If OCLC and/or Wikmedia are interested in hosting something at Midwinter,
I'd be happy to talk with you about whether LITA involvement is useful.
(We'd need at least placeholder plans very soon though - it's well past the
time that event metadata is supposed to be in the scheduling system, and
people will be booking their flights soon.)
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>
wrote:
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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peaceray(a)cascadia.wiki (forwards to)
raymond.f.leonard.jr(a)gmail.com
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Bob Kosovsky <bobkosovsky(a)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(a)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(a)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_
FGCAua4Z6UaBj7P6Gcn1csT-6g/viewform
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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