User:Ambrosia10

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Introducing myself

Hi I'm Ambrosia10, also known as Siobhan Leachman. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I am currently (from September 2025) the Wikimedian in Residence with the Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research group of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science.

I co-organise the Wiki Wellington meet up held monthly, as well as the Aotearoa New Zealand Online meet up, also held monthly. I actively volunteer for the Biodiversity Heritage Library and am the chair of the BHL-Wiki working group. I participant in multiple WikiProjects, mainly but not exclusively focusing on biodiversity topics. For more detailed information on my contributions see this page of statistics.

I'm active in undertaking outreach about the Wikiverse to biodiversity, citizen science and library related conferences. I'm interested in New Zealand, natural history, the OpenGLAM movement, supporting GLAM engagement with WikiProjects, and increasing the participation with and the generation of content in English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons by under represented groups. I am keen supporter of Women in Red, events such as #1Lib1Ref, as well as the projects undertaken by New Zealand and international editors and institutions to engage with and improve English Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

In 2023 I was named Wikimedia Laureate.

More detail on my contributions to both the Wikiverse as well as other projects can been seen on my ORCID profile.

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en-N	This user has a native understanding of English.

mi-1	E tino hapa ana tēnei tangata ki te reo Māori.

Conflict of interest statements

Wikimedian in Residence - Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

From 8 September 2025 to 30 June 2026 I have been appointed the Wikimedian in Residence (WiR) to the Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Group (MWLR) in the newly formed government research organisation, the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science (NZBSI). This position is funded by a grant to NZBSI from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand (WANZ) .

MWLR Group within BSI holds five nationally significant biological collections - the Allan Herbarium, New Zealand Fungarium, the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants, the New Zealand Arthropod Collection and the New Zealand Flax Collection (Living Plants) - all of which are rich in New Zealand endemic species. Other significant biological collections within the BSI include the National Forestry Herbarium. These collections are an invaluable resource of data and images to help improve the understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand's biodiversity.

The overarching aims of this WiR are to

Develop a strategy for MWLR-BSI engagement with Wiki platforms.
Develop long-term workflows and identify ways to integrate Wiki content creation into the process of mobilising specimen data.
Engage and educate staff including facilitating discussions with staff to provide targeted education on the Wikimedia ecosystem, the impact of data reuse and Wikimedia’s outreach potential.

You can find out more about this project at the WiR project page.

In my capacity affiliated with MWLR and the BSI, my contributions to the Wikimedia movement are guided by a commitment to uphold the highest standards of accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability, in alignment with the Wikimedia movement’s core content policies and ethical guidelines. I acknowledge that my affiliation with MWLR and the BSI may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions. My primary goal in contributing to the Wikimedia movement is to share knowledge and resources available through MWLR and BSI that are relevant and beneficial to the Wikimedia movement’s mission of providing free, reliable, and neutral information. I commit to transparently declare my affiliation with both MWLR and BSI in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by my connection to the organisation. I will refrain from editing Wikipedia articles where my contributions could be seen as leading to a direct conflict of interest, and I will instead propose changes on talk or discussion pages or through other appropriate Wikipedia channels. I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, verifiability, notability and no original research of the particular project I am contributing to.

This statement is made in the interest of transparency and to uphold the integrity and quality of the Wikimedia movement as a trusted source of information for the world. My commitment is to contribute to the Wikimedia movement in a manner that respects its values and community guidelines. If you believe I have made an error or violated the community’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page.

Biodiversity Heritage Library

From January 2023 to June 2025, in a volunteer capacity, I was appointed as the Chairperson for BHL-Wiki Working group and thus have been associated with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium of natural history, botanical, and research libraries that work together to digitize and make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

In my capacity affiliated with BHL, my contributions to the Wikimedia movement are guided by a commitment to uphold the highest standards of accuracy, neutrality, and verifiability, in alignment with the Wikimedia movement’s core content policies and ethical guidelines:

I acknowledge that my affiliation with the Biodiversity Heritage Library may create a perceived or actual conflict of interest in my Wiki contributions.
I commit to transparently declare my affiliation with BHL in relevant discussions and when making contributions that could potentially be influenced by my connection to the organisation.
I will refrain from editing content where my contributions could be seen as leading to a direct conflict of interest, and I will instead propose changes on talk or discussion pages or through other appropriate Wikipedia channels.
My primary goal in contributing to the Wikimedia movement is to share knowledge and resources available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library that are relevant and beneficial to the Wikimedia movement’s mission of providing free, reliable, and neutral information.
I will always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, verifiability, notability and no original research of the particular project I am contributing to.

