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 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 many of the projects undertaken by New Zealand and overseas 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 both related and not to Wiki are outlined in my
ORCID profile.
Currently working on
In January 2024 I accepted the nomination to the chairperson of the BHL-Wiki meetings and will work with these two communities to help progress our aims.
I am attempting to organise two Editathons at the Otari-Wilton's Bush gardens in New Zealand winter.
I have 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 are currently planning three events including a #1Lib1Ref event and two editathons dealing with content related to Te Papa research expeditions.
I have received Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend the International Botanical Congress in July and to help run a Wikidata workshop, to co-author/present two papers at the conference portion of the congress and to "wikify" the congress. For further information see
Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024
Upcoming presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons
I will be reporting on the BHL-Wiki working group at the BHL annual meeting in May 2024 and will also be presenting on BHL and the Wikiverse at the BHL day.
I will be presenting a poster and running a Wikidata workshop at the International Botanical Congress in July 2024.
I will be attending WIkimania 2024 and have submitted abstracts to that conference hoping to present on a variety of projects.
2 April 2023. SciStarter - Citizen Science Month panel. Presented on Citizen Science and Wikipedia as part of a panel discussion about citizen science in Australasia to celebrate Citizen Science Month 2023l. Presentation script and slides can be found
here. The panel was recorded and can be seen on
Youtube.
15 April 2023 Participated in a symposium outlining my motivations for participating in the WeDigBio transcription event and highlighting workflows used including connecting natural history collectors to their specimens via Wikidata and the website Bionomia Tracker. Discussed writing Wikipedia articles on species, natural history collectors and the locations the collectors travel to, to collect specimens. The script and slides for this presentation can be found at this
link. A recording of the symposium can be found
here.
1 June 2023
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 2023 28th May until 2nd June - I obtained Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend SPNHC 2023. I presented two papers at this conference. One was titled Reuse in the Wiki world empowers engagement with Natural History Collections and the other was titled Names, dames and campaigns: a botanical case study in digitally narrowing the gaps.
16 - 19 August 2023 I attended Wikimania 2023 where I was named Wikimedia Laureate 2023.
31 August 2023 I gave a presentation to staff at the Auckland Museum, generally discussing several of my projects and how the Auckland Museum might be able to benefit or become involved in this work.
21 September 2023 I gave a presentation at the Women and gender minorities in STEM club at Victoria University of Wellington. See
here for slides.
5 October 2023 (NZ time) I gave a keynote to the Wikimedia Foundation staff meeting Wikimedia Connect explaining about some of my Wiki contributions. See
here for slides.
9 - 13 October I obtained funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to attend the TDWG2023 conference in Hobart where a paper I have co-authored will be presented by a colleague. The paper covers a collaborative project creating a Wikidata schema for scientific expeditions and then reusing the same to assist natural history folk to add and connect scientific expeditions in Wikidata. See this link for
slides. I also co-organised an "unconference" session on how to propose a Wikidata property to the Wikidata community. I reported back on the conference and my engagement with participants via
User:Ambrosia10/TDWG2023.
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.
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
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 Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Harvard Index of Botanists Wikidata Mix'n'match dataset.
New Zealand Threat Classification work
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
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
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
Biodiversity Heritage Library
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 chair of the BHL-WIKI Working Group.
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
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
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 Geogrphic Napes ; FuzzyG - JRC Fuzzy Gazetteer
Other participation
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open Library workflow - remember David's presentation. Openly licensed, add to internet archive, catalogue via Open library, add identifiers to Wikidata.
See this page for information on where/how to
apply for grants from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Application approved by the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to attend TDWG2023 conference in Hobart. A presentation on scientific expeditions that I am co-author of will be given at the conference. I have written a report on my impressions of the conference and on the engagement and discussions regarding various Wiki projects. See
this link for the report.
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.
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