Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/pilot

Wikipedia Library and OCLC Full-text Pilot: March-May, 2014 Wikipedia and OCLC are working together on a project to benefit all users of Wikipedia, through The Wikipedia Library (http://enwp.org/WP:TWL). Wikipedia is seeking ways to improve the quality of articles and to support editors in identifying additional, credible sources for articles on Wikipedia. OCLC recognizes that Wikipedia is a major information resource for students and that libraries would like to make sure students and others on campus are directed to libraries and their collections to help support their research, even if students start with Wikipedia. Therefore, OCLC and Wikipedia are seeking library participation in a pilot project.

This project includes two opportunities:

WorldCat KnowledgeBase Integration Script on Wikipedia

By encouraging users to download this script while using Wikipedia, libraries can:

• Direct users to library collections, by showing links on Wikipedia—via the downloadable script—to full-text library content that library patrons are qualified to view at point of need on Wikipedia pages.
• Promote the fact that full-text content can be viewed while on Wikipedia by encouraging users in their library to download the script. When users are on a campus server, whose IP address is registered in *OCLC’s Institutional Registry, users can be automatically and seamlessly connected to full-text content when their authentication is automatically recognized by the WCKB API.
• Expose those article citations—and any others that are identified on Wikipedia articles—via the WCKB, by making sure the library’s full e-collection is registered with the WCKB. Subscribers to SerialsSolutions, Ebsco and PBNet now have the option of outputting and sharing their e-collection with the WCKB.

How it works

• Register the library’s e-collection online in the WCKB (see below for details).
• Meet discoverability requirements—that the library be a full cataloging member of OCLC with a subscription to FirstSearch.
• Publicize the opportunity that students have to download a script while using Wikipedia in order to see the article links. Such publicity can include teaching sessions, signage, online access and announcements, and any other blogs, tweets, newsletters or publications the library shares with its users.

Four ways to register your e-collection

• Go to service config www.worldcat.org/config and register your collection manually by identifying all the collections to which your library subscribes. Or, start here to find the registration form to begin: http://www.oclc.org/knowledge-base/start.en.html
• Sign up for the PubGet service—your credentials are shared with OCLC which is authorized to harvest your holdings from content providers. Details of the PubGet service are here: http://www.oclc.org/knowledge-base/start.en.html
• Output your library’s KnowledgeBase file from your resolver, and OCLC will process it for its WCKB. (SerialsSolutions, PBNet and Ebsco all allow sharing of their KBs.) Click here to learn how to export your KB: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/support/knowledge-base/kb_tree.pdfOCLC has agreements with EBL and Ebrary, where they will automatically send holdings information to OCLC as libraries buy their content, as authorized by the library. Libraries need to contact EBL and Ebrary to indicate that they wish their holdings to be sent OCLC. If they have no existing profile they need to begin with ‘Getting Started’ link http://www.oclc.org/knowledge-base/start.en.html and submit the KB request form for OCLC profiling

Wikipedia Editors as Visiting Scholars

Support Wikipedia editors by asking libraries to grant editors guest or visiting status in order to use restricted, subscription-only resources on campus and remotely that libraries purchase for use by their patrons. In return editors can be directed to work on particular articles and to highlight particular assets of a library’s collection (where appropriate). Reinforce the importance of the library’s contribution to the most used global reference site.

How it works

• Grant a Wikipedia editor access to remote, full-text e-content for a specified period of time.
• Select and oversee the work of a Wikipedia editor.
• Set up and monitor the requirements for the editor position, including reporting requirements (for example on the number of articles worked on or new citations created or corrected, or particular library assets or collections that are given more visibility on Wikipedia when associated with appropriate corresponding content online.)
• Share the experience of hosting a Wikipedia editor with others in the pilot study and with OCLC and Wikipedia in order to improve the experience going forward and to create an on-going program. http://www.oclc.org/content/forms/worldwide/en/wckb-request.html

Next steps for interested libraries

• Notify Cindy Cunningham (cunningc@oclc.org), Merrilee Proffitt (proffitm@oclc.org) or Jake Orlowitz (jorlowitz@gmail.com) of your interest.
• Be prepared to have your e-collection fully represented on the WCKB.
• Have the support of your institution to create a visiting status for the Wikipedia editor.