Thanks, Alex and Jake, for keeping the ball rolling on this. Have you considered including a Wikidata component? In the long run, I expect librarians to spend more of their Wikimedia time on Wikidata, especially around https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData .
Cheers, d. On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Alex Stinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Wikimedians! > > > We are excited to finally start coordinating among #1lib1ref organizers this > month. > > > If you haven’t yet, we invite you to read the lessons that we learned from > last year’s great campaign: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons > > > As with last year, we hope to launch #1lib1ref on Wikipedia’s 16th birthday > in January, asking librarians to “Give a birthday present to Wikipedia, by > adding a reference”. > > > What’s new? > > > Last year we got a lot of feedback from librarians that they would have > planned more activities if “they just had a bit more warning and time” so we > are extending the campaign from eight days to 19 days, from January 15 > through February 3. > > > We hope this does two things: a) it allows for several waves of > communications and people adopting the campaign for local events and b) fits > better with the start of the Spring Term at many universities in the > Northern Hemisphere, where librarians are in demand for various activities. > > > We also noticed last year a lot of social media about informal gatherings: > librarians wanted to learn about Wikipedia socially at physical events. We > think this is a great opportunity, so the Wikipedia Library team is > developing a coffee hour kit that provides enough material to help > librarians coordinate a small gathering, where they can talk about Wikipedia > with their peers and add their one reference. > > > The kit is going to include: a) recommendations for planning, b) a series of > discussion questions, c) easy suggested activities, and d) a flyer template > for promoting the event locally. If you would like to help build the kit, > or a new 1lib1ref logo, let us know. > > > How you can help > > > We hope the campaign offers a platform for engaging librarians in your > region and context to learn more about Wikimedia projects. We know > librarians use Wikipedia for a variety of purposes, but the campaign’s > story--specifically how our references work--becomes a shared foundation for > understanding and entering our community. If you would like to coordinate > #1lib1ref in your area, here are the main steps: > > > Join the Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikilibrary > > Fill out this survey: > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflWCp9QkNbIZWXCWU02bp_FGCAua4Z6UaBj7P6Gcn1csT-6g/viewform > > Review Citation Hunt -- a volunteer-developed tool that allows for randomly > being offered a citation. Check if your language is supported in the top > right. > > URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/ > > Report Bugs or request features or language support: > https://github.com/eggpi/citationhunt/issues > > Review Hashtag Tracking -- a way to track edits made through the edit > summary field. > > URL: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags > > Report bugs or request features or language support: > https://github.com/hatnote/hashtags/issues/new > > Translate the campaign page to your local language. We want to have it ready > for translation no later than November 10th and will notify you with an > email that it’s ready. > > Begin reaching out to partners that you think will want to participate > during the campaign through a) communications or b) activities. > > > We look forward to collaborating with you! Thanks so much for your help--it > should be a lot of fun. > > > Best, > > Alex Stinson > Jake Orlowitz > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
