User:MargaretRDonald/sandbox/Wellington/Sydney Report

Report on Sydney meetup, 2 December 2019
As a follow-up to the Australasian Endangered Plants meetup held in Wellington, NZ on 24 November (six participants in person, plus four remote editors) and to take advantage of Mike Dickison's visit to Sydney, a meetup was advertised with the aim of getting a wiki project going on the biota of NZ and Australia. Unfortunately, only two Wikimedians – Mike and Margaret Donald – were able to meet at the NSW State Library. We shared some of our knowledge, and would like to see the resources used in Wellington continue to be worked on.

Resources used in Wellington were two pdfs (one listing the conservation status of New Zealand endemics, and the other listing Australian threatened species under the EPBC act), and a SPARQL query showing Australian Plants with no enwiki article and having SPRAT ids. Note that the SPARQL query shows that 566 (out of 1235) species with SPRAT ids have no enwiki article.

A further useful Australian plant query picks out 200 wikidata taxon names, together with their APNI links for taxa without author qualifiers. This allows easy updating in Wikidata of taxa without these qualifiers (some 35445 items).