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!https://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2024/11/meet-tiago-bhl-wikimedian-in-residence.html 🎉 [20 Of The Best Welcome To The Team Memes — PerkUp] I'm also sending out last week's BHL-Wiki Recap + notes for Novemberhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/19_-TZa3HBWYr_J-E1nsuGlCl6peHI47bXKqt-K5du2M/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.330t8913l6a0. RECORDING https://smithsonian.zoom.us/rec/share/5y4IRRwhGs6-yjyxnVERKMzVStTdOdRpdPuSB0... Passcode: $s5?ZO%6

🚀 ACTIONS 🚀

1. BHL FAQ Review * @Dearborn, JJmailto:DearbornJJ@si.edu and @Siobhan Leachmanmailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com will begin updating the BHL Wiki FAQhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1h5J-hDSz7E3K9SLgTXNkr6LuPVHbWp7qmp3M2Km9QDk/edit?tab=t.0, focusing; group members are encouraged to contribute inputs. 2. Commons Tracking Categories for WMF Annual Plan * @Dearborn, JJmailto:DearbornJJ@si.edu will follow up with @Roderic D. M. Pagemailto:rdmpage@gmail.com to explore depositing images as taxonomic treatments. 3. BHL Image Subsets from South America and Africa * Action: Everyone to continue augmenting image SDC with relevant categories using @Siobhan Leachmanmailto:siobhan.leachman@gmail.com Biodiversity Heritage Library Wikimedia Commons Structured Data Workflowhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1J__vxzL_0jzTpiMHQLoCECU6UrxpWyVXI6DDFBH8Z0o/edit?tab=t.0 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 herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXWKA9Xc7A. 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 36https://github.com/JJDear83/BHL-WIKI-Working-Group/issues/36 for even more project management training. * BHL Research Spike Templatehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1j9_qrvPwvAQtQzFUJi8NwqCy90NwaRy2mIesXmJdFAw/edit * Estimating with Story Pointshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1IMcaFSDgbiT0BdULZ1IJ1iJA2euAAnbtcTD--T3ZPFU/edit#heading=h.uu9vk62akrh2

* Monthly Highlights: * Please add any additional highlightshttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1q6ZHeSJVpE-YRINeFGIueEgncr9QUC0AGuhMq5VLjs4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.fq54b7uh0jq0, events, or activities to the monthly rolling document for broader dissemination via communication channels (Newsletter, Signpost, BHL All Staff etc.)

Thanks!

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