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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 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

Wikipedia is NOT social media. It’s not really even user-generated content (UGC)

It is CCW • Community – not just a ‘crowd’ • Curated – not just ‘generated’ • Works – not just discrete ‘content’

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

Google > Wikipedia > References

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.

Visibility – beyond your wildest dreams or... “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

Unlikely winners… NYLP – Artichoke British Museum – Jade Trove – SWOT Analysis

Seznam členů posádky Bounty (cz) Or Lázadás a Bountyn (hu) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nla.ms-ms5393-2-s1.jpg

Newspapers!

Wikipedian in Residence http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence

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

“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/

Re-Use!

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

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.

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

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