Hi all,At the Wikipedia Library, we wanted to find a strategy for help our networkparticipate in the momentous<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15>Wikipedia‘15 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15> celebrations.We regularly talk with library advocacy groups like the InternationalLibrarians Network, international library networks like IFLA and DLF,professional publications like Infodocket, and scholarly publishers likeJSTOR and Project Muse. All of these have large networks of libraryprofessionals active in social media spaces and have expressed the desireto get more involved with Wikipedia.To engage them for Wikipedia 15, we are creating a ‘mega microcontributionsdrive’ called #1LIB1REF. We are going to run a week-long global campaignfocused on librarians adding references to Wikipedia articles that needmore or better citations. The goal is simple: every librarian in the worldadding one reference to a Wikipedia article, and then telling the worldabout it.The campaign page describing how this will work is a live draft on Meta:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1RefWe need GLAM-Wiki and TWL coordinators to help achieve broad impact withthe campaign. We are looking for help with the following: - Feedback/improvements to the main campaign page - Signing up to be a help contact in the "Contact a library leader" section - Help with internationalization (i.e. adding translation tags, ensuring instructions for language-specific community policies, adding links to maintenance categories or tools for language editions not yet represented, etc) - Sharing the campaign with Library or Archive partners in your community, and asking them to support it (We can include them as official partners during the week, if their social media team help share the campaign) - Preparing or encouraging others to write blog posts and social media for the Wikipedia 15 conversation focused on libraries and Wikipedia (for example blog posts, see this post for ILN <http://interlibnet.org/2015/10/07/librarian-as-teacher-ways-to-use-wikipedi…> or this post about the State Library of New South Wales <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/> ) - Update GLAM-Wiki Contact pages likehttps://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Contact_us - Tweeting, lots of tweeting (and retweeting) and sharing on other social media platformsWe hope that the #1LIB1REF campaign will help spread the word aboutlibrarians not only trusting Wikipedia but contributing research support tomake it even better.In turn, we hope this campaign creates more interest in your localcommunities about GLAM-Wiki, Wikipedia’s role in Libraries, and how toimprove Wikipedia’s support of research for both Wikipedia readers andeditors.Please let us know how you plan to participate!Cheers,The Wikipedia Library Team
Nice post on ACRL's blog about one person's change in perspective byparticipation in the Art+Feminism edit-a-thon:http://acrlog.org/2015/12/15/why-glam-wiki-wikipedia-and-galleries-librarie…-- Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Artsblog:http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2 Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions -
I am tentatively planning a professional event on this topic for Sprint2016, and am looking to get into contact with anyone who might have aninterest in attending/participating/presenting about the WikiMedicineproject. If you're interested, or available to have your brains picked,please contact me at Richardjam (at)gmail.com