*Announcing: Three Part Wikipedia Webinar Series *
http://metro.org/events/562/
I’m excited to announce an upcoming three-part Fall/Winter 2014 webcast
series, hosted by the Metropolitan New York Library Council, which which
will explore three areas of interest with presentations by leaders of
current collaborative Wikipedia projects.
1. *Reference and Citation on Wikipedia* 2. *Wikipedia and Education* and
3. *Wikipedia and Medicine*.
The webcasts will be organized with special attention to librarians and
information professionals working in a variety of fields, but will also
offer an opportunity for anyone to learn more about a variety of Wikipedia
collaborations.
*Webcast: Reference and Citation on Wikipedia and the Library **Monday,
October 27th*
The first installment will focus on citation and reference on Wikipedia.
This session will include presentations from four different projects: Andy
Mabbett, Wikipedian-in-Residence at ORCID
<http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/87810012013/interview-with-andy-mabbett-orcid-ambassador-and#.U_Jvc_ldV4U>
(the
Open Researcher and Contributor ID, an authority control) and the Royal
Society of Chemistry
<http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/wikimedian-residence-royal-society-chemistry/>;
Jake Orlowitz, founder of the Wikipedia Library
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library>; Ed
Saperia, Project Lead of the Open Access Reader Project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_Reader>; and Daniel Mietchen,
biophysicist and web projects at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and
member of WikiProject Open Access/Signaling OA-ness (Open Access)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness>
.
*To access the first live program, simply visit METRO's YouTube channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTOag7JZ-qrTZDpN4fNwTA> between 2:00 PM
and 3:15 PM EST (6PM UST) on Monday, October 27th. *A direct link to the
webcast page will also be posted on the event page at METRO’s website
before the live program. An archived recording will be available following
the session.* Registration is not required.*
Stay tuned for more information on the forthcoming 2 webcast
installments, *“Wikipedia
and Education*,” (November) and *“Wikipedia and Medicine,” *(December)
featuring project leads in these exciting areas.
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--
Dorothy Howard <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OR_drohowa>,
Wikipedian-in-Residence
and Open Data Fellow
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO)
212.228.2320 x127