Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024

WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024

About Wikidata WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024

The International Botanical Congress (IBC) takes place once every six years. The organisers of this WikiProject see this conference as an ideal opportunity to engage with the wider botanical community, educate them about the potential of Wikidata and to train them in its use. We will also use this opportunity to improve the data held in Wikidata about the participants, presenters and their contributions to botany.

Aims and scope

Deliver a Wikidata workshop to 50 conference participants
Deliver Wikidata related presentations and poster at the conference (1 Wikidata related paper and 2 posters have been accepted)
Engage in informal outreach during the conference
"Wikify" the conference, its participants and their contributions to botany

Organisers

Wikidata Workshop

The Wikidata workshop was held on Sunday 21st of July from 12 noon until 5pm in the Colón room at the conference venue IFEMA Madrid. For more information on the workshop see the workshop tab above. There were a total of 22 attendees for the workshop.

We have held a free one-hour online onboarding session and introduction for the Wikidata workshop on Tuesday 9th of July at 9pm NZST (GMT+12) (i.e. 2am California, 5am New York, 10 am UK & Portugal, 11 am central Europe, 5pm Singapore, 7pm Sydney, 9pm NZ). Register here: https://tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpf--orz8vEt0osKr1N2A6sXm4zyyXlGxe This free hands-on introductory seminar which will give participants an introduction to Wikidata and why it is important for botanists (and indeed all scientists) to actively improve entries and engage with Wikidata. Our focus will be on topics relevant to plant biodiversity, especially botanists, collectors, taxa, specimens, scientific publications, and research, but it will be open and relevant to other scientists and researchers. We will also assist those who do not yet have Wikidata usernames to create them during this session. Those who have registered for the in-person workshop are highly encouraged to attend this Zoom meeting, however it is open to all who are interested, so you do NOT need to be attending the in-person workshop to attend this introduction.

See this link to see the slides and the presentation. The presentation recording was also uploaded onto Youtube.

The slides can be found in Wikimedia Commons.

Content generated for and during the WikiProject

The organisers of this WikiProject have placed the resources, presentations and posters generated during this project in Zenodo. This community of resources can be found at this link. These resources have also been placed in Wikimedia Commons The organisers of Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024 have published a report on the WikiProject in Zenodo and uploaded the pdf into Wikimedia Commons The report goes into detail about the formation, challenges, aims and outcomes of the project.

Funding and support acknowledgements

The Wikimedia Foundation is providing funding to two of the organisers Ambrosia10 and S.v.Mering to travel to and attend this conference in order to organise and run this Wikidata workshop, present at and undertake further outreach with the participants at this conference.

Contributions to this work by Joaquimsantos1978 is supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., in the framework of the Project UIDB/04004/2020 and DOI identifier 10.54499/UIDB/04004/2020.

Contributions to this work by Stitchbird2 is supported by her employer, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.