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Stitchbird2 — Wikipedian ♀ — Name Stitchbird2 Born Wisconsin, U.S.A. Current location Wellington, New Zealand Education and employment Occupation Curator Botany Employer Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa University University of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2004, Botany), University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (BSc, 1996, Biology and Spanish) ♀ This contributor to Wikipedia is female. This user is a participant in WikiProject Plants. This user is a participant in WikiProject New Zealand. This user is a member of the GLAM/Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collaboration collaboration This user is a member of WikiProject Women scientists. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red This user is a biologist. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree. This user is a Museum Curator. This user lives in New Zealand. This user belongs to Team Critter. This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) 6Y This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on November 24, 2019 (6 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day ago).

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Hi I'm Stitchbird2, also known as Heidi Meudt. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I'm a Botany Curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

I am an active Wikimedian in Wikidata, English and Spanish Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and several WikiProjects, mainly on topics related to biodiversity, especially botany, taxonomy, plant species, herbarium specimens, scientists (especially botanists, botanical collectors, women scientists and New Zealanders) and scientific papers.

For more detailed information on my contributions see this summary on Wikiscan and this outreach dashboard.

I enjoy disambiguating and linking names of scientists and helping make their scientific research and contributions more visible.

I regularly attend the monthly Wiki Wellington meet up.

My areas of expertise are in the taxonomy and evolution of alpine plants in the southern hemisphere, especially New Zealand but also Australia, New Guinea, Chile, and Argentina. I have taxonomic expertise in the plant genera Ourisia, Plantago, and Veronica (all in the plant family Plantaginaceae) and the forget-me-nots (Myosotis, Boraginaceae). More detail on my academic contributions are outlined in my ORCID profile.

I started editing under User:Stitchbird in 2019 but I lost my password and didn’t have the username attached to an email. I have been editing regularly as of 2022 under User:Stitchbird2.

I'm also on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

• I am co-organiser of the WikiProject ASBS 2025 which is a package of Wiki outreach to the Australasian botanical community for which my colleague Ambrosia10 and I received funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Together with Ambrosia10, we will attend the 2025 Australasian Systematic Botany Society Conference from 2 - 6 November 2025 in Armidale, Australia. As part of this international outreach, we
  • have organised and run a one-hour online onboarding introductory workshop (14 October 2025),
  • will put on a full-day in-person conference workshop to up to 25 botanists (2 November 2025),
  • will present a 10-minute oral presentation about our Wiki outreach in the international botanical community entitled, "Botanists in the Wikiverse" on 4 November 2025 (slides and script on Zenodo), and
  • continue to Wikify the conference, especially adding conference attendees and other ASBS society members (over 130 and counting) and their research to Wikidata.
• I am a co-author on the extended abstract and talk for Living Data 2025 from 21 - 24 October 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia entitled, "Wiki loves iNaturalist: How Wikimedians integrate iNaturalist content on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons" with co-authors and fellow Wikimedians Tiago Lubiana (first author and presenter), Richard Littauer, Siobhan Leachman, Jan Ainali, Manoj Karingamadathil, Andra Waagmeester, Heidi M. Meudt and Dario Taraborelli.
• Because of our regular and consistent biodiversity Wiki outreach in the New Zealand and specifically Wellington area, Ambrosia10 and I have been asked by the management of Ōtari-Wilton's Bush to participate as Wikimedians in their upcoming BioBlitz to be held at Ōtari's native botanic garden during the 2026 iNaturalist City Nature Challenge from 24 - 27 April 2026. Ambrosia10 and I will be actively involved in planning and doing Wiki outreach during the event, as well as Wikifying and taking part in this exciting opportunity.
• Similarly, Ambrosia10 and I are pursuing another outreach opportunity with the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Conference to be held in Wellington from 12 - 15 October 2026. We are in discussions with the conference organising team about putting on a half-day or full-day Wiki for Botanists workshop on 11 October 2026 for conference attendees, who will be from the New Zealand botanical community. Together with Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss, we are also planning a third annual two-day New Zealand species edit-a-thon around these dates.
• I continue to edit regularly on Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons on biodiversity topics, especially those on botany, botanists, plant species, and research publications, often regarding New Zealand, women, or the Global South. On Wikidata, I regularly add and link scientists and their publications; on Wikipedia I improve and create New Zealand plant species articles (especially of species in the genera Ourisia, Plantago, Veronica and Myosotis (see section below: "Species pages I'm working on"), and on Commons I add images of plant and insect species, together with their structured data, from iNaturalist using the iNat2Wiki tool.

