Margaret @MeMerricks

statistician, wikimedian and wikidata enthusiast. Linking, linking, linking (on wikis - not yet on twitter.) Joined June 2012

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Margaret @MeMerricks

9 months ago

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

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Margaret @MeMerricks

9 months ago

Ruskin Row: Stop Council's plan to Cut Down two more Healthy Trees - Sign the Petition! chng.it/45P2CZTTRh via @ChangeAus

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Margaret @MeMerricks

9 months ago

Working on w.wiki/CF75 & youtube.com/watch?v=lGEDRH… 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.

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Margaret @MeMerricks

9 months ago

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

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Margaret @MeMerricks

12 months ago

My first bushfire of 2024/2025 fire season. Just north of the junction of Warringah Road & the Wakehurst Parkway #bushfire

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Digitising the NHM @NHM_Digitise

2 years ago

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).

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

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

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BHL Australia @bhl_au

2 years ago

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_Part… cc @BioDivLibrary @atlaslivingaust

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Nicole Kearney @nicolekearney

2 years ago

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/9170235 via @BioDivLibrary, digitised by @AMNH cc @BirdlifeOz

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

Plantago aucklandica is a megaherb! blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2023/12/11/pla… via @Te_Papa

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

reminder about the #commons science photo competition. @wm_au @annreynolds988 @SiobhanLeachman Photos need not be uploaded as part of a local competition.

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

Poinciana (Delonix regia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delonix_r… at Newstead house. @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988 @wm_au

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

A disturbing Britannia at Newstead House, bringing peace with her paw firmly planted on the entire world. @annreynolds988 @FrankPouncby @wm_au

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Anne Dubéarnès @AnneDubearnes

2 years ago

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

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

Cheonan Yangnyeong-ri juniper tree, Natural Monument No. 427 #Wikicommons wikidata.org/wiki/Q12618902 @wm_au @FrankPouncby @annreynolds988

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Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk

2 years ago

#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…

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Margaret @MeMerricks

2 years ago

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