Words and what not

Dear Rosie , I saw your presentation . You want women in blue. In it you mention 300 lists of women. That is a lot of lists. In the mean t...

The ASBA or the " American Society of Botanical Artists " started of in the USA only to become a truly international organisatio...

When you do not already know about Mrs Martineau , do read one of the many Wikipedia articles, she is considered to be the first female so...

#IPNI is a collaborative project between three august bodies in the taxonomy of plants. They are the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , the Ha...

There are many ways of updating Wikidata. Individual statements for individual items are made. They are worthwhile but on the grand scale ...

On Facebook , Erika made a few comments that were not well received. A few really positive things did come out as a result but there is a ...

Because of Facebook I read something about Franziska Michor . What triggered me was that she received an award . Her occupation, biomathem...

The Prix Coincy is an award conferred by the French Botanical Society . The first time it was awarded was in 1904 according to the Frenc...

The Awarder is a tool I use everyday to add people known to have received the award to Wikidata. Its use is straight forward: find a li...

I was told that I should not talk about quality because "on the basis of my work I did not give a good example". Basically I was...

#Wikidata is a great to encourage collaboration and reporting for Wiki projects. The results of projects like the Black Lunch Table have b...

Once upon a time there was a Wikipedian from Estonia. He decided to write about a fellow countryman,  Kersti Kaljulaid . When your Estonia...

There are reasons to compare Wikipedia articles on the same subject in multiple languages. When you just want to read, you may find additi...

Lists in Wikipedia, like this list of award winners of the Tony Kent Strix award  on the right exist as blue, red and "black" li...

Two years ago I blogged about the  J.B. Broekszprize and the VARA . It mentioned a Mr Hof and the fact that it is assumed that this Mr Hof...

How can you not love WikiEducation .. It has a great reputation bringing the editing of Wikipedia to curricula. When you check out their T...

The  Wikipedia Signpost informs  that the discovery team extended the results for search on Wikipedia. New is that English Wikipedia now...

I am a self confessed award junkie. They are imho important because they are an indication of who is notable and who is less so. Three a...

Wikidata has some vocal people vilifying GeoNames . They insist that no data from GeoNames is included in Wikidata because "the qual...

Wikidata is no different from any community, there are differences of opinion. Everybody has his or her own perspective but there are ass...