I hate to argue with Bob, or Daniel (or anyone frankly) but I’d like to weigh in and say
that for MOST librarians, the most useful thing would be an overview and introduction to
Wikipedia. This is the resource they are most familiar with (or think that they are….).
Most librarians do not do cataloging or authority control and although they may be
interested in this I do not think that Wikidata is a natural starting point for MOST
librarians. And if you are talking about ALA you are talking about librarians of all
stripes.
Start with the thing they already know about, demystify it for them, and leave them
wanting more. There is plenty. Wikidata for some, Commons for others, and the Education
track for others. But patrons start at Wikipedia and so should librarians.
I’m seeing if OCLC would be willing to help host something at ALA midwinter (I think the
dates do not exactly line up with #1lib1ref, but that’s okay…)
Your librarian in residence,
Merrilee
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Folks,
I may be preaching to the choir, but I think that there are two important pieces for
encouraging librarians in entering bibliographic data into & retrieving it from
Wikidata .
The first would be some sort of web form that has multiple inputs with pre-determined
properties such as Work, Edition, & Cataloging properties listed at
:wikidata:Template:Book
properties<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Book_properties> &
:d:Wikidata:WikiProject Books
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books> . (especially the OCLC
#!!!) While this may be contrary to the way things normally go into Wikidata, it could
provide a format that I believe many librarians would find more user friendly. I write
this as someone who once entered journal bibliographic data into a
minicomputer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer>-based online university
catalog about 2½ decades ago. Some means for automatically loading MARC &/or OCLC data
into Wikidata might also be a viable method, too.
The second would be to implement a citation module for placing data into articles. The
French Wikipedia (& I have also heard the Arabic Wikipedia) has already done this. It
would be truly beneficial to get this translated to the English Wikipedia, although it
would be better yet if we could come up a means of putting the module on a repository that
could be used across projects. I am neither fluent in Lua or French, so producing an
English version is a challenge for me, otherwise I would do it.
Here's an example of how the French Wikipedia & Wikidata work together to produce
a citation:
Du chocolate : discours curieux divisé en quatre parties item in Wikdata:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23906197?uselang=en
The Modèle:Bibliographie (bibliographic template):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Bibliographie
How the Wikimarkup looks for its use in Chocolat article ( {{bibliographie|Q23906197}}
should be at the top):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chocolat&action=edit&sec…
What the end result looks like (Du chocolate : discours curieux divisé en quatre parties
should be at the top):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolat#Bibliographie
Yours,
Peaceray<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray>
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Bob Kosovsky
<bobkosovsky@nypl.org<mailto:bobkosovsky@nypl.org>> wrote:
Great suggestion, Daniel. I think there can should be a greater effort to promoting
Wikidata among librarians with technical expertise because it is closer to what these
librarians do (especially among catalogers and other tech types). In sessions introducing
editing Wikipedia that included librarians, I've seen the librarians express greater
interest in Wikidata than the encyclopedia.
Bob
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com<mailto:daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com>>
wrote:
Thanks, Alex and Jake, for keeping the ball rolling on this.
Have you considered including a Wikidata component? In the long run, I
expect librarians to spend more of their Wikimedia time on Wikidata,
especially around
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData .
Cheers,
d.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Alex Stinson
<astinson@wikimedia.org<mailto:astinson@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hello Wikimedians!
We are excited to finally start coordinating among #1lib1ref organizers this
month.
If you haven’t yet, we invite you to read the lessons that we learned from
last year’s great campaign:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons
As with last year, we hope to launch #1lib1ref on Wikipedia’s 16th birthday
in January, asking librarians to “Give a birthday present to Wikipedia, by
adding a reference”.
What’s new?
Last year we got a lot of feedback from librarians that they would have
planned more activities if “they just had a bit more warning and time” so we
are extending the campaign from eight days to 19 days, from January 15
through February 3.
We hope this does two things: a) it allows for several waves of
communications and people adopting the campaign for local events and b) fits
better with the start of the Spring Term at many universities in the
Northern Hemisphere, where librarians are in demand for various activities.
We also noticed last year a lot of social media about informal gatherings:
librarians wanted to learn about Wikipedia socially at physical events. We
think this is a great opportunity, so the Wikipedia Library team is
developing a coffee hour kit that provides enough material to help
librarians coordinate a small gathering, where they can talk about Wikipedia
with their peers and add their one reference.
The kit is going to include: a) recommendations for planning, b) a series of
discussion questions, c) easy suggested activities, and d) a flyer template
for promoting the event locally. If you would like to help build the kit,
or a new 1lib1ref logo, let us know.
How you can help
We hope the campaign offers a platform for engaging librarians in your
region and context to learn more about Wikimedia projects. We know
librarians use Wikipedia for a variety of purposes, but the campaign’s
story--specifically how our references work--becomes a shared foundation for
understanding and entering our community. If you would like to coordinate
#1lib1ref in your area, here are the main steps:
Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary
Fill out this survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflWCp9QkNbIZWXCWU02bp_FGCAua4Z6Ua…
Review Citation Hunt -- a volunteer-developed tool that allows for randomly
being offered a citation. Check if your language is supported in the top
right.
URL:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/
Report Bugs or request features or language support:
https://github.com/eggpi/citationhunt/issues
Review Hashtag Tracking -- a way to track edits made through the edit
summary field.
URL:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags
Report bugs or request features or language support:
https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new
Translate the campaign page to your local language. We want to have it ready
for translation no later than November 10th and will notify you with an
email that it’s ready.
Begin reaching out to partners that you think will want to participate
during the campaign through a) communications or b) activities.
We look forward to collaborating with you! Thanks so much for your help--it
should be a lot of fun.
Best,
Alex Stinson
Jake Orlowitz
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