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#wikidata

61
posts · 30d
22
users
2
posts / day
2.8
posts / user
-23% vs last week

#wikidata is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 22 people shared 61 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is down 23% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 17 with 15 posts.

#wikidata posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #wikidata

Siobhan Leachman
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social
2 months ago
Just received a lovely email from the journal #AnnalsOfBotany to say our article "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" is amongst the most-read of their recent articles. I'm quite proud of this! doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #Wikidata #Botany
Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data

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Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data

AbstractBackground. Wikidata is a multilingual linked open knowledge base to which anyone can contribute that contains multitudes of botany-related informa

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Siobhan Leachman
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Currently working on a #Wikidata presentation to be delivered to a digital humanities audience. I'll be explaining how I have used Wikidata to link in & gain recognition for under acknowledged women scientific illustrators. I'll be using #BHL images throughout. www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...
Notable Women in Natural History Collection

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Notable Women in Natural History Collection

A collection of selected works created by women who made direct contributions to the study of Botany and Zoology either by way of authoring or editing works on the subject or by providing critical ill...

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Siobhan Leachman
@siobhanleachman.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
Great article on the history of & specimens collected by the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. I loved the use & the crediting of @bionomia.net (which uses #Wikidata for deceased collectors) for assisting in the uncovering of more specimens from that expedition. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Bionomia
Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

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Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both sc....

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Dave Palfrey
@01factory.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Yay! I've reached my first #Wikidata global representation goal! Women from the countries shaded red are 25% of global population, but in Dec '24 were only 0.83% of Wikidata bios. I set a target to increase this to 1%. Four months later, with 10,000 women added, they're now 1.01% of Wikidata bios!
World map with 30 countries under-represented on Wikidata shaded red:
Sudan
Niger
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Pakistan
Yemen
Chad
Bangladesh
People's Republic of China
Laos
Madagascar
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Somalia
Cambodia
India
Malawi
Tanzania
Burundi
Myanmar
Central African Republic
Turkmenistan
Vietnam
Burkina Faso
Afghanistan
Mauritania
Mozambique
Libya
Tajikistan
Angola
Sierra Leone
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Wikidata
@wikidatacommunity.bsky.social
9 months ago
Every day, thousands of editors on #Wikidata provide open, reliable and trustworthy data to the world helping make technology more open and inclusive. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Wikidata has been recognized by the @DPGAlliance as a #DigitalPublicGood.
Wikidataians celebrate Wikidata being recognised as a Digital Public Good
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