Presentation given to the Scottish Government Library - How best to use Wikmedia as a Librarian, and an intro to editing Wikipedia.

1. Wikimedia for
Librarians
Scottish Government Library - Monday 5th December 2016

2. Wikimedia
Foundation
Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge.
That’s our commitment.

3. “Our mission: to help people and organisations create and preserve open
knowledge and to provide easy access for all.” - Wikimedia UK Mission
Custodians of cultural heritage - outreach & education - preservation &
dissemination of knowledge - community & culture

4. Not just Wikipedia

5. Wikimedia Commons - the free media repository

6. reliablemetadata
Linktothecatalogue

7. Wikisource - the free library

8. Wikidata - the central store for the structured data
of Wikimedia sister projects

9. How do these 3 fit in with Wikipedia?

10. More than meets the eye
★ Quality & ratings scale
★ Vandalism picked up quickly
★ Wikipedia is more accurate than you think
★ Study by Nature in 2005, found Wiki nearly as
accurate as Britannica (2.92 errors per article comp to
3.86 on Wikipedia.)
★ Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2010 found Wiki as
accurate as Physician Data Query.
★ Ease of editing reflects ongoing debate

11. Wiki has a gender problem

12. Pillars of Wikipedia
An encyclopedia
Neutral point of view
Free content that anyone
can use, reuse or
distribute
Respect & civility
No firm rules
By Thermos (Thermos) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

13. Topics should meet Wiki’s
standard of notability
Avoid conflict of interest
(maintain neutrality)
No personal interpretation
(aka “no original research”)

14. Wikipedia:Verifiability
“...anyone using the encyclopedia
can check that the information
comes from a reliable source.”

15. What’s a reliable source?
If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources.
Other reliable sources include
university-level textbooks
books published by respected publishing houses
magazines
journals
mainstream newspapers

16. Wikipedia:Quotations
Must be used with care, not overused
Must be properly attributed
Should not stray into personal interpretation

17. Standards of notability
(Wikipedia:Notability)

19. Wikimedia & Open Education

20. Open Education & Open Culture
By Spillerjzy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

21. What are the
benefits of OER
in teaching &
learning?
Collaborative learning - co-curation
& co-creation
Public outreach
Accelerating research outcomes
Starting point, not an end point
Use of databases, understanding
sourcing, data visualisation
Professional development

23. The Wiki-Detective
Challenge
★ Find today’s featured article, &
its talk page
★ Find the list of contributions
★ Add the page to your watchlist
★ In which other languages is it
written?
★ In which categories does it fall?

24. Create your
user page!

25. #1lib1ref
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

26. Let’s talk about
markup
Just a little bit...
[[wikilink]]
[external link]
{{template}}
‘’Italic’’
‘’’Bold’’’
==Big heading==
: indent
~~~~ to sign a talkpage

27. Prepare your article in
your sandbox
Search for the article
name
Click “Create”
Copy & paste…
Add {{new user article}}
to the talk page
Benoit Rochon [CC BY 3.0], via
Wikimedia Commons