User:Stitchbird2

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About Me[edit]

Stitchbird2
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NameStitchbird2
BornWisconsin, U.S.A.
Current locationWellington, New Zealand
Education and employment
OccupationCurator Botany
EmployerMuseum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
UniversityUniversity of Texas at Austin (PhD, 2004, Botany), University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (BSc, 1996, Biology and Spanish)

Hi I'm Stitchbird2, also known as Heidi Meudt. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. I'm a Botany Curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

I'm interested in botany, especially the taxonomy and evolution of alpine plants in the southern hemisphere, especially New Zealand but also Australia, New Guinea, Chile and Argentina.

I have taxonomic expertise in the plant genera Ourisia, Plantago, and Veronica (Plantaginaceae) and Myosotis (Boraginaceae). More detail on my contributions are outlined in my ORCID profile.

I started editing under User:Stitchbird in 2019 but I lost my password and didn’t have the username attached to an email. I have been editing regularly as of 2022 under User:Stitchbird2.

I edit in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons on topics related to biodiversity, especially botany, taxonomy, plant species, specimens, scientists (especially botanists and women scientists) and scientific papers.

Conflict of Interest Statement[edit]


Heidi M. Meudt
Curator Botany
Te Papa

Contact me

heidim@tepapa.govt.nz

About me

I am a paid employee of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), an autonomous Crown entity of New Zealand that provides a forum in which the nation may present, explore, and preserve both the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the natural environment in order to better understand and treasure the past, enrich the present, and meet the challenges of the future. We are working to make our holdings, publications, and other resources more accessible to the public by engaging directly with the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

Conflict of interest statement

When I am editing the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons as part of my official professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. Because Te Papa's educational mission is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. Therefore, I will not make substantive edits to articles related to Te Papa as an agency (e.g. Te Papa), or its personnel. Instead, my edits and contributions will be to contribute subject matter expertise, for example to improve articles about Te Papa holdings or subjects relating to New Zealand (e.g. Phar Lap, New Zealand art).

You can find out more about this project at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa WikiProject. Te Papa’s work on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons is being governed by internal guidelines, which we have published on-wiki in our WikiProject page. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me. My email is also listed on this page in case I am not regularly checking my talk page.


Creation of Wikipedia articles in my area of expertise[edit]

I’ve been briefed on the conflict of interest rules including those around being a subject-matter expert editing within my area of expertise. I understand that I’m expected to make sure that my external role and relationships in my field of expertise do not interfere with my primary role when editing Wikipedia i.e. to further the interests of the encyclopaedia.

Because of the topic of my expertise and specialisation I will be citing peer reviewed journal papers that I have authored or co-authored. I will also be writing Wikipedia articles on species where I was a key researcher in the process of taxonomic identification for that species. I am aware of the possibility of a conflict of interest issue with citing my own published work. Papers I have authored or co-authored will only be cited if that paper is relevant to the topic and conforms to the content policies of Wikipedia. Any citation will not be excessive nor will it place undue emphasis on my work. I will be citing the most recent quality research available whether it is by me or someone else.

Babel user information
en-N This user has a native understanding of English.
es-5 Esta usuaria tiene un conocimiento profesional del español.
de-3 Diese Benutzerin beherrscht Deutsch auf hohem Niveau.
mi-1 He tapepa rawa te reo Māori o tēnei tangata.
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New Zealand Myosotis project[edit]

I am currently working on Myosotis:

  • added red links to the Myosotis main page for New Zealand species - 22 Apr 2022 & 11 Oct 2022 (3 new species)
  • added links to the authors of Myosotis names where available - 22 Apr 2022
  • reviewing and editing the existing blue links for New Zealand species (Myosotis capitata, Myosotis antarctica, Myosotis eximia, Myosotis monroi) - Apr/May 2022
  • Adding Myosotis (and other) references to Wikidata to be able to use CiteQ - in progress
  • Improving species in Wikidata - in progress
  • Creating categories to Wikimedia Commons for all species, and importing photos from iNaturalist where available (note: to use the iNaturalist2Commons tool, make sure you are in the CATEGORY page for a taxon in Commons, then you will see the iNaturalist import button) - in progress

New Zealand Plantago project[edit]

  1. Plantago aucklandica - edited 4 November 2023
  2. Plantago hedleyi - edited 11 December 2023
  3. Plantago stauntonii - created 13 January 2024
  4. Plantago triantha - edited 5 February 2024
  5. Plantago obconica - created 8 Feb 2024
  6. Plantago triandra - created 15 Feb 2024
  7. Plantago unibracteata - created 28 Feb 2024
  8. Plantago lanigera - created 3 Mar 2024
  9. Plantago novae-zelandiae - created 3 Mar 2024
  10. Plantago spathulata - created 14 Mar 2024
  11. Plantago picta - created 30 Mar 2024
  12. Plantago raoulii - created 30 Mar 2024
  13. Plantago udicola - created 30 Mar 2024
  14. Plantago (genus page) - next up!

Ourisia project[edit]

  1. Ourisia caespitosa - created 9 Apr 2024
  2. Ourisia glandulosa - created 14 Apr 2024
  3. Ourisia confertifolia - created 21 Apr 2024
  4. Ourisia spathulata - created 29 Apr 2024
  5. Ourisia remotifolia - created 5 May 2024
  6. Ourisia sessilifolia - next up!
  7. Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. sessilifolia
  8. Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. spendida
  9. Ourisia simpsonii
  10. Ourisia modesta
  11. Ourisia calycina
  12. Ourisia macrocarpa
  13. Ourisia crosbyi
  14. Ourisia macrophylla (2 subspecies)
  15. Ourisia vulcanica
  16. Ourisia integrifolia
  17. Ourisia microphylla
  18. Ourisia serpyllifolia
  19. Ourisia polyantha
  20. Ourisia muscosa
  21. Ourisia biflora
  22. Ourisia cotapatensis
  23. Ourisia pulchella
  24. Ourisia alpina
  25. Ourisia chamaedrifolia
  26. Ourisia breviflora (2 subspecies)
  27. Ourisia coccinea (2 subspecies)
  28. Ourisia fragrans
  29. Ourisia fuegiana
  30. Ourisia pygmaea
  31. Ourisia ruellioides
  32. Ourisia (genus page)

Other projects[edit]

  1. ^ "ESEAP Conference 2022/Program - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2022-12-01.


Tools, links and reminders to self[edit]

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