User:Charles Matthews/Plant editathon

=Plant editathon, Moore Library 15 March 2018= This event hosted from 6 pm to 8 pm by the Betty and Gordon Moore Library is part of the Cambridge Science Festival. You do not need to sign up in advance, but please bring a computer. It is helpful if you create a Wikipedia account in advance.



Add to your user page to take part. If you want to participate remotely: we'll find out! For some basic instructional material add also.

The event will consist of three activities, centred on Wikimedia coverage of plants and pollination:

Wikipedia articles
Improve the following articles in the area of pollination, and possibly create new ones. Add and revise text, add images.

Category:Plants and pollinators has plenty to look at.

Wikidata information added
Add statements on Wikidata, for properties d:Property:P1703 and d:Property:P1704. The following are pollination databases (a more accurate term is "pollinator database"):

One of the outcomes of the event should be a better list, and understanding of the information out there. Please contribute suggestions.

Use of a database tends to mean entering the pollinator species or genus name.

Find images on Wikimedia Commons
An obvious starting point is commons:Category:Pollination. There are more advanced tools available, some examples being given in the code warehouse.

Particularly using these queries:


 * WD-FIST tool for P1703, searches for plants
 * WD-FIST tool for P1704, searches for pollinators

with code from the warehouse.

The page d:Wikidata:WikiFactMine/Dictionary list has a whole column of "find image" links for groups of plants. On the grand scale:


 * this seed plant query

offers over 9K chances to match images into Wikidata.

Resources

 * Royal Horticultural Society, Perfect for Pollinators plant list
 * Royal Horticultural Society, Pollinators: decline in numbers
 * Pollination groups
 * Bat Pollination, USDA