Wikipedia:Meetup/ASBS Conference/Wiki for Botanists 2 November 2025

Virtual webinar

• The virtual "Wiki for Botanists" webinar was held on 14 October 2025 via Zoom. Please make sure you have watched this prior to the workshop on 2 November as it contains important background information. The recording and slides are available on Commons (the video is also on Youtube, and the slides and script are on Zenodo.

Wikipedia account setup

• Make sure you have a Wikipedia account prior to the workshop on 2 November. Think of a username (this can take some time, make sure you have some alternatives in case yours is already being used), and follow along this short video.

Slides

• Workshop slides

References and articles related to botanical editing

The main list of editing resources is given further below but this folder holds several articles that give information on why edit, how to edit or can be used as references for editing in Wiki.

• Folder of articles

Virtual follow-up webinar

The virtual follow-up "Wiki for Botanists" webinar was held on 9 December 2025 via Zoom.

Link to slides and script available in Zenodo

Slides and script are also available in Wikimedia Commons.

The video of this webinar has been uploaded to WikiCommons and also published on Youtube.

WikiProject report

A report on the WikiProject ASBS 2025, of which this workshop was a part, was published and submitted to the funders of the project on 22 November 2025.

Article in ASBS Newsletter

An article about the workshop written by workshop attendee and ASBS member Benjamin Anderson has been published in the Dec 2025 ASBS Newsletter.

Wikipedia

• The main English Wikipedia Help page is here. It has links on how to edit a page, contributing to Wikipedia, an introductory tutorial, and "getting started"
• A useful introductory video on editing: YouTube video – How to Edit Wikipedia – a 2018 tutorial (47:44)

This includes

• How to create and set up your account (00:00)
• Looking at an example page (04:07) including the Talk page (10:50) and View History (11:25)
• Drafting an article and using your Sandbox (13:00) including having a minimum of 50 to 100 words with three high quality, reliable, secondary sources (13:50), drafting content and editing tools in visual editor (16:25), adding citations (19:02), adding images from Wikimedia Commons (26:10), adding an info box (28:24), categories (30:35)
• Your own talk page (33:25) including adding a new editor badge
• Moving drafted content to Wikipedia's livespace (39:23)
• A timelapse of drafting and publishing a new article on Wikipedia (44:23)

• A shorter (20 min) introduction video on editing: YouTube video - Wikipedia Training in 20 minutes - April 2022 (22:29)
• A well presented and easy to understand Video and transcript for becoming a Wikipedian in 30 minutes - 2024 (31.37)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants contains advice on editing including advice on article structure

Wikimedia Commons

1. YouTube Video – Adding Images to Wikimedia Commons (4:17)
2. YouTube Video – Learn about Wikimedia Commons (16:26)
3. YouTube Video – Creative Commons copyright licensing explained (5:32)
4. Wikimedia Commons workflow handout

Wikidata

Here are a number of useful introductory videos on Wikidata and why it's great. They are ranked by complexity and depth of information.

1. YouTube video – Wikidata and Why You Should Care. (7 min 37 sec)
2. YouTube video – How to manually edit Wikidata. (2 min 15 sec)
3. YouTube video – An Introduction to Wikidata. (22 min 34 sec) and the slide deck from this presentation.
4. YouTube video – A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies! (3 hrs 4 min 32 sec)

This last video is three hours long so use these time markers to skip to the sections you are interested in.

• What is Wikidata? (00:00)
• How to contribute new data to Wikidata (1:09:34)
• How to create an entirely new item on Wikidata (1:27:07)
• How to embed Wikidata into pages on other wikis (1:52:54)
• Tools like the Wikidata Game (1:39:20)
• Article Placeholder (2:01:01)
• Reasonator (2:54:15)
• Mix'n'Match (2:57:05)
• How to Query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples) (2:05:05)