Hi Rajene!
Wikipedia Library wrote this summary that could easily be turned into a
slide or two:
?
Cheers,
Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia Library
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1. Librarians and conflict of interest (RJ Hardeman)
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Hi All,
Just a change of subject for this email thread. Next month, my colleague
and I will be introducing Wikipedia to a group of librarians and wanted to
include a slide on conflict of interest and librarians. Is there a policy
or best practice set of guidelines that we can reference and share?
Please let me know,
Thank you,
Rajene
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:30 Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Yes, unfortunately the way we often promote
1Lib1Ref can leave that
impression (it’s cleaning-up after some lazy Wikipedians!). There are a
number of ways to deal with this.
Firstly explain away “1 Ref”, just say that it’s asking librarians to
take
a first step, and obviously we hope they will do
more than 1. Tell them
it
can 1Lib10Ref if they prefer.
Second, the topic doesn’t have to be random. If the library has a
particular topic area of interest (probably something they actively
collect
and are proud of), talk to them about adding
citations in articles
relating
to that topic area. Now your librarians are
exploiting their special
collection material and their special expertise in that collections. Such
citations (particularly if they refer to online accessible content on
their
website or at least a catalogue entry) will drive
interest in the library
(and its website). Librarians like that because it provides a way by
which
they can promote their special collection
(without crossing the COI
boundary – remember [[WP:CURATOR]] says it is not COI for a GLAM to do
edits that relate to the content of the GLAM’s collections).
The way to work with a special topic is to **not** use Citation Hunt but
rather use the tool Petscan to find the articles in their topic of
interest
that need citations
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/
with which you can construct a list of articles within a specific
category
tree in Wikipedia (which relates to one of
library’s area of interest)
which are intersected with the tracking category “All articles with
unsourced statements” (which means the article has a citation-needed
template in it). Note, that the documentation for most of those “quality”
tags usually mentions a tracking category (so you can look for other
quality issues if you want)
So if your library’s special interests is Egypt, then here’s an example
of
a search for citations needed in Egypt articles
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&depth=3&…
=
That query (with depth 3) produced 845 articles. But if you want more,
try
depth 4 (1465 results), then 5 (2186 results),
etc (the greater the
depth,
the slower the execution, but you probably have
more than enough with 845
possible articles!
I print these Petscan lists out, and progressively cut them up into some
single article strips (for the total beginner) and into some larger
multiple-article strips (for the not-beginner), put them in a “lucky dip”
box and let people draw out one or a group at random. Or let them choose
from a single big list (but get them to mark off the one they are doing
so
people aren’t duplicating their effort or
creating edit conflicts).
Whether
or not they succeed in finding a citation, throw
away that topic after
their attempt. Don’t let them spend too long on any one topic (there’s
plenty more articles if one proves difficult). It’s quite OK to focus on
the easy wins as it is a more positive experience for them and all
citations added benefit Wikipedia. (Aside, if your expert librarians
can’t
find a citation in their area of special
interest, it may be a hint to
you
that maybe it’s time to remove that content from
Wikipedia as perhaps no
citation does exist).
If adding citations doesn’t appeal, then try away the whole
citation-needed idea and pursue a “let’s expand articles about your
topics
of interests” or “let’s add photos from your
collection” Call it
1Lib1Expand or1Lib1Photo if you like. Explain that the campaign is just
to
provide a focus for librarians to engage with
Wikipedia. However they
want
to engage is just fine. It’s all improving
Wikipedia. Here’s an idea that
might appeal to other libraries:
At State Library of Queensland last year, we had a sub-goal for 1Lib1Ref.