This statement is made in the interest of transparency and to uphold the integrity and quality of the Wikimedia movement as a trusted source of information for the world. My commitment is to contribute to the Wikimedia movement in a manner that respects its values and community guidelines. If you believe I have made an error or violated the community’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me on my talk page.

Te Papa

I obtained funding support from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to undertake a residency at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa to run a 12 week WikiProject on Te Papa research expeditions. The funded aspect of this project ran from Monday 4th of March 2024 and ending Sunday 26th May 2024. Several events and presentations related to this project were held subsequent to this date which I undertook in a volunteer capacity.

Currently working on (as at October 2025)

I have been appointed from the 8th of September until the 30th of June as Wikimedian in Residence for the Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Group at the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy. For more information on this residency see the WiR NZBSI project page.
I jointly run the Aotearoa New Zealand Online and Wellington In Person Wiki meet ups and will continue to do so in 2025.
I have received funding from WANZ to virtually attend the LivingData 2025 conference from 21 - 24 October 2025 in Bogotá and am presenting on a wiki workflow integrating research expedition data from the Biodiversity Heritage Library into the Wikiverse. See the Living Data 2025 Commons category for links to my presentation, slide and supporting documentation. I am also a co-author on the extended abstract and talk 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, Jan Ainali, Manoj Karingamadathil, Andra Waagmeester, Heidi M. Meudt and Dario Taraborelli.
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 Stitchbird2 and I received funding from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand. Together with Stitchbird2, 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.
Ōtari-Wilton's Bush management has expressed interest for there to be a Wiki presence at their planned bioblitz to be held at that botanic gardens during the 2026 City Nature Challenge in April 2026. Stitchbird2 and I intend to actively take part in planning and executing this outreach opportunity.
Stitchbird2 and I are also planning a further outreach with the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network Conference in October 2026.
In January 2024 I accepted the nomination to the chairperson of the BHL-Wiki working group and am now working with both the BHL and Wiki communities to help progress our groups aims. As at June 2025 the BHL-Wiki working group will be taking a pause while those contributing to the administration and running of BHL attempt to find a replacement host institution. The Smithsonian, after hosting the administrative and technical functions of BHL, will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL as at 1 January 2026. Despite the pause in the meetings of this group I continue to work on BHL related content in Wiki and coordinate informal reporting of work undertaken by members of the group via the Biodiversity Heritage Library portion of the GLAMwiki newsletter.
I continue to collaborate with a group of editors involved in researching and writing Wikipedia articles in Research Expeditions. This includes being a part of the TDWG Expeditions Task Group facilitating engagement with Wikidata, WikiCommons and Wikipedia.
I continue to work on editing Wikipedia including New Zealand species articles, particular articles on endemic to New Zealand moths, and work on various Wikidata mix'n'match datasets, as well as adding images and structured data to Wikimedia Commons files.

Recently completed work

I recently collaborated with User:Stitchbird2 and User:Noracrentiss to organise two New Zealand species editathons held at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush in August. See the editathon pages for the 2nd of August event and the 9th of August event. We also wrote a final report on these editathons.
I received Wikimedia Foundation funding to attend the International Botanical Congress in July 2024 and helped run a Wikidata workshop, I co-presented a presentation at the conference portion of the congress (standing in for a sick colleague), created a poster on the advantages of using Wikidata and also made efforts with my colleagues to "wikify" the congress. For further information see Wikidata:WikiProject IBC 2024 My collaborators and I have now completed writing a scholarly article to promote Wikidata to botanists to be published in the Annals of Botany journal. A link to this article can be seen here.
I and my colleagues have completed creating Hidden Figures Course Based Undergraduate Research Experience modules with the recent publication of both the Bionomia and the Wikidata module. My co-collaborators and I have worked on writing a scholarly article about this CURE and its implementation at several US universities and have submitted this article to an education journal. This article was published in August 2025 and can be seen at this link.
I collaborated with the "Women Genera" research group after the publication of our data paper. We have analysed the data that resulted from us researching flowering plant genera named in honour of women and female beings. We submitted a paper on this analysis to the Biodiversity Data journal and the second article created as a result of this collaboration has now been published. See this link.

