User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/SOL 2012/Working on botany articles in the German Wikipedia
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A short introduction to the work on botany articles as seen by de:Benutzer:Carstor.
Redaktion Biologie
edit- de:Wikipedia:Redaktion Biologie: starting and coordination point for working on biology topics in the German Wikipedia.
- Topics covered include taxa, institutions, scientific tools and methods, persons ...
- Members: everyone from young pupils to biologists with PhDs
- lots of new personal contacts and friends over the time
- regular meetups
Sources of information
editFreely available literature
edit- Solanaceae Source
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- DFG Nationallizenzen
- Open Access Journals
- More listed at de:Wikipedia:Redaktion Biologie/Quellen
Literature stipend
edit- de:Wikipedia:Literaturstipendium: Project currently run by WMDE and WMAT to provide books, articles etc. for authors.
- Started in 2007 for some areas (including biology), since september 2011 free for all Wikipedians
- Books I got from this programm:
- D.M. Spooner, L. Bohs, J. Giovannoni, R.G. Olmstead, D. Shibata: "VI International Solanaceae Conference : Genomics Meets Biodiversity", ISHS Acta Horticulturae Nummer 745, ISBN 978-90-66054-27-1
- Bohs, L.: Revision of Solanum section Cyphomandropsis, 2001. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol 61. ISBN 0-912861-61-4.
- Spooner, D. M., et al.: Wild potatoes (Solanum sect. Petota) of North and Central America, 2004. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 68. ISBN 0-912861-68-1.
- Peralta, I. E, et al.: Taxonomy of wild tomatoes and their relatives (Solanum sect. Lycopersicoides, sect. Juglandifolia, sect. Lycopersicon), 2008. Systematic Botany Monographs. Vol. 84. ISBN 978-0-912861-84-5.
- eLitStip: Group Access for certain electronic publications:
- 100 accounts for BioOne from 2009 to 2013
Problems
edit- Not accessible literature
- Different taxonomic concepts over the time. Which one should be used?
- Lack of images
"nearly live" demo
edit- Created during Ian's talk (12:34 pm today)
- Automatically linked in other language version (12:51 pm today)
- Google search (4:28 pm today)
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