@MeMerricks profile picture
Margaret @MeMerricks

statistician, wikimedian and wikidata enthusiast. Linking, linking, linking (on wikis - not yet on twitter.)

Joined June 2012
  • Tweets 649
  • Following 117
  • Followers 62
70 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Margaret @MeMerricks
3 Aug 2022
wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Bringi… This is the official blog from my #wikidata fellowship 2022, an opportunity to populate wikidata with Australian fauna Thanks @wm_au @SiobhanLeachman and @tobyhudson Please note @rdmpage @nicolekearney

Bringing the whole zoo to Wikidata

Wikidata Fellow Dr Margaret Donald on her project populating Wikidata with Australian animals.

wikimedia.org.au
3
10
16
Margaret @MeMerricks
23 Dec 2024
This Zelkova serrata tree is a natural monument of South Korea. It is listed as a WDPA protected area (0.0 km2) Data now in #wikidata & image in #kowiki (How I wish we valued our trees in Australia in the same way
Daejeon Goegok-dong Zelkova tree https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/대전_괴곡동_느티나무

ALT Daejeon Goegok-dong Zelkova tree https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/대전_괴곡동_느티나무
2
14
Ruskin Row: Stop Council's plan to Cut Down two more Healthy Trees - Sign the Petition! chng.it/45P2CZTTRh via @ChangeAUS

Sign the Petition

Ruskin Row: Stop Council's plan to Cut Down two more Healthy Trees

change.org
2
Margaret @MeMerricks
30 Nov 2024
Working on w.wiki/CF75 & youtube.com/watch?v=lGEDRHtR… finding images for #enwiki articles with no P18 (image) in #Wikidata. The image shows captioning in #Wikipedia with CC-BY-4.0 together with a linked institution.
Image from Brachychiton multicaulis

ALT Image from Brachychiton multicaulis
1
79
Margaret @MeMerricks
28 Nov 2024
One of the pleasures of adding Wikidata identifiers is finding Qitems which need to be merged. Here 3 items were merged, and a Chinese and English page linked
Merging 3 Qitems due to reuse of Encyclopedia of Korea identifier

ALT Merging 3 Qitems due to reuse of Encyclopedia of Korea identifier
2
17
Margaret @MeMerricks
22 Sep 2024
My first bushfire of 2024/2025 fire season. Just north of the junction of Warringah Road & the Wakehurst Parkway #bushfire
1
24
Margaret retweeted
Digitising the NHM@NHM_Digitise
31 Jan 2024
Today we're celebrating the end of our "Larger Micro Moth" digitisation project, which we wrapped up earlier this month. What makes a Larger Micro Moth? Well, the definition is a little bit fuzzy (just like the moths themselves).
Dorsal view of Adscita statices, a brilliant green moth with shimmering antennae. Background is "digitisation grey" and the specimen's labels are lined up next to the moth, and a scale bar is included. The moth is hardly 2 centimeters wide.

ALT Dorsal view of Adscita statices, a brilliant green moth with shimmering antennae. Background is "digitisation grey" and the specimen's labels are lined up next to the moth, and a scale bar is included. The moth is hardly 2 centimeters wide.

Image of a living Adscita statices perched on a purple flower. This individual has a teal shift, and some individual scales are visible.

ALT Image of a living Adscita statices perched on a purple flower. This individual has a teal shift, and some individual scales are visible.

1
2
18
945
Margaret @MeMerricks
12 Jan 2024
Congratulations to the @wm_au partners for 2024: @BHL Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia, Victorian Field Naturalist Clubs & @nicolekearney Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers & Mary Coe Environment Centre NT & @CaddieBrain & Environmental Protection Agency
1
4
105
Margaret retweeted
BHL Australia@bhl_au
9 Jan 2024
BHL Australia is thrilled & honoured to be one of four recipients of Wikimedia Australia's 2024 Partner Project grants. Thank you @wm_au! wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2024_P… cc @BioDivLibrary @atlaslivingaust

1
4
13
593
Some #HistoricSciArt to brighten your day: Fairy Wrens from vol. 2 (1902) of "The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union": biodiversitylibrary.org/page… via @BioDivLibrary, digitised by @AMNH cc @BirdlifeOz
1
19
51
2,919
Margaret @MeMerricks
11 Dec 2023
Plantago aucklandica is a megaherb! blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/… via @te_papa
47
Margaret @MeMerricks
29 Nov 2023
reminder about the #commons science photo competition. @wm_au @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman Photos need not be uploaded as part of a local competition.
1
2
85
Margaret @MeMerricks
19 Nov 2023
Poinciana (Delonix regia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloni… at Newstead house. @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988 @wm_au
1
4
147
Margaret @MeMerricks
19 Nov 2023
A disturbing Britannia at Newstead House, bringing peace with her paw firmly planted on the entire world. @annreynolds988 @FrankPouncby @wm_au
1
36
Margaret @MeMerricks
19 Nov 2023
And Annie spotted the finches' beaks.
Annie Reynolds@annreynolds988
17 Nov 2023
Replying to @annreynolds988
Later we visited the Great Court at University of Qld where we were excited to find Charles Darwin, guarding the door to the Biological Sciences Bldg 2/3
1
1
47
Margaret @MeMerricks
19 Nov 2023
Finches' beaks
11
Margaret retweeted
Anne Dubéarnès@AnneDubearnes
15 Nov 2023
A satisfying treasure hunt: I found 67 new type specimens of Asian and American #Meliaceae last week. They were "hiding" amongst the 1.1 million specimens of @CUHerb. They will soon be digitised and shared online, to facilitate the work of #taxonomists. @plantsci @CamGLAMresearch
Two piles of herbarium specimens on a work bench.

ALT Two piles of herbarium specimens on a work bench.

4
13
108
5,369
Cheonan Yangnyeong-ri juniper tree, Natural Monument No. 427 #Wikicommons wikidata.org/wiki/Q12618902 @wm_au @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988
3
29
Margaret retweeted
Alison Fisk
@AlisonFisk
3 Nov 2023
#FindsFriday From the Bronze Age, the magnificent Rhos Rydd shield. Expertly made c. 3,000 years ago from a single disc of bronze. 20 concentric circles are decorated with 3,700 singly punched bosses. Mesmerising! Found in a bog near Blaenplwyf, Wales, in 1804. #Archaeology Read more: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/42027…
37
281
1,454
66,773
Margaret @MeMerricks
24 Oct 2023
Korean pyeongyeong (lithophone) (image by ShalRath via #Wikicommons ) A percussion instrument made of stone and hence less subject to heat & humidity changes. See w.wiki/_v9Xu (still working on #Korean #Wikidata) @annreynolds988 @wm_au @FrankPouncby
1
4
113
Margaret retweeted
Annie Reynolds@annreynolds988
22 Oct 2023
For #Wikipedians in both countries to contemplate! @wm_au @wikiprojectnz
Becs 🍉🌈
@Becs
21 Oct 2023
somewhere in the middle of the Tasman Sea is an invisible line separating the fish from the fush.
1
1
5
162
Load more