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Lightning talk by Merrilee Proffitt at ELAG 2013
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Wikipedia, Libraries & Archives What's the Connection?
Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research@merrileeiam
• Highly ranked (#6 in global traffic via Alexa)
• Ideologically aligned with library mission
• Access to knowledge – for free
• Shared appreciation of quality sources
Why Wikipedia?
Why Wikipedia?
• Highly ranked (#6 in global traffic via Alexa)
• Ideologically aligned with library mission
• Access to knowledge – for free
• Shared appreciation of quality sources
Why Wikipedia?
http://webempires.org/wikirank/top/
• In order to collaborate, negotiate with… who?
• Community of editors is
• Distributed and virtual
• Pulled in by heterogeneous interests
• Culture of combating “link spam”
Special challenges
GLAM-Wiki to the rescue!
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
• An outgrowth of GLAM-Wiki collaboration
• British Museum in 2010
• Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Indianapolis Children's Museum, National Archives (US), National Library of Israel, British Library…
• OCLC joins the ranks in 2012
A Wikipedian in Residence
•Disambiguation is important!
•Wikipedia articles utilize Authority Control
VIAFbot - Purpose
• VIAFbot compares and merges those sources into English Wikipedia
• And now in Wikidata
VIAFbot - Purpose
• Downsides of WIR
• There don’t seem to be enough of them
• It can be sort of a crutch
• So, why not embed ourselves in Wikipedia?
• Community more welcoming than ever
• They need our help
• Our users are there
Wikipedian in Residence vs. Librarian in Residence?
Thank you!
Questions?Read about our work on our blog
HangingTogether.org
The end!
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