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1. Re: Open commenting Period on Wikipedia and Libraries
Opportunities Paper’s (Alex Stinson)
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:58:14 -0400
From: Alex Stinson To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners
coordination
, North American Cultural
Partnerships , "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" , "Wikimedia &
Libraries" Subject: Re: [libraries] Open commenting Period on
Wikipedia and
Libraries Opportunities Paper’s
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Hey All,
I just wanted to remind you all to participate in the open commenting
period: we only have a couple more weeks to weigh in and help
solifidify
the version of the white papers presented below.
I have been hearing lots of positive conversation at both in person
events
and through the communications backchannels: keep up the great work at
socializing the papers or if you want to spread it on social media,
point
at the blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Alex Stinson wrote:
Hi GLAM-Wiki Folks,
With the cooperation of IFLA, we have been working on white papers.
We
have prepared the below email to forward to library communities in
your
context to solicit feedback on the draft white papers. Please share
with
your partners and community coordinators.
Also if you are on social media, we would welcome sharing of the
following:
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/777923564150325248
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/19/engaging-libraries-wikipedia/
https://www.facebook.com/GLAMWiki/posts/1037706443016172
I hope you get a chance to engage, and that these papers prove useful
for
your outreach efforts.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and
other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://
glamwiki.org
Hello all,
As you probably have noticed, in the last few years more and more
library
communities are engaging with Wikipedia as a tool for teaching our
patrons
effective internet research, but also as contributors of Wikimedia
projects, through projects like Art and Feminism
and the #1lib1ref campaign
.
But these kinds of collaborations, only scratch the surface -- whole
networks of libraries are integrating Wikipedia into their
professional
work of sharing knowledge, and using it as a tool for serving their
patrons. Take for example the public libraries in Catalonia: nearly
200
libraries are actively contributing to Wikimedia projects, as an
effort to
preserve Catalan language and culture.
Since early 2016, IFLA Headquarters and the Wikipedia Library Team at
the
Wikimedia Foundation, have been supporting a group of Wikipedians and
Library experts in writing two white papers on the opportunities for
library and Wikipedia collaboration. Initial drafts of these papers
were
presented at the WLIC 2016, and were well received.
We hope to continue to refine these papers, and we need your help to
do
it: though the committees that wrote the papers include leading
experts on
these collaboration, we know that their are hundreds of leaders in
library
and Wikipedia communities who also have valuable experience with
these
important partnerships. We hope to revise the current drafts to fully
reflect the global experience of Wikipedia and Library collaborators.
To this end, we invite you to join our open commenting period on the
white
papers, that just opened on September 19 and will remain open through
October 31st. Instructions for commenting, are available in the
following
Google docs:
-
Opportunities for Public Libraries and Wikipedia
[1]
-
Opportunities for Academic and Research Libraries and Wikipedia
[2]
Thank you for your time! And please feel free to share the invitation
for
comment widely!
Cheers,
Alex Stinson, GLAM-Wiki Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation
Julia Brungs, Policy and Research Officer, IFLA
[1]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ysh1N6BT29-
rrAGRidMj1i0BHBzcwIms7TUamUbcg98
[2]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrqxK46pqDs6DgSGHtfzAJLjQ94rA
-3bgLDa2BZpF5M
--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and
other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
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