Hi All,

At this month's meeting we all got to meet our new Wikimedian-in-Residence for the first time!

Please give a warm welcome to BHL WiR, Tiago Lubiana! 🎉

I'm also sending out last week's BHL-Wiki Recap + notes for November.

RECORDING

Passcode: $s5?ZO%6

🚀 ACTIONS 🚀

@Dearborn, JJ and @Siobhan Leachman will begin updating the BHL Wiki FAQ, focusing; group members are encouraged to contribute inputs.

@Dearborn, JJ will follow up with @Roderic D. M. Page to explore depositing images as taxonomic treatments.

Action: Everyone to continue augmenting image SDC with relevant categories using @Siobhan Leachman Biodiversity Heritage Library Wikimedia Commons Structured Data Workflow and add comments, suggestions, feedback to her draft.

✅ DECISIONS ✅

Decision: Group will continue refining this list of needs and improvements for Commons and join a future WMF community call with list of suggested improvements.

💡 FYIs 💡

Wikidata Split: The Wikidata split has been confirmed, and technical teams are working on ensuring queries continue to function properly.
Open Education Global Conference: Siobhan’s keynote is available here. The talk covers the journey of citizen science, BHL, Flickr, and the importance of open licensing.
NZ Editathons: The NZ species editathons were successful, with reports being drafted to improve future edit-a-thon organization.
Project Management Trainings (continued)

Research Spikes and Story Points was presented. Please see this month's recording for more info and review BHL-WIKI 36 for even more project management training.

Please add any additional highlights, events, or activities to the monthly rolling document for broader dissemination via communication channels (Newsletter, Signpost, BHL All Staff etc.)

Thanks!

JJ Dearborn

Data Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library |

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.