Sunday, May 12, 2019

@Wikidata Women in science - Lesley Wyborn

For Lesley Wyborn a Wikipedia article exists. She "built an international reputation for innovative leadership in geoinformatics and global e-research, particularly in the geoscience area" according to the motivation for the "Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics" award. Notability, no issue.

When the article was written in 2016, no attention was given to the "authority control" and consequently in 2018 an additional item was created with an ORCID identifier. In 2019 additional work was done and the two items were merged. A Google Scholar identifier and the award was added potentially addressing the issues raised on the Wikipedia article.

Arguably both the Wikidata and the Wikipedia information could be more informative. However, given that both are Wikis that is quite acceptable. It is quite likely that many more papers are already on Wikidata and just need attribution. That is something for others to do.. we are a community remember.
Thanks,
     GerardM

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