Presented on Wikidata to Auckland Museum staff at a Wiki workshop Friday 23rd March 2018
Presented at SPNHC + TDWG conference 2018 on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
Assisted with the 4 Wellington #EditforEquity edit-a-thons held in October 2018. I helped tutor attendees, contributed to spreadsheet of articles for addition or improvement in Wikipedia, added images to WikiCommons, created articles and interlinked content via Wikidata.
Attending as many New Zealand Wikimedian at Large Wellington based events as I can to support organisers and new editors. (June 2018 - June 2019)
Advanced Digitizations of Biodiversity Collections Summit 2019. 1 - 3 October 2019. My presentation: "Why Natural History collections should engage with Wikipedia, WikiCommons and Wikidata".
Biodiversity Next 2019. Symposium: How does Wikimedia Solve the Problems of Biodiversity Informatics? 22 October 2019. My presentation: Wikimedia Projects and Citizen Science.
WikidataCon 2019. 25 - 26 October 2019. My presentation: #HerNaturalHistory
Dowse Art + Feminism Editathon. 16 November 2019. See this as a great resource. - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend.
National Digital Forum 2019 - unfortunately a family emergency meant that I was unable to attend. However my resources and presentations were able to be used by User:Giantflightlessbirds to ensure this content was delivered.
Pre-conference workshop. 18 November 2019. Wikidata for GLAMs: an introduction..
Conference presentation. 19 - 20 November 2019. Giz it: A journey in reuse.
2019 ASBS–NZPCN Joint Conference. 24 November 2019. Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Australasian endangered plant species. - Also unable to attend due to my family emergency.
2020 VALA Conference. 12 February 2020. Plenary presentation - Collections, catalogues and connections: My engagement escapade.
Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Open Access Week. October 2020. Biodiversity and linked Open Access data.
The "Who" in Collections: Revealing the Network of Collectors and Determiners of Bat Specimens. 1 December 2020. Wikidata presentation and notes.
1Lib1Ref presentation to Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa staff. 21 May 2021
Providing support for the joint outreach campaign by Aotearoa New Zealand Wikimedia user group and Wikimedia Australia for #1Lib1Ref. 15 May - 5 June. Dashboard results for the event can be seen here.
Presented at Auckland WikiCon 17-18 July 2021 on Editing through the Lens of Auckland Museum Content. See my presentation
Presented at the WikiMania 2021 on the State of GLAM Wiki in New Zealand.
Participated in the BiCIKL-Hackathon 2021 giving Wikidata support to those contributing to Project 9 - Hidden Women. See Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity #6 for a summary of results from the project.
Interviewed for the World of Wikipedia podcast - series 2 episode 10.
21 October 2021 Presented on Wikidata to Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC), a sub-committee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH), at their annual meeting.
16 March 2022 Presenting on Wikidata to the staff and volunteers of the National Herbarium of Victoria, Australia.
29 March - 1 April 2022. Participating in and sharing Wikidata expertise in a "Using Wikidata to Capture and Share Information about People in Paleontology" workshop.
7 April 2022 presentation to DigiKult 2022 conference.
8 April 2022 blog post on my WeDigBio workflow including using Wikidata to link collectors.
May 2022 - The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD), the world’s largest repository of DNA barcode data located Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) openly licensed 85% of its specimen image database CC BY at least partially as a result of a tweet of mine.
8 September 2022 co-presented at the Institutional Repository Day 2022 on the progress of the New Zealand Thesis Project. The slides for this presentation can be found here.
2 April 2023. SciStarter - Citizen Science Month panel. Presented on Citizen Science and Wikipedia as part of a panel discussion about citizen science in Australasia to celebrate Citizen Science Month 2023l. Presentation script and slides can be found here. The panel was recorded and can be seen on Youtube.
15 April 2023 Participated in a symposium outlining my motivations for participating in the WeDigBio transcription event and highlighting workflows used including connecting natural history collectors to their specimens via Wikidata and the website Bionomia Tracker. Discussed writing Wikipedia articles on species, natural history collectors and the locations the collectors travel to, to collect specimens. The script and slides for this presentation can be found at this link. A recording of the symposium can be found here.
1 June 2023 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 2023 28th May until 2nd June - I obtained Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend SPNHC 2023. I presented two papers at this conference. One was titled Reuse in the Wiki world empowers engagement with Natural History Collections and the other was titled Names, dames and campaigns: a botanical case study in digitally narrowing the gaps.
16 - 19 August 2023 I attended Wikimania 2023 where I was named Wikimedia Laureate 2023.
31 August 2023 I gave a presentation to staff at the Auckland Museum, generally discussing several of my projects and how the Auckland Museum might be able to benefit or become involved in this work.
21 September 2023 I gave a presentation at the Women and gender minorities in STEM club at Victoria University of Wellington. See here for slides.
5 October 2023 (NZ time) I gave a keynote to the Wikimedia Foundation staff meeting Wikimedia Connect explaining about some of my Wiki contributions. See here for slides.
9 - 13 October I obtained funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to attend the TDWG2023 conference in Hobart where a paper I have co-authored will be presented by a colleague. The paper covers a collaborative project creating a Wikidata schema for scientific expeditions and then reusing the same to assist natural history folk to add and connect scientific expeditions in Wikidata. See this link for slides. I also co-organised an "unconference" session on how to propose a Wikidata property to the Wikidata community. I reported back on the conference and my engagement with participants viaUser:Ambrosia10/TDWG2023.
