Hi Bukola
Greetings from Cape Town! I started to create an article about the editathon at the
LIASA Conference but I think I messed up on the meta page. Could you please delete
whatever is there... and I can start from scratch.
I am hoping that libraries are part of the Education newsletter. Or would that fall
under GLAM?
There is very little on libraries in South Africa on Wikipedia (and even on Wikidata), so
we ran an editathon at the annual LIASA (Library and Information Association of South
Africa) conference where attendees could add content. Our aim was to get each attendee to
add a library to the List of Libraries in South Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_in_South_Africa (Low hanging fruit) and it
succeeded. There were 30 attendees, mostly newbies, who added 33 entries.
Attendees were from across the library sector - school, academic, public and special
libraries
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIASA_Wikipedia_Editathon_2023.pdf
Photo
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editathon_with_South_African_Librar…
We are about to have a Wiki Loves SA Libraries campaign (dates still to be finalised)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_South_African_Libraries_Campaign
so the editathon was a way of getting interest in the campaign.
Thanks
Kind regards
Ingrid Thomson
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Ingrid Thomson PL (SA)
Senior Librarian: Hiddingh Hall Library (Fine Art, Drama)
Humanities Subject Librarian: Historical Studies; Film and Media Studies; Psychology
UCT LIBRARIES: Research & Learning
Hiddingh Hall Library
Hiddingh Campus
Orange Street, Cape Town
Tel: +27 21 650 3133
Tel: +27 21 650 7135
Email: ingrid.thomson(a)uct.ac.za
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