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How to find & upload taxon images from public websites

Abstract/description

Australian fauna and flora are unique. Many of the taxon pages relating to animals & plants found only in Australia have no images. Public websites like iNaturalist, Flickr, GBIF and many other websites can be a source of appropriately licensed images for taxon articles. It is always worthwhile to search such sites for images which can be uploaded to the commons and used. This presentation shows the steps necessary for this (when the sites are not Flickr or iNaturalist), together with final steps to make such images findable by all other wikis. That is, the final steps - making categories and adding images & categories to wikidata.

Margaret has uploaded over 400 images from many, many websites and knows many of the hurdles which need to be overcome to successfully upload such images.

To get us started we are going to work with some queries:

1. Wikidata query for plants described by Roger Charles Carolin without Wikidata images
2. Wikidata query for plants described by karen Wilson without Wikidata images
3. Wikidata query for plants described by Robert Brown without Wikidata images
4. Wikidata query for plants described by Kevin Thiele without Wikidata images with an Enwiki page
5. Any plant found in Australia, not having a wikidata image + authorlink, not requiring the authority
6. Australian Taeniophyllum species with no image/article
7. Plant taxa with no image and having a POWO id
8. Any animal found in Australia, not having a wikidata image + authorlink, with no authority
9. Plant & animal query for New Zealanders And again 1000 with optimizer + POWO id (limiting to plants)
10. Animal taxa described by Paul E.S. Whalley

Note that we wish to honour the BY even when this is not required. See Aaptos globosa for some of the issues (particularly when it comes to the other language wikis which automatically propagate taxon images), and Abraliopsis gilchristi where a red link has been created.

One of the advantages of creating a category in Commons for a species can be seen here (Category:Cyperus exaltatus), where it can be seen that this species has an iNaturalist link, and when this link works it shows images with the licences allowing their uploading to commons and of "research grade".

Steps

1. Using the query

1. Open the plant query: https://w.wiki/BxiC (You are more likely to find an uploadable image amongst the plants)
2. Open the enwiki article
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the identifiers, and click on the GBIF number. At the right of the GBIF page, you will generally see a set of images plus an occurrence map. Click on gallery view and choose an image. (I now avoid iNaturalist images as mostly they cannot be used.) Open tabs for several specimen images and look for both a good image and an appropriate licence.) When uploading create or use two categories: the taxon name and a category for your uploads

1. To upload, open a new commons tab and choose upload file (in the left column menu). The steps of filling out the upload form will be demonstrated in the workshop, and involve uploading and labelling the image, and filling out 3 pages of information.

2. Creating the category of the taxon name

(probably in red at the bottom of the page)

1. Click on the red category button at the bottom of the image page. If you forgot to add the category when uploading, add the taxon name via the category (+) button.
2. Choose edit source and write:'''{{wikidata infobox}}'''
   '''[[Category:Acacia|abbreviata]]''' (for example)
3. Click "publish"
4. Then search in the left hand column of links for "Add Wikidata link". A box will pop up asking you which language wiki has a page for this taxon. Start writing "en" which then completes as "enwiki". When you accept this completion, complete the new pop-up box with the name of the enwiki page for this taxon, and publish. Return to your taxon category page & refresh to see your image is now in the wikidata infobox.

3. Add the image to wikidata and to enwiki

1. Your wikidata infobox now points to the Qitem, together with much of the taxon information, but has not got an image. Click on the 'Qitem in the infobox to go to the Qitem for the taxon. In Wikidata, add the statement "image" (P18) and fill out the resultant blank box with the file name of the image you have just uploaded. Click publish. Return to your newly created category for the taxon. Refresh to see the image now appearing in the infobox.
2. Return to your image file and refresh. At the bottom of the file information you will see all the wikis on which the image now appears (typically cebwiki, svwiki and many others) Note that the image is not used on enwiki.
3. Go to the enwiki page, and choose source edit, where you will add the following parameters to the {{speciesbov: | image = <filename>
   | image_caption = <specimen no> and <attribution> See:Acacia abbreviata.

4. Re-edit Structured data

Add a statement using the property "collection" (P195) See:image of Abraliopsis gilchristi in the Commons

Related slides and video

1. Slides showing some key points and links may be found in WikiCommons.
2. Youtube video: Uploading images from Public Sites

Relationship to Wiki skills or to the theme

Improving Australian taxa articles, and enhancing participants' skills.

Choose your query (plant or animal family)

1. Malvaceae (with APNI id & no image in wikidata)
2. Fabaceae (with APNI id & no image in wikidata)
3. Asteraceae (with APNI id & no image in wikidata)
4. Sterculioideae (with APNI id & no image in wikidata)
5. Hepalidae (with AFD id & no image in wikidata)
6. Aranae (with AFD id & no image in wikidata)

Username/s, presenters

• MargaretRDonald

Session type

• Workshop, 60 minutes

Duration

See above

Session outcomes

Following the session, the participant will be able to find, upload and use publicly available taxon images.