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Using Wikipedia to supercharge LIAM WYATT @Wittylama your library services Libraries & Social Media Canberra Workshop 2013 GLAMWIKI.org If Wikipedia is becoming the family encyclopedia for the twenty-first century, historians probably

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Using Wikipedia to supercharge your library services

Libraries & Social Media Canberra Workshop 2013

LIAM WYATT

@Wittylama

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GLAMWIKI.org

“If Wikipedia is becoming the family encyclopedia for the twenty-first century, historians probably have a professional obligation to make it as good as possible.”

Roy Rosenzweig, The Journal of American History,

Volume 93, Number 1 (June 2006) 117-46

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Wikipedia is NOT social media.

It’s not really even user-generated content (UGC)

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It is CCW

Community – not just a ‘crowd’
Curated – not just ‘generated’
Works – not just discrete ‘content’

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Number of ads on the site.
Amount out money spent on advertising.
Shareholders

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Google > Wikipedia > References

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Three Policy Pillars

Neutral Point of View(NPOV)
Verifiability (V)
No Original Research (NOR)

This means that Wikipedia’s quality is dependent upon the ability to cite third party reliable sources.

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Visibility – beyond your wildest dreams

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“How do you get 80 thousand people to watch a 1969 ABC news report about ATMs every month?”

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wi ki/Category:Files_from_ABC_80_ Days_That_Changed_Our_Lives

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Unlikely winners…

NYLP – Artichoke British Museum – Jade Trove – SWOT Analysis

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Seznam členů posádky Bounty (cz) Or Lázadás a Bountyn (hu)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nla.ms-ms5393-2-s1.jpg

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Newspapers!

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Wikipedian in Residence

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence

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http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/?p=5179

In May 2011, Dominic McDevitt-Parks joined the National Archives as our first Wikipedian-In-Residence. This put the National Archives at the forefront of many cultural institutions in partnering with the Wikimedia community…. After a brief hiatus, our Wikipedian is returning in late

September. Dominic will join the Office of Innovation as a

full-time, permanent employee of the National Archives. We are the first GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institution that is providing a permanent position assigned to focus full-time on Wikipedia initiatives – again we are breaking new ground. Dominic’s work will be to expand visibility and access to NARA’s digital copies in Wikipedia and the Wikimedia

Commons. He will work with staff from across the agency to

not only create and edit Wikipedian articles relevant to our records, but also to add links from our catalog records to pertinent Wikipedian articles, as a regular step in our description process. He will develop best practices for our staff engagement with the Wikipedia community. In short, he will continue to drive access to the National Archives’ records, which is, after all, at the heart of our mission.

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“Free”

the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it
the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it
the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the

information or expression

the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute

derivative works http://freedomdefined.org/

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Re-Use!

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How many organisations have a volunteer program? ...a e-volunteer program?

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Wikipedians and Librarians

Doing the same thing, for the same reason, for the same people, in the same medium. We should be doing it together.

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Wikipedia is your e-volunteer program, you’re just not affiliated with it yet.

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Thank you.

liamwyatt@gmail.com [[user:witty lama]] @wittylama www.wittylama.com/blog