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My talk given at the International Association of Music Libraries, July 16, 2014, explaining the reasons why libraries and librarians should collaborate more with Wikipedia and how they can make contributions.
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Wikipedia and Libraries
Bob Kosovsky, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts
[email protected] | @kos2
Music Division - New York Public Library
International Association of Music LibrariesJuly 18, 2014
• Over 4.6 million articles in English Wikipedia• 287 Wikipedias by language• Over 30 million articles in all Wikipedias • 6th most-used website on Earth1
• 365 million readers worldwide• “Most popular reference work on the Internet”2
1 Alexa.com, accessed 11 July 20142 “Wikipedia” in Wikipedia, footnotes 5-9, accessed 11 July 2014
Editors of Wikipedia• As of November 2011, 31.7 million registered
users; 270,000 active any given month
For English Wikipedia (figures as of May 2014)
• 902,541 active Wikipedians• 3 million edits per month• 801 new articles per day
Source: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#wikipedians
Google’s Knowledge Graph uses data from Wikipedia
Even Birdopedia is derived in part from Wikipedia
http://www.birdingbirds.com/encyclopedia/
Wikipedia core content policies:• Neutral point of view• No original research• Verifiability
“Wikipedia intends to convey only knowledge that is already established and recognized. It must not present new information or original research. A claim that is likely to be challenged requires a reference to a reliable source.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
“Verifiability, not truth”
“Among Wikipedia editors, this is often phrased as "verifiability, not truth" to express the idea that the readers, not the encyclopedia, are ultimately responsible for checking the truthfulness of the articles and making their own interpretations.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
My user page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kosboot
My talk page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kosboot
Grosse or Große? Discussion from the talk page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gro%C3%9Fe_Fuge
Everything is a collaboration
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hands_4_Holding.jpg
Digital project: creating metadata for thousands of songs. I wanted to include performance information for the 1891 musical “Wang” by composer Woolson Morse.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1153760
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(musical)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolson_Morse
Della Fox appeared in several musicals of the 1890s, including two composed by Woolson Morse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Fox
The universe of Linked Data: DBpedia (Wikipedia in data format) at the center
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
Authority record for Kellermann
http://lccn.loc.gov/no2013114694
VIAF record for Julian Klemczyński
Article on Julian Klemczyński
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Klemczy%C5%84ski
National Library of Australia’s “Ask a Librarian”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Darwin,_Northern_Territory
At least 270 Wikipedians who identify as librarians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_librarians
1st level of engagement: adding external links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Brooks
Multiple links (from the article on the Austrian National Library)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seeding_links_from_Wikipedia_to_BHL.pdf
2nd level: Expanding existing articles (An 8,000+ word article on M.I.T. but only a few words
on its five libraries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
From the article on the Library of Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_congress
Article creation: 1) on a library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts
Article creation: 2) on a collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Collection
Article creation: 3) on a specific item
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_4175
An orphan article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_Sinf%C3%B3nica_da_Guarda_Nacional_Republicana
These articles link to Drexel 4175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbethhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witchhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(English_composer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eurovision/Assessment
Assessment of WikiProject Eurovision articles
Article on Drexel 4175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_4175
Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Some of the many thousands of images from the National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_the_National_Archives_and_Records_Administration_needing_categories_as_of_19_May_2014
GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Wikipedia Loves Libraries
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Libraries
“The mission of Wikimedia is to empower and engage people around the world to collaboratively collect and develop open educational content, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. We see libraries as our
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Libraries
natural partners in this endeavor. Working together, we can promote scholarly and cultural knowledge, information literacy, and open access.”
“Catalogs are not the methods by which the community learns about things”
Katherine Reagan,
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INF3-129_War_Effort_It%27s_up_to_You_(Britannia)_Artist_Tom_Purvis.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special%3AWatchlist&type=signup&fromhttp=1
Behind the articles, Wikipedia is also a social network dedicated to a mission – don’t be shy asking for help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
The universe of Linked Data: DBpedia (Wikipedia in data format) at the center
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gullfoss_rainbow.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:We_Can_Edit.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&campaign=loginCTA
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