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Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Leveraging Library Expertise and Collections in the Wikipedia Environment
Tuesday 27-Sep-11 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Metropolitan New York Library Council -- 57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003-4605
Event page at Metropolitan New York Library Council.
Check out some of the contributions made by workshop participants.
Why is Wikipedia used
[edit]- Importance--by far the most used online encyclopedia-- and the most reference source in the world -- over 338 million unique visitors a month Comparisons
- Language reach: over 260 languages Statistics
- Geographic reach
- Extensive subject coverage -- 16 million articles, 5 million illustrations and media files
How did it get to this status?
[edit]- Comprehensive modern encyclopedia Wikipedia:Five pillars
- Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia is free content (CC 3.0-BY-SA) that anyone can edit
- Open community and open community processes
- Wikipedia does not have firmly fixed rule
Overall organization
[edit]- Wikimedia Foundation: $9 million/yr (45% for technology), 50 paid staff.
- Projects by type and Language:
- by type: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikibooks (textbooks & manuals), Wikiversity (instructional materials)
- by Language: English, German, ... Latin, Esperanto (Complete list) not Klingon
- National chapters
- Germany
- UK
- France
- (40 more)
- India
- (potential US chapters)
- New York City WP:Meetup/NYC
English Wikipedia (enWP)
[edit]- 3.4 million articles, 356,000 active users
- open immediate editing, even without registration
- 1000 new articles a day
- subject WikiProjects, Workgroups & Taskforces): Chemistry, Military History, ... subject list
- function Wikiprojects: Copyediting, Categorization project list
- Processes
- Maintenance
- Deletion
- Administration: Conduct and Content WP:Administrators' noticeboard
- WP:Dispute resolution
- Reference Wikipedia:Reference desk
- Assistance
Factors affecting the academic use of Wikipedia
[edit]Inhibiting
[edit]- Lack of assured reliability
- Vandalism of article content
- Incomplete coverage
- Weak coverage in many academic fields
- frequent lack of adequate referencing
- Instability of article content
- Impermanence of the project as a while
- Pressure groups & cabals
- Cultural bias
- Recentist
- Anglocentric
- Political inclinations
Fixes
[edit]- Lack of assured reliability: analyses of reliability, article talk pages, and projects to improve quality
- Vandalism of article content: active removal of vandalism by large editor base, and passive removal by filters
- Incomplete coverage: increased diversity of contributors
- Weak coverage in many academic fields: increased academic participation and class projects
- frequent lack of adequate referencing: growing insistence on sourcing; increasing availability of good sourcing
- Instability of article content: ability to link to specific versions
- Impermanence of the project as a while: mirrors
- Pressure groups & cabals wider knowledgeable participation
- Cultural bias
- Recentist wider knowledgeable participation
- Anglocentric wider knowledgeable participation
- Political inclinations wider knowledgeable participation
Additional encouraging factors
[edit]- Ability to see edit history
- Talk page discussions
- International contributor base and links to other language Wikipedias
Participation by academics
[edit]Inhibiting
[edit]- Anti-elitism
- Lack of respect for credentials
- anonymity
- Demographics (youth) & anti-academic attitude
- Amateurism
- Lack of seriousness
- Pervasive low quality
- Mismatch with academe
- Lack of respect in academic world
- Lack of clear authorship
- Inability to draw original conclusions
- Cooperative authorship
- Distinctive prose style
Encouraging
[edit]- Availability of support in workgroups
- Help with class projects Wikipedia:School and university projects
- Special initiatives (such as the Public policy Initiative)
- Teaching influence
- Extremely wide readership
- Opportunity to summarize for general audience
How reliable is Wikipedia as a source?
[edit]Standard factors for reliability of sources in general
[edit]- recognized (within its limits)
- reputation
- credentials of authors
- Controls for quality
- Format and medium: online, print, etc.
