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National Library of Australia (2014)

State Library of New South Wales (2010)

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LIBRARIES and WIKIPEDIA

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What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a free global information resource. It is an encyclopedia created and managed by a global community of volunteers who work on what interests them. There are about 20 million registered editors; 80,000 active users; 1,400 "administrators"; and only about 200 employees. It is seventh biggest website in the world. It has 30 million articles, in 286 languages, with 2 billion edits, 8000 views per second and over 500 million monthly visitors. Wikipedia and libraries are in the same business and we can help each other.

3539 volumes 18 stacks

Diagram from User:Tompw/bookshelf

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

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  Commons
  Free media repository
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  MediaWiki
  Wiki software development
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  Meta-Wiki
  Wikimedia project coordination
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  Wikibooks
  Free textbooks and manuals
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  Wikidata
  Free knowledge base
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  Wikinews
  Free-content news
• 
  Wikiquote
  Collection of quotations
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  Wikisource
  Free-content library
• 
  Wikispecies
  Directory of species
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  Wikiversity
  Free learning tools
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  Wikivoyage
  Free travel guide
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  Wiktionary
  Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikipedia is free to read and all content in Wikipedia is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License (CC-BY-SA). This means that it is free to use as well. As long as you attribute it (that is, acknowledge the item's creator), all material from Wikipedia can be used by anyone, for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

How does Wikipedia work?

The current logo trademark with the new typeface, Linux Libertine

Editors work collaboratively on articles. There are no deadlines. No one "owns" any article. Each improves by virtue of the oversight and contributions of others. Considerations of balance, facts, structure, indeed everything, are carried out on "Talk" pages. Disagreements are resolved by discussion and consensus is reached, sometimes after a long time, with reference to policies.

Essentials

The Five Pillars of Wikipedia set out its principles.

Wikipedia is not like journalism, essays, blogs or research papers. Wikipedia articles are not commentary. Neither do they make a case for any editor's point of view. The genre is "Encyclopaedia". Wikipedia strives to provide a fact-based, neutral, balanced account of what is known about a notable topic. "Notability" is the encyclopedia's idea of an accession policy.

Wikipedia articles must:
- be about something that is Notable;
- contain information that is Verifiable;
- be written with a Neutral Point of View;

- present No Original Research. That is, article contents and claims must be attributable.

Images

Cigarette smuggling with a book
(A Featured Picture)

Wikimedia Commons is the central media repository for the encyclopaedia. It is not to be confused with Creative Commons, which is an organisation that "provides copyright licences to facilitate sharing and reuse of creative content".

• Main page of Commons
• Picture of the Year
• Media of the Day

Quality

Virtuous Circle

Quality improvement

As the encyclopedia is a work in progress, the quality of an article varies according to the effort and time given to it. Quality is determined in particular by the referencing (about which the policy is strict), and also by the writing (conciseness, clarity, tone, accuracy) as well as the layout (images, structure). There are policies to support all these aspects. There is also a quality matrix which accords a quality status to an article ranging from a "Stub" to "Featured Article".

• Overall summary table of article quality
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Help
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Featured and good content

Quality control

People use Wikipedia and want it to be accurate. Vandalism is controlled by:

• Every edit is recorded - the history and origin of edits is always available;
• Automatic abuse filter for common patterns of vandalism;
• Recent change patrollers monitor recent edits;
• Watchers oversee articles in topics of interest.

Navigating

Editors are called "users" and they each have a "User name" and a "User page" through which they introduce themselves to you and often give their motivation, particular interests and reveal their skills. The Username sticks with every edit you make and is best if it is "real-world anonymous". It becomes your Wikipedia identity and your wiki reputation is built on it.

You can watch some of the activity happening on Wikipedia live around the globe through this feed of Wikipedia Vision.

Tabs

• Read
• Edit
• History

Functionalities

• Links are the blue words in every article that connect you with that topic in another article.
• Disambiguation pages give you the chance to choose what article you want to read from among those with the same name.
  

Example: NLA is a disambiguation page.

• Redirects Common errors in searching will be redirected.
  

Example: if you type State Library of NSW into the search bar, you will be automatically redirected to State Library of New South Wales.

• Categories, lists and tags are created by Wikipedians for the same reason that librarians love of metadata. Much effort goes into making it easy for readers to find what they want.
  

Example: List of Australian diarists of World War I which has 1184 references.

• References in every article give its sources under the heading "References". (See below) Readers (and students) are encouraged to verify the accuracy of claims in Wikipedia's articles by going to the source documents. For example, the Australian Dictionary of Biography is a reliable source and references to it take a reader directly to scholarly articles.