We said to ourselves that public libraries are important civic amenities
(and what librarian doesn’t believe that!) and that every public library
in Queensland therefore should be mentioned in the Wikipedia article for
that town/suburb/district. So we used
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/visit-us/find-a-public-library/browse-library-bra…
as our lucky dip list and the pages linked from it and also this master
spreadsheet of other info about all public libraries as our sources
http://www.plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/388497/SLQ_…
to add a few snippets about each public library (cited to the sources
above). We added the address of the library and who operates it and the
year it opened and anything special about that library that was worthy of
mention (e.g. special collections). So just a sentence or two with
citations. Thanks to 1Lib1Ref, we now have every Qld public library (and
its mobile libraries stop-off points) mentioned in the relevant Wikipedia
article. (The only catch is that it turned out that there were places
with
public libraries but without Wikipedia articles –
those were handed to
me,
and I created a basic place article, and the
library was thrown back in
the
lucky dip jar when I had made the article.) Now
the librarians involved
(about 40 of them who did about 25 edits each on average) really engaged
well with this; libraries are meaningful to them and so they saw value in
doing the task. When we finished doing public libraries, we started
working
on lists of Qld schools (education matters to
librarians too). I note
that
we do 1Lib1Ref in “editathon” sessions and the
librarians enjoy the
social
aspect of that (although people are free to do it
at their desks if they
prefer and many leave the editathon session with some extra lucky dip
topics saying they will do them at their desk or at home that night). OK,
this is not “traditional” 1Lib1Ref but let’s call it 1Lib1Lib or
1Lib1School J
So don’t see the format proposed for 1Lib1Ref as a straightjacket. It’s
just one way to engage librarians and Citation Hunt does provide a set of
tasks for the individual librarian who might be interested but who isn’t
in
an outreach relationship. But if another way
works better for the
librarian
in an outreach situation (and particularly so if
you are working with a
library rather than an individual librarian), then just do it that other
way. It’s the engagement that matters, not the format. No matter what
they
do, they acquire some Wikipedia skills, which
they might continue to use
on
their own or be willing to use in another
partnership or campaign. It’s a
first-step campaign. Once they have taken it, you need to work out what
step 2, 3, and 4 is for them.
Kerry
*“I would like*, if I may, to *take you* on a *strange journey” – Rocky
Horror Picture Show*
*From:* Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On
Behalf Of *Paulo Santos Perneta
*Sent:* Monday, 17 September 2018 10:54 PM
*To:* libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* Re: [libraries] Meeting Librarians Soon. Help!
Last #1lib1ref was not successful here: The librarians we've contacted
were not interested in fixing references for random articles, and they
had
difficulties on understanding why they should get
through all the trouble
of learning to edit Wikipedia just to fulfill the objective of 1 ref per
librarian.
Probably in the next edition we'll be reformulating the contest locally
to
make it more attractive to them.
Paulo
Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbeland(a)wikimedia.ca> escreveu no dia segunda,
17/09/2018 à(s) 13:39:
Hello Reem,
I'm not a librarian, but what worked well with librarians here in Quebec,
Canada was the #1lib1ref campaign. We organized a little friendly
competition between different university and institutional libraries and
it
was very successful in my opinion. We also
invited students in relevant
university courses to participate and taught them how to add references
to
Wikipedia. From what I have been told, since last
year, the International
Federation of Library Association (IFLA) is actively supporting the
cooperation between libraries and WMF projects, especially through
#1lib1ref. I'm sure there are people more qualified than me on this
mailing
list to explain to you what is #1lib1ref, but you
can find information
about it on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref>
Thank you and good luck with your meeting!
Jean-Philippe Béland
Wikimédia Canada
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:23 AM Reem Al-Kashif <reemalkashif(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Hope this finds you well. I didn't plan on meeting librarians at a
university here in Cairo, Egypt, but they expressed interest in
Wikipedia,
so we are meeting :). The problem is, I really
don't know what activities
to offer them. I have zero experience in Wiki+libraries collaborations.
It
would be more than great if anybody could help me
out. What I need is:
1. Understanding the nature of librarians work (I know it is a big topic,
but some general remarks would do).
2. Having examples of activities they can be part of to contribute to
Wiki
(be it Wikipedia or Wikimedia).
3. Understanding how rewarding those activities are (so that I explain to
them)
4. Having examples of similar activities, if any, around the world.
Bonus point 5. Having a clear plan of action to give them (i.e. what do
we do after the meeting and so on)
Thank you so so much in advance for helping me navigate this uncharted
territory.
Best,
Reem
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