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Biodiversity Heritage Library report

BHL-Wiki Working Group November monthly highlights

By Ambrosia10

Agenda & recording of the November 2024 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 meeting will be held on December 18, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST. Any curious Wikimedian is very welcome to attend.

Announcing Tiago Lubiana as the BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence

Tiago Lubiana was formally announced and enthusiastically welcomed as the BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence. A blog post was recently published by BHL announcing his appointment.

Chair reports on NZ species editathon and the Open Education Global conference

The BHL-Wiki chairperson, Siobhan Leachman (User:Ambrosia10), reported back on the recently held New Zealand species edit-a-thon focusing on the use of BHL content during that event. Access to BHL was detrimental affected the first day of the event as a result of the attack on the Internet Archive. Happily by the time the second day of the edit-a-thon was held BHL content was accessible. She also reported back on her keynote at the Open Education Global Conference 2024 which included BHL related content. A recording of her presentation has been placed on Youtube.

A review of the Wiki related portions of the BHL FAQ on the BHL website is underway. Proposed changes to the wording is intended to be put to attendees at the next BHL-Wiki working group meeting for feedback.

Two new Wikimedia Commons categories relating to files from the Biodiversity Heritage Library have been created to assist with tracking progress for the Wikimedia Foundation Hypothesis statement on their Annual Plan. These categories relate to files in South America and files in Africa. Work is now being undertaken by the BHL Wikimedia-in-residence and members of the BHL-Wiki working group to populate these categories. Siobhan Leachman has documented a manual workflow for this work. This draft workflow is CC0 licensed so please feel free to comment, edit and of course use it.

Project management basics presentation

JJ Dearborn gave the BHL-Wiki working group a brief presentation on “What is a Research Spike” as part of the her ongoing efforts to upskill members on project management basics.



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