Dr Mike Dickison (User:Giantflightlessbirds, contact: mike
rove.wiki) worked as a Wikipedian in Residence from June 2023 with the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge office in the University of Otago's Department of Medicine to upload images to Commons, improve Wikidata on researchers and publications, cite published research to improve relevant Wikipedia articles, and create new articles as needed.
Resources edit
Site visits edit
- 6, 14 June 2023: meeting Healthier Lives team in Dunedin
- 26 June onwards based in Hokitika and available remotely
Presentations edit
- Thursday 15 June, 2023: Zoom presentation to NSC Comms team (recorded)
Events edit
- None yet scheduled
Goals edit
A Wikipedia article about Healthier Lives He Oranga Hauora, summarising the origins and main investigators in the Science Challenge, the research themes and projects, and a selected publications list and outcomes, linking back to the (archived) Healthier Lives website.For each researcher, all available research publications in Wikidata, linked to them as the authors, with a Scholia publications list and graphs.A WikiCommons category for each researcher where possible, using images supplied by Healthier Lives, with a profile photo assigned to their Wikidata item.- Citing the key published papers from each Healthier Lives project area in relevant Wikipedia articles (e.g. prediabetes, diabetes, obesity, sustainable diet: full list to come), and linking back to the Healthier Lives Wikipedia article.
- Create articles about selected researchers (update: Simon Kingham, Cris Print, Sue Crengle),
especially early-career scientists profiled in the Research Voices posts, using photos cleared by the Healthier Lives comms team and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Brief list article in Wikipedia of all the National Science Challenges. Done by a volunteer, 28/5/23Checking the MBIE Healthier Lives site is backed up in the Internet Archive, and is scraped again when complete. (The site has been archived 132 times between 2016 and 2023, and will continue to be scraped at least monthly.)
Media edit
- No media coverage yet; press release pending
Healthier Lives people edit
(Note: Wikidata generally uses the full name as given in author lists on publications; Wikipedia will use the most-commonly-referred-by name—for example, the one in a university staff listing. The Scholia link shows the number of publications currently in Wikidata and properly linked to that person's Wikidata ID.)
| Wikidata | Scholia | Wikipedia | Quality | Wikimedia Commons | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry Mateparae (Q515624) | [1] | Jerry Mateparae | 
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Category:Jerry Mateparae | |
| Will Allen (Q86521090) | 2 | Will Allen | — | — | |
| Amohia Boulton (Q38590110) | 12 | Amohia Boulton | — | — | |
| Lorraine Brooking (Q120710634) | 0 | Lorraine Brooking | — | — | Created wikidata 17/7 |
| Justine Camp (Q120711836) | 0 | Justine Camp | — | — | Link Created wikidata 17/7 |
| Libby Harrison (Q117009357) | 0 | Libby Harrison | — | Category:Libby_Harrison | |
| Helen Nicholson (Q58806805) | 0 | Helen Nicholson |
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| David Schaaf (Q120713658) | 0 | David Schaaf | — | — | Created wikidata 17/7 |
| Matthew Charles Edwards (Q102934957) | 1 | Matt Edwards | — | — | |
| Lara Greaves (Q90275717) | 24 | Lara Greaves | — | — |
Author dismbiguator for SLT run 21/11, Scholia totals to update.
| Wikidata | Scholia | Wikipedia | Quality | Wikimedia Commons | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | Els Russell | — | Blog | |
| Truely Harding (Q92425148) | 6 | Truely Harding | — | Blog | |
| — | — | Sandra Fitzgerald | — | Blog | |
| — | — | Dani Prapavessis | — | Blog | |
| — | — | Elizabeth Okiakama | — | Blog |
These are health workers or early-career researchers featured on the Healthier Lives blog. It's very important for all researchers to have a public ORCiD profile if Wikipedians are to help link and cite their research and add them to Wikidata; any blog profiles like this should also link to the subject's public ORCiD.
Relevant Wikipedia articles for expert feedback edit
| Wikipedia | Quality | To improve | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthier Lives |
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Created 12/7, expanded 18/7 | |
| Māori people | 
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Socioeconomic issues > Health (sparse) | Have sought expert feedback |
| Pasifika New Zealanders | 
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No section on socioeconomic/health issues | Have sought expert feedback |
| Whole grain |
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Health effects > Disease risk is out of date | Feedback received; to fix |
| Type 2 diabetes | 
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Diet section needs updating | Have sought expert feedback |
| Prediabetes |
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Odd Dental section; Prognosis section | Have sought expert feedback |
| Colorectal cancer |
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To check with expert |
Wikipedia articles with HLNSC research cited edit
Selected images edit
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Sue Crengle -
Lisa Te Morenga -
Dianne Sika-Paotonu -
Jeremy Krebs -
Healthier Lives 2014 launch -
Parry Guilford's lab
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See Category:Healthier Lives for more, and Commons categories for individuals listed above. Photographs owned by the University of Otago (commissioned photographers Luke Pilkinton-Ching and Sharron Bennett) were released under an open licence by User:Giantflightlessbirds for Heathier Lives, as were the Healthier Lives logos. Some written photo reuse permissions (Victoria University of Wellington, Black Feather Studio, CDHB) were obtained by Healthier Lives staff; contact them for more information.
- Healthier Lives – He Oranga Hauora National Science Challenge
- Department of Medicine • University of Otago
- PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
- E: healthier.lives@otago.ac.nz │W: www.healthierlives.co.nz │T: +64 3 470 9859