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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

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Goals

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  1. Checking 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 (The site has been archived 248 times between 2016 and 2024, and will continue to be scraped at least monthly.)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Using the key published papers from each OLW research area to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, linking back to the Challenge's Wikipedia article.
  5. Run one or more webinars for OLW and other NSC researchers on Wikipedia, copyright, and Creative Commons
  6. 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.
  7. Add OLW publications to Wikidata to allow easier citation in Wikipedia and analytics using Scholia.

Webinars

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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

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(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.)

A selection of OLW-associated people
Wikidata Scholia Wikipedia Quality Wikimedia Commons Notes
Jenny G. Webster-Brown (Q56970802) link Jenny Webster-Brown 1, 2
Rich McDowell (Q41557067) link Richard McDowell Start Category:Richard McDowell 1, 2
Tanira Kingi
John D. Reid (Q122759654) John Reid
Tina Porou (Q99872148) Tina Porou 1
Shannon Davis (Q118501987) Shannon Davis Category:Shannon Davis 1 Created Commons cat 9/9
Alison Dewes Thesis is there
William Kaye-Blake (Q56549979) Bill Kaye-Blake
Caroline Saunders (Q58222601) link Caroline Saunders Start Category:Caroline Saunders 6 images; better ones added 16/10
Kura Paul-Burke (Q113857423) link Kura Paul-Burke Start
Paul Dalziel (Q57837704) link Paul Dalziel Category:Paul Dalziel 3 images; better ones assed 16/10
Tiffany Tompkins 1
Carla Muller 1]
Mandy Bell 1
Jessica Hutchings (Q113959680) link Jessica Hutchings Start
Gwen-Aélle Grelet (Q88825463) Gwen Grelet
Ken Taylor
Susie McKeague
Helen Percy
Tiffany McIntyre (Q124392004) link Tiffany McIntyre Category:Tiffany McIntyre Wikidata improved, images added 16/10
Peter R. Tait (Q122890716) link Peter Tait Category:Peter R. Tait Images added 16/10

Wikipedia articles with OLW research or resources cited

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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

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Images will be found in the Commons Category:Our Land and Water. The template to tag OLW images is Template:NSC-OLW {{NSC-OLW}}


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