BHL Wikimedian-in-Residence update - bhl-wiki

16 Dec 2024


      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).pngA
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#History_of_the_Commons:BHL_Project,
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/Modeling.
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%3FitemLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlPageID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcollectionLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FinstanceOfLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3FpublishedInLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FsponsorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3FrightsStatementLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Finception%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fcreator%20%3FcreatorLabel%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FbhlPageID%20%3Fcollection%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20%3FlicenseUrl%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20%3FpublishedIn%20%3Fsponsor%20%3FbhlCreatorID%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%3FrightsStatement%20%3Finception%20%3Flanguage%20%3Fcreator%20%3FflickrPhotoID%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Required%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP687%20%3FbhlPageID.%20%23%20BHL%20Page%20ID%20%28PageID%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP195%20%3Fcollection.%20%23%20Collection%20%28HoldingInstitution%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6216%20%3FcopyrightStatus.%20%23%20Copyright%20Status%20%28CopyrightStatus%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP275%20%3FlicenseUrl.%20%23%20Copyright%20License%20%28LicenseUrl%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3FinstanceOf.%20%23%20Instance%20of%20%28PageTypes%20-%20TypeName%29%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1433%20%3FpublishedIn.%20%23%20Published%20In%20%28Title%29%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20VALUES%20%3FpublishedIn%20%7Bwd%3AQ103204%20%7D%20%7D%20%23%20Ignore%20Published%20In%20--%3E%20Flickr%20bits%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP859%20%3Fsponsor.%20%23%20Sponsor%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%23%20Recommended%20properties%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4081%20%3FbhlCreatorID.%20%7D%20%23%20BHL%20creator%20ID%20%28AuthorID%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP6426%20%3FrightsStatement.%20%7D%20%23%20RightsStatements.org%20statement%20%28Rights%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Finception.%20%7D%20%23%20Inception%20%28ItemEndYear%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP407%20%3Flanguage.%20%7D%20%23%20Language%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP170%20%3Fcreator.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP170%20%5Bps%3AP170%20%3Fcreator%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP2093%20%22Biodiversity%20Heritage%20Library%22%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%20%23%20Creator%20%28Authors%20-%20Name%29%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP12120%20%3FflickrPhotoID.%20%7D%20%23%20Flickr%20Photo%20ID%20%28PhotoID%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25items%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25items%20.%0A%0A%20%20%23%20Federate%20with%20Wikidata%20to%20get%20labels%0A%20%20SERVICE%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fquery.wikidata.org%2Fsparql%3E%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fcollection%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcollectionLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcollectionLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FcopyrightStatus%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcopyrightStatusLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FcopyrightStatusLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FlicenseUrl%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlicenseUrlLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FlicenseUrlLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FinstanceOf%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FinstanceOfLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FinstanceOfLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FpublishedIn%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FpublishedInLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FpublishedInLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsponsor%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FsponsorLabel.%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3FsponsorLabel%29%20%3D%20%22en%22%29.%0A%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0A).
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_y3r52isFD5Des2kh3FQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.70mrgxdwb3ri
.
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+the+Biodiversity+Heritage+Library&use_globalusage=1&show_details=1&projects%5Bwikipedia%5D=1&projects%5Bwikibooks%5D=1&projects%5Bwikispecies%5D=1&projects%5Bwikidata%5D=1&projects%5Bwikiversity%5D=1
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_(Plate_155)_(7796366312)_(cropped).jpg
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%C3%A6_uploads
   .
   - 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_Illus...
   - 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_illustration"
   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