Wikimedian,
Citizen Scientist
AND
Catherine’s Mum
Image by Auckland Museum CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Image of Orra White Hitchcock by John L. Lovell. Public domain. Image of Anna Antoinette Weber van Bosse via University of Amsterdam, Artis Library. Public domain. Image of Janet Russell Perkins. Public domain.
Women who contribute to Natural History
Museums
Digitise content
Place on public platforms
Allow open reuse
Image: Steereomitrium minutum E.O.Campb. by New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0
I see women scientists
Biodiversity literature
Specimen labels
Museum websites
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And put them in Wikipedia
Screenshot of Wikipedia article on Ella Campbell on 6 September 2023 CC BY-SA 4.0
Why?
Be what you see
Helps correct historic record
Raises profile of woman
Internet search engines
Encourages researchers
Fight bias
Image: Baltimore and Ohio railroad catalogue. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Logos from Women in Red and LGBT studies WikiProjects. Public domain via Wikicommons.
Image by Priscilla Susan Bury via BHL. Public Domain in the US.
Notability for Wikipedia
Significant coverage
Reliable sources
Independent of subject
Wikidata
Linked
Open reuse
Knowledge graph
Queryable
Low nobility criteria
Wikidata notability
A valid wiki site link
OR
Identifiable concept with references OR
Serves a structural need for Wikidata
Image by Priscilla Susan Bury Public Domain in the US
Create or Enrich Wikidata
Screen shot of Wikidata item CC BY-SA 4.0
Why?
Raises profile of woman
Internet search engines
Encourages researchers
Data in Wikidata is REUSED
Image: Baltimore and Ohio railroad catalogue. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Screenshot of Histropedia.
"The Botanists" by Joseph Edward Southall, public domain via Wikicommons.
Names, dames
&
campaigns
A botanical case study in digitally narrowing the gaps
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 2023 (SPNHC 2023), San Francisco, United States, 28 May - 2 June 2023 (Session Narrowing the Gaps: The role of digital infrastructure in shortening the distance between physical collections and their derivative research products) CC BY 4.0
Women genera project visualisation from the Fake Muse poster CC BY 4.0 via Wikicommons
Interested
in
Wikipedia
or
Wikidata?
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