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ASBS Conference Wiki for Botanists Workshop

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Heidi Meudt and Siobhan Leachman will be presenting a full-day workshop at the ASBS 2025 Conference intended to enhance participant's digital outreach skills by teaching attendees to edit and enrich Australasian botany information in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The Wiki for Botanists workshop is open and relevant to anyone attending the Australasian Systematic Botany Society 2025 Conference.

The in-person “Wiki for Botanists” workshop will be held at Armidale City Bowling Club, 92–96 Dumaresq St, Armidaleon on Sunday 2 November from 9am to 4.30pm. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea is included. Only 25 spots are available.

Register for this free, full-day in-person workshop on the ASBS conference website when registering for your conference ticket.

BEFORE Workshop

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Virtual webinar

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Wikipedia account setup

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  • Make sure you have a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop on 2 November. Think of a username (this can take some time, make sure you have some alternatives in case yours is already being used), and follow along this short video.

Workshop resources

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Slides

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The main list of editing resources is given further below but this folder holds several articles that give information on why edit, how to edit or can be used as references for editing in Wiki.

Dashboard

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Dashboard - sign up via this link

AFTER workshop

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Virtual follow-up webinar

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The virtual follow-up "Wiki for Botanists" webinar was held on 9 December 2025 via Zoom.

Link to slides and script available in Zenodo

Slides and script are also available in Wikimedia Commons.

The video is being uploaded to Commons and YouTube.

WikiProject report

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A report on the WikiProject ASBS 2025, of which this workshop was a part, was published and submitted to the funders of the project on 22 November 2025.

Editing resources

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Wikipedia

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Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions, 2024 (2nd edition)
This includes
  • How to create and set up your account (00:00)
  • Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
  • Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
  • Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
  • Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
  • A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)

Other useful resources

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Wikimedia Commons

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Get That Picture in the Wiki-Verse.
  1. YouTube Video – Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons (4:17)
  2. YouTube Video – Learn about Wikimedia Commons (16:26)
  3. YouTube Video – Creative Commons copyright licensing explained (5:32)
  4. Wikimedia Commons workflow handout

Other useful resources

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Wikidata

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Wikidata in brief

Here are a number of useful introductory videos on Wikidata and why it's great. They are ranked by complexity and depth of information.

  1. YouTube video – Wikidata and Why You Should Care. (7 min 37 sec)
  2. YouTube video – How to manually edit Wikidata. (2 min 15 sec)
  3. YouTube video – An Introduction to Wikidata. (22 min 34 sec) and the slide deck from this presentation.
  4. YouTube video – A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies! (3 hrs 4 min 32 sec)
This last video is three hours long so use these time markers to skip to the sections you are interested in.
  • What is Wikidata? (00:00)
  • How to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34)
  • How to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07)
  • How to embed Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54)
  • Tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20)
  • Article Placeholder (2:01:01)
  • Reasonator (2:54:15)
  • Mix'n'Match (2:57:05)
  • How to Query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (2:05:05)

Other useful resources

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Meetups and WikiProjects

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Acknowledgements

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Many thanks to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand for supporting the WikiProject ASBS Conference outreach.

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