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Dr Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds, contact: mikerove.wiki) is working as as a Wikipedian in Residence in August–September 2024 with the Our Land and Water (OLW) National Science Challenge headquartered in AgResearch, Lincoln (Our Land and Water (Q129800799)) to upload images to Commons, improve Wikidata on scientists and publications, cite published research to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, create new articles as needed, and run webinars on open science and Wikipedia for interested researchers.

Resources

Website
Resource Finder for OLW research and resources
Wai Ora, Whenua Ora, Tangata Ora: 2018 strategy publication for OLW
2018 Research Book

Goals

~~Checking the OLW website is backed up in the Internet Archive, and is scraped again when complete.~~ DONE. (The site has been archived 248 times between 2016 and 2024, and will continue to be scraped at least monthly.)
Create a Wikipedia article about OLW, summarising the origins and main investigators in the Science Challenge, the research themes and projects, and a selected publications list and outcomes, linking back to the (archived) website.
Create a WikiCommons category for significant Challenge people, using images supplied to be released under an open licence, with a profile photo assigned to their Wikidata item.
Using the key published papers from each OLW research area to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, linking back to the Challenge's Wikipedia article.
Run one or more webinars for OLW and other NSC researchers on Wikipedia, copyright, and Creative Commons
Create articles about one or more significant OLW researchers, listing their most significant research publications in Wikidata, linked to them as the authors, with a Scholia publications list.
Add OLW publications to Wikidata to allow easier citation in Wikipedia and analytics using Scholia.

Webinars

Date	Time	Title	Register	Intended for	About
Tues 24 Sep 2024	Midday	Wikipedia for Researchers	Free: LilRegie registration link	NSC scientists and other researchers	What you need to know to work with the world’s largest encyclopedia. How it’s written, how it resists vandalism, whay it’s sometimes extremely accurate and sometimes not, and what you can do about that, including how you can make sure it’s correctly citing your research.
Tues 1 Oct 2024	Midday	Copyright for Scientists	Free: LilRegie registration link	Academics and anyone publishing in peer-reviewed journals	Scientists need to deal with copyright, but most have no training in how the law works. When you publish, you often end up signing over the rights to your text, images, and diagrams for decades to come. But there are ways of protecting your creative work so that you can reuse it without having to go begging to a publisher – I'll show you how, and incidentally give you a crash course in the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994.
Tues 8 Oct 2024	Midday	Creative Commons for open science	Free: LilRegie registration link	Researchers publishing in Open Access journals	Open Access publishing uses Creative Commons licences, but what are they exactly and what are the differences between them? Learn how to reuse other people’s CC work without violating copyright, and how to make your own images, diagrams, maps, and writing available for others to legally share and reuse – in teaching materials, textbooks, or Wikipedia articles.

These webinars are free and supported by Our Land and Water National Science Challenge. Follow-up training or small presentations can be arranged; contact mike rove.wiki.

People

(Note: Wikidata generally uses the full name as given in author lists on publications; Wikipedia will use the most-commonly-referred-by name—for example, the one in a university staff listing. The Scholia link shows the number of publications currently in Wikidata and properly linked to that person's Wikidata ID.)

A selection of OLW-associated people
Wikidata	Scholia	Wikipedia	Quality	Wikimedia Commons	Notes
Jenny G. Webster-Brown (Q56970802)	link	Jenny Webster-Brown			1, 2
Rich McDowell (Q41557067)	link	Richard McDowell	Start	Category:Richard McDowell	1, 2
		Tanira Kingi
		John Reid
		Tina Porou
		Shannon Davies
		Alison Dewes
		Bill Kaye-Blake
Caroline Saunders (Q58222601)	link	Caroline Saunders	Start
Kura Paul-Burke (Q113857423)	link	Kura Paul-Burke	Start
		Paul Dalziel
		Tiffany Tompkins
		Carla Muller
		Mandy Bell
Jessica Hutchings (Q113959680)	link	Jessica Hutchings	Start
		Gwen Grelet
		Ken Taylor
		Susie McKeague
		Helen Percy