Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch3.en
Odin Essers, Henrietta Hazen, N. Siep
At Maastricht University Library, the use of literary sources from its Special Collections by students is promoted and facilitated through the development and organization of specialized research-based learning programs as part of the Wikipedia Education Program. The central aim of these learning programs is to educate students on the social relevance of the Special Collections, such as the Jesuit library, which contains books (on philosophy, history, anatomy, literature, theology, law, and various social sciences) dating back to the beginning of the sixteenth century. In addition, by participating in these programs, undergraduate students from various colleges are given the opportunity to develop their information literacy skills by gaining experience in conducting empirical literature research on primary historical sources and its publication through a popular open-access platform. Evaluations from students indicate that the unique combination of analyzing historical literature and the publication of their review on a modern open-access platform led to increased motivation, readership, sense of responsibility, and understanding about the importance of open-access knowledge transfer and valorization of information. In addition to the Wikipedia Education Program, Maastricht University has also been involved in a noneducational Wikimedia project: Wiki-Wetenschappers. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the activities, approaches, and evaluation of the Wikipedia Education Program and the Wiki-Scientists project at Maastricht University.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch8.en
Adaora Chigozie Obuezie, M. Horsfall
Wikimedia as a foundation is the mother of all Wikis. “It supports hundreds of people around the world in creating the largest free knowledge projects in history” (Wikimedia foundation, https://wikimediafoundation.org). Its resources give benefits that can emerge from the collaboration of librarians and Wikimedia. However, despite the rich contents and vast availability of information on Wikimedia, many scholars refute the credibility of Wikimedia contents. This chapter addresses the benefits and values of African academic libraries partnering with Wikimedia projects and gives a brief definition on the concepts of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. How academic libraries directly improve Wikimedia resources for a reliable information; particularly, it highlights the need to rightly posit librarians as custodians of knowledge, relating the campaigns of 1Lib1Ref and other related projects where librarians in Africa through the African Library and Information Associations and Institution (AfLIA) collaborated with Wikipedia to add reliable sources, edit articles, and write stories to promote the quality, authority, and reliability of intellectual contents in Wikipedia. It demonstrates the engagement of academic libraries in the development of information resources to aid access to information for all citizens through linking of institutional repository materials to wiki articles in line with the UNESCO policy of ensuring public access to information (UNESCO, 2017). It also discusses challenges associated with the use of Wikimedia resources in some institutions and draws conclusion that Wikipedia promotes discoverability of library resources, librarians improve the reliability of its contents as an important tool to leverage on, in pursuit of academic endeavors, thus providing an interception between Wikipedia and academic libraries.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.bookend.en
Roberto A. Arteaga
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch17.pt
Éder Porto Ferreira Alves, Paul R. Burley, João Alexandre Peschanski
Este capítulo apresenta um processo passo a passo para contribuições em grande escala de artigos acadêmicos para o Wikidata, um projeto de armazenamento de dados colaborativo da Fundação Wikimedia. Em especial, são descritos ferramentas e processos no Wikidata, Zotero e Google Sheets; estão relacionados tanto à plataforma Wikidata quanto a programas de planilha comuns. O caso da revista brasileira Anais do Museu Paulista é usado para ilustrar o processo, que pode ser replicado para outras publicações e em outros contextos.