I’ve been briefed on the conflict of interest rules including those around being a subject-matter expert editing within my area of expertise. I understand that I’m expected to make sure that my external role and relationships in my field of expertise do not interfere with my primary role when editing Wikipedia i.e. to further the interests of the encyclopaedia.

Because of the topic of my expertise and specialisation I will be citing peer reviewed journal papers that I have authored or co-authored. I will also be writing Wikipedia articles on species where I was a key researcher in the process of taxonomic identification for that species. I am aware of the possibility of a conflict of interest issue with citing my own published work. Papers I have authored or co-authored will only be cited if that paper is relevant to the topic and conforms to the content policies of Wikipedia. Any citation will not be excessive nor will it place undue emphasis on my work. I will be citing the most recent quality research available whether it is by me or someone else.

• I have made improvements to articles about New Zealand botanists, e.g. Geoff Baylis, Ruth Mason, Mary Sutherland, Audrey Eagle, Nancy Adams, Margaret J.A. Simpson, Helen Margaret Druce, and other botanists, e.g. Rae Natalie Prosser de Goodall.
• I created and wrote the page for Dorita Hannah as part of the New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject.
• Other plant species: Oxalis psoraleoides...

• Use this for our events from 2026: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents as well as the goal setting feature:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Collaborative_contributions#Goal_setting
• How to use CiteQ template in visual editor (excellent short video by Tamsin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPchJ4p_1lw
• GlobalWatchlist: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist [but for some reason Wikidata not working on this?]
• Tips for Translations including what to write in edit summaries and talk pages, e.g. use the Template:Translated_page syntax: "{ {translated page|en|Ourisia microphylla} }". See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Translation
• Create articles for some of the women NZ botanists on this list!
• How to create more sandboxes Help:Sandbox tutorial
• GLAM Wiki Newsletter
• Ambrosia10's Mar 2023 slide deck on wiki tools - need to add these
• Tool hub - a comprehensive list of tools that are available
• Using Cat-a-lot to change categories
• Training resources from Wikimedia Australia: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Resources
• How to find subpages: Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 8

• Add script for "Script Installer" which puts an "Install" button for automatically installing scripts to common.js page on Wikidata.
• Add script for "Author Strings" which 1) now adds icons to author names in "author string" to a) search for author on Wikidata, b) add author QID to this author (which moves author from author string to author) and c) create a new author and assign this one. AND it adds "Author Strings" back in. I've had that before but it was slowing things down, hopefully this will now work!
• Spinster's Wikidata referencing tips: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster/Wikidata_references_made_easier
• For Wikidata: Finding the Zürich Herbaria collector ID (and other biographical information) for a botanical collector: https://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/de/herbarien-zzt/sammlerliste.html
• To add papers to Wikidata with a DOI: sourcemd or EVEN BETTER: bhl2wiki
• From Andrew Lih: Wikidata:Linked open data workflow
• Excellent collection of Wikidata resources for GLAM: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_Beginner%27s_Guide_to_Wikidata_for_Cultural_Heritage

• See a list of the least observed observations for a given user on iNaturalist
• Commons work flow handout
• Wikishootme
• Tips for adding structured data to Wikimedia Commons using the ISA tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLsUqDnsNKo
• Add photos to Comons from iNaturalist with these tools: iNat2Wiki and iNaturalist2Commons.
• Renaming files in Commons
• How to add the same depicts to multiple Commons files/categories: Use AC/DC gadget https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Gadget-ACDC
• Copyright violation finder tool
• Wikilearn videos (several on Open Refine and Wikidata, among other topics)

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Stitchbird2 (talk) 06:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC)