User:Giantflightlessbirds/TetZooCon 2019

Whale-stranding researcher Ellen Coombs, photographed by TetZooCon photographer Georgia Witton-Maclean

This is the workshop page for the TetZooCon 2019 Wikipedia workshop, run by me on 20th October 2019 at Student Central, Malet Street, London. TetZooCon is a meeting of fans and researchers who follow Darren Naish's blog Tetrapod Zoology. TetZooCon 2019 was the sixth annual meetup, and the first to involve a Wikipedian.

Shortcut: bit.ly/TetZooConWiki

Covered in workshop

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  Dougal Dixon at TetZooCon

  Why Wikipedia matters
• Creating an account
• How to add facts and a citation to a Wikipedia article
• How to donate a photo or illustration to Wikimedia Commons, and add it to a Wikipedia article
• Creating a Wikidata item for a researcher and their publications

Demonstrated

• Dougal Dixon photograph uploaded and added to Wikipedia articles in English, Scots, Polish, and Hungarian
• Added given name, correct birth date reference, image, notable work to Dougal Dixon (Q257054)
• Fixed the Wikidata listing for Dixon's book After Man to distinguish the work (After Man (Q3239147)) from After Man: a Zoology of the Future (1981 ed.) (Q71681110) and After Man: a Zoology of the Future (2018 ed.) (Q71690475)
• Ellen Coombs photo added to her Wikidata: Ellen Coombs (Q71563687)
• Ellen Coombs publication added: What can cetacean stranding records tell us? A study of UK and Irish cetacean diversity over the past 100 years (Q71724764); see her Scholia entry
• Added facts about UK strandings from Ellen's recent paper (and reference) to cetacean stranding and info on coloration to True's beaked whale
• Started to fix the problems with the semiaquatic tetrapods article as Dave Hone was criticising it during his talk