The menu bar at the left contains a number of links to useful information, including:

• Languages (independently created, not usually simply translated)
  

Example: British Library (in English) and British Library (in German)

• What links here
• Cite this page
• Print/export

Libraries and GLAM

The subject catalogue of the University of Graz
(A Featured Picture)

Globally, Wikimedia has been working with the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum) sector since 2009. Since then it has accumulated experience and developed a range of resources to assist.

Library-related WP articles

• Trove (Australian online database)
• Pandora Archive (National web archive)
• ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association)
• VALA (Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc.)
• NSLA (National & State Libraries Australasia)
• OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.)
  

Example: Bliss (novel) with OCLC link in the Infobox.

WP articles about specific items held in libraries

• Sydney punchbowls
• Journals of the First Fleet
• Letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra (11 June 1799), manuscript from the collection of the NLA.

The Australian newspapers project

The Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan) is collaborative program to collect and preserve every newspaper published in Australia. The National Library and the State Library of NSW contribute to this collaboration, as does Wikipedia. The SLNSW model and SLNSW procedures are on the library's WP project page.

In Wikipedia itself, there is:

• the national overview article at List of newspapers in Australia;
• the main article that gives a brief overview and contains links to its subordinate pair, from which you can go to the articles for individual newspapers is at List of newspapers in Australia;
• the state article, where all the newspapers are being collected and linked to their individual articles, is at: List of newspapers in New South Wales;
• the (daughter) articles for individual newspapers are at List of non-English-language newspapers in New South Wales.

Relationships and library/librarian-centred Wikimedia projects

Australian writer Dulcie Deamer in leopardskin costume (1924). From the collection of the State Library of New South Wales

Wikipedians-in-Residence

The role of the Wikipedian-in-Residence is to help develop and maintain a sustainable relationship between the organisation and Wikimedia to help the host organisation work in the Wikipedia environment and develop its own capacity. The role is NOT simply to edit on behalf of an organisation. It is also important that there be no conflict of interest in editing. The State Library of New South Wales hosted a WiR in 2013 and work continues. There have been more than a hundred organisations world-wide hosting a Wikimedian-in-Residence.

The Library Project

The Wikipedia Library Project is a collaboration with global standards organisations, such as OCLC, whose goal is to lead users from a Wikipedia citation to the full text of that source in one click. Editors in other countries often do not have free access to library databases the way Australians with readers cards do.

#1Lib1Ref

The #1Lib1Ref The 1Lib1ref project is about helping to reduce the number of uncited claims.

Books and Bytes Newsletter

Ask a Librarian

"Ask A Librarian" template on Wikipedia. It links to the normal Ask a Librarian services.

GLAM Wiki at the NLA (2009)

Wikipedia depends upon good references, which libraries contain. Australia's National and State libraries all offer a free "Ask a librarian" service to help members of the public find or access information - and that includes Wikipedians seeking good references to use in articles they are writing for the encyclopedia.

Wikipedia Loves Libraries

Libraries holding Editathons can coordinate with the Wikipedia Loves Libraries project.

Tools

Referencing and cross-referencing

Librarians are particularly skilled at finding and adding references to Wikipedia articles. The #1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) project aimed to find and add reliable missing citations to improve the encyclopedia. A tool has been developed to hunt missing citations.

Wikipedians also create cross referencing matrices to help identify gaps and provide good references, such as for example, The Encyclopaedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia (EWL) is cross referenced with Wikipedia articles in this Checklist.

Templates for images

Templates can be created to connect an image from Wikimedia to the library's catalogue, such as has been done for SLNSW. As well as templates that allow readers to go straight to their catalogue, SLNSW has its own Categories in Commons.

Linked database

Video about 280 Europeana Art History Challenge

Wikidata is a free linked database that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource and others. For example, the entry for Ida Leeson on Wikidata shows eight other identifers in this linked database. d:Q16003714. "Authority control" at the bottom of the Wikipedia article takes its data from the "identifiers" section of the Wikidata item. In 2016 Europeana carried out a Europe-wide challenge to create articles on works of art in 39 European languages. The project brought together GLAM and Wikidata.

Mass upload

The GLAMwiki Toolset is a tool for the mass upload of digital content.

Digital doorways from Wikipedia to libraries

Templates can be incorporated to take students from Wikipedia to their library's resources.

The Future

Things in the GLAM world are changing continuously and fast. How do we keep up?