Hello BHL-Wiki Folks,
Further to our meeting held earlier today, the attendees discussed the WMF Annual Plan - see the
meeting agenda.
One of the action points towards this effort was for me to suggest a Wikimedia Commons category or categories to facilitate the tracking of our efforts towards achieving goals set out the WMF Annual Plan.
I have come up with the following suggestions but I would like others in the group to weigh in on whether these are fit for purpose.
Firstly, I’m of the opinion that any category created for this effort should be a subcategory under the
Category:Files
from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. However I can be persuaded otherwise if others have a differing opinion.
Secondly, I’m leaning towards creating categories that can continue to be used by our community. I believe the proposed categories should be more general so
they can be useful for the wiki community going forward.
In light of the above I have come up with the following suggestions:
Category:Biodiversity Heritage Library SDC South America collection and
Category:Biodiversity Heritage Library SDC Africa collection
I envision images being placed in these categories when they have achieved the minimum level of Structured Data on Commons (SDC) statements attached
to the image file. I think the minimum SDC data for images in these categories would have to include “depicts” statements. My reason is that we need depicts statements to achieve the aims of both the WMF Annual Plan as well as the aligned aims of the BHL-Wiki
working group. We need to know what the image depicts in order to make the image more findable and reusable in multiple Wikis including various language Wikipedias as well as in Wikidata. Other minimum information would likely include the “required” statements
set out in this document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10rnmAWlreprUTEuJJ0p3uZBJZ6YhO7a3o7K0V198lP8/edit?usp=sharing However,
again I’m wanting the community to give their thoughts on this.
So, what do folk think? Feel free to reach out to me and we will also be discussing this at our next BHL-Wiki meeting on the 21st of October.
All the best,
Siobhan Leachman
User:Ambrosia10
Chair BHL-Wiki working group
On 14 Sep 2024, at 4:22 AM, Dearborn, JJ <DearbornJJ@si.edu> wrote:
Hello BHL-WIKI Folks!We are getting ready for an action-packed meeting next week!
Register and hear about some of the sessions that will be happening at WikiConNA 2024; many, many upcoming talks from BHL-WIKI members will be featured at this event!🔹 BHL Wikipedian-in-Residence UpdateCatch up on the latest on the BHL WiR recruitment process. We are making great headway!🔹 WMF Annual Plan UpdateLearn about BHL-WIKI's hypothesis for the WMF annual plan on standardizing metadata and how it could boost the use of underrepresented biodiversity images. We'd love everyone's input on how to measure and track this outcome.🔹 BHL Image SDC Data Model
Diving back into the latest on our in-progress data model. Let's discuss outstanding properties and try to solidify some community data model decisions.🔹 More BHL Project Management Basics
Refine your understanding of research spikes and story points. Don’t forget to review BHL Project Management Basics and the related recording from last month.We look forward to a productive session with valuable discussions and decisions. Hope to see you there!PS: I will be updating our standing series invite with some incoming and outgoing members, please look out for that.
Thanks!
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