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This document discusses the relationship between public libraries and Wikipedia. It outlines Wikipedia's main functions, including being the 5th most visited website worldwide and having a sophisticated decision-making model. It encourages institutions to partner with Wikipedia to meet information demands and attract new audiences. Some challenges for libraries include incorporating Wikipedia into education programming and communicating editing practices. The document provides examples of New York City libraries that work on Wikipedia, including organizing edit-a-thon events. It concludes by describing various tools that Wikipedians and librarians can use to contribute, such as templates, infoboxes, and specific WikiProjects.

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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND IKIPEDIA Dorothy Howard dhoward@metro.org User: OR drohowa Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, Museums Guide
WIKIPEDIA’S PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS: • • Fifth most visited web property worldwide Rare among the top 100 sites: o volunteer-driven project (only other - archive.org) o non-profit (only others - archive.org and BBC) • Most widely read publication in history (?) • Sophisticated decision-making model • Anyone may participate
WHY SHOULD INSTITUTIONS PARTNER WITH WIKIPEDIA? • Demands for information met at the places where people are seeking it. • Attracting New Audiences to materials and catalogs. • Reviews of publicly available information on relevant topics to your institution • Editing Wikipedia gives cultural professionals the opportunity to put their institutional materials in context.
PROBLEMS/DIFFICULTIES FOR LIBRARIES
PROBLEMS/DIFFICULTIES FOR WIKIPEDIA
LIBRARIANS OFFER WIKIPEDIA RESOURCES • Instructional Librarianship • Incorporate Wikipedia into Education Programming • Communicate with the Wikipedia community about editing practices • Open Access and open image resources • Help community “not be afraid” to use Wikipedia as a research tool.
NYC WIKIPEDIA ACTIVITY Local GLAMs working on Wikipedia 1. NYPL, NYPL Performing Arts 2. Queens Public Library 3. Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute 4. MoMA 5. Frick Art Reference Library 6. Metropolitan Museum 7. Brooklyn College 8. CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY system 9. Consumer Reports in Yonkers
EDIT-A-THON: “WIKIPEDIA TAKES BROOKLYN AT THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY” ON SEPTEMBER 7TH • BPL, Wikimedia NYC, METRO, Wikiotics Foundation, • Start with basic introduction and training • Photo-hunt: images of Brooklyn historic monuments and library branches. • Tutorial on uploading images. • 9 Wikipedians attended • 17 new users were registered • Wikimetrics  5 pages created  229 edits made  73 images uploaded
WIKIPEDIA AS A TOOL FOR EDUCATORS • Wikipedia Education Program • Campus Ambassador Program
WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM • Serves as a liaison between the organization, the Wikimedia community, and communicates with other WiRs • Promotes understanding of Wikimedia policies and practices • Works with organizational staff to digitize, compile, and organize resources that can be shared with the Wikipedia community. • Coordinates events, such as Hack-a-Thons, Edit-a-Thons, or Backstage Passes. • Avoids Conflicts of Interest • Funding Available from Foundation, Open Knowledge, Open GLAM
COVERAGE OF BPL ON WIKIPEDIA • 13 External Links in Wikipedia for http://www.bklynpublic library.org/ • 1786 page views for BPL Wikipedia article in last 30days • 175 page views for Central Library in last 30 days • 168 views for List of Brooklyn Public Library Branches in last 30 days
WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE FIND TABLE AT: HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/WIKIPEDIA:WIKIPEDIA_FOR_LIBRARIES_ARCHIVES_MUSEUMS
WIKIPEDIA TOOLS FOR LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS • Basics: Talk Pages, Article Traffic • Templates • Wikipedia Article Assessment (AA) • Infoboxes • Authority Control Tool/ bot • Wiki RAMP Editor • Wiki-Metrics Tool • Issue Specific WikiProjects • Wikipedia Loves Libraries • WikiProject New York City • Wiki Project Women’s History
THE BASICS Talk Pages: • Communicate your potential biases, affiliations, concerns. • Use talk pages when you plan to make a major change • Post on a talk page requesting an article • Other users will communcate with you on your User: talk pages You can check any article's traffic! 1. Click "View history"! 2. 2. Click "page view statistics"! Other tools: • Templates for just about anything • Wikipedia article assessment work to create “feature articles” (well written, comprehensive, well-research, well- cited, neutral, stable, follows style guidelines, includes images and/or media, appropriate length.)
INFOBOXES • Pulled by Google, Dppedia, Search engines • Persondata: metadata template added to the bottom of biographical articles- pulled directly by Google (850,000 articles with person data)
AUTHORITY CONTROL TOOL • Developed by Max Klein, Wikipedian at OCLC • • Automated, bot adding Authority Control Tags to articles You can add these yourself • VIAF, LCCN, GND (German National Library), SELIBR (National Library of Sweden), SWD and GKD (pre GND), ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
WIKI RAMP EDITOR: FROM FINDING AIDS TO WIKI PAGES • Released Oct, 2013
WIKI-METRICS TOOL • Generate data on editing activities of groups “cohorts” • Use for Edit-a-Thons, trainings, events to measure tangible results • Available data: Edits made, articles added, bytes added • Can run for desired time frame, long term, short term
WIKI-PROJECTS Editors gather and do things! •GLAM Pages •Wikipedia Loves Libraries •WikiProject New York City •Wiki Project Women’s History
RECENT CHALLENGES • GLAM-Wiki is still not incorporated into Wikimedia Foundation • MIT study- there has been a recent drop in editors and retainment • Widely dispersed learning resources for beginners • Visual Editor Debate • Articles are Western focused • Gender Gap, Multicultural Gap • Recent projects to recruit women • Edit-a-thons with Women’s History, Cultural History focus • Emphasizing social impact of editing • Looking Forward: NYC GLAM-Wiki Network
TEST YOUR HAND AT EDITING! • Thorough research with citations. • Go to Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, Museums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_Libraries_Archives _Museums