- Technical quality
- Degree of detail
- Freedom from bias
- Currency of information
- Confirmation by other known reliable sources
- Sources given for information
- Reliability of sources
- Appropriateness of sources
- Currency of sources
Additional factors applying to Wikipedia
[edit]- Multiple ways to judge quality "How to Judge the Quality of a WIkipedia Page" by Tim Farley
- Large number of contributors
- Varied background of contributors
- Education
- Interest
- Geography
- Language knowledge
- Specialist contributors
- WikiProjects and Workgroups
- Screening of contributions
- Recent changes
- Watchlists
- New Page feed
- Login to start pages
- Edit filters
- New Pages
- Patrolled pages for Biography of Living people (forthcoming)
- Quality ratings: featured articles
- Deletion
- Blocking
- Policy: Reliable Sources
- Policy: Not Censored
- Edit histories
- OTRS
Negative factors affecting reliability
[edit]- Concentration of editors on popular topics
- Anonymity
- Impermanence
Wikipedia Ambassadors Program
[edit]GLAM
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/WIKILPA.jpg/220px-WIKILPA.jpg)
Galleries, Libraries and Museums [[1]]
- Wikipedia:GLAM/Projects
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Libraries at NYPL on Saturday, October 22: Wikipedia:The Musical
Getting Started
[edit]- First Step: Find an article, Look at its history., Look at its talk page.
- Second Step: Edit an article, such as JoAnne Stubbe
- Third step: Start a missing article: example: Masayasu Nomura, from List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Biochemistry)
- Contributing to Wikipedia, WP:FIRST, WP:MARKUP, Manual of Style, WP:CITE
- Search, WP:SEARCH
- Userpages: for example, User:LaraLove. User:GlassCobra, ... WP:USER
- User Contributions, All Logs, Watchlist
- Preferences
Rules
[edit]Organization
[edit]- Category:Books. WP:CATEGORY, List of biology topics, WP:LIST
- WP:REDIRECT
- WP:WIKIPROJECT, WP:LIBRARIANS
- WP:PORTAL, for example, Portal:Narnia, Portal:China
Quality
[edit]- WP:DEL, WP:CSD
- (Administrator Login WP:ADMIN)
- Category:CSD, WP:PRODSUM, WP:AFD, WP:DELREV
- Becoming an administrator WP:RFA
- Further Layers WP:Bureaucrat, WP:CHECKUSER, WP:OVERSIGHT,WP:ARBCOM, WP:STEWARDS, WP:WMF, WP:JIMBO
- WP:DISPUTE, WP:ANI, WP:BLOCK, WP:PROTECT
- Enforcement: User messages
- Policies: WP:NPA, WP:BOLD, WP:IAR
- Special WP:NEWPAGES, WP:New pages patrol WP:New pages patrol/patrolled pages-- All Pages, Users, Recent Changes
- Top edits
- WP:BFAQ (guide to corporate contributors) and WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and WT:SPAM
- Wayback Machine archive
Resources
[edit]- Key Free resources for Wikipedia
- Google, Google News Archive, Google Scholar, Google Books
- WorldCat
- PubMed
- Key non-free Library Resources for Wikipedians
- JSTOR
- Project MUSE
- Web of Science
- Scopus
- Ulrich's
- Readers' Guide and other Wilson indexes (or Ebsco or Gale, or Proquest, etc).
Further reading
[edit]- WP:FAQ
- WP:HELP (comprehensive)
- WP:GLOSSARY
- History of Wikipedia
- MediaWiki
Key resources
[edit]- How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates (also available in print)
- the free online version of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton (also available in print)
- "Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia" by Darren W. Logan, Massimo Sandal, Paul P. Gardner, Magnus Manske1, Alex Bateman in PLOS Computational Biology (2010) 6(9): e1000941. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941 [2]
- "Information quality discussions in Wikipedia" by Besiki Stvilia, Michael B Twidale, Les Gassner, & Linda C. Smith (2005) [3]
- "Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?" by Henry Blodget, Jan. 3, 2009 Business Insider [4]
- books about Wikipedia
Notes
[edit]- WP: as a prefix means a page located in the part of Wikipedia devoted to discussing the project, rather than the actual articles
- WT: as a prefix means the talk pages for WP: pages
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