Working with Wikipedia: Leveraging the Online Encyclopedia to Serve Your Patrons (and the World)

Working with Wikipedia Leveragingthe Online

Encyclopediato Serve

Your Patrons(and the World)

OLC Convention & Expo 2014 - Columbus, Ohiopresented by Don Boozer

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Ya know, if we all worked together and added good content to Wikipedia, we could...

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Ya know, if we all worked together and added great content to Wikipedia, we could...

What is Wikipedia?

+ 277 others!

How much stuff is actually on Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia

Who adds all that to Wikipedia?

https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm#editor_activity_levels

http://listen.hatnote.com/

Peter Steiner.The New Yorker, July 5, 1993 issue (Vol.69, no. 20) page 61

Okay, so what does this have to do with us?

Wikipedia: #6World1. Google.com2. Facebook.com3. Youtube.com4. Yahoo.com5. Baidu.com6. Wikipedia.org7. Amazon.com8. Twitter.com9. Linkedin.com10.Qq.com

US1. Google.com2. Facebook.com3. Yahoo.com4. Youtube.com5. Amazon.com6. Wikipedia.org7. Linkedin.com8. Ebay.com9. Twitter.com10.Bing.com

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http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyMobile.htm

Oh my!

http://stats.grok.se/

60% of visitors are using the English version of Wikipedia

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org

49% of visitors are coming from search engines

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org

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Wikipedia Visitors: Demographics

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org

As of September 2014, the size of just the English Wikipedia (without images) in print volumes…

2,037 volumeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumeshttp://what-if.xkcd.com/59/

Wikipedia is a monster!

http://www.ifc.com/fix/2012/01/godzilla-roars-onto-criterion-blu-ray

Can we peacefully co-exist with the monster?

http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/File:SOG_-_Minilla_Sits_On_Top_of_Godzilla.jpg

Yes!

http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/File:SOG_-_Minilla_Sits_On_Top_of_Godzilla.jpg

Who is contributing to

Wikipedia?

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_librarians

The British Library

The British Library

National Archives

“The 4,000 Wikipedia articles featuring our records received more than one billion page views in Fiscal Year 2013.”

~ Open Government Plan 2014-2016

National Archives

“In 2013, we welcomed a full-time employee devoted to engaging the Wikipedia community.”

~ Open Government Plan 2014-2016

Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

“We see Wikipedia as a natural extension of one of our primary missions, which is to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers who can use them. By adding links in Wikipedia, we are helping ensure our material is discovered by a wide audience..., which is exactly what most libraries – and digital collections in general – strive to do.”

~ William BlueherSr. Library AssociateHead of Outreach for Digital Collections

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Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Over the last 30 days, we have had 14,898 visits to the Digital Collections. Over the same period a year ago, we only had 4,928 visits… Of the 14,898… 57% were referred by Wikipedia, whereas a year ago, only 31% came from Wikipedia. As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

~ William BlueherSr. Library AssociateHead of Outreach for Digital Collections

Linked-in

Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Wikipedia [is] a natural extension… one of our primary missions… to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers”

“As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

~ William BlueherSr. Library AssociateHead of Outreach for Digital Collections

Linked-in

Free Access for Wikipedians!

JSTORBritish Newspaper ArchiveOxford University Pressand others...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries

Queens Borough Public Library

One of our primary missions [is] to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers.

We want people to use our stuff!

“As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

We want to generate stats!

One of our primary missions [is] to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers.

We want people to use our stuff!

“As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

We want to generate stats!

“One of our primary missions [is] to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers.”

We want people to use our stuff!

“As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

We want to generate stats!

One of our primary missions [is] to make our collections known and available to readers and researchers.

We want people to use our stuff!

“As we’ve put more into Wikipedia, it has referred more back out to us.”

We want to generate stats!

“Wise selfish people think of others, help others as much as they can, and the result is that they too receive benefit.”

Okay, but wherewould we start?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

I’m in. What do I do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTIONhttp://xkcd.com/285/

Slides available athttp://www.slideshare.net/donboozer

Handout available athttp://tinyurl.com/wikipedia-olc14

Working with Wikipedia:Leveraging the Online Encyclopedia to Serve Your Patrons (and the World)

Slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer

Handout available athttp://tinyurl.com/wikipedia-olc14

Email donald.boozer@cpl.org

Thank you! Questions?