Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,

I hope you are doing alright and staying healthy in this new year. The January round of the 2022 1Lib1Ref https://1lib1ref.org/ starts on the 21st birthday of Wikipedia,15th January, and will run until 5th February.

I am thrilled to share that 2 more languages from the CEE region have been added to the list of languages supported by the CitationHunt tool over the holidays, which makes it a total of 9 new languages added for the upcoming round of the campaign. Huge thanks for the volunteer efforts of Guilherme Gonçalves https://github.com/eggpi and Gorana Gomirac https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorana_Gomirac_(VMRS).

As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more references to Wikipedia articles, type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary. In case you are a newbie and would like to learn how to add references to Wikipedia articles, Open Foundation West Africa https://ofwafrica.org/ is hosting an online Citation Masterclass on 14th January at 4 PM UTC. Sign up here https://t.co/ViqhZiJxc7.

If you are already familiar with editing Wikipedia and would like to experiment a bit, we are piloting a couple of contribution methods for advanced contributors https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#Creating_new_articles_on_Wikipedia in the January 2022 round.

*If you are an organizer, remember to add your local events to the campaign dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2022/overview, so we can learn and track activities happening across the world.*

Check the blogpost for more information about the campaign : https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-2022

See you all in a couple of days!

Regards

Satdeep