Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,
I hope you are doing alright, staying healthy and gearing up for the
upcoming festive season. I am excited to share that we are bringing you
another iteration of the 1Lib1Ref <https://1lib1ref.org/> as we celebrate
21 years of Wikipedia next month.
As always, participation is pretty simple. All you need to do is add more
references to Wikipedia articles and type #1lib1ref in the Edit Summary.
We are bringing you some exciting updates. For instance, seven more
languages from the CEE region are now supported by the CitationHunt tool
<https://citationhunt.toolforge.org/>. Thanks to the amazing volunteer
efforts of Guilherme Gonçalves <https://github.com/eggpi> and Gorana Gomirac
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gorana_Gomirac_(VMRS)>.
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#…>
in the January 2022 round.
Read more about the campaign at the blog post on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/16/1lib1ref-is-back-in-2022-with-more-la…>
.
See you all on 15th January 2022!
Regards
Satdeep
Hello,
We're closing the year by reflecting on recent trainings and courses for
museum workers and librarians.
Today (Monday 13 December) at 15:00 UTC, Wikimedia Argentina will present
their Cultura para abrir course, which attracted more than 600 GLAM
professionals in Latin America, and Wiki Movimento Brasil will share their
GLAMs tutorial and its use in the Wiki Loves Bahia campaign.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 14 December) at 10:00 UTC, we will have Alice Kibombo
talking about the Wikipedia in African Libraries course she delivered for
AfLIA, and Wikimedia UK presenting the Connected Heritage webinars and
program.
Joining instructions are available on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_GLAM_team/Office_Hours
We hope to see some of you there.
Fiona
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Fiona Romeo (she/her)
Senior Manager, GLAM & Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello Wiki-GLAM community,
A small group at Western Libraries is working to pilot a bulk upload of archival images to Wikimedia and associated Wikidata.
We are wondering what property would be better suited to describe the Fond and Series level descriptions we are creating in Wikidata - Main Subject (P921) or Depicts (P180).
Here is an example of a series description using main subject https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109363562
Any thoughts?
Erin Johnson, MLIS
Acting Head, Discovery, Description & Metadata (DDM)
Metadata Management Librarian
Western Libraries, Western University
London, ON
I acknowledge that Western University is situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Attawandaron peoples. These lands are connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum. I respect the work of land defenders and water protectors as contemporary stewards of the land and support their vital contributions to the Earth and our society.
Hi all,
This isn’t strictly a libraries question, but I’m sending to this group because I appreciate the brain trust here. If there’s somewhere more appropriate to post this question, please let me know.
A chemistry librarian I know sent this question:
“I am trying to help a professor who has written a biography of a fellow chemist whose original work was in Russian, starting in the 50’s. My profs article has been rejected as not being supported by reliable sources. The journals are reliable sources but they just aren’t in English, apparently a major sticking point. Some may not be available electronically either. Obviously we are looking at the articles and do have access to most in translation and most electronic. Reality remains, as we all know, that some are just not going to be translated nor available easily online. Is this the norm for Wikipedia? One journal they considered non-reliable was Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. Not exactly an unknown, unreliable source. We can deal with this one but has left me wondering about the rules, who decides what is reliable, etc. Would appreciate any insight and guidance I can get.”
Anyone have insights? I would be grateful!
Emily
she/her
Emily,
Pardon my poor threading. I'm on mobile.
The language sources policy is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NONENG
Jake
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> Hi all,
>
> This isn’t strictly a libraries question, but I’m sending to this group
> because I appreciate the brain trust here. If there’s somewhere more
> appropriate to post this question, please let me know.
>
> A chemistry librarian I know sent this question:
>
> “I am trying to help a professor who has written a biography of a fellow
> chemist whose original work was in Russian, starting in the 50’s. My profs
> article has been rejected as not being supported by reliable sources. The
> journals are reliable sources but they just aren’t in English, apparently a
> major sticking point. Some may not be available electronically either.
> Obviously we are looking at the articles and do have access to most in
> translation and most electronic. Reality remains, as we all know, that some
> are just not going to be translated nor available easily online. Is this
> the norm for Wikipedia? One journal they considered non-reliable was
> Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. Not exactly an unknown, unreliable source. We
> can deal with this one but has left me wondering about the rules, who
> decides what is reliable, etc. Would appreciate any insight and guidance I
> can get.”
>
> Anyone have insights? I would be grateful!
>
> Emily
> she/her
>
This is super helpful; thanks, Christina!
It sounds like you’ve already sent them along to your chem librarian colleague… is that right?
From: "Riehman-Murphy, Christina" <cer20(a)psu.edu>
Reply-To: Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 4:47 PM
To: Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [libraries] Re: Question: using Russian sources on English Wikipedia
Hi Emily,
This question came my way via a colleague at Penn State who saw it on the same listserv. Here were my suggestions but I'd love to hear what others think as well.
Christina Riehman-Murphy
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Penn State Abington
Off the top of my head, here are a few options to pass along:
Wikipedia has some built-in mechanisms for resolving and discussing disputes. The Talk page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages> is the page for an article where editors can discuss their reasons for including something, answer sourcing questions, etc. There are also guidelines for resolving disputes<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution>. In this case, it sounds like the article has been rejected outright over reliable source guidelines<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources>, which are particularly stringent for biographies of living persons (not clear if the fellow chemist is living).
I would suggest that the author review all of those guidelines, and see what can be done to address the concerns<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/D…> and reach out to the Help Desk<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk> and a TeaHouse<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse> to get some feedback. I do not know if the author speaks Russian, but that is also an option - translating the Wikipedia article into Russian and submitting it to Russian Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Wikipedia>.
I know this situation can be very frustrating and certainly Wikipedia does have its problems, but it's worth chatting through these forums to see if there's a way to move forward.
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From: Jack, Emily <jack(a)email.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 4:44 PM
To: Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [libraries] Question: using Russian sources on English Wikipedia
Hi all,
This isn’t strictly a libraries question, but I’m sending to this group because I appreciate the brain trust here. If there’s somewhere more appropriate to post this question, please let me know.
A chemistry librarian I know sent this question:
“I am trying to help a professor who has written a biography of a fellow chemist whose original work was in Russian, starting in the 50’s. My profs article has been rejected as not being supported by reliable sources. The journals are reliable sources but they just aren’t in English, apparently a major sticking point. Some may not be available electronically either. Obviously we are looking at the articles and do have access to most in translation and most electronic. Reality remains, as we all know, that some are just not going to be translated nor available easily online. Is this the norm for Wikipedia? One journal they considered non-reliable was Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. Not exactly an unknown, unreliable source. We can deal with this one but has left me wondering about the rules, who decides what is reliable, etc. Would appreciate any insight and guidance I can get.”
Anyone have insights? I would be grateful!
Emily
she/her