Thank you so much for the global support this week for #1lib1ref! We have
seen hundreds of librarians talk about We are really close to the end of
the campaign: we look forward to your librarians still adding there
reference this week. More importantly, we are excited by all the creative
actions and conversations that have started about the libraries community,
and we look forward to hearing your stories, like this one by the City
Library of Auburn
<http://blog.sl.nsw.gov.au/pls/index.cfm/2016/1/21/1lib1ref--even-wikipedia-…>
in
Australia.
But we have one more small ask, to make sure that the campaign ends with a
great final push! Share the following tweet
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/690228287214215168 or the updated
version of the campaign's blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/21/librarians-celebrate-wikipedia-15/
Thanks again!
The Wikipedia Library Team
Hi Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign taking
off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global
libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping
the world get access to reliable knowledge.
Please explore the hashtag on Twitter and other social media: we have
several dozen websites, library organizations, and individuals blog and
reflect on their experience. For example:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%231Lib1Ref . I have included a preview of
some of our tracking below for a sense of our scale.
Please use the campaign to promote the exciting GLAM, research, and
Wikimedia community projects you think librarians would be interested in.
We still need your help:
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Keep sharing and emphasizing the hashtag #1lib1ref. Try to pair your
posts with #Wikipedia15 when you can.
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Help translate the main page of the campaign into more languages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
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Note: We use some of the headers and sentences in this page, to
generate multilingual social media posts.
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The campaign technically starts on Friday, but we need to continuously
remind the global libraries community that they a) can start adding
references now, and b) should continue adding references all next week.
Oh, and its not just librarians who are adding references for the campaign
-- thats just our target audience :)
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Publish blogposts talking about your about Wikipedia’s opportunities
with libraries. Here are a small sample blog posts that might help inspire
your work:
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From our Italian Colleagues :
http://librarianscape.com/2016/01/09/wikipedia-un-posto-per-bibliotecari/
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From DLF: https://www.diglib.org/archives/11060/
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From our Catalan colleagues:
http://blogcrai.ub.edu/2016/01/13/el-crai-de-la-universitat-de-barcelona-sa…
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Reach out to the librarians using the hashtag: some of them are even
hosting lunch gatherings, or small editing events that engage library
staffs. These librarians are potential leaders for local events and
GLAM-Wiki activities.
If successful, we hope to run a similar campaign next year, with more
direction and leadership from a volunteer committee (this year we decided
to move quick, and test the concept alongside #Wikipedia15 ). If you are
interested in helping organize, let us know at
wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org .
Give feedback on the campaign and resources that would be helpful for next
years campaign on the talk page on meta :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
Thank you so much for those who have already stepped up to lead on social
media and translating the meta page!
Alex Stinson
Project Manager
The Wikipedia Library
What impact are we seeing?
We are tracking several different elements of this campaign:
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Usage of the hashtag in social media -- over 600 tweets have used the
hashtag since January 4. We are also tracking the hashtag on facebook and
linkedin -- both of which are major networks for librarians.
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Our facebook event is beginning to spread -
https://www.facebook.com/events/975178119187954/ -- please invite more
people from your library networks
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Page views - we are seeing between 400-600 pageviews, with nearly 7000
views in the last month on the English Version of the campaign page, and
Italian, French and Spanish are seeing 40-60 views a day. Moreover,
Catalans page, which is on ca.wikipedia, has seen over 2000 visits in the
last month:
http://stats.grok.se/ca/latest/Viquiprojecte:Bibliowikis/1Lib1Ref
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We are beginning to see hashtag used on English Wikipedia’s edit
summaries http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/1lib1ref . Based on
other social media discussions, we think this represents <60% of the
activity so far.
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We are working with Stephen LaPorte to help the tool support top 20
language Wikipedias, and Wikipedias like Romanian where we know community
members are sharing the campaign. Let us know if you don’t think your
language will be in that group.
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A new phabricator item has been -- it would be incredibly useful for
other kinds of campaigns: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123529 .
Please leave feedback and use cases.
FYI
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From: Wilfredor <wilfredor(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:59 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikiradio
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*Wikiradio* is a real-time audio service transmitted via the Internet. This
service offers various stations, covering all genres of music and even
including recordings of Wikipedia articles on different languages, all of
which are available on Wikimedia Commons. Each sound is chosen by the
community to be highlighted as some of the finest work on Wikipedia and the
Wikimedia Commons.
What is Wikiradio?
Rather than listening to several audio files in Wikimedia Commons, which
require clicking "play" one after another on each one, the wikiradio
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> tools works not as a radio streaming
service, but instead as a synchronized (with UTC time) set of tracks so
that everybody can hear at the same time, simulating a radio.
How I can add my station?[edit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiradio_(tool)&action=edit&s…>
]
1. Create a page in meta with your dayparting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayparting> with your music list
like *[[Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/<my_Station>]]*ej: for clasic music station we have
Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/classic
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>
2. Edit the Template:Wikiradio (tool)/stations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikiradio_(tool)/stations> and
add your station like *{{RadioUrl|<my_station>|<My_station>}}*,ej, for
classic music we have {{RadioUrl|classic|Classic}}
3. Ready, now you can listen your music in wikiradio
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiradio> !!
*Note:* Alternatively, you can archive your dayparting and ask for an
administrator to protect those pages.How work Wikiradio software?
Wikiradio load javascript pages dynamically from meta pages to make the
dayparting. This is thus in order that the community can choose the music
to be placed in these pages. Please edit the page of the station when you
want hear your music.
Some ideas for stations include the spoken Wikipedia
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/spoken_Wikipedia> audios, music by genre
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_files_of_music> and
topics like ambient audio
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sounds_of_nature>. But we can
do it better. Hourly, a signal is heard
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Busy_tone_(France).ogg> to warn about
o'clock hours, like a real radio :p. Even better we could add a "You are
listening wikiradio, the free radio" spoken message every half hour, and
other stuff.
Each radio station load a dayparting from a wikipage in meta like
"Wikiradio (tool)/playlist/<my_radio_station>" (ej: Wikiradio
(tool)/playlist/classic
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiradio_(tool)/playlist/classic>) and it
could be archived.
Finally, the main station could use music to fill the gaps of a daily radio
programming based on Wikimania conferences, wiki podcasts, etc. So, what do
you think? Your help is welcome, picking new tracks for any station or
suggesting your ideas. Thanks. (Soure here
<https://github.com/emijrp/wikiradio>)
See also
- WikiRadio stations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiRadio_stations>
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Thanks Jane. Forwarding to the GLAM lists.
Pine
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> forwarding to this list
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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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> --
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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>
Good news. (:
Pine
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From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2015 12:48 AM
Subject: "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age"
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Jake
Orlowitz" <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "Wikimedia Legal" <legal(a)wikimedia.org>
Good news for open access:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/harvard-law-library-sacrifices-a-trove…
I hope that Wikimedians will get access to the collection via TWL. (:
Pine