December 2024 - bhl-wiki - lists.wikimedia.org

Addition to Wikipedia External Links Section?
by Susan Lynch 24 Dec '24

24 Dec '24

Hi all, Apologies in advance if this isn't the best place to ask this question... I am a volunteer at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and am working to optimize the organization and discoverability of its publications in BHL and also on Wiki platforms. I am currently working on publications of Theodore D. A. Cockerel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_D._A._Cockerell>l In the External Links section of the Wikipedia article about him I'd like to add a link labeled 'Works by T. D. A. Cockerell at BHL" that points to https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/1941#/titles. IMO, this is justifiable since the links to his publications in Internet Archives don't include articles by Cockerell for the most part. Before proceeding, I'd like to know if people think that such links are warranted and useful for this Wikipedia article and others. Thanks in advance for advising me! Susan Lynch

3 2

Fw: Living Data 2025 call for sessions
by Dearborn, JJ 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

FYI -- ________________________________ From: GBIFall <gbifall-bounces(a)cemail.gbif.org> on behalf of Kyle Copas via GBIFall <gbifall(a)cemail.gbif.org> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2024 4:47:27 AM To: communication <communication(a)gbif.org> Subject: Living Data 2025 call for sessions External Email - Exercise Caution Dear GBIF colleagues, We’re pleased to announce the opening of the call for sessions for Living Data 2025, a joint meeting of the TDWG, GBIF, OBIS and GEO BON networks, hosted by Instituto Humboldt from 21 to 24 October in Bogotá, Colombia. We and our co-organizers invite you to submit your proposal<https://www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html> for an organized session at Datos Vivos/Living Data 2025. Sessions should reflect the work of GBIF<https://www.gbif.org/>, OBIS<https://obis.org/>, TDWG<https://www.tdwg.org/> and GEO BON<https://geobon.org/>, including, but not limited to, monitoring and observation of the natural world, data standards, data mobilization and the ways in which these efforts contribute to policy-making and our understanding of bio- and geodiversity. Sessions should reflect at least one of Living Data’s four themes<https://www.livingdata2025.com/themes.html>: 1. Open data 2. Data integration 3. Biodiversity data application 4. Community engagement, participation and capacity building Organized sessions can be symposia, panel discussions, lightning sessions, and other formats in which the primary purpose is to convey information and engage the audience. Workshops are welcome, but must be approved by the Organizing Committee in prior to submission. We will promote this call vigorously after the holiday break, and hope you can help us with that work beginning early in January. Learn more about this call and submit your proposal on the Datos Vivos 2025 website<https://www.livingdata2025.com/>. Contact the organizers<mailto:info@livingdata2025.com> with questions or to propose a workshop. All the best, Kyle ===== Kyle Copas Head of Communications +45 28 75 14 75 | office +45 35 32 14 75 | skype kylecopas GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 København Ø DENMARK https://www.gbif.org<https://www.gbif.org/>

