Delivered two training sessions and a lightning talk in Auckland. Now working on sorting out a series of follow-up online sessions to upskill people interested in learning OpenRefine.
Have been invited to go and talk about the thesis project at University of Canterbury. Yay!
Still keeping up with #1woman1day for woman in red. I will eventually run out of NZ-based professors and emeritus professors (less than a hundred to go) so am considering what to focus on next (have a listeria of honours recipients, so may pick the interesting people out of that)
Currently writing training for OpenRefine sessions at the Auckland Wikicon. Current plan is one on Wikidata followed by one on Commons, although I think we're unlikely to get all the way through a Commons upload.
Still just about keeping up with #1woman1day for WomeninRed - one biography of a NZ woman professor (at the moment - I'll run out of professors before the end of the year so can cast my net wider) for every day of the year.
Not much change on Thesis Project work, still partway through adding missing advisors for a batch of ~1000 thesis matched to authors through Orcids. Also trying to write a lightning talk for Auckland on the thesis project.
Talked to the Auckland Museum summer interns this week about the thesis project and Wikidata/Wikipedia interactions. I hope I didn't overwhelm them, they asked some great questions and seem to have been having a very productive summer.
The OpenRefine Train-the-trainers course is progressing - things have been quiet but we had a couple of calls with some really useful details on what has worked well and not so well for trainers in the past. I also had a cocktail meetup with Pru Mitchell in Melbourne which was lovely.
I committed to trying to get all the NZ women professors into Wikipedia this year (currently just under 120 to go, although it's something of a moving target as we don't have a complete list, and I occasionally find more to add to it). I'm going to have a good go at #1woman1day this year (I managed 31 new bios in January, so, so far so good!), and am spurred on by having won a physical barnstar from Women in Red for the education event, which is winging it's way to me in Dunedin. Did I mention the importance of swag? ;)
Am providing support one-on-one to a NZ editor to audit a Wiki dataset in OpenRefine.
Have done a massive amount of author matching on the thesis project, as I did a reconciliation with Orcid and created almost a thousand new records for people who have an Orcid and a thesis but who weren't already in Wikidata (or at least, if they were, they didn't have their Orcid applied).
I nominated Carol Mutch for Did you know to run on 22 Sep, as she does research around schools coping with disasters, which was prompted by her experiences in Chch earthquakes.
DrThneed is planning two presentations, one for the ESEAP community meeting next week and the other for Wellington WikiCon, exciting! She submitted a scholarship application to go to Wikimania in Singapore in August. She is writing a response to a paper that was published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship, on doctoral theses in Wikidata, but Covid brainfog is holding up finishing that currently. DrThneed also wants to celebrate that Annie passed 300 matches in the NZThesis Mixnmatch catalogue, which is a lot of work! Thanks Annie. DrThneed also wrote her first page this year, Adrian Hailwood.
Got back into the Thesis project as explained earlier. She created a wikipedia page yesterday about a trust offering new writers residency - the Casselberg trust . It is a short page but links to all the writers and the two people it’s named after. She's looking forward to being a Wikidata fellowship mentor and there are applications for NZ and she’s also looking forward to the conference. She's been in discussions with Avocadobabygirl on how to disambiguate people via Wikidata for a data project sharing tips and tricks in OpenRefine etc. Einebillion elaborated on what Avocadobabygirl is working on for Te papa. It is the Te Papa mix'n'match creators id dataset. This dataset is actually their agents and includes people who shouldn’t be included and is old and the data has been significantly improved in 6 years. Discussion happened around this project and DrThneed says Magnus will delete if asked. Einebillion explained not Te Papa’s dataset because a third party who created it but that Avocadobabygirl is currrently working through the issues surrounding this.
Year has exploded with work so needing to schedule. Put in a proposal to go to Wikimania. There's also Wikidata conference at Taiwan later in the year, while not attending physically, will be on the organising committee. Also put in a proposal to go to LIANZA in Christchurch and talk about Thesis project. Women in Architecture editathon in Auckland on 20 May and likely to support a Dunedin in person event. Also have worked on Scholia for a Zoology department, as a new way of visualising some of the thesis data. Working on two publications and looking over a draft Wikidata toolkit for another editor.
Sorting out architecture editathon for May 20. Have done a lot of Wikidata work to support it, creating a NZ Women in Architecture Wikidata project and adding women, books, awards to it (very few buildings so far!). Still need to add some queries to visualise things (suggestions welcome!). Made a Listeria for the project. Created a page for Lynda Simmons and put it forward for a DYK to run on May 20 (would be nice to have a photo).
Thesis project: Created a Scholia for Otago Zoology department, to support Mike's Wikimedian in residence work. Submitted a short paper to the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Working on a longer paper. Commented on a Wikidata toolkit prepared by the librarians at LSE and York. Submitted a proposal for a talk at Lianza in Christchurch and will apply to Wanz for funding to attend.
Other: Changed my Listeria for NZ honours recipients into a women-only list so I could add it to Women in Red list of lists. Made pages for Centre of Research Excellence, Playwrights Association of New Zealand, Maria Bargh, Elspeth Tilley and Eirian Jones.
Made a bunch of Wikipedia pages for some academics and architects etc: Ineke Crezee, Diane Menzies, Margaret Bedggood, June Pallot, New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, Isabel Castro (biologist), Jodie Hunter, Jackie Benschop, Nicole Moreham, Jackie Gillies, Margaret Munro, Min Hall, Alison Sleigh, Sarah Treadwell, Sargood Centre. DrThneed's proprosal for a presentation at the LIANZA conference (31 Oct/Nov) has been accepted, and is working on slides for that (which will be similar to slides for Wikimania, if talk is accepted) and on a manuscript with Zeborah, Deborah Fitchett. Have also been mentoring my Wikidata fellow who is beginning to get to grips with OpenRefine which is exciting! She has a great dataset which is going to really benefit NZ Wikidata.
has been adding main subject statements to theses in Wikidata, as mentioned above. She is also exploring other visualisations based on main subject statements, e.g. which taxa are best covered, a map of places mentioned in theses, what occupation you should have if you want someone to write a thesis about you, that sort of thing (see the thesis Wikidata project page). She'd love suggestions if you can think of interesting angles to take! DrThneed has had her talk on the thesis project accepted at Wikimania. Also planning a second Women in Architecture event as part of the heritage festival later in the year. Last week DrThneed and Mike did a presentation on copyright for scientists at the Department of Anatomy at Otago.
Making slides for Singapore, writing the thesis project paper, and continuing to match thesis authors etc. Annie and I broke 5% on the Mix'n'match for thesis authors! Met with Heritage NZ about running another women and architecture event during the heritage festival. Am contributing a session on Wikidata to a National Library of Singapore workshop after Wikimania.
DrThneed learned about the Wikidata Walkabout tool and wants people to know it exists (its purpose is to allow you to query Wikidata without writing any Sparql, by “drilling down” through classes). DrThneed also had her letter on Wikidata theses accepted in the Journal of Academic Librarianship (finally! It was four months in review and then got accepted with no revisions. Now available online). She has also drafted a few stub articles for political candidates (there’s a list of more that need doing here), put all the missing Greens & Labour candidates into Wikidata and added SDC to their images in Commons. Have added the National candidates to Wikidata but haven’t done SDC as their copyright isn’t sorted properly yet so images may get deleted still. Will add all remaining candidates (with electorates and list rankings) to Wikidata when the official Electoral Commission list gets published (any day now). She is also running a Women in Architecture public event in October as part of the Heritage Festival so is planning for that. She's been working on the Web2Cite tool, trying to fix PapersPast automatic citation generator problem that drives us editors nuts and as well as news websites, and has been making some inroads to fixing some. There is meant to be a community who can help but she has only found a few folks who use the tool. User:MargaretRDonald suggests reaching out to Kerry Raymond who knows the most about web2cit in Australia. She has also put in application for a Wikimedia Foundation train the trainers of OpenRefine course and is hoping to get accepted.
Architect event report - 3 articles created, 3.5k words , and 51 references
LIANZA presentation comming up on Halloween in Christchurch with Deborah on the NZ Thesis Project
Open Refine train the trainers course - accepted, need to train group before end of March (session at next Wiki meeting). Focusing on OpenRefine for Commons uploads.
Election articles (including updating Wikidata items, e.g. from political candidates to elected, etc.) - final final count required (3rd November).
Election Did You Know (DYK) - please help expand bios (list here) and get them ready, we want as many as possible, but definitely more than 19! Also if you DYK, then some QPQ credits would be great.
Content: wrote four pages for women professors (Andrea 't Mannetje, Bronwen Connor, Melinda Webber, Sue Crengle), added award statements for all the RSNZ James Cook Fellows to Wikidata and made a page for the award itself (this was its last year). Added about 50 award statements for Fellows of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology to Wikidata (there are more fellows, but they need Wikidata items created, which I'm probably not going to do). Also created Wikidata items for the award scheme that will replace this and other fellowships. Added the first of the 2023 Royal Society awards statements to Wikidata (the Auckland event has been held, we will have Wellington and Christchurch in the next week). Also worked on expanding new pages for MPs to reach DYK eligibility. There are still lots of MP pages to review for the mass "Did you know" nomination if anyone wants easy QPQs. I'll add the final vote counts and results to Wikidata once the final final recounts are all in (which they might be now? I've lost track a little of the individual recounts in close electorates). Also made Wikidata items for a bunch of Dunedin streets to link to heritage buildings.
Attended Wikidatacon virtually.
Attended the first meeting of the OpenRefine train-the-trainers course (who is interested in being trained in using OpenRefine for Wiki work - Wikidata, WikiCommons?).
Presented the NZ Thesis Project to the LIANZA Conference in Christchurch which was very exciting (report pending). She's had scholia profile nibbles from Canterbury University librarians as a result of the Thesis presentation at LIANZA. Giantflightlessbirds expressed an interest in talking to Canterbury Librarians too.
2023 Election: DYK for new MPs has been an interesting experience for DrThneed this year. New MP articles totalled 19. Last year everybody leapt on them and reviewed them quickly. This year there was a debate on whether the articles should exist as a multi-hook. The articles are really easy to review. So if you are not involved in the articles they are great if you want to increase your review total. They are just sitting there just waiting to be done. Discussed this article for New MP come through on the recount. DrThneed needs help for an issue where someone has become an MP based on preliminary results but then lost this. Group agreed that often such people achieve notability even if they loose.
The DYK multihook for new MPS is still waiting for 13 more reviews although progress has been made. It now has a lovely 20-person image!
Wikidata: added new professors and associate professors as per press releases from AUT, Canterbury and Massey. The list of women professors needing pages is now 142 women long and getting longer, despite my efforts above! If anyone wants to chip in, I especially appreciate help with Otago staff. I also added to Wikidata lists of fellows for a couple of societies, and the new Royal Society awards as they were announced.
Commons: Have downloaded around 150 photos from the Royal Society award events, and have them teed up in OpenRefine with their depicts statements and captions etc just waiting to be uploaded, the RS just hasn't yet put a license statement on the Google albums. I will be walking through how I've done this as a demo with the OpenRefine Train the Trainers group on Friday so will get feedback if there are any improvements I can make. I'm also working with a batch of over 100 images of Otago professors from the Hocken, which I'm going to share as a training/scraping dataset with other people on the TTT course.
