Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL 2024/Cass

University of Canterbury Biology Department • July 2024
Building on the Cass project below, the Head of School Elissa Cameron asked for a Wikipedia drive to commemorate the Department's 21st anniversary. One focus could be notable faculty with poor or missing articles; Distinguished Professors, recipients of a Research Medal, or founding members of UC Biology research are all possibilities. PS: don't add to this list unless you're willing to write/improve the article! I'm aware that all these candidates are Pākehā men, and I've put out an enquiry to faculty to suggest a more diverse list of names.

Cass • 16–26 January 2024
The Cass Field Station near the tiny settlement of Cass, New Zealand, is situated on 1775 ha of high country land and has been operated by the University of Canterbury for research and education purposes since 1914. For decades students have taken part in an annual field trip at the Field Station, where they learn about local botany and ecology. In January 2024 a Wikipedian will be accompanying this group—very likely the world's first-ever Wikipedian in Residence on a biology field trip. As well as enriching Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons content about the history and botany of the area, I will be teaching students how to upload photos to WikiCommons and iNaturalist under an open licence.

To do

 * Improve Cass, New Zealand ✓
 * Improve Cass (painting) (especially with photographs) ✓
 * Improve Thomas Cass (surveyor)
 * Create Cass Field Station ✓
 * Improve articles for half-a-dozen species on the students' spot identification list, including photos ✓
 * Create articles for spot identification species that lack them
 * Add photos and Wikidata for surrounding landscape ✓
 * Add Cass-related biology publications to Wikidata and create a visualisation

Done

 * Cass Field Station MRD 02.jpg photos all around the field station buildings before any students and vehicles arrived, and uploaded them to the new Category:Cass Field Station. Added an image to.
 * Created and Category:Cass Station, and added properties to the painting.
 * Added photos of Cass,, , , , , and , merging and improving Wikidata as needed. Created Category:Grasmere Stream for . Added photos of , , , and . Photographed students and their instructor Pieter Pelser.
 * Created, newly-published by one of the instructors , and created the publisher . Uploaded photos of Jane with her approval and attributed her publications in Wikidata. Used her publication on Aciphylla aurea browsing to improve the articles Aciphylla and Aciphylla aurea.
 * Gave a presentation to the students on iNaturalist, Creative Commons licensing, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia, including adding a photo taken yesterday to the article Acrothamnus colensoi.
 * Created Cass Field Station article based on the Burrows book, and added the Rita Angus painting of the field station under Fair Use. Collected prints of the Field Station construction and student trips from the 1960s for scanning.
 * Added images and improved Wikidata for, , and . Uploaded photos of botany field trip and Lake Sarah, and created Category:Lake Sarah.
 * Created list of seven species typical of Cass, and on the students' spot ID list, and created articles for Aciphylla subflabellata and Veronica brachysiphon. For each article, improved with references from NZPCN, the NZ flora, and reference books at the Field Station. Tasked students with taking photos of the diagnostic features of each species and uploading them to iNaturalist under an open licence.

Resources

 * Cass flora checklist (open in Safari or similar browser only)
 * Cass field station information (open in Safari or similar browser only)
 * 100 Years of the Cass field station (shows the Rita Angus painting and Ellen Heine photos)
 * Cass flora checklist (open in Safari or similar browser only)
 * Cass field station information (open in Safari or similar browser only)
 * 100 Years of the Cass field station (shows the Rita Angus painting and Ellen Heine photos)
 * 100 Years of the Cass field station (shows the Rita Angus painting and Ellen Heine photos)