1 0

BHL-WIKI Meet-up - December 2024 Monthly Recap
by Dearborn, JJ 23 Dec '24

23 Dec '24

Hi All, Great to see you all this last week. I'm sending out December's monthly meeting notes<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_-TZa3HBWYr_J-E1nsuGlCl6peHI47bXKqt-K5…>, recording, and the recap below: 🎦 RECORDING🎦 https://smithsonian.zoom.us/rec/share/5y4IRRwhGs6-yjyxnVERKMzVStTdOdRpdPuSB… Passcode: $s5?ZO%6 🚀ACTIONS 🚀 * @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> to add a sub-page on meta for the BHL-wiki wg. * @Dearborn, JJ<mailto:DearbornJJ@si.edu> to add tickets for Siobhan’s engagement activities. * Everyone: Send GitHub usernames to JJ for access to the scoping group metrics page; you must be logged in to github to see the metrics page. * Everyone: Add the new BHL badge to your user page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL> ❤️ ✅ DECISIONS ✅ * We will curate and differentiate distinct images in Commons using the BHL page identifier as a guide. * We will prioritize SDC work on BHL sourced images over images from the IA Book Images collection. * We will handle duplicative digital objects from BHL partner collections, on a case-by-case basis. 💡FYIS 💡 New group outputs for review * We have new Meta and Metrics Pages + !! * Check meta out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_Heritage_Library * Check out the metrics: https://tiago.bio.br/impact_metrics/ * Many thanks to @Tiago Lubiana<mailto:tiagolubiana@gmail.com> for all of his hard work on these! 🫶 * BHL FAQ Rewrites<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5J-hDSz7E3K9SLgTXNkr6LuPVHbWp7qmp3M2Km…> <-- these will be used to update the BHL About site<https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/help/faq/> * Wikimedia Commons Improvements from BHL-WIKI<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRhk9nRux-ybOX1Tvq9seWjLz0zBLPkyIKdlYTz…> <-- add anything else you would like to see here; we compiled the top 3 from the last few months conversations. * Biodiversity User Group Investigation<https://docs.google.com/document/d/13a2OW1A7i2d2YIIBWzn0MsbabJS-SOQuHJSyJZP…> <-- we will continue this conversation next time with Jake Recent Talks * @Siobhan Leachman<mailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com> Presented to the New Zealand Herbarium Network on Wikidata. https://bit.ly/BotanyWikiWork * @Siobhan Leachman<mailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com> Presented to the WOMNH group at the ‘Tell me where the women are’: WOMNH Network Launching Event on BHL women scientific illustrators. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14362323 Upcoming Events * Call for organized sessions due 12 February 2025, abstract call will be announced in March for Living Data 2025. Learn More<https://www.livingdata2025.com/> * Wikimedia Commons Improvements for BHL Project. Commons Community Calls (@Andy Mabbett<mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, @Siobhan Leachman<mailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com>, and any one else may attend to rep BHL-Wiki user needs<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRhk9nRux-ybOX1Tvq9seWjLz0zBLPkyIKdlYTz…>) November Monthly Highlights Add any monthly highlights<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6ZHeSJVpE-YRINeFGIueEgncr9QUC0AGuhMq5V…> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6ZHeSJVpE-YRINeFGIueEgncr9QUC0AGuhMq5V…> to our rolling doc and we will distribute across communication channels: * GLAM Newsletter<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2024/Contents/…> (Thank you Siobhan! ⭐) * BHL WiR Monthly Updates<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2024-12…> (Thank you Tiago! ⭐) Please feel free to forward this message on. Thanks everyone and happy holidays and see you next year! 🎄🎁 JJ JJ Dearborn Data Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/f3b640e4…] dearbornjj(a)si.edu<mailto:dearbornjj@si.edu> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/e4c7b561…] 1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/a25da420…] biodiversitylibrary.org<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/5dba2852…]<https://twitter.com/BHLDataMgr> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/8cf9f4cc…]<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjdearborn/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/2e8253e9…]<https://www.youtube.com/c/biodivlibrary> [cid:e6307f7d-2acd-4db2-aa6e-e4fdc7f5faa2]

1 0

⏰ Reminder: BHL-WIKI Meet-up Today ⏰
by Dearborn, JJ 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Hi All, Sending out the friendly reminder that we will be meeting today: * 🗓 When: Monday November 18 / Tuesday November 19 (NZST/ AU) * ⏰ Time: UTC 18:00, Find your time<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240916T180000&p…> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20240916T180000&p…> * 📍 Where: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/j/88616007793?pwd=MktFaDEzSEVxZjVnM1A2cGZtWGVLd… Please add your additional items to our agenda<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_-TZa3HBWYr_J-E1nsuGlCl6peHI47bXKqt-K5…> + some highlights for today: 🔹 BHL Wikipedian-in-Residence Update Come meet our new Wikimedian-in-Resident at today's meeting! 🎉 🔹 WMF Annual Plan Update Continuing our work on BHL-WIKI's hypothesis for the WMF annual plan on standardizing metadata and how it could boost the use of underrepresented biodiversity images. 🔹 More BHL Project Management Basics Refine your understanding of research spikes<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j9_qrvPwvAQtQzFUJi8NwqCy90NwaRy2mIesXmJ…> and story points<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IMcaFSDgbiT0BdULZ1IJ1iJA2euAAnbtcTD--T3…>. Don’t forget to review BHL<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yQuFV4WHxNJX75Kbwg7aUxsoLL-IlNGu/ed…> Project Management Basics<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yQuFV4WHxNJX75Kbwg7aUxsoLL-IlNGu/ed…> and the related recording. We look forward to a productive session with valuable discussions and decisions. Hope to see you there! JJ Dearborn Data Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/f3b640e4…] dearbornjj(a)si.edu<mailto:dearbornjj@si.edu> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/e4c7b561…] 1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/a25da420…] biodiversitylibrary.org<https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/5dba2852…]<https://twitter.com/BHLDataMgr> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/8cf9f4cc…] <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjdearborn/> [https://woodpecker.co/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/dbHg18raJkJAbxhrT08asw/2e8253e9…] <https://www.youtube.com/c/biodivlibrary> [cid:caa004f1-add9-43b8-92a1-2a00499f26c6]

1 2

BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence update
by Tiago Lubiana 16 Dec '24

16 Dec '24

Hello, I have started doing biweekly status updates on the WiR work and would love to share them with you. If you have ideas, feedback, requests, and more, just let me know! If you rather read them on wiki, they are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2024-12… . (These are a bit old, as the sharing here failed for some reason, I hope it works this time!) The BHL-Wiki Meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BHL_Meta-Wiki_page_draft_(2024-12-05).…>A draft for the BHL page on Meta. These two weeks were dedicated mostly to organizing the Biodiversity Heritage Library presence across the Wikimedia Projects. After a good conversation with Gio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>, there was a big re-shape of the BHL-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL> page on Meta. The goal was to provide comprehensive coverage of the BHL-Wiki activities, but also to the BHL pages on Wiki to look beautiful. For that, the design of the pages was inspired on Wiki Loves Living Heritage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage> and the great work of Susanna Ånäs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> in making it look modern and fresh while being useful, maintainable and direct. This required me to exercise my web-dev muscles and dive into the CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS> and styling details of documentation pages, for example the GLAMportals/style.css <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/style.css> file and the templates that rely on it, such as the Template:GLAMportals/Box GLAMportals/Box <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/Box%20GLAMportals/Box>. I also thank Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> for picking some extraordinary images for the gallery on the front page. The subpages, for the moment, are still in Gio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>'s namespace, as we prepare it for a release in the following weeks. It is, of course, open to contributions and ideas, after all, the page needs to live. One particular highlight of the Portal is the Listeria-powered <https://listeria.toolforge.org/> query for the BHL partners, painting a beautiful picture of the institutions that form BHL at Our community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL/Our_community>. The BHL-Wiki pages on Commons, English Wikipedia and Wikidata. As the Meta page gets ready, I also took time to refresh the project pages for BHL on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>, English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/BHL> and Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject%20BHL>. The idea here was both to redirect users to the new multiproject page on Meta, but also to reorganize legacy information. Some of the pages had been left in years, giving the impression that the BHL-Wiki collaboration was way less active than it really is. During this reshape, I did my best to preserve and acknowledge the contributors of BHL on Wiki along the way, and avoid anachronism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anachronism>. The goals of the projects change with time, and it is important to make sure the views, goals and contributions of past participants are not represented. I added, for example, a session on the History of the Commons:BHL Project <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library#Hi…>, with a highlight to the work of Gaurav <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurav> and Fæ <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6> to make it all happen. Statistics on Wikidata for the BHL-Wiki group I am also working on the statistics for the BHL-Wiki activities in the Wikimedia ecosystem. There are, from my perspective, two kinds of statistics/metrics that are interesting to track: - The impact of the BHL-Wiki working group and volunteers in the Wikimedia universe and - The impact of the Wikimedian-in-Residence on this I have started working on these background metrics. One first step was a rebuild of the Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics> page, adding many new queries that track usage of the 6 different BHL ID properties on Wikidata. Here is the summary: PID Name Count (items) Mix'n'Match P4327 BHL Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4327> 64,358 #1131 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1131> (64,415 out of 136,083) P687 BHL Page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P687> 78,324 - P4081 BHL Creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081> 35,319 #506 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/506> (46,169 out of 234990) P6535 BHL Part ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6535> 17,129 - P8724 BHL Name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8724> 572 - P11959 BHL Item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11959> 60 - Total BHL IDs mapped on Wikidata (as of 2024-12-03): *205,445!* Statistics on Commons for the BHL-Wiki group On Commons, there is still some extra work to decide our metrics of interest, including finishing the data model <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Mo…>. To get started, by using the Commons Query Service, I got the number of images that comply completely with the current metadata model (query link <https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL…>). On Nov 28, 2024, it listed only 3 files , a number that is growing fast, mostly through the dedicated work of Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10>, following the OpenRefine tutorials by Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, as well as creating a BHL version of the tutorial <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZU0pxdptBJYDjM9lkyF4mr_y3r52isFD5Des2k…> . More current metrics are unavailable as the Commons Query Service (as of Dec 5) seems to be down. I have also set up a GLAMorous Dashboard <https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files+from+th…> for the category, where it is possible to see where the 300,000 BHL files are being reused. There are over 15,000 items on Wikidata and over 5,000 pages on English Wikipedia using BHL images! The BHL Userbox Userboxes are a way for Wikimedia users to identify the projects they work on or support, as well as personal preferences and languages spoken. I have set up a Userbox for BHL on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in English <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in Portuguese <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Userbox/BHL> and Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>. Now you can show your appreciation for BHL across the Wiki landscape: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aid_to_the_identification_of_insects_(…> This user loves the *Biodiversity Heritage Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL>* Other updates - The next steps for the Meta page include a general clean-up and review, a migration to the main namespace, adding support for translation to multiple languages and sharing it widely, everywhere :) - We are starting to look at the data model for Structured Data on Commons and add this metadata in batch, first thing after the deployment of the Meta page! - Talks with the FlickypediaBackfillrBot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot> are ongoing – I have provided Alex with a set of BHL files to prioritize. There are many BHL files on Wiki, however, that seem to have come not from Flickr, but from other sources, these will require an extra step, probably a Bot. An investigation on how these files ended up on Wiki – and how to retroactively add BHL and Flickr IDs is ongoing, with some details at Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Fae_uploads <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/F%…> . - While navigating the old logs, we re-discovered a nice project documentation by Ambrosia10 on Women Illustrators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BHL/2018_Women_Scientific_Illu… - Based on a conversation with Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, I have made a Firefox & Chrome add-on that shows BHL images on new tabs, similar to https://tab.hatnote.com. The source code is available at https://github.com/lubianat/bhlwiki_tabs and I have sent the add-on for review on both Chrome and Firefox stores. I will share these links when they become available. - The property "scientific_illustration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustr…>" is ready for creation on Wikidata, waiting for some *propertycreator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_creators>* to take the last step and make it available. It will help us enrich Wikidata with beautiful, scientifically important images even for taxa with good photographic coverage on the main image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18> property. - I have been sharing BHL-Wiki content frequently on Bluesky where you can find some updates: https://bsky.app/profile/tiagolubiana.bsky.social Thank you for reading, Cheers, Tiago

1 0

BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence updates for the last 2 weeks
by Tiago Lubiana 06 Dec '24

06 Dec '24

Hello, I have started doing biweekly status updates on the WiR work and would love to share them with you. If you have ideas, feedback, requests, and more, just let me know! If you rather read them on wiki, they are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL/Our_outcomes/WiR/Status_updates/2024-12… . The BHL-Wiki Meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BHL_Meta-Wiki_page_draft_(2024-12-05).…>A draft for the BHL page on Meta. These two weeks were dedicated mostly to organizing the Biodiversity Heritage Library presence across the Wikimedia Projects. After a good conversation with Gio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>, there was a big re-shape of the BHL-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BHL> page on Meta. The goal was to provide comprehensive coverage of the BHL-Wiki activities, but also to the BHL pages on Wiki to look beautiful. For that, the design of the pages was inspired on Wiki Loves Living Heritage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage> and the great work of Susanna Ånäs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Susannaanas> in making it look modern and fresh while being useful, maintainable and direct. This required me to exercise my web-dev muscles and dive into the CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS> and styling details of documentation pages, for example the GLAMportals/style.css <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/style.css> file and the templates that rely on it, such as the Template:GLAMportals/Box GLAMportals/Box <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GLAMportals/Box%20GLAMportals/Box>. I also thank Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10> for picking some extraordinary images for the gallery on the front page. The subpages, for the moment, are still in Gio <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)>'s namespace, as we prepare it for a release in the following weeks. It is, of course, open to contributions and ideas, after all, the page needs to live. One particular highlight of the Portal is the Listeria-powered <https://listeria.toolforge.org/> query for the BHL partners, painting a beautiful picture of the institutions that form BHL at Our community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL/Our_community>. The BHL-Wiki pages on Commons, English Wikipedia and Wikidata. As the Meta page gets ready, I also took time to refresh the project pages for BHL on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library>, English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/BHL> and Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject%20BHL>. The idea here was both to redirect users to the new multiproject page on Meta, but also to reorganize legacy information. Some of the pages had been left in years, giving the impression that the BHL-Wiki collaboration was way less active than it really is. During this reshape, I did my best to preserve and acknowledge the contributors of BHL on Wiki along the way, and avoid anachronism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anachronism>. The goals of the projects change with time, and it is important to make sure the views, goals and contributions of past participants are not represented. I added, for example, a session on the History of the Commons:BHL Project <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library#Hi…>, with a highlight to the work of Gaurav <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaurav> and Fæ <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6> to make it all happen. Statistics on Wikidata for the BHL-Wiki group I am also working on the statistics for the BHL-Wiki activities in the Wikimedia ecosystem. There are, from my perspective, two kinds of statistics/metrics that are interesting to track: - The impact of the BHL-Wiki working group and volunteers in the Wikimedia universe and - The impact of the Wikimedian-in-Residence on this I have started working on these background metrics. One first step was a rebuild of the Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_BHL/Statistics> page, adding many new queries that track usage of the 6 different BHL ID properties on Wikidata. Here is the summary: PID Name Count (items) Mix'n'Match P4327 BHL Bibliography ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4327> 64,358 #1131 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1131> (64,415 out of 136,083) P687 BHL Page ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P687> 78,324 - P4081 BHL Creator ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4081> 35,319 #506 <https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/506> (46,169 out of 234990) P6535 BHL Part ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6535> 17,129 - P8724 BHL Name ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8724> 572 - P11959 BHL Item ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11959> 60 - Total BHL IDs mapped on Wikidata (as of 2024-12-03): *205,445!