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Turning black into blue (and red)

Abstract

Many wikipedia pages are constructed as if they were journal articles. Beginning wikimedians often fail to recognise that the benefit of an online article is the capacity to link. For Australian taxa articles, I want to link taxa to their authors, authors to all the taxa they have authored, taxa to their original desccriptions. Thus, I turn black into blue, by:

1. Linking references. If possible no reference should be without a linkː to a pdf if possible; to a DOI; or to a website.
2. linking taxa to their authorities. In practice, this means
   1. linking to authorities with articles
   2. creating a category [[Category:Taxa named by ...]] and linking the taxon page to that
3. creating a wikidata qualifying statements via openRefine, such as "taxon author", and publication date, using partial database downloads
4. creating wikidata queries which list taxa by an author in order to populate '''[[Category:Taxa named by ...]]

Finding author names & literature (key databases/websites)

Typically, I start with the wikidata entry for a taxon name: e.g. Perplexacara (Q111548194)

1. Australian Faunal directory (e.g. Australian Faunal Directory: Genus Castriidinychus Hirschmann, 1973) or a bibliographic search -Hiramatsu
2. APNI (e.g. APNI K.L.Wilson & Baumea planifolia)
3. WoRMS e.g. WoRMS: Uropodidae
4. ZOBODAT people (& then literature)
5. Google
6. Google scholar

Current slideset is WikiconAdelaideAdventuresinBiodiversity.odp (not yet uploaded to commons)

Username/Presenter

User:MargaretRDonald

Duration

• Short talk (15 minutes) The 15 minute talk will discuss references and taxon authors only.

Outcomes

Probably none, but presented in the hope that others might also work to turn black into blue, particularly in the area of biodiversity where so many authority names remain an uninformative black.