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INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS
Presenters
• President, Wikimedia Australia• Editing Wikimedia projects for six years. • Active in dispute resolution and mediation• Created dispute resolution noticeboard • Worked for Wikimedia Foundation as research fellow
• ALIA member 20+ years• Manager Library & Information Services, Australian
Council for Educational Research• Committee member, Wikimedia Australia• GLAM Wiki conference, Canberra, August 2009• Wikimedia Future of Education, London, June 2014Pru
Mitchell
Steve Zhang
Session overview
1. Why are we here?
2. Why Wikipedia and libraries?
3. How does Wikipedia work?
Using Wikipedia as a source
I have followed a link to Wikipedia
I have read a Wikipedia article to find
information
I know at least 3 ways to evaluate a
Wikipedia article
www.surveymonkey.com/s/WPLibraries
Editing Wikipedia
I have edited something in Wikipedia
I have edited a reference in Wikipedia
I have a Wikipedia username
I have created a new Wikipedia article
Contributing to Wikipedia
I understand Wikipedia's licence CC BY-SA
I have uploaded my own content to a Wikimedia project
I have taught others about Wikipedia
I have conducted research about Wikipedia
I am involved in administration of Wikipedia
I support Wikipedia financially
WIKIPEDIA AND LIBRARIES
Our commitment
Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge
Wikipedia’s five pillars
Neutrality - Verifiability – Consensus - Civility
Openness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
Open and free access
• Creative Commons licence CC-by-sa
• Actively promote open access
• Respect and raise awareness of copyright
• Proudly not for profit and neutral
– Volunteer donor funded
– No ads
• We value expertise – from anyone, anywhere
Visibility and scale
• Site rank #6 globally
• Where your users are
• Where your users come from
• Free to copy means content can be widely distributed, and linked to
School librarians transform learning 2014 AASL
• Disambiguation = Authority control
• Wikidata: www.wikidata.org
• Metadata: categories, lists, media files
• Fulfilment tool pilot OCLC
• Wiki infrastructure provided -free with IT expertise included
Information standards
Sources and citation
• Only as good as our sources
• Libraries have the best sources
• Wikipedia has the most eyeballs
• Wikipedia leads users back to sources at libraries
• 8th largest referrer of DOI links
Jake Orlowitz: Future of libraries and Wikipedia
slideshare.net/JakeOcaasi
Trove Citation tool
Local and global
• Your community – your community’s history
– your community’s interests and passions
• Note Notability and Conflict of Interest
– start small, grow at your own pace, mistakes can be fixed
• Community languages
ACTION: Identify gaps for your community
Volunteers
• 20 million registered editors
• 80,000 active users
• 1,400 administrators
• 200 employees
13ab37, 9 Feb 2014, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
CC-BY-SAhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art%2Bfeminism_Wikipedia_E
dit-a-thon_(2).jpg
Working with Wikipedia
• Subscribe to news: GLAM, Libraries, Education
• Facilitate editor access to your collection
• Contribute unique local content AND METADATA
• Host a Wikipedian in Residencehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNT16gqHyo
• Webinar: oclc.org/research/events/2014/10-21.html
Wikimedia Australia
• We’re here to help …
• Advice on using Wikipedia (or other projects)
• Wikipedia edit training
– Groups or one-on-one
HOW DOES WIKIPEDIA WORK?
Terminology
• Wikipedia the encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Foundation (USA)Not-for-profit organisation that runs Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Australia IncAustralian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation– support Australia volunteers– promote/develop Australian content
• WikimediaTotality of organisations and volunteers
Wikipedia statistics
• 492.11 million unique readers
• 21.29 billion page views (~43 each)
– 3.16 billion from mobile devices (~15%)
• 14.73 thousand “new editors”
• 77.06 thousand “active editors”
• Articles in 287 languages
– Number of articles in English : 4,324,379
– 7 other languages have over 1 million articles
July 2013 http://stats.wikimedia.org
What is a Wiki?
• A Wiki is a web page that anyone can make changes to.
• The version you see can be changed at any time, by any person, without any tools other than a web browser.
• This means that each Wikipedia page is in a constant state of change as different people make contributions.
Who creates Wikipedia?
•Unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia is not created by experts.
• it relies on crowd-sourcing – having large numbers of non-experts contribute what they can, rather than a small number of experts contributing large amounts of information
• but references to reliable sources should be made
Structure of an article
Content of article
References
Finding related information
About an article
Talk page
History page
Useful things
Evaluating an article
• Check references
– Quality of sources
– Relevance of sources
• Check length and structure - relative to importance of subject
• Check edit history for recent activity
• Check talk page for debates
• Check criteria for Featured article
Who can edit? Anyone!“All are equal but …”
• Anonymous Editors
• are not registered
• first-time/occasional editors or vandals
• New Editors
• registered but not trusted, some are vandals
• Trusted Editors
• 4 days and 10 “good” edits to establish trust
• Administrators & Bureaucrats
Who does edit?2011 survey revealed …
• Average age: 32
• But older editors make more contributions than younger editors
Above average education
Why do they edit?
• Started because:
• Continue because:
How safe is Wikipediawhen anyone can edit it?• Yes, there’s vandalism and spam, but …• Every edit is recorded, all old versions are saved and
can be easily restored after vandalism• Abuse Filter – automated tool for preventing
common patterns of abuse• Recent Change Patrol – people who monitor recent
edits across all topics for obvious errors or vandalism• Watchers – people who monitor pages of interest to
them – monitor for subtle vandalism• “The beast of one billion eyes” – readers want
Wikipedia to be right not wrong
Wikipedia decision-making
• Wikipedia is an ad-hoc-racy
• Decisions about the contents of Wikipedia are made by the “community”
• The Wