Public libraries also give local Wikipedians a place to access licensed resources. Yes, those resources may be limited (let’s face it, they probably aren’t licensing Elsevier journals) but they DO frequently license newspaper archives and sometimes there is some pretty great stuff that would be useful for bettering up articles. You don’t even need to be in the building to access these resources, just a library card.

In my dream world, a library based editathon means that every librarian comes away with a Wikipedia username and every Wikipedian gets a library card, but I’m getting ahead of myself!

From: libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Earley
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:43 AM
To: Wikimedia & Libraries
Subject: Re: [libraries] 10 Things to know about Wikipedia

That's a good point - public libraries have a mandate to help their comunities connect with their history.  Edit-a-thons that encourage patrons to work on local articles fill that need, and also help connect patrons with the p.l.'s holdings through their research.

Patrick,
Vancouver, B.C.

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From: giaccai@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:37:45 +0200
To: libraries@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [libraries] 10 Things to know about Wikipedia

I think that public library are interested on promoting their comunity; so it will be usefull to emphasize that information on local historical churches, monuments (note: I live in Italy ;-)   has most  visiblity on the web if they are on WIkipedia  than on the website of the library.

Bye Susanna

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Susanna Giaccai - Firenze

2013/7/16 Patricia O'Tuama <rissa@panix.com>

> 5. Anybody can access an article's talk page, and everyone can edit an article

There are articles that are frozen and can't be edited.  I think
information about these, why they are frozen and how to contact
the author to ask him/her to make a change, would be useful.

Patricia O'Tuama

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