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The public library and wikipedia

  • 1. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND IKIPEDIA Dorothy Howard dhoward@metro.org User: OR drohowa Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, Museums Guide
  • 2. WIKIPEDIA’S PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS: • • Fifth most visited web property worldwide Rare among the top 100 sites: o volunteer-driven project (only other - archive.org) o non-profit (only others - archive.org and BBC) • Most widely read publication in history (?) • Sophisticated decision-making model • Anyone may participate
  • 3. WHY SHOULD INSTITUTIONS PARTNER WITH WIKIPEDIA? • Demands for information met at the places where people are seeking it. • Attracting New Audiences to materials and catalogs. • Reviews of publicly available information on relevant topics to your institution • Editing Wikipedia gives cultural professionals the opportunity to put their institutional materials in context.
  • 6. LIBRARIANS OFFER WIKIPEDIA RESOURCES • Instructional Librarianship • Incorporate Wikipedia into Education Programming • Communicate with the Wikipedia community about editing practices • Open Access and open image resources • Help community “not be afraid” to use Wikipedia as a research tool.
  • 7. NYC WIKIPEDIA ACTIVITY Local GLAMs working on Wikipedia 1. NYPL, NYPL Performing Arts 2. Queens Public Library 3. Center for Jewish History, Leo Baeck Institute 4. MoMA 5. Frick Art Reference Library 6. Metropolitan Museum 7. Brooklyn College 8. CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY system 9. Consumer Reports in Yonkers
  • 8. EDIT-A-THON: “WIKIPEDIA TAKES BROOKLYN AT THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY” ON SEPTEMBER 7TH • BPL, Wikimedia NYC, METRO, Wikiotics Foundation, • Start with basic introduction and training • Photo-hunt: images of Brooklyn historic monuments and library branches. • Tutorial on uploading images. • 9 Wikipedians attended • 17 new users were registered • Wikimetrics  5 pages created  229 edits made  73 images uploaded
  • 9. WIKIPEDIA AS A TOOL FOR EDUCATORS • Wikipedia Education Program • Campus Ambassador Program
  • 10. WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM • Serves as a liaison between the organization, the Wikimedia community, and communicates with other WiRs • Promotes understanding of Wikimedia policies and practices • Works with organizational staff to digitize, compile, and organize resources that can be shared with the Wikipedia community. • Coordinates events, such as Hack-a-Thons, Edit-a-Thons, or Backstage Passes. • Avoids Conflicts of Interest • Funding Available from Foundation, Open Knowledge, Open GLAM
  • 11. COVERAGE OF BPL ON WIKIPEDIA • 13 External Links in Wikipedia for http://www.bklynpublic library.org/ • 1786 page views for BPL Wikipedia article in last 30days • 175 page views for Central Library in last 30 days • 168 views for List of Brooklyn Public Library Branches in last 30 days
  • 12. WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE FIND TABLE AT: HTTP://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/WIKIPEDIA:WIKIPEDIA_FOR_LIBRARIES_ARCHIVES_MUSEUMS
  • 13. WIKIPEDIA TOOLS FOR LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS • Basics: Talk Pages, Article Traffic • Templates • Wikipedia Article Assessment (AA) • Infoboxes • Authority Control Tool/ bot • Wiki RAMP Editor • Wiki-Metrics Tool • Issue Specific WikiProjects • Wikipedia Loves Libraries • WikiProject New York City • Wiki Project Women’s History
  • 14. THE BASICS Talk Pages: • Communicate your potential biases, affiliations, concerns. • Use talk pages when you plan to make a major change • Post on a talk page requesting an article • Other users will communcate with you on your User: talk pages You can check any article's traffic! 1. Click "View history"! 2. 2. Click "page view statistics"! Other tools: • Templates for just about anything • Wikipedia article assessment work to create “feature articles” (well written, comprehensive, well-research, well- cited, neutral, stable, follows style guidelines, includes images and/or media, appropriate length.)
  • 15. INFOBOXES • Pulled by Google, Dppedia, Search engines • Persondata: metadata template added to the bottom of biographical articles- pulled directly by Google (850,000 articles with person data)
  • 16. AUTHORITY CONTROL TOOL • Developed by Max Klein, Wikipedian at OCLC • • Automated, bot adding Authority Control Tags to articles You can add these yourself • VIAF, LCCN, GND (German National Library), SELIBR (National Library of Sweden), SWD and GKD (pre GND), ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
  • 17. WIKI RAMP EDITOR: FROM FINDING AIDS TO WIKI PAGES • Released Oct, 2013
  • 18. WIKI-METRICS TOOL • Generate data on editing activities of groups “cohorts” • Use for Edit-a-Thons, trainings, events to measure tangible results • Available data: Edits made, articles added, bytes added • Can run for desired time frame, long term, short term
  • 19. WIKI-PROJECTS Editors gather and do things! •GLAM Pages •Wikipedia Loves Libraries •WikiProject New York City •Wiki Project Women’s History
  • 20. RECENT CHALLENGES • GLAM-Wiki is still not incorporated into Wikimedia Foundation • MIT study- there has been a recent drop in editors and retainment • Widely dispersed learning resources for beginners • Visual Editor Debate • Articles are Western focused • Gender Gap, Multicultural Gap • Recent projects to recruit women • Edit-a-thons with Women’s History, Cultural History focus • Emphasizing social impact of editing • Looking Forward: NYC GLAM-Wiki Network
  • 21. TEST YOUR HAND AT EDITING! • Thorough research with citations. • Go to Wikipedia:Wikipedia for Libraries, Archives, Museums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_Libraries_Archives _Museums