User:Junglenut

Junglenut, aka Steve Fitzgerald, is a plant geek and naturalist from Cairns, Australia, interested mainly in the flora of Australian rainforests and related topics, with particular emphasis on the flora of the Wet Tropics of Queensland which surrounds Cairns. Mostly I work on creating, expandng, or improving articles in this category, with an ultimate goal to ensure that all Queensland species listed in the Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants website has an article on Wikipedia of at least C class.

I also contribute observations to iNaturalist whenever I can, you can see them here. All of my images and content there is released under the CC-BY-SA licence.

My work

 * Overview of all activity
 * Articles I have created
 * My activity on Wikimedia Commons
 * My activity on Wikispecies
 * My activity on Wikidata

A new mission
Today, 15th March 2023, I discovered that just over 600 enwiki articles have references that link to an obsolete version of the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) website. Following these links will take you to a page (within the Australian National Botanic Gardens website) with next to no information on it apart from a standard header (here's an example). For many years the APNI has had a different web address, so all 600+ of these articles need to be updated. I'm on it as of now.

Earlier work
For a long time (from Feb 2021 through to late 2021), I was focused on fixing articles about Australian tropical rainforest flora that cited outdated editions of the Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants identification key, and updating those references to the latest edition, namely edition 8 which was released in late 2020. The outdated versions are edition 6 (no longer available online, and the web address where it used to be hosted was taken over by a gambling site), and edition 7 (which is still available online but which will become increasingly unreliable as time goes on and taxa are revised). In late February 2021, when I became aware of the issue with ed.6, there were over 560 articles citing it that urgently needed attention. As of the beginning of June I have whittled it down to under 180.

Update: As of 22 June 2021, all references citing edition 6 have been updated. Since edition 7 is still available online (and has only minor changes from the current one) this work will proceed at a more leisurely pace.

Final update: As of 3 July 2021, all references citing edition 7 have been updated to edition 8.

Post-final update: Aug 2021 - Edition 7 has now been taken offline as well, but it seems that various editors are still creating new articles which cite ed7 instead of ed8 (why???), so I will continue to monitor these and update as necessary.

Browser addons (extensions) for Wikipedia editors
You may be interested in the browser extensions that I've created to make life easier for Wikipedia editors. These all add extra search items in the context menu when you right-click on highlighted text in any webpage, allowing you to quickly search for the selected text on Wikipedia, Commons, Wiktionary or Wikidata. They are available for both Mozilla Firefox and the Chromium family of browsers (i.e. Chrome, Edge [versions 79+], Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and many others).

I am no longer maintaining these addons — Chrome addons have been removed as I don't have time to update them. My addons for Firefox can be found here.

Botanic citations
I have created a simple web-based form written in PHP that will easily produce valid, properly-formatted citations for plant articles, and IMO it's easier to use than the citation tool that's built in to Wikipedia's native editor. Yes, it's Australia-centric (even tropical-Australia-centric) but it can still be used for plant articles about species from other parts of the world. You can find it here.

Copy/paste links to botanic definitions on Wikipedia
Also, if you're a botany nerd (like me) and you have trouble remembering the various WP botanical definition pages that you want to link to in your articles (like me), then here's a collection of shortcuts that I've made. You're welcome ;)

Images I've uploaded
I have uploaded many images to Wikimedia Commons to support the articles I work on.


 * My botanic photographs
 * My species distribution maps
 * All of my images.