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🌱 Wikipedia for botanists! 🌿

As a follow-up to the ASBS Conference 2025, Heidi Meudt (Curator Botany, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and Siobhan Leachman (Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence) have been sharing their expertise on utilising Wikimedia platforms for natural sciences.

The recording of their latest webinar is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ9AAdNxNXs

If you missed the first session, you can catch up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_Tum5dJus

#Wikipedia #OpenSource

ASBS Conference 2025 Wiki for Botanists follow up webinar

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Wikimedians for SustainableDev Dec 11

Today, at 17.00 UTC, we have a user group meeting. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development_user_group_meeting_20251211

Event:Wikimedians for Sustainable Development user group meeting 20251211 - Meta-Wiki

Wikimedians for SustainableDev Dec 3

Siobhan Leachman Dec 3

A botany related follow up #Wiki workshop will be held on 9 December at 3.30pm NZST. We'll be covering creating new species articles in #Wikipedia, changing plant image file names in #WikiCommons & giving links to #Wikidata tools. Anyone can attend!
Register at:
https://tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/register/mtnGEgaCQYmZwOz7vWgb6A#/registration #botany

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Wiki for Botanists follow-up virtual webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

We invite you to this follow-up Wiki for Botanists virtual webinar on Tuesday 9 December 2025 at 3:30 pm NZST! The first half of this follow-up webinar will be a slide presentation by Siobhan Leachman and Heidi Meudt about additional topics and issues that were brought up during the two workshops. This part of the webinar will be recorded and later uploaded to YouTube. The second half of this follow-up webinar will be a time for additional questions, discussion and requests regarding your editing experiences over the last several weeks. This part of the webinar will not be recorded so as to facilitate free and open exchange of information. The event page for this webinar can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online/ASBS_Follow_up_Wiki_webinar_9_December_2025

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Wikimedians for SustainableDev Dec 1

Our November newsletter is now available! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Newsletter/2025-11

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development/Newsletter/2025-11 - Meta-Wiki

Wikimedians for SustainableDev Nov 28

A quick poll for our next user group call. Please vote before Monday so that we can link to the meeting in the newsletter.

Sunday 7 Dec 12.00 UTC

25%

Sunday 7 Dec 19.00 UTC

25%

Monday 8 Dec 20.00 UTC

25%

Thursday 11 Dec 17.00 UTC

25%

Poll ended at Dec 1 at 12:12pm.

Wikimedians for SustainableDev Nov 27

Have you seen the #SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote? It's run by the wikiwomen community from 1 September until 31 December 2025. Help out on gender equality (SDG 5)! Read more at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid
#SDG5

Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid - Meta-Wiki

Wikimedians for SustainableDev Nov 26

Wikimedia LGBT+Nov 25

Join us on 29th Nov to mark WAD with a keynote from Greg Gonsalves and a discussion on AIDS memorial between
Ash Kotak, Bisi Alim and @owenblacker. Followed by editathon. Click here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:World_AIDS_Day_2025_online