Event:Wikicon Australia 2024/Reports/MargaretRDonald
Questions to be addressed
[edit]- Things learned at the conference
- How the participant hopes to use his/her new learnings/skills
- Comments about the conference
- Suggestions for future Wikicons
Response
[edit]Achievements due to the conference
[edit]I have uploaded 391 files from Korean public sources which in 2024-11 were used on 409 wiki pages and had 47918 views. Preparing specifically Australian content for WikiCon Australia, the corresponding statistics are ~ 120 images uploaded, which were used across 574 pages with 3146 views in November 2024.
Related slides and video
[edit]- Query for plants found in Australia, having no image
- Slides showing some key points and links may be found in WikiCommons.
- Youtube video: Uploading images from Public Sites
Highlights from WikiCon
[edit]- First Nations Panel - Jennie & Ingrid ("Ingrid is the daughter of my heart") and the notion put forward that preservation of culture was akin to the preservation of the DNA of the extinct Rheobatrachus. This presentation made many of the conflicts and problems between stakeholders finally come alive for me, as did the photographs of the many, many discussions in the bush.
- Bilby's presentation on conflict of interest: what it is and what it is not, how to hunt for it and how to deal with it.
- Oronsay's presentation on "Improving Wikidata one Wikipedia category at a time" which detailed the necessary steps to do so, and had some lovely examples.
- AliceintheAlice - discussion of need for cultural sensitivity when uploading publicly available images using as examples: The Donald and Isabel Dowling Collection. She also discussed the use of Glamorgan for measuring the impact of one's uploads.
- Checking out Toby's Australian related queries, I found a query which shows the usage of Australian identifiers. This showed (among other things) how well populated Australian taxon idenfifiers are in wikidata, and how well populated enwiki is with pages for those taxa.
| property | propertyLabel | wikidatacount | enwikiarticlecount | articlepercent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P6039 | Australian Faunal Directory ID | 166465 | 41620 | 25.00 |
| P5984 | APNI ID | 88537 | 22619 | 25.55 |
| P8468 | Queensland Biota ID | 33837 | 14118 | 41.72 |
| P9076 | Australian Fungi ID | 20334 | 3547 | 17.44 |
| P3101 | FloraBase ID | 18596 | 10907 | 58.65 |
| P6756 | Flora of Australia ID (new) | 18276 | 10489 | 57.39 |
| P5945 | VicFlora ID | 9709 | 5464 | 56.28 |
| P9093 | Australian Lichen ID | 8211 | 1205 | 14.68 |
| P3130 | NSW Flora ID | 6575 | 4627 | 70.37 |
| P6933 | SA Flora ID | 5718 | 3225 | 56.40 |
| P5853 | NT Flora ID | 5231 | 2176 | 41.60 |
| P7090 | Australian Marine Algal Name Index ID | 5025 | 529 | 10.53 |
| P6904 | ATRF ID | 2859 | 1548 | 54.14 |
| P2455 | Species Profile and Threats Database ID | 1740 | 1228 | 70.57 |
| P2455 | Species Profile and Threats Database ID | 1740 | 1228 | 70.57 |
| P2809 | Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code (archived) | 1196 | 550 | 45.99 |
| P10007 | Birdata ID | 857 | 822 | 95.92 |
| P7051 | Atlas of Living Australia ID | 760 | 147 | 19.34 |
| P6128 | Threatened Species Link ID | 684 | 407 | 59.50 |
| P6040 | BirdLife Australia ID | 398 | 371 | 93.22 |
| P3100 | Flora of Australia ID (old) | 386 | 369 | 95.60 |
| P8469 | Australian Weed ID | 378 | 307 | 81.22 |
| P10003 | Arachne.org.au ID | 148 | 94 | 63.51 |
I am particularly proud to see the well populated (in wikidata) ids: P6039, P9076, P6756, P8468, P6756, P5945, P9093, P3130,P6933, P5853, which I either proposed or for which I populated a large proportion of the wikidata.
IDs with low wikidata counts and high percentages may well be only populated because of a correspondingg enwiki article. Toby's query shows a number of IDs with fewer than 20 Qitems using them: P10120 Australian Trade Mark Number (19), P10024 Indigenous Corporation Number (15), P7089 AFCD PFKID (15), Australian Suppliers Directory ID (13), MPPDA Digital Archive person ID (13), PBS Manufacturer ID (11) Australian bank branch ID (11), Xinjiang Data Project ID (10), NSW State Archives and Records Authority ID (10), AHPRA registration number (7), FRACS Find a Surgeon profile ID (6), NER portfolio ID (4), Bureau of Meteorology location ID (4), Australian Reptile Online Database ID (4), Qantas hotel ID (3), Australian Prints + Printmaking work ID (3), Australian National Maritime Museum object ID (3), Find my School ID (3), and Australian honours ID(2)
Suggestions for future WikiCons
[edit]Future WikiCons should
- be scheduled at least a year in advance
- encompass two full days (Saturday & Sunday)
Additionally, I think we should run some themed online minitutorials, having invited suggestions in the same manner as we did for WikiCon 2024. These should consist of say four fortnightly two hour sessions with prizes for work achieved by the participants. (Some of my suggestions which could not be fitted into WikiCon 2024 come to mind, as well as other contributions which were shortened to brief presentations rather than workshops....)