"Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia."[edit]
#1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) is a global micro contributions drive run twice a year, and State Library joined the campaign from 15 January to 5 February 2020, and we are participating in the Southern Hemisphere edition from 15 May to 5 June 2020 online. The campaign is a call to action - if librarians each add one reference to Wikipedia, the potentially thousands of citations to reliable sources will benefit Wikipedia readers worldwide.
Why? Because authoritative and reliable sources matter! Wikipedia is a starting point for research, it’s the 5th most visited website in the world with 8 billion page views per month and #1Lib1Ref is the campaign to address the knowledge gaps with the wonderful reference skills of librarians.
But you don't need to be a librarian, all staff are invited to showcase our collections and improve the quality of articles on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia does not want you to cite it. It considers itself a tertiary resource; an online encyclopedia built from articles which in turn are based on reliable, published, secondary sources (the kind librarians know how to find!)
State Library of Queensland has participated in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 #1Lib1Ref campaigns and we are excited about our 2020 effort.
State Library is running six online editing sessions over three weeks of the campaign between 15 May to 5 June. If you're a beginner or haven't edited for a while, don't worry, experienced Wikipedians will be there to help you and we have easy editing tasks for you to work on.
There are options for you to edit Wikipedia during the campaign:
During the editing sessions, choose from the editing tasks we have created using Queensland related collection material (see 'Editing Tasks May-June 2020' below).
Filling a "Citation Needed" using the Wiki Labs Citation Hunt tool.
Choosing your own subject areas of interest, finding the Wikipedia article and adding some quality research and citations.
Because libraries and Wikipedia are natural allies! The Wikimedia Foundation writes:
"Learning how to critically evaluate Wikipedia is a key skill. Librarians are in a perfect position to dispel myths and use Wikipedia as a case study for teaching information literacy skills; however, it can be hard to teach these skills without experience in Wikipedia's content creation process ... #1lib1ref is the library community coming together to examine Wikipedia critically, while also giving that most precious birthday gift: a citation."
Six editing sessions will be held online via Zoom. You're invited to join us and edit together. Come along to a session with your supervisor's permission. Email qldmemory@slq.qld.gov.au for the Zoom link.
State Library of Queensland has a unique collection of digitised real estate maps and plans created by real estate firms from the 1850s to the mid-1900s. Real estate maps can provide information about how land was subdivided, auctioned, who the surveyors were and who sold the land. They can be gems for investigating urban development, local history and house histories.
Working in the place name article, we will be adding the information from the map about the subdivision of the land at that time.
Step 1. Choose a language from this Google Sheet that isn't coloured Green (completed), Orange (in progress) or Red (issues). Mark your selection orange so to indicate to other editors that it's unavailable.
Step 3. Read the information panel for the data about the language.
Step 4.
From the Google Sheet, click the Wikipedia URL for its associated place name article. Go to the History heading and chronologically add the information from the map which describes where the language is spoken and the Language group (people) it belongs to. Indigenous history and information will go at the beginning of the History section. If there is no History heading, create one.
Include from Column D (synonyms) in the spreadsheet the synonyms of the language.
Add the Wiki links as indicated (Wiki links are the links to other Wikipedia pages).
For example for the Bidjara language in the Charleville article:
Bidjara (Bidyara, Pitjara, Peechara) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Bidjara country. The Bidjara language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Murweh Shire Council, particularly the towns of Charleville, Augathella and Blackall as well as the properties of Nive Downs and Mt Tabor.
Each panel supplies the location coverage for that particular language which you can copy and paste into the relevant place name article.
Step 5: Each language has multiple place name articles that the language region covers, listed in the spreadsheet. The same content relating to the language can be copied into each relative place name article.
Step 6: Cite the content using a newly created State Library CC-BY attribution citation template:
Go to Cite, click Manual and then Basic Form
Click Insert then choose Template from the drop down menu
Type Cite SLQ in the search bar and select the Cite SLQ-CC-BY option
Fill in the fields relevant to the language. Obtain the URL by clicking Share from the top right of the information panel on the Language Map, and Copy Link.
The website name is Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages map (State Library of Queensland is generated by the template).
Click Insert and Publish Changes as per usual.
Step 7: Mark off the rows that you have completed in green in the spreadsheet green when you are done! If you are still working on a language or having issues, mark it in orange.