本章介绍了向维基百科(维基媒体基金会的一个合作数据存储项目)大规模贡献学术文章的一步一步的过程。特别是，在Wikidata, Zotero和谷歌Sheets中描述了工具和过程;它们与Wikidata平台和常见的电子表格程序有关。巴西杂志Anais do Museu Paulista的案例被用来说明这一过程，这一过程可以在其他出版物和其他背景下复制。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch2.en
Kristina M. De Voe, A. Shaw
In this chapter, we examine the relationship between open pedagogical practices and critical information literacy and how they intersect when Wikipedia is introduced in the classroom. Specifically, we discuss the collaboration between a librarian and a course instructor on iterations of Wikipedia assignments across three years and two classes. We unpack the importance of existing infrastructures, such as edit-a-thons and the WikiEdu dashboard, to support bringing Wikipedia assignments into the classroom. We also explore how we worked to connect course content to the renewable assignments and brought larger discussions of representation and community on Wikipedia into the classroom and assignments. Finally, we outline the lessons we learned through this collaboration. In sum, scaffolded projects allowed students to practice their contributions to Wikipedia in a supportive space and fostered critical engagement with course content. In their end-of-semester reflections, students stated that contributing to Wikipedia felt more meaningful and elicited feelings of pride that traditional, disposable assessments did not. They saw themselves as knowledge creators and scholarship creation as part of an ongoing conversation rather than an “end product.” By engaging in peer-review assignments, participating in edit-a-thons, and discussing the assignments with librarians who were not their professors, students also saw their work as part of a broader academic conversation. Through Wikipedia assignments, students can appreciate their own information privilege in terms of access to costly resources and become proactive in sharing that knowledge and their own growing expertise with a wider public.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch13.en
Ewan McAndrew
The University of Edinburgh was the first UK university to employ a Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR) to support students and staff across the whole university. Over the last five years, the project aimed to develop information literacy and digital research skills and to address the gender disparity of editors and participants in the community. The project has demonstrated the University of Edinburgh’s commitment to foster staff and student engagement as active digital citizens of the world and was awarded the 2019 Herald Higher Education Award for “Innovative Use of Technology in the Curriculum.” The residency also focuses on addressing the content on gender gaps and improving coverage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our first Wikipedia edit-a-thon in 2015 was based on “the Edinburgh Seven”—the first women to study medicine at the University. The WiR collaborated with the University archives team to develop an exhibit celebrating Scotland’s Suffragettes and facilitated a student internship that was awarded the Digital Humanities Award for Best Data Visualization 2019 for the Wikidata Map of Accused Witches in Scotland. This chapter will showcase stories of student engagement and collaboration inside and outside the curriculum, providing exemplars of how students have engaged with, and been intrinsically motivated by, researching and publishing their scholarship online in a real-world application of their learning. This chapter will also outline why employing a Wikimedian-in-Residence, alongside other learning technologists and digital skills trainers, is a worthwhile return of investment for universities.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch10.en
K. Cowles, A. Glusker, A. Gogan, Alicia Lillich, Margie Sheppard, Elaina J. Vitale, Liz Waltman, Tess Wilson, Amanda J. Wilson
Although academic skepticism of Wikipedia’s value as an information resource is widespread, the collaboratively created online encyclopedia is in fact one of the most frequently used health information resources in the world, including among students and professionals. As a result, the U.S.-based Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) has, since 2018, organized biannual “#CiteNLM” edit-a-thons aimed at strengthening Wikipedia’s health pages by adding content and citations to trusted sources of information. The first #CiteNLM edit-a-thon was a one-day virtual event in April 2018; since then NNLM’s edit-a-thons have evolved into month-long campaigns engaging primarily academic libraries with in-person edit-a-thons as well as virtual events. Hundreds of students, faculty, and library staff across the country (many of whom were new to Wikipedia editing) have collaborated in NNLM’s efforts to support universal access to high-quality health information. To date, over 600 health articles have been edited by over 400 editors. The current #CiteNLM campaign structure makes it easy for either individuals or groups to contribute or host affiliated events, which can include classroom exercises, citizen science projects, or library engagement efforts.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch5.en
Jessica L. Lott, Jennifer L. Sullivan
Jennifer L. Sullivan (academic librarian) and Jessica Lott (anthropology professor) are invested in pedagogical approaches that help learners apply course content to their everyday lives. With this goal in mind, we created a flexible Wikipedia-based assignment for an upper-level anthropology course, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: A Global Perspective, as a way to teach information literacy skills in a real-world setting while also enriching course content. As the course’s culminating assignment, learners researched an information gap on Wikipedia addressing gender. Learners were also asked to use their experience on Wikipedia to reflect on the significance of the documented gender bias in Wikipedia. This chapter discusses the advantages of Wikipedia as a platform for cultivating authentic information literacy practices. In particular, we address ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, information literacy as a social justice imperative, and disciplinary information literacy. We taught this assignment four times over the period summer 2017–summer 2020 and draw from our experiences collaborating on this assignment. We hope that learning from our successes and failures will inspire those who wish to adapt it for their instruction.
