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I'm a Wikimedian and I run the NZThesisProject from Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand. OpenRefine, Wikidata, Wikipedia... all the Wikis!
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Kiddo sniffly and friend of her sick friend is +ve. But it’s production week for school musical so chances of masking are zero. (Kiddo at least -ve for now….if only she’d ever been allowed boosters)
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Do both the things! He can come to Bangla later in life but if he doesn’t hear it much in the early years it will always be a foreign language. They don’t call it mother tongue for nothing!
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But there is so much work still to be done - connecting the Legacies of British Slave-ownership database to the world through Wikidata opened up several connections previously hidden (I was able to alert researchers in England to some they'd missed). But most of it is still unconnected!
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I wound down that aspect of my work after an unpleasant run-in with some editors connected to a house still owned and lived in by Bathurst family, who were adamant such a connection should not be mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the house. Ugh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydney_...
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Love your work! A few years ago I did some work linking the Legacies database identifiers to people and places via Wikidata. Interactive map here (zoom in to NZ) w.wiki/EGAT There's a historic house commissioned by Osborne-Briggs, things named after Henry de la Beche, Murchison, and others.
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It arrived from overseas approx 30 mins after I left to go to WikiCon! (Albeit it was ten days faster than they said). I anticipate having a roll or two to spare anyway….
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I stayed on Southwark St in Chch lately and ….yeah….Chch people are not right with South walk!
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I'll definitely let you know! Thanks for the encouragement! We'll be doing another upload of New Zealand thesis data to Wikidata soon, with likely some resultant citations to Wikipedia for some authors or advisors, so we'll be able to examine in some detail as we go.
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I may have done a little dance this morning...I must make sure to mention at the next Aotearoa meeting so everyone knows there's yet one more reason to use Cite Q :)
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Publishers will love that!
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fantastic, the university book shop is on the list! I had searched there and not found it. Will get them to order it! :)
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We had a NZ release, and it’s available at locations found through the books Penguin NZ page!
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Oh fantastic! It's #NZ too! Do you know if it's available anywhere in NZ atm?
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Thanks Annie!
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They can’t even do that bit right thekaka.substack.com/p/bernards-s...
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I'm going to try to show it visually.
I'm going to show three graphs of the weekly numbers of people facing one of the types of delay in urgent care.
Pre-pandemic.
Emergency Phase.
Rampant Spread.
*all with the same scale*
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I think you're mistaken. Bandyclugs and Fazbobins was definitely an early 20th century Australian children's book that later became an international phenomenon before fading into obscurity.
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Hi, my lovely Otago pharmacy student is doing a menopause-related project about treatment of genitourinary symptoms. We are looking for women over 40 years and living in NZ. If you have a spare 15 minutes we would love your input! Info and survey via link: otago.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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A smooth transition….to an unfunded science sector?
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Apparently the TPU threatened a judicial review!