Thanks Jane. Forwarding to the GLAM lists.
Pine
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM
> Subject: [libraries] Why GLAM Wiki:
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> Nice post on ACRL's blog about one person's change in perspective by
> participation in the Art+Feminism edit-a-thon:
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> http://acrlog.org/2015/12/15/why-glam-wiki-wikipedia-and-galleries-librarie…
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Hi all,
At the Wikipedia Library, we wanted to find a strategy for help our network
participate in the momentous
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15>Wikipedia
‘15 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15> celebrations.
We regularly talk with library advocacy groups like the International
Librarians Network, international library networks like IFLA and DLF,
professional publications like Infodocket, and scholarly publishers like
JSTOR and Project Muse. All of these have large networks of library
professionals active in social media spaces and have expressed the desire
to get more involved with Wikipedia.
To engage them for Wikipedia 15, we are creating a ‘mega microcontributions
drive’ called #1LIB1REF. We are going to run a week-long global campaign
focused on librarians adding references to Wikipedia articles that need
more or better citations. The goal is simple: every librarian in the world
adding one reference to a Wikipedia article, and then telling the world
about it.
The campaign page describing how this will work is a live draft on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
We need GLAM-Wiki and TWL coordinators to help achieve broad impact with
the campaign. We are looking for help with the following:
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Feedback/improvements to the main campaign page
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Signing up to be a help contact in the "Contact a library leader" section
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Help with internationalization (i.e. adding translation tags, ensuring
instructions for language-specific community policies, adding links to
maintenance categories or tools for language editions not yet represented,
etc)
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Sharing the campaign with Library or Archive partners in your community,
and asking them to support it (We can include them as official partners
during the week, if their social media team help share the campaign)
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Preparing or encouraging others to write blog posts and social media for
the Wikipedia 15 conversation focused on libraries and Wikipedia (for
example blog posts, see this post for ILN
<http://interlibnet.org/2015/10/07/librarian-as-teacher-ways-to-use-wikipedi…>
or this post about the State Library of New South Wales
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/> )
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Update GLAM-Wiki Contact pages like
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Contact_us
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Tweeting, lots of tweeting (and retweeting) and sharing on other social
media platforms
We hope that the #1LIB1REF campaign will help spread the word about
librarians not only trusting Wikipedia but contributing research support to
make it even better.
In turn, we hope this campaign creates more interest in your local
communities about GLAM-Wiki, Wikipedia’s role in Libraries, and how to
improve Wikipedia’s support of research for both Wikipedia readers and
editors.
Please let us know how you plan to participate!
Cheers,
The Wikipedia Library Team
May be of interest to GLAM folks.
Pine
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From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:01 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia as the front matter to all research": A
brown bag on scholarly citations in Wikipedia this Friday 12/4 @ 12 PT
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Research into Wikimedia content and
communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Come and join us for a brown bag this Friday December 4 at 12 PT to learn
about unique identifiers and scholarly citations in Wikipedia, why they
matter and how we can bridge the gap between the Wikimedia, research and
librarian communities.
Wikipedia as the front matter to all research
YouTube stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA <
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_oexqz8pA>
Event information on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear…
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_the_front_matter_to_all_resear…
>
Measuring citizen engagement with the scholarly literature through
Wikipedia citations.
Geoffrey Bilder, CrossRef
Wikipedia (in toto) is probably the 5th largest referrer of citations to
the scholarly literature. That is, more Wikipedia users click on and follow
citations to the scholarly literature *from* Wikipedia domains than from
any single scholarly publisher in the world. What does this tell us about
general interest in the scholarly literature? What does this tell us about
scholarly engagement with editing Wikipedia articles? The short answer is
“we don’t know.” But we are actively working with Wikimedia to find out.
Building the sum of all human citations
Dario Taraborelli, WIkimedia Foundation
As sourcing and verifiability of online information are threatened <
http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citing-as-a-public-service-building-the-su…>
by the explosion of answer engines and the changing habits of web users,
Wikimedia has an outstanding opportunity to extract and store source data
for every conceivable statement and make it transparently verifiable by its
users. In this talk, I’ll present a grassroots effort <
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData> to
create a human-curated, comprehensive repository of all human citations in
Wikidata.
–––––––––––––
Bonus read: a real-time tracker of scholarly citations added to Wikipedia,
built with Raspberry Pi
http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…
<
http://blog.crossref.org/2015/12/crossref-labs-plays-with-the-raspberry-pi-…
>
Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org/> • nitens.org <
http://nitens.org/> • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>