Jennifer L. Sullivan(学术图书管理员)和Jessica Lott(人类学教授)致力于帮助学习者将课程内容应用于日常生活的教学方法。考虑到这一目标，我们为高级人类学课程创建了一个灵活的基于维基百科的作业，性别，性和性:全球视角，作为在现实世界中教授信息素养技能的一种方式，同时也丰富了课程内容。作为这门课程的最终作业，学习者研究了维基百科上关于性别的信息差距。学习者还被要求用他们在维基百科上的经验来反思维基百科中记录的性别偏见的重要性。本章讨论维基百科作为培养真实信息素养实践的平台的优势。我们特别讨论了ACRL的高等教育信息素养框架、作为社会正义必要条件的信息素养以及学科信息素养。在2017年夏季至2020年夏季期间，我们教了四次这个作业，并从我们合作完成这个作业的经验中吸取教训。我们希望，从我们的成功和失败中吸取的教训将激励那些希望将其用于教学的人。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch7.en
M. D. Miller
Liaison librarians have unique roles in their institutions and in their greater communities. They often support and collaborate with professors and students in their subject areas and, of equal importance, have a special knowledge of resources available in their assigned liaison areas. This chapter will explore how a liaison librarian with subject responsibilities can contribute to closing gaps and community building through Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. It will describe the author’s contribution, as a liaison librarian, in addressing the Québécois LGBTQ+ gap in the Francophone Wikipedia project, WikipédiaFR. The author will also discuss how Wikipedia can be used as a tool for community building and raising awareness about the Québec LGBTQ+ culture and history gap in WikipédiaFR. The contribution events and their format, les soirées contributives, hosted at the Bibliothèque à livres ouverts du Centre Communautaire LGBTQ+ de Montréal, that sought to improve and create local LGBTQ+ Wikipedia content en français will be discussed. Additionally, the author will share thoughts on existing and not existing in Wikipedia for local LGBTQ+ communities.
联络馆员在他们的机构和更大的社区中扮演着独特的角色。他们经常在自己的学科领域支持教授和学生并与他们合作，同样重要的是，他们对所分配的联络领域的资源有专门的了解。本章将探讨具有主题责任的联络馆员如何通过维基百科和维基媒体项目为弥合差距和社区建设做出贡献。它将描述作者的贡献，作为联络图书管理员，在解决法语维基百科项目中，维基百科的LGBTQ+差距。作者还将讨论如何使用维基百科作为社区建设的工具，并提高人们对维基百科中LGBTQ+文化和历史差距的认识。在biblioth livres ouvers du Centre Communautaire LGBTQ+ de montral举办的贡献活动及其形式les soircims contributives，旨在改善和创造本地LGBTQ+维基百科的内容。此外，作者还将为当地LGBTQ+社区分享维基百科中存在和不存在的想法。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-15DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch18.en
G. Willshaw
This chapter focuses on the National Library of Scotland’s Wikisource transcription correction project, an organization-wide effort during lockdown that generated 1,000 fully accurate transcriptions of 3,000 Scottish chapbooks, which the Library had uploaded to Wikisource, Wikimedia’s online library of digitized, out of copyright works. The project, which contributed to the Library being awarded Partnership of the Year 2020 at the Wikimedia UK AGM, is thought to be the largest ever staff engagement with Wikimedia, and has had significant benefits to the Library and staff well beyond the original aims of the project. Initially set up to improve the quality of optical character recognition (OCR) transcriptions in order to make the chapbooks more discoverable and searchable, the project gave staff a purpose and sense of belonging during lockdown, provided an opportunity to work with a varied and fascinating collection, and enabled them to develop new skills in editing Wikisource, drafting guidance documentation, and managing projects. Further to this, the initiative greatly increased library staff engagement with Wikimedia, led to the formation of a Wikimedia Community of Interest, and resulted in the embedding of Wikimedia activity in staff work.
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