Upcoming presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

I have received funding from WANZ to virtually attend the LivingData 2025 conference and will be presenting on a workflow integrating research expedition data from BHL into the Wikiverse.
My collaborator Stitchbird2 and I have received funding from WANZ to plan a Wiki workshop as well as a presentation in November 2025 at the Australasian Systematic Botany Society conference. This will include a virtual onboarding workshop as well as an in person workshop for conference attendees. We also intend to wikify the conference see this project page for more information.

Recent presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

17 January 2024 I gave a seminar at the Wikipedia Guest Seminars for Summer Studentships – Auckland Museum. The presentation slides can be found here.
23 January 2024 I accepted the nomination as chairperson for the Wiki-Biodiversity Heritage Library Task Group. This task group meets once a month and collaborates to progress the work of the Wikidata WikiProject BHL. I also attend the regular monthly meetings of the Biodiversity Heritage Library cataloguing task group to assist them with any of their Wikidata questions.
5 April 2024 Presentation on my favourite Wikidata project in the Wikidata Leveling Up days event.
13 – 17 May 2024 I attended the BHL annual meeting in Chicago and reported on the BHL-Wiki working group.
16 May 2024 I presented on the BHL and the Wikiverse during the BHL Day celebrations.
March – May 2024 I received a Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand grant to run a pilot Wikidata programme at the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on their research expeditions. See the WikiProject Te papa research expeditions page for more information. As part of this programme I and Te Papa staff ran two edit-a-thons to add content related to Te Papa research expeditions to Wikipedia.
24 May I was interviewed for the BioTA podcast on Citizen Science #37 – see this link.
On the 9 July a Wikidata related blog I co-authored was published on the Te Papa website. See this link for the blog – Researching the research (expeditions)
In July I attended the International Botanical Congress where I collaborated via the Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024 in submitting a poster and running a Wikidata workshop.
On 31 July 2024 I presented Wikidata – This is the Way at the Natural History Museum, London to both the Natural History Museum, London and Kew Gardens staff.
In August I attended Wikimania 2024 in person and presented on the Wikidata WikiProject IBC 2024, the Women Genera collaboration and the Hidden Figures collaboration.
On 20 August I had a Wikidata related paper I co-authored published. See this link for the paper – Delving Into Te Papa Research Expedition Data
In September I presented at the SPNHC TDWG 2024 conference on the Wikidata:WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions.
On 10 October I had a Wikidata related paper I co-authored published. See this link for the paper – Advancing Community Curation of Research Expeditions: A Collaborative Journey with Wikidata and Biodiversity Information Standards.
In October 19 and November 2 I helped organise the New Zealand Species Editathon at Ōtari-Wilton's Bush.
On 3 November I presented on the WikiProject IBC 2024 to the ESEAP Community Call #42.
13 – 15 November I delivered a keynote presentation at the Open Education Global conference 2024 in Brisbane.
I have recently given a presentation on the 10th of December 2024 on my Wiki work on women scientific illustrators during a two day workshop held by the Women in Natural History Museums and Collections network (WOMNH).
6 January 2025 I presented to the Auckland Museum Summer Wikipedia Students.
February 2025 I co-authored a paper with Stitchbird2 published in the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network newsletter Trilepidea giving advice on online contributions that can assist biodiversity and open science communities.
April 2025 I attended the Biodiversity Heritage Library Annual Meeting in April to present on the work of the BHL-Wiki working group and presented during the BHL Day 2025 on Research Expeditions in/to BHL – A central resource for research expedition information Presentation. This presentation can be seen on Youtube at the 10min 45sec mark.
24 April 2025 Attended a recorded meeting of TDWG Modeling Research Expeditions Task Group. The group gave an update as to progress. The slides can be seen here.
In May 2025 I facilitated a session at the WikiCon Chch on Structured Data on Commons.
In May 2025 I also appeared in the 8th Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity edition live broadcast editing a species article in Wikipedia, adding data to Wikidata and uploading images to Wikimedia Commons.
In August 2025 I helped run two New Zealand species editathons on the 2nd and 9th of August.

