Activities/Proposals/BioBlitz
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Outline
BioBlitz is a citizen science project that encourages students to carry out a biological survey of a given area.
The world-wide project started in 1996; the first UK-based event was held in Bristol 2009.
The project has strong support of schools, but is lacking technical support; last year's project ran from a WordPress blog.
Further information:
Benefits
By assisting this event we can:
- Foster links between BioBlitz and Wikimedia websites
- Encourage students to edit biological articles on Wikispecies and Wikipedia
- Increase the number of freely licensed photographs available (caveat: potentially not of the highest quality)
- Jump-start working with schools around the UK; letting them know that we exist, and can help them.
- Association with media coverage of the event
Requirements
Two sections: advice and technical
Advice:
- Talks on how people can use the Wikimedia websites
Technical:
- Construction and hosting of a website for recording the results of the survey, with links in to Wikimedia websites
- Potentially can be done by MediaWiki with a custom form interface for posting the survey information?
Although it may be possible to just provide advice, and not technical assistance, this would weaken the collaborative link between Wikimedia and BioBlitz.
Volunteering
Would need:
- People to give talks and provide guidance
- Technical people to work on the website
If you're interested in helping out with this proposal, please sign below with *~~~: