Wikipedia:GLAM/OU



This is a project space for Wikimedia initiatives with the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Dodd-Walls Centre (2020)
From June–November 2020 the Otago-based Dodd-Walls Centre worked with Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds) to create articles about Dodd-Walls researchers, upload photos of their research to Commons, and cite information in WIkipedia.

Wikiproject Otago Biology (2023)
Dr Mike Dickison (contact: ) is working as a Wikipedian in Residence from January 2023 with the Division of Sciences, initially the Zoology Department (contact Dr Nic Rawlence for more information), and with other departments if funding is available.

Resources

 * Dorothy Page (2008), Anatomy of a Medical School: A history of medicine at the University of Otago, 1875–2000, Dunedin: Otago University Press
 * Neville Peat (2011), Seabird Genius: The Story of L.E. Richdale, The Royal Albatross, and the yellow-eyed penguin, Dunedin: Otago University Press.
 * Dorothy Page (2008), Anatomy of a Medical School: A history of medicine at the University of Otago, 1875–2000, Dunedin: Otago University Press
 * Neville Peat (2011), Seabird Genius: The Story of L.E. Richdale, The Royal Albatross, and the yellow-eyed penguin, Dunedin: Otago University Press.

Site visits

 * 7–10 February 2023, for archive scanning and meeting with researchers
 * 28–31 March 2023, for scanning and meeting researchers
 * 12 May – 22 June based in Dunedin and available to meet researchers

Presentations to staff
Getting your science into Wikipedia: a lunchtime presentation for university researchers and other scientists
 * Wednesday 8 February, 2023, 12:00–1:00, Benham Seminar Room (B215), Department of Zoology, University of Otago

Events
Public Edit-a-thon to coincide with the Entomological Society's inaugural Bug of the Year competition.
 * Saturday 11 February, 2023, 09:30–4:00, Conservatory, H.D. Skinner Annex, 361 Great King Street North (corner of Albany Street)

Goals

 * 1) Create a working list of all biology faculty at the University, past and present, with dates of hiring and retirement, going back to Hutton in 1873.
 * 2) All these researchers in Wikidata, using any published biographical information available, linked to ORCID and other identifiers.
 * 3) For each researcher, all available research publications in Wikidata, linked to them as the authors, with a Scholia publications list and graphs.
 * 4) A WikiCommons category for each faculty member, using images scanned or located in departmental archives and other sources, with a profile photo assigned to their Wikidata item.
 * 5) Additional field and lab photographs sourced from institutional or private collections and placed in a new Commons category, Research at the University of Otago; cleared with copyright owners under an open licence.
 * 6) Those images strategically deployed across Wikipedia articles and Wikidata.
 * 7) Creation of Wikipedia articles about Ian Jamieson and Phil Bishop, and any other faculty that meet Wikipedia’s notability threshold (sufficient coverage of their life and work in multiple independent publications).
 * 8) Expansion of exisiting articles to include a summary of research, publications list, and a photo gallery. For each faculty member, findings from significant research papers summarised and cited in at least one relevant Wikipedia article

Media

 * No media coverage yet; press release pending

Zoology Department researchers
Wikidata generally uses the full name as given in author lists on publications; Wikipedia would use the most-commonly-referred-by name—in this case the one in the Department's staff listing. The Scholia link shows the number of publications currently in Wikidata.

Selected images
See Category:University of Otago Zoology Department for more, and Commons categories for individuals listed above. Historical photos were scanned at the Department's request from their physical archives in February 2023 and uploaded with their approval—contact the HOD or Nic Rawlence for more information.