Previous presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons

See this list for projects, presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons previously I've given, contributed to or helped organise, up to the end of 2023. Many of my contributions for 2022 can be found in the Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand/Annual Report 2022

Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity recordings

Projects

As usual I have several projects on the go:

New Zealand focused work

Endemic species

I'm continuing to work on New Zealand endemic species creating or expanding articles as I go. I'm currently editing Wikipedia articles on New Zealand moths with the assistance of access provided by the Wikipedia Library to academic resources. I also want to start created NZ mayfly articles as they are indicator species for water quality. See this resource for info (currently adding updated info into Wikidata). I'm also continuing to edit species articles that have a NZTCS status. See this query to get most commonly observed NZ insects species in iNaturalist.

GLAM content work

I'm also working on New Zealand GLAM content, particularly images sourced from New Zealand GLAM institutions such as Auckland Museum and Te Papa. I organise WikiCommons categories, upload to WikiCommons, adding metadata on paintings to Wikidata, and reusing the images in Wikipedia. I'm using appropriately licensed images from such organisations as the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, and iNaturalist to improve New Zealand species articles.

I've been assisting linking the National Library of New Zealand content in Wikidata via the Mix'n'Match tool and reusing appropriately licensed images and information contained in their collection in WikiCommons and Wikipedia. I'm also working on the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Harvard Index of Botanists Wikidata Mix'n'match dataset.

New Zealand Threat Classification work

I admit this project is currently on the backburner but it is on my "to do's"! I am VERY slowly and gradually working through the New Zealand Department of Conservation Threat classification lists updating and creating articles on those New Zealand plants, animals and fungi who are listed as threatened, at risk or data deficient. I'm using these documents as a basis for this work. At some point I would also like to revamp the Wikipedia article outlining the New Zealand Threat Classification system as it appears significantly out of date. I've been reaching out to New Zealand GLAMs and other organisations to obtain photos of endangered or at risk fauna and flora.

Completed NZ Threat Classification work

All scientifically described moths in this list now have an expanded or new article.
Wikidata properties created and "easy to ingest" threat classifications are now uploaded into Wikidata. Still plenty of work to be done as some newly described species don't have wikidata items and there are of course issues with taxonomy used in New Zealand vs taxonomy used in the rest of the world.

New Zealand theses project

See the project page. I continue to contribute to this project, linking theses to Wikipedia articles, and working on the NZThesis Wikidata mix'n'match dataset.

General Work

Biodiversity Heritage Library

I actively engage with BHL and their affiliates assisting their engagement with the Wiki movement. See the BHL WikiProject page. I'm an invited guest/member on the BHL Cataloguing and Metadata Committee and am the current chair of the BHL-WIKI Working Group.

See this query to assist with adding BHL author template to Wikipedia articles.

Research expeditions

I'm collaborating with a group of editors in Wikidata:WikiProject Research Expeditions. This work improves Wikidata items, Wikipedia articles and Wikicommons content on research expeditions. I am exploring the possibility of obtaining funding for and undertaking a Wikimedian in Residence pilot project at Te Papa focusing on trialling the Research Expedition schema being agreed to by the editors active in this WikiProject as well as the TDWG Modelling Research Expeditions Task Group. This pilot project would aim to implement the schema, feed back any suggested improvements to the schema to both the WikiProject as well as the TDWG task force, explore the "roundtripping" possibilities in museum collection management systems for the Wikidata QIDs, and hold events to improve the editing skills of both Te Papa staff, New Zealand based editors and anyone interested from the general public.

Resources for finding locations : Falling Rain; Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names; FuzzyG – JRC Fuzzy Gazetteer

Other participation

I'm an active participant in the Wikidata WikiProject Biodiversity and have appeared in the Wikipedia Weekly broadcasts dealing with this subject.