1Lib1Ref began as an initiative to lower the occurrence of "Citation Needed" in articles - statements not backed by a reliable source. Search for a topic or try to find a source for the generated snippet using the Wiki Labs Citation Hunt tool.
Choosing your own subject areas of interest, finding the Wikipedia article and adding some quality research and citations, preferably digitised, not behind a paywall. Let us know if we can help!
We use the Wikimedia Outreach Programs and Events dashboard to track our progress and celebrate the impact we're making. Check out our May - June 2020 Dashboard for updates.
Edit-a-thon sessions 15 January - 5 February 2020[edit]
Six editing sessions will be held at State Library of Queensland during the campaign. Come along to a session with your supervisor's permission.
There are 15 computers available or you can BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).
If you can't make it to a session, don't let that stop you, you can still edit at your desk! Be sure to let us know so we can enrol you as an editor and your edits will contribute to the overall State Library effort.
State Library of Queensland has a unique collection of digitised real estate maps and plans created by real estate firms from the 1850s to the mid-1900s.
Real estate maps can provide information about how land was subdivided, auctioned, who the surveyors were and who sold the land. They can be gems for investigating urban development, local history and house histories.
Working in the place name article, we will be adding the information from the map about the subdivision of the land at that time.
2. Indigenous Languages Resources
Step 1. From the Lucky Dip of language names, find the language in Column B (title) in this Google Sheet.
Step 3. Read the information panel for the data about the language.
Step 4.
1Lib1Ref 2020 at State Library of QueenslandFrom the Google Sheet, click the Wikipedia URL for its associated place name article. Go to the History heading and chronologically add the information from the map which describes where the language is spoken and the Language group (people) it belongs to. Indigenous history and information will go at the beginning of the History section. If there is no History heading, create one.
Include from Column D (synonyms) in the spreadsheet the synonyms of the language.
Add the Wiki links as indicated (Wiki links are the links to other Wikipedia pages).
For example for the Bidjara language in the Charleville article:
Bidjara (Bidyara, Pitjara, Peechara) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Bidjara country. The Bidjara language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Murweh Shire Council, particularly the towns of Charleville, Augathella and Blackall as well as the properties of Nive Downs and Mt Tabor.
Each panel supplies the location coverage for that particular language which you can copy and paste into the relevant place name article.
Step 5: Each language has multiple place name articles that the language region covers, listed in the spreadsheet. The same content relating to the language can be copied into each relative place name article.
Step 6: Cite the content using a newly created State Library CC-BY attribution citation template:
Go to Cite, click Manual and then Basic Form
Click Insert then choose Template from the drop down menu
Type Cite SLQ in the search bar and select the Cite SLQ-CC-BY option
Fill in the fields relevant to the language. Obtain the URL by clicking Share from the top right of the information panel on the Language Map, and Copy Link.
The website name is Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages map (State Library of Queensland is generated by the template).
Click Insert and Publish Changes as per usual.
Step 7: Mark off the rows that you have completed in green in the spreadsheet green when you are done! If you are still working on a language or having issues, mark it in orange.
3. Greek Cafes of Queensland
Step 1. From the Lucky Dip of place names, search and find your place name article in Wikipedia.
Step 2. Look up the list of blogs written about Greek Cafes in Queensland.
Step 3. Click the URL for the John Oxley Library blog associated with your place name. Evaluate the article for suitable content to add to Wikipedia about the origin and evidence of the Greek café in that area. Also add any other interesting information about the heritage of the cafe that will be enrich the history section of that article. For example, the content below from the Busy Bee Café in Rockhampton blog:
Restaurant proprietors, Emanuel, William and Nicholas Economos, trading as the Economos Bros., ran their business in East Street, Rockhampton. East Street was a bustling metropolis when the brothers opened their traditional Greek café in the 1920s. Previously known as the Australian Café, the brothers renamed it the Busy Bee Café.
Step 4. Go back to the list of blogs, and click on the URL associated with your place name. Under the 'History' heading, enter this content chronologically.
Step 5. Cite your information using the blog URL and the author mentioned in the blog (check the bottom of the blog as sometimes the correct author is listed there).
Step 6. Mark off the row of the article you have worked on in green in the spreadsheet so we know it's done!
Blogs and content on the website published by the State Library of Queensland are licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence. Under the terms of this licence you may distribute, remix and build upon the text from the site, but you must attribute State Library of Queensland as the source of the information.