* Statistics on Commons for the BHL-Wiki group On Commons, there is still some extra work to decide our metrics of interest, including finishing the data model <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Mo…>. To get started, by using the Commons Query Service, I got the number of images that comply completely with the current metadata model (query link <https://commons-query.wikimedia.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemL…>). On Nov 28, 2024, it listed only 3 files , a number that is growing fast, mostly through the dedicated work of Ambrosia10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ambrosia10>, following the OpenRefine tutorials by Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, as well as creating a BHL version of the tutorial <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZU0pxdptBJYDjM9lkyF4mr_y3r52isFD5Des2k…> . More current metrics are unavailable as the Commons Query Service (as of Dec 5) seems to be down. I have also set up a GLAMorous Dashboard <https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous.php?doit=1&category=Files+from+th…> for the category, where it is possible to see where the 300,000 BHL files are being reused. There are over 15,000 items on Wikidata and over 5,000 pages on English Wikipedia using BHL images! The BHL Userbox Userboxes are a way for Wikimedia users to identify the projects they work on or support, as well as personal preferences and languages spoken. I have set up a Userbox for BHL on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in English <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>, Wikipedia in Portuguese <https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Userbox/BHL> and Commons <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:User_BHL>. Now you can show your appreciation for BHL across the Wiki landscape: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aid_to_the_identification_of_insects_(…> This user loves the *Biodiversity Heritage Library <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)/BHL>* Other updates - The next steps for the Meta page include a general clean-up and review, a migration to the main namespace, adding support for translation to multiple languages and sharing it widely, everywhere :) - We are starting to look at the data model for Structured Data on Commons and add this metadata in batch, first thing after the deployment of the Meta page! - Talks with the FlickypediaBackfillrBot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FlickypediaBackfillrBot> are ongoing – I have provided Alex with a set of BHL files to prioritize. There are many BHL files on Wiki, however, that seem to have come not from Flickr, but from other sources, these will require an extra step, probably a Bot. An investigation on how these files ended up on Wiki – and how to retroactively add BHL and Flickr IDs is ongoing, with some details at Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/Fae_uploads <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library/F%…> . - While navigating the old logs, we re-discovered a nice project documentation by Ambrosia10 on Women Illustrators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/BHL/2018_Women_Scientific_Illu… - Based on a conversation with Spinster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Spinster>, I have made a Firefox & Chrome add-on that shows BHL images on new tabs, similar to https://tab.hatnote.com. The source code is available at https://github.com/lubianat/bhlwiki_tabs and I have sent the add-on for review on both Chrome and Firefox stores. I will share these links when they become available. - The property "scientific_illustration <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/scientific_illustr…>" is ready for creation on Wikidata, waiting for some *propertycreator <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_creators>* to take the last step and make it available. It will help us enrich Wikidata with beautiful, scientifically important images even for taxa with good photographic coverage on the main image <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P18> property. - I have been sharing BHL-Wiki content frequently on Bluesky where you can find some updates: https://bsky.app/profile/tiagolubiana.bsky.social Thank you for reading, Cheers, Tiago

1 0

2025

2024

bhl-wiki December 2024 ----- 2025 ----- March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 ----- 2024 ----- December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024

bhl-wiki December 2024