User:Stitchbird2
About Me
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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, New Zealanders and the Global South) and scientific papers. I enjoy disambiguating and linking names of scientists (especially women) and helping make their scientific research and contributions more visible using the bhl2Wiki tool. On Commons I add images of species, together with their structured data, from iNaturalist using the iNat2Wiki tool.
For more detailed information on my contributions see this summary on Wikiscan and this outreach dashboard.
I am also active in the Wiki biodiversity community and Wiki outreach. Together with Ambrosia10 we have collated our resources and events at our Botany community outreach WikiProject for easier navigating and sharing of our Wiki outreach to botanists.
I also regularly attend the monthly Wiki Wellington meet up.
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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)(see section below: "Species pages I'm working on"). I have also published together with my students on these genera and others such as Wahlenbergia and Azorella. 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 also have brief user pages on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
Future planned participation in Wiki events and outreach (2027)
[edit]- I am participating in the Asia-Oceania Destubation during Nov 2027.
- I will attend WikiCon 2027 in Auckland, New Zealand in May 2027.
- I am applying for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2027 in Santiago de Chile in August 2027.
- I have submitted an Expression of Interest for funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) to organise and lead (for the fourth time) the annual NZ species edit-a-ton in September/October 2027.
- I have submitted an Expression of Interest for funding from WANZ to once again organise and lead botany outreach at the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network 2027 Conference to be held in Blenheim, New Zealand in October 2027.
- I have started a Wikidata collaboration with UK Wikimedian Lajmmoore related to botany and numismatics.
Past participation in Wiki events and outreach during last 18 months from Apr 2025 to Oct 2026
[edit]- I am an active member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ).
- I regularly attend Wellington Wikipedia monthly meetups.
- I was an active participant in the Commons across Cultures programme between WikiAcción Perú and Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand during Sept - Nov 2026.
- I attended and participated in the Wellington histories edit-a-thon on 31 October 2026.
- I co-organised and co-led our third annual NZ species edit-a-thon together with Ambrosia10 on 17 Oct 2026. Our slides, images and outreach report are available on Commons.
- I co-organised and co-led a half-day Wiki Skills for Plant Conservation Workshop together with Ambrosia10 on 12 Oct 2026 for the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network 2026 Conference in Wellington from 12 - 15 October 2026. We also wikified some of the 150+ botanical attendees of the conference, and presented a 15-minute talk. Our slides, images and outreach report are available on Commons.
- I completed a peer review of the NZ plant species Urtica ferox Wikipedia article in Aug 2026.
- I attended and co-presented on Wiki outreach activities at Wikimania 2026 from 21 - 25 July 2026 in Paris:
- I received an ESEAP Hub scholarship to attend.
- Ambrosia10 presented our 5 minute lightning talk on Botanists in the Wikiverse; to watch the talk go to time 13:30 in this video.
- My notes, summary and highlights on the conference are summarised here.
- I set up and participated in the Wikimania 2026 iNaturalist project, which attracted 12 participants and nearly 1000 observations.
- I also published a diff blog on my experience, entitled, "Wikimania 2026: Impactful sessions, useful tools, and wonderful people" in Aug 2026.
- I participated in Te Papa's #1Lib1Ref event on 3 June 2026, fantastically organised once again by Avocadobabygirl. I added Val Smith's Common Ground as a reference to Wikidata statements and Wikipedia pages about plants and the people they are named after and assisted other editors with their editing.
- I attended ESEAP 2026 from 15 - 17 May 2026 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on an ESEAP Hub Scholarship. I presented a 30 minute talk (slides on Commons) on our "Botanists in the Wikiverse" outreach co-authored by Ambrosia10 (video of the presentation on Commons). See my summary and highlights about the conference.
- I actively participated in the #1Lib1Ref Australasia campaign in May - June 2026.
- I attended WikiCon 2026 in Wellington, New Zealand from 1 - 3 May 2026. I presented two talks at the conference - one entitled "Wikidata 101: Basic introduction and useful gadgets" (also on Commons) and another "Botanists in the Wikiverse" (co-authored by Ambrosia10, also on Commons). I also gave a back of house Te Papa Herbarium tour to other attendees as part of the programme.
- I was first author on a correspondence focusing on editing on biodiversity in Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons in the scientific journal Nature which was published in March 2026: Heidi M. Meudt, Siobhan Leachman, Tiago Lubiana, Sabine von Mering. 2026. Scientists should join collaborative online editing communities for biodiversity. Nature 651(8107):1124.
