Wikipedia:GLAM/SLIC/Resources for Librarians
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Other libraries engaging with Wikimedia[edit]
Getting started[edit]
Image licensing & Wikimedia Commons[edit]
Wikimedia campaigns and resources[edit]The Wikimedia community organises yearly campaigns as a way of galvanising efforts from the community of editors on specific topics. These campaigns are a great way of introducing Wikipedia editing to new audiences and offer new opportunities for hosting coordinated events on a larger scale between multiple libraries. Below are some of the resources that we created during the SLIC residency for specific campaigns. These resources can be updated, reused and adapted for future use. 1Lib1Ref[edit]1Lib1Ref is Wikipedia's annual campaign to get more librarians involved in editing Wikipedia, by adding just one - or maybe more! - citations to the encyclopedia. The 1Lib1Ref campaign coincides with Wikipedia's birthday every year on the 15th of January and runs for three weeks until the 5th February.
Wiki Loves Monuments[edit]Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo competition run throughout the month of September by the various chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation, including the UK. The aim of the competition is to crowdsource as many open license high quality photos as possible of the beautiful monuments, archaeological sites and listed buildings throughout the world.
Wiki Loves Libraries[edit]Wiki Loves Libraries is a campaign that can be run in October to coincide with Open Access week and is an opportunity to encourage libraries to engage with more Wikipedia activities. In 2018, the SLIC residency used the opportunity to organise an inter-library exchange programme during which librarians helped create new pages for libraries in Scotland. The campaign can be adapted to any other type of Wikipedia editing events that libraries wish to host around that period.
WikiProject Women in Red Editathons[edit]WikiProject Women in Red is a dedicated group of Wikipedia editors working on improving the coverage of women's history on Wikipedia. The percentage of women's biographies on English Wikipedia is currently at less than 18%, so we have a lot of work to do to achieve gender parity. Librarians can help improve those figures by hosting a Wikiproject Women in Red editathon focuses on creating new biographies for women in their local area. Wikiproject Women in Red provide a lot of useful resources to support new editors who wish to create biographies of women. As part of Book Week Scotland, the SLIC Wikimedian in Residence also created the WikiProject Women in Red approved video How to Use Wikipedia (Like a Rebel) on how to fight the gender gap and create new biographies for women.
SLIC Wikimedia Train the Trainer for Librarians resources[edit]Train the Trainer - Trainer's Handbook[edit]
Presentation Slides[edit]
Additional Resources[edit]
Monitoring & Evaluation tools[edit]
Useful links[edit]
Also of interest[edit]
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