GLAM/Newsletter/April 2025/Contents/Biodiversity Heritage Library report
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BHL-Wiki Working Group April monthly highlights
Agenda, notes & recording of the April 2025 meeting
The agenda for the meeting can be found at this link. The agenda document gives notes taken during the meeting, action items, as well as the dates of future online meetings and the zoom link to join. Links to the recordings of the previous meetings are also given.
The next BHL wiki working group is anticipated to be held on Monday 19th of May at 18:00 UTC.
BHL Annual Meeting Update
Ambrosia10 and JJ Dearborn, the BHL data manager, gave an update to the group on the BHL Annual Meeting held in Berlin including a link to the BHL Wiki Working Group Annual Report slides and presentation, the meeting zoom recordings and the Google folder link to presentations at the meeting. JJ also discussed generally the sustainability of the group giving a link to the executive order relating to the Smithsonian and the meeting notes regarding BHL from the Annual meeting.
During the BHL Annual meeting the BHL Day 2025 public event took place. A recording for all the presentations given during BHL Day 2025 can be found on Youtube.
BHL press release regarding withdrawal of hosting of BHL by the Smithsonian
Ambrosia10 alerted the group to the upcoming press release by BHL regarding the news that as at 1 January, 2026, the Smithsonian will no longer host the administrative functions of BHL.
Impact & Metrics for the 3 Wikimedia Foundation editing events
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Giovanna Fontinelle discussed the impact and metrics gathered from the three recently held BHL image editing events held with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. During the events 165 images were added to articles in the three language Wikipedias - Portuguese, French and Spanish. The aim was to reuse 10% of the 3,000 images however the participants reused 5.5%.
Giovanna went on to discuss the lessons learned from holding these events. Key takeaways included the need for support of affiliate networks to help promote the event. The registration and zoom platform for the event was discussed as barriers to entry with the suggestion events be streamed on Youtube or a similar platform. Gio emphasised that promotion is really important. She also mentioned that focussed working groups as well as a Wikimedian in Residence are more productive than these editing events.
BHL acknowledgement of harmful content
It was agreed by the group that the BHL acknowledgement of harmful content be placed on the BHL Meta Wiki page and that a link to this statement be placed on each of the three BHL project pages for English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata be added.
Living Data 2025
The BHL Wikimedia in Residence Tiago Lubiana is co-organising a session at the Living Data 2025 conference titled Wikimedia and Biodiversity Data: A Mutualistic Relationship in the Open Knowledge Ecosystem. He encouraged members of the group to submit proposals for this session.
Wikimedian in Residence update
Tiago Lubiana, the BHL Wikimedian in Residence, updated the BHL Wiki community on the progress he continues to make in his role. See his biweekly updates at this link.
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