- In March 2026 I contributed 1108 depicts statements to photos of women in sport in Commons in this campaign Tell Us About Her 2026 : Women in Sports for International Women's Month using the ISA tool and got fifth place!
- I co-organised WikiProject ASBS 2025 which was a package of Wiki outreach to the Australasian botanical community for which my colleague Ambrosia10 and funded by 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
- conducted a live "Wiki for Botanists" webinar. The recording and slides are available on Commons, and the slides and script are on Zenodo. (14 October 2025),
- put on a full-day in-person conference workshop to up to 25 botanists (2 November 2025),
- presented 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
- wikified the conference, especially adding conference attendees and other ASBS society members (over 130 and counting) and their research to Wikidata.
- I co-authored extended abstract and talk for Living Data 2025 from 21 - 24 October 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia presented by first author Tiago Lubiana, published as an extended abstract: Tiago Lubiana, Richard Littauer, Siobhan Leachman, Jan Ainali, Manoj Karingamadathil, Andra Waagmeester, Heidi M. Meudt, Dario Taraborelli. 2025. Wiki loves iNaturalist: How Wikimedians integrate iNaturalist content on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 9: e181155.
- I co-organised, with Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss, the second annual two-day 2025 NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari Wilton's Bush on 2 August 2025 (Day 1) and 9 August 2025 (Day 2), funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Our slides, images and report are available on Commons.
- I participated in a #1Lib1Ref event for Te Papa staff organised by Avocadobabygirl on 25 May 2025.
- I attended WikiCon 2025 in Christchurch from 16 - 18 May 2025.
Past participation in Wiki events and outreach (August 2022 - March 2025)
[edit]- I co-wrote and published, with Ambrosia10, the following article in the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN) Newsletter, Trilepidea: Heidi M. Meudt and Siobhan Leachman. 2025. Ten online contributions you can make right now to the biodiversity and open science communities, from easy to advanced. Trilepidea 248:4–10.
- I co-presented, with Ambrosia10, an online presentation on botany-related work being done in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with to the New Zealand National Herbarium Network on 5 December 2024.
- I co-organised, with Ambrosia10 and Noracrentiss, the inaugural two-day 2024 NZ species edit-a-thon at Ōtari Wilton's Bush on 19 October 2024 (Day 1) and 2 November 2024 (Day 2), funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Our slides, images and report are available on Commons.
- I participated in the two-day Te Māori edit-a-thon at Te Papa on 28 September 2024 and 12 October 2024.
- I attended WIKIMANIA 2024 in Katowice, Poland from 7 - 10 August 2024, on a partial Wikimedia Foundation scholarship! At this conference, I co-presented, with Ambrosia10, a talk entitled, "WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024" (slides and a video recording are on Commons).
- I co-organised and co-presented, together with Ambrosia10, S.v.Mering and Joaquimsantos1978, multiple events for the Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 from 9 July to 28 Aug 2024, funded in part by the Wikimedia Foundation. Our images and report of this project are available on Commons, and many of the resources have also been uploaded to the "IBC Wikidata" project in Zenodo. As part of this project, we co-organised and co-delivered:
- an online introductory webinar, "Upskilling in Wikidata for maximum impact" on 9 July 2024 (the video recording and slides are on Commons),
- a half-day in person workshop at the XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid, Spain on 21 July 2024,
- a poster entitled, "Engaging with Wikidata. Benefits and impacts for botanists and institutions",
- an online webinar entitled, "WikiProject International Botanical Congress Follow-up" on 28 August 2024 (slides are on Commons),
- Spanish translations of Wikidata resources for attendees of the workshop: " HERRAMIENTAS Y RECURSOS DE WIKIDATA" and "INTEGRACIÓN DE WIKIDATA CON TÉCNICAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE DATOS PARA UN MEJOR DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL CONOCIMIENTO DE FIGURAS OCULTAS", and
- a major outreach outcome, after the invitation by two editors of Annals of Botany to submit an invited review for that journal, which we subsequently collaboratively wrote, submitting it in December 2024. After peer review, our paper, entitled, "Wikidata for botanists: benefits of collaborating and sharing Linked Open Data" was published as Open Access in Annals of Botany in mid-2025. Two figures we created for that scientific article are available as pdf resources on Commons for Taxon item Wikidata properties and Botanist item Wikidata properties.
- a Te Papa blog about our WikiProject and paper entitled, "The power and potential of Wikidata for botany".
- I participated in the all-day Expeditions Edit-a-Thon at Te Papa in Wellington on 13 July 2024.
- I participated in a #1Lib1Ref event for Te Papa staff on 29 May 2024.
- I participated in the two-day 2024 Picture This Photography Event on 9 March 2024 (Workshop 1) and 13 April 2024 (Workshop 2) in Wellington.I attended WikiCon 2024 in Auckland in March 2024.
- I attended WIKIMANIA 2023 in Singapore in August 2023, which was generously funded by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.
- I participated in the New Zealand Women in Architecture WikiProject online edit-a-thon on 20 May 2023.
- I participated in a #1Lib1Ref event for Te Papa staff on 9 May 2023
- I attended WikiCon 2023 in Wellington in March 2023.
- I attended Wikimedia ESEAP 2022 in Sydney.
- I participated in the Women in STEAM Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Wellington on 8 October 2022.
- I joined the WikiProject NZ Critter of the Week in August 2022 and have had times of active participation in this project.
Creation of Wikipedia articles in my area of expertise
[edit]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.
Conflict of Interest Statement
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Heidi M. Meudt
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Contact meheidim@tepapa.govt.nz
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About meI am a paid employee of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), an autonomous Crown entity of New Zealand that provides a forum in which the nation may present, explore, and preserve both the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the natural environment in order to better understand and treasure the past, enrich the present, and meet the challenges of the future. We are working to make our holdings, publications, and other resources more accessible to the public by engaging directly with the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. | ||
Conflict of interest statementWhen I am editing the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons as part of my official professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. Because Te Papa's educational mission is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. Therefore, I will not make substantive edits to articles related to Te Papa as an agency (e.g. Te Papa), or its personnel. Instead, my edits and contributions will be to contribute subject matter expertise, for example to improve articles about Te Papa holdings or subjects relating to New Zealand (e.g. Phar Lap, New Zealand art). You can find out more about this project at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa WikiProject. Te Papa’s work on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons is being governed by internal guidelines, which we have published on-wiki in our WikiProject page. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me. My email is also listed on this page in case I am not regularly checking my talk page. | ||
Species pages I'm working on
[edit]Endemic plant lists in Listeria
[edit]At Wellington WikiCon 2026, I learned about Listeria, and how useful such Wikidata lists can be to summarizing information on Wikimedia projects and helping coordinate and motivate edits on specific projects.
I have created the following Listeria pages to assist with some of my work interests:
- Endemic plants of Taiwan (made in preparation for ESEAP 2026 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 2026)
New Zealand Veronica project
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Ourisia project (all southern hemisphere species)
[edit]April 2024 - present: Ourisia articles in EN and ES Wikipedia |
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New Zealand Plantago project
[edit]Nov 2023 - present: Plantago articles |
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Southern hemisphere Myosotis project
[edit]April 2022 - present: Myosotis articles in EN and ES Wikipedia |
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Other pages I've worked on
[edit]- 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.
- I created an article for an amazing American female academic, environmentalist, birder and author, Trish O'Kane.
- Other plant species created or edited: Oxalis psoraleoides, Rytidosperma biannulare... And multiple plant species stubs for various edit-a-thons e.g. Ranunculus altus, Ranunculus multiscapus.
Tools, links and reminders to self - Wikipedia
[edit]- Use tool Retention Checker and the list of users on the event dashboard for looking at editor retention following outreach events! Meta page.
- Template for making a list in Listeria
- Tips and Tricks from Mike Dickison, including Templates: User:Giantflightlessbirds/Tips and tricks
- My common.js page
- 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
- How to automatically add refs from Wikidata using the CiteQ template with AutoCiteWikidata!
- 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
Tools, links and reminders to self - Wikidata
[edit]- 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
Tools, links and reminders to self - Commons
[edit]- See Tamsin's Tool Tips for good learning videos
- See a list of the least observed observations for a given user on iNaturalist
- Commons work flow handout
- My commons.js page for Wikimedia Commons
- 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)
Welcome a new WANZ member: ==Welcome / nau mai==
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On behalf of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ), kia ora, hello, kia orana, nǐ hǎo, talofa lava, bula vinaka, guten Tag, hola, malo e leilei, fakalofa atu, namaste, salâm, see tahay. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful.
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- and check out the Task Center, for ideas about what to work on.
- Specific to Aotearoa New Zealand
- Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand runs local in person meetups in some cities and has a regular series of events where you can find people to help you on your editing journey or just hang out with like-minded people. Check out local Meet Ups and online editathons. We organise an annual conference and the next one will be in Christchurch in May 2025.
- Join our Facebook group and follow us on Twitter
- Think about becoming a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand
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)
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