{"id":2225,"date":"2018-06-01T15:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T17:28:57","slug":"three-things-librarians-wanting-to-engage-with-wikipedia-should-think-about-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/three-things-librarians-wanting-to-engage-with-wikipedia-should-think-about-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things librarians wanting to engage with Wikipedia should think about first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2227\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"wikipedia\" width=\"1160\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia is big. Maybe not <em>googol<\/em> big, but 5.4+ million articles in English is up there. The platform is the fifth-most accessed website globally, and billions of edits have been saved since the online encyclopedia launched in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Though most librarians have read Wikipedia articles and work with patrons who use it regularly, few librarians actually edit Wikipedia. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/three-reasons-wikipedia-needs-libraries-and-vice-versa\/\">good reasons libraries need Wikipedia, and vice versa<\/a>. So how could you get started with Wikipedia at your library?<\/p>\n<p>One way to get a handle on something big is to start small. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been learning from public library staff in my role as the OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence for the past 16 months, which included interviewing public library staff and teaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/wikipedia-the-webjunction-way\/\">nine-week online training program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three surprisingly simple things about Wikipedia that public library staff involved with the Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project say their peers and colleagues should know.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>There\u2019s a volunteer community behind Wikipedia<\/h2>\n<p>Prepare to be wowed getting to know Wikipedia\u2019s volunteer community.<\/p>\n<p>While millions of information seekers read Wikipedia articles, few realize the editors making these contributions are a vibrant community of volunteers passionate about free access to information.<\/p>\n<p>When you engage with the community, you learn how editors have policies and guidelines to ensure verifiability, including assessing articles for quality. Librarians are involved in a range of activities, from adding citations, writing articles, and helping surface reference materials for other editors.<\/p>\n<p>One librarian in our training program reported, \u201cI was blown away by all this. I just had no idea there was a community behind Wikipedia.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Wikipedia is an encyclopedia<\/h2>\n<p>The second thing to know sounds almost too simple. Wikipedia is a \u201cfree\u201d encyclopedia\u2014a tertiary, open-access reference that\u2019s always under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Talking through what this means with patrons and colleagues can be the beginning of a valuable conversation about information organization.<\/p>\n<p>[bctt tweet=&#8221;How to get your public library started with #Wikipedia for libraries #oclcwikilib&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Public librarian Karen Kast, of Eagle Mountain City Public Library in Utah, puts it this way, \u201cYou have to help people understand it\u2019s <em>an encyclopedia<\/em>. It\u2019s not just anyone writing their opinions about a topic, and I think that misconception still exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Know where to go to get involved<\/h2>\n<p>A public librarian who participated in our course said that people need librarians to help them gain skills to navigate the digital environments they\u2019re going to every day.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing where to go to get started with Wikipedia is important. Library staff can head over to the newly refreshed OCLC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webjunction.org\/explore-topics\/wikipedia-libraries.html\">Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project pages<\/a>, which feature interviews from dozens of \u2018Librarians who Wikipedia\u2019 and the recently published, curated curriculum and materials from the Wikipedia + Libraries course delivered by OCLC\u2019s WebJunction program, which is now available to review, adapt, and share under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/deed.en\">CC-BY-SA 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never a bad time for librarians new to Wikipedia to learn more about Wikipedia\u2019s inner workings and share these learnings with their colleagues and communities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together project was an 18-month project funded by the Knight Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is big. 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