statistician, wikimedian and wikidata enthusiast. Linking, linking, linking (on wikis - not yet on twitter.)
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This is the official blog from my #wikidata fellowship 2022, an opportunity to populate wikidata with Australian fauna Thanks @wm_au @SiobhanLeachman and @tobyhudson Please note @rdmpage @nicolekearney
This Zelkova serrata tree is a natural monument of South Korea. It is listed as a WDPA protected area (0.0 km2) Data now in #wikidata & image in #kowiki (How I wish we valued our trees in Australia in the same way
ALT Daejeon Goegok-dong Zelkova tree https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%A0%84_%EA%B4%B4%EA%B3%A1%EB%8F%99_%EB%8A%90%ED%8B%B0%EB%82%98%EB%AC%B4
Ruskin Row: Stop Council's plan to Cut Down two more Healthy Trees - Sign the Petition! chng.it/45P2CZTTRh via @ChangeAUS
Working on w.wiki/CF75 & youtube.com/watch?v=lGEDRHtR… finding images for #enwiki articles with no P18 (image) in #Wikidata. The image shows captioning in #Wikipedia with CC-BY-4.0 together with a linked institution.
ALT Image from Brachychiton multicaulis
One of the pleasures of adding Wikidata identifiers is finding Qitems which need to be merged. Here 3 items were merged, and a Chinese and English page linked
ALT Merging 3 Qitems due to reuse of Encyclopedia of Korea identifier
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Today we're celebrating the end of our "Larger Micro Moth" digitisation project, which we wrapped up earlier this month. What makes a Larger Micro Moth? Well, the definition is a little bit fuzzy (just like the moths themselves).
ALT Dorsal view of Adscita statices, a brilliant green moth with shimmering antennae. Background is "digitisation grey" and the specimen's labels are lined up next to the moth, and a scale bar is included. The moth is hardly 2 centimeters wide.
ALT Image of a living Adscita statices perched on a purple flower. This individual has a teal shift, and some individual scales are visible.
Congratulations to the @wm_au partners for 2024: @BHL Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia, Victorian Field Naturalist Clubs & @nicolekearney
Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers & Mary Coe
Environment Centre NT & @CaddieBrain
& Environmental Protection Agency
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BHL Australia is thrilled & honoured to be one of four recipients of Wikimedia Australia's 2024 Partner Project grants. Thank you @wm_au! wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2024_P… cc @BioDivLibrary @atlaslivingaust
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Some #HistoricSciArt to brighten your day: Fairy Wrens from vol. 2 (1902) of "The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union": biodiversitylibrary.org/page… via @BioDivLibrary, digitised by @AMNH cc @BirdlifeOz
Plantago aucklandica is a megaherb! blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/… via @te_papa – at Sydney, New South Wales
reminder about the #commons science photo competition. @wm_au @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman Photos need not be uploaded as part of a local competition.
Poinciana (Delonix regia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloni… at Newstead house. @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988 @wm_au
A disturbing Britannia at Newstead House, bringing peace with her paw firmly planted on the entire world. @annreynolds988 @FrankPouncby @wm_au
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A satisfying treasure hunt: I found 67 new type specimens of Asian and American #Meliaceae last week. They were "hiding" amongst the 1.1 million specimens of @CUHerb. They will soon be digitised and shared online, to facilitate the work of #taxonomists. @plantsci @CamGLAMresearch – at Cambridge, England
ALT Two piles of herbarium specimens on a work bench.
Cheonan Yangnyeong-ri juniper tree, Natural Monument No. 427 #Wikicommons wikidata.org/wiki/Q12618902 @wm_au @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988
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#FindsFriday
From the Bronze Age, the magnificent Rhos Rydd shield.
Expertly made c. 3,000 years ago from a single disc of bronze. 20 concentric circles are decorated with 3,700 singly punched bosses. Mesmerising!
Found in a bog near Blaenplwyf, Wales, in 1804.
#Archaeology
Read more: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/42027…
Korean pyeongyeong (lithophone) (image by ShalRath via #Wikicommons ) A percussion instrument made of stone and hence less subject to heat & humidity changes. See w.wiki/_v9Xu (still working on #Korean #Wikidata) @annreynolds988 @wm_au @FrankPouncby
