User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/SOL 2012/Working on botany articles in the German Wikipedia

 A short introduction to the work on botany articles as seen by de:Benutzer:Carstor.

Redaktion Biologie

 * de:Wikipedia:Redaktion Biologie: starting and coordination point for working on biology topics in the German Wikipedia.
 * Topics covered include taxa, institutions, scientific tools and methods, persons ...
 * Members: everyone from young pupils to biologists with PhDs
 * lots of new personal contacts and friends over the time
 * regular meetups

Freely available literature

 * Solanaceae Source
 * Biodiversity Heritage Library
 * DFG Nationallizenzen
 * Open Access Journals
 * More listed at de:Wikipedia:Redaktion Biologie/Quellen

Literature stipend

 * de:Wikipedia:Literaturstipendium: Project currently run by WMDE and WMAT to provide books, articles etc. for authors.
 * Started in 2007 for some areas (including biology), since september 2011 free for all Wikipedians
 * Books I got from this programm:
 * D.M. Spooner, L. Bohs, J. Giovannoni, R.G. Olmstead, D. Shibata: "VI International Solanaceae Conference : Genomics Meets Biodiversity", ISHS Acta Horticulturae Nummer 745, ISBN 978-90-66054-27-1
 * Bohs, L.: Revision of Solanum section Cyphomandropsis, 2001. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol 61. ISBN 0-912861-61-4.
 * Spooner, D. M., et al.: Wild potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota) of North and Central America, 2004. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 68. ISBN 0-912861-68-1.
 * Peralta, I. E, et al.: Taxonomy of wild tomatoes and their relatives (Solanum sect. Lycopersicoides, sect. Juglandifolia, sect. Lycopersicon), 2008. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 84. ISBN 978-0-912861-84-5.


 * eLitStip: Group Access for certain electronic publications:
 * 100 accounts for BioOne from 2009 to 2013

Problems

 * Not accessible literature
 * Different taxonomic concepts over the time. Which one should be used?
 * Lack of images

"nearly live" demo
de:Nicotiana attenuata


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