I'm also attempting to create or add to any articles on notable scientists, collectors or illustrators I've come across in my volunteer work with various citizen science platforms and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. I have also been using this resource http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/allan-herbarium/new-zealand-botanists to obtain information on New Zealand botanists. And of course I am keen to create Wikipedia articles on any notable New Zealand woman in order to combat the current gender bias in Wikipedia.

I'm continuing to work on zoological and botanical collectors, adding them into Wikidata, editing or creating articles where appropriate and then connecting them to their specimens in GBIF via the Bionomia website. My particular focus is New Zealand and women collectors but I tend to be omnivorous once I start a deep dive into content. I work on datasets in Wikidata mix'n'match including BHL creator ids and Index of Harvard botanists.

I'm also a keen contributor to efforts to improve coverage of early women scientific illustrators. See for example Wikipedia:GLAM/Illustrators of the Biodiversity Heritage Libraryand Artists and Scientific Illustrators. I'm working on various articles, Wikidata items and Wikimedia Commons categories about women especially those covered in publications found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

I contribute to the #1Lib1Ref campaign two times a year and am an active member of the WomenInRed WikiProject.

List of some of the Articles I've helped create

Some of these articles are stubs created in anticipation of and to assist with various Wikipedia workshops, others have been created while working on NZ moth threat classification status. This is by no means a complete list as I got tired of adding articles to it! This list gives more up to date information about my contributions.

DYK article 17 December 2015

see Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Stenoperla_prasina

New Zealand species work links and resources

Critter of the Week work
CC BY insect images at Lincoln need uploading and adding to Wikipedia.
Biota of New Zealand – Manaaki Whenua website good to link to!
See this article on a B class genus as example to work from.
Crosby codes ie New Zealand Area Codes for recording specimen localities definitely needs creation!
Archive of Maanaki Whenau type specimen images
Example of article using NZTCS status
CofL example and the link to raise a new issue, another example. Need to suggest genus Heterocrossa and the species contained within it.
The Coastal Reference Database Resource has lots of Conservation etc reports
TL2 – great resource for collectors
Australian Faunal Directory – to be used 1st if a joint NZ/Aussie moth!
Great markup for insect body part terms See apex
Broun collection drawers at the Natural History Museum. Upload to WikiCommons?
See Mormidea ypsilon for the code to generate a range map.

Tools, links and reminders to self

Great diff blog for finding gaps in Wikipedia
Training for #1Lib1Ref
Public domain article template (without the colon) {{:PD-notice}}
See this for Wikipedian in Residence info.
Licensing markup for images out of copyright in NZ is PD-New Zealand without :
Best practice for attribution for CC licensed works here
Use this markup for empty sections Empty section markup without the :
For open access journals/article links (esp BHL) use curly bracket x2 open access
Hashtag tool
Species synonym list template here
Etymology
See this for external image where no image exists in Wikicommons. Nice way of dealing with issue.
See Huia as example of "how to" for range map.
See Victor Adam to note text incorporated from public domain publications. eg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: New Zealand moths and butterflies (Macro-lepidoptera), by George Vernon Hudson (1898) See also Mount Peel for CC BY attribution quotes.
See this for redirect for synonym of species
See this article for example of a monotypic taxon and how to deal with it in English Wikipedia.
See this markup for redirect to correct species name (use without colon) R from alternative scientific name ie Redirect species article template
See this as a great resource for beginner editors.
See plant host species link here
Grant metrics – tools.wmflabs.org For Wikipedia editathons REALLY helpful.
Wikishootme
Statistics on the Gender gap in Wikipedia see this
{{Wikidata infobox makup see double bracket Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}} Template:Infobox person/Wikidata
You can add datasets to WikiCommons https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data
Open Library workflow – remember David's presentation. Openly licensed, add to internet archive, catalogue via Open library, add identifiers to Wikidata.
Copyright violation finder tool
Cleanup page listings Great for Wiki gardening!
OpenStreetMap has shape info. See Kings Park about how to add markup to infobox and also remember how to add Wikidata item to info in OpenStreetMap.
How to get full pdfs of out of copyright books into Google Books.
Wikimeta GLAM structured data
Wikipedia Weekly show link
If I have redirect issues.
Markup for visual editor for non visual editor pages VEFriendly
GLAM Wiki Newsletter
See this for IPNI for registering new or published plant names
Page views for articles by editor tool
Citing sources with Zotero
Nature article about gender gap
See this Wikipedia article for plant genera
OpenRefine tip to get wikipedia articles
JSTOR plant collector database person link
Useful NZ genealogical link
Wikimedia Analytics API - Landcare.

Tool hub

See this Wikipedia Weekly List of broadcasts that deal with certain tools

Notes to self

See Zoological code 32.5.
Great introductory video on taxonomy and species names
African beetles
See Twinkle gadget
See Magnus' bio tool https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/prepbio.php
Tool to work out Wikipedia:Prosesize
My common js page
Wikisource and Wikisource Guides from Scotland Library
Mikes Blog about WikiSource
See WP:ROUNDROBIN where the redirect page has a history otherwise just use an ordinary move.
Auto patrolled info
How to add range map see this article
BHL template to add to Wikipedia articles.

Grant Applications

See this page for information on where/how to apply for grants from the Wikimedia Foundation. Also see this page on where/how to apply for grants from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

Application to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to virtually attend Living Data 2025 conference. This grant was approved and an abstract to the conference on data extraction from the catalogue and historic texts in BHL for upload into Wikidata was also submitted.
Application to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with Stitchbird2 and Noracrentiss to fund the refreshments for two New Zealand Species editathons on the 2nd and 9th of August 2025. This application was approved.
Application to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with Stitchbird2 to attend, present at, run a Wiki workshop and Wikify the ASBS conference 2025 in Armidale, Australia, 2 - 6 November.
Application to Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to attend the joint SPNHC/TDWG 2024 conference in Okinawa as I am presenting a paper at the conference, am a co author on another paper and have been active in both these communities engaging with them and supporting their engagement with Wikidata. This grant was approved. My report on this conference can be found here.
Grant approved by the Wikimedia Foundation to attend the International Botanical Congress and fulfil the aims of the WikiProject IBC 2024.
Grant approved by Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to undertake the Wikidata WikiProject Te Papa research expeditions work. Report on the project can be found here.
Application approved by the Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to attend TDWG2023 conference in Hobart. A presentation on scientific expeditions that I am co-author of will be given at the conference. I have written a report on my impressions of the conference and on the engagement and discussions regarding various Wiki projects. See this link for the report.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Attendance_at_SPNHC_Conference_2023_(ID:_22061116) I wrote a report on my impressions of the conference.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Ambrosia10/NDF2021_Conference
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Ambrosia10/NDF2021_Conference/Report

GA and FA applications for Kererū

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kerer%C5%AB – achieved!
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Kererū/archive1#Kererū – achieved!

Barnstars

		The New Zealand Barnstar of National Merit
		For outstanding leadership in creating a multi-site, multi-day, multi-project editing event. Tino pai! MurielMary (talk) 04:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
		_{this WikiAward was given to Ambrosia10 by MurielMary (talk) on 04:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)}

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your work in responding to all of my comments in the Kererū GA nomination. It's been a pleasure to work with you and all of your dedicated teammates at WikiProject New Zealand. Mover of molehills (talk) 01:08, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

		The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar
		For proving those pesky deletionists wrong by expanding all of those articles on New Zealand moths. Thank you. Scorpions1325 (talk) 03:21, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Authority control databases – Siobhan Leachman
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User:Ambrosia10

Introducing myself

Conflict of interest statements

Wikimedian in Residence - Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Te Papa

Currently working on (as at October 2025)

Recently completed work

Upcoming presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

Recent presentations, papers, workshops and edit-a-thons

Previous presentations, workshops and edit-a-thons

Wikipedia Weekly Biodiversity recordings

Projects

New Zealand focused work

Endemic species

GLAM content work

New Zealand Threat Classification work

Completed NZ Threat Classification work

New Zealand theses project

General Work

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Research expeditions

Other participation

Suggested topics for planning events

Possible suggests for Event planning

List of some of the Articles I've helped create

New Zealand species work links and resources

Tools, links and reminders to self

Tool hub

Notes to self

Grant Applications

GA and FA applications for Kererū

Barnstars