Dr Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds, contact: mike
rove.wiki) is working as as a Wikipedian in Residence in August–September 2024 with the Our Land and Water (OLW) National Science Challenge headquartered in AgResearch, Lincoln (Our Land and Water (Q129800799)) to upload images to Commons, improve Wikidata on scientists and publications, cite published research to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, create new articles as needed, and run webinars on open science and Wikipedia for interested researchers.
Resources
edit- Website
- Resource Finder for OLW research and resources
- Wai Ora, Whenua Ora, Tangata Ora: 2018 strategy publication for OLW
- 2018 Research Book
Goals
editChecking the OLW website is backed up in the Internet Archive, and is scraped again when complete.DONE. (The site has been archived 248 times between 2016 and 2024, and will continue to be scraped at least monthly.)- Create a Wikipedia article about OLW, summarising the origins and main investigators in the Science Challenge, the research themes and projects, and a selected publications list and outcomes, linking back to the (archived) website.
- Create a WikiCommons category for significant Challenge people, using images supplied to be released under an open licence, with a profile photo assigned to their Wikidata item.
- Using the key published papers from each OLW research area to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, linking back to the Challenge's Wikipedia article.
- Run one or more webinars for OLW and other NSC researchers on Wikipedia, copyright, and Creative Commons
- Create articles about one or more significant OLW researchers, listing their most significant research publications in Wikidata, linked to them as the authors, with a Scholia publications list.
- Add OLW publications to Wikidata to allow easier citation in Wikipedia and analytics using Scholia.
Webinars
edit| Date | Time | Title | Register | Intended for | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 22 Oct 2024 | Midday | Wikipedia for Researchers | Free: registration link | NSC scientists and other researchers | What you need to know to work with the world’s largest encyclopedia. How it’s written, how it resists vandalism, why it’s sometimes extremely accurate and sometimes not, and what you can do about that, including how you can make sure it’s correctly citing your research. |
| Tues 5 Nov 2024 | Midday | Copyright for Scientists | Free:registration link | Academics and anyone publishing in peer-reviewed journals | Scientists need to deal with copyright, but most have no training in how the law works. When you publish, you often end up signing over the rights to your text, images, and diagrams for decades to come. But there are ways of protecting your creative work so that you can reuse it without having to go begging to a publisher – I'll show you how, and incidentally give you a crash course in the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994. |
| Tues 19 Nov 2024 | Midday | Creative Commons for open science | Free: registration link | Researchers publishing in Open Access journals | Open Access publishing uses Creative Commons licences, but what are they exactly and what are the differences between them? Learn how to reuse other people’s CC work without violating copyright, and how to make your own images, diagrams, maps, and writing available for others to legally share and reuse – in teaching materials, textbooks, or Wikipedia articles. |
These webinars are free and supported by Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. Follow-up training or small presentations can be arranged; contact mike rove.wiki.
People
edit(Note: Wikidata generally uses the full name as given in author lists on publications; Wikipedia will use the most-commonly-referred-by name—for example, the one in a university staff listing. The Scholia link shows the number of publications currently in Wikidata and properly linked to that person's Wikidata ID.)
Wikipedia articles with OLW research or resources cited
edit| Wikipedia | Quality | Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Our Land and Water | 
|
various |
| Environmental DNA | 
|
What is eDNA? (1080p) OLW.webm |
| Agrivoltaics | 
|
Agrivoltaics Definition OLW.webm |
| Water pollution in New Zealand |
|
TK |
| Periphyton |
|
TK |
| European Green Deal |
|
TK |
| Agriculture in New Zealand |
|
TK |
Selected images
editImages will be found in the Commons Category:Our Land and Water. The template to tag OLW images is Template:NSC-OLW {{NSC-OLW}}
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Pourakino River -
Catchment Forum meeting, Pourakino, March 2021 -
An Introduction to Agrivoltaics
For enquiries about permissions and open image licensing, please contact Communications Manager Annabel McAleer.
- Annabel.McAleer@agresearch.co.nz
- Our Land and Water Science Challenge
- Agresearch Tuhiraki
- Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140