Wikidata:WikiProject ASBS 2025
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WikiProject Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference 2025
About WikiProject Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference 2025
[edit]This project is now complete.
The Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference (ASBS) took place from 2 to 6 November 2025. The organisers of this WikiProject saw this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata as well as Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and to train them to engage more broadly with the Wikiverse. We also used this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.
Aims and scope
[edit]- Deliver an online introductory Wiki webinar
- Deliver a Wiki workshop to up to 25 conference participants
- Deliver a Wiki related presentation at the conference
- "Wikify" the conference, its participants and their contributions to botany
- Engage in informal outreach during the conference
Organisers
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- The ASBS workshop was held on Sunday 2nd of November from 9am until 4.30pm. For more information on the workshop see the event page.
- We also held a free one-hour online onboarding session and introduction for the Wiki workshop on Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST (GMT+12) (i.e. 10am Perth, 12pm Papua New Guinea, and 1pm Sydney).
- This was a free hands-on introductory seminar giving participants an introduction to Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. It outlined why it is important for botanists (and indeed all scientists) to actively improve entries and engage with Wikidata. The focus was on topics relevant to plant biodiversity, especially botanists, collectors, taxa, specimens, scientific publications, and research, but the webinar is relevant to other scientists and researchers. We also assisted those who did not yet have Wikidata usernames to create them. Those who registered for the in-person workshop were highly encouraged to attend this Zoom meeting, however it was open to all who were interested.
See the event page for more information.
- Slides and script for the conference presentation co-authored by Siobhan Leachman and Heidi Meudt. The slides are also on Wikimedia Commons.
The organisers of this WikiProject also offered a virtual follow-up webinar open to anyone interested in expanding their Wiki skills in adding content on botany and botanists to the Wikiverse.
This workshop was held on Tuesday the 9th of December at 3.30pm NZST.
Recording - On Wikimedia Commons and also on Youtube
See the event page for more information.
Report on WikiProject
[edit]A report on this project was published and submitted to the funders of the project on the 22 November 2025.
Funding and support acknowledgements
[edit]The Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand provided funding to the two organisers Stitchbird2 and Ambrosia10 to travel to and attend this conference to organise and run the workshop, present at the conference and undertake further outreach with participants.