and New Zealand Wiki meet ups as well as with the Wikidata, GLAMwiki and Wikidata Biodiversity telegram groups. As a result of this Ambrosia10 has been invited to present on the WikiProject at the upcoming ESEAP meeting in November.

New Zealand Species Edit-a-thon

Three editors from Wellington, Stitchbird2, Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss, are in the process of organising a New Zealand species editathon to be held at the botanic garden w:Ōtari-Wilton's Bush. This event runs over two Saturdays - Saturday 19 October 2024 and Saturday 2 November 2024. If Wikipedia editors are in Wellington on either of these days they are welcome to sign up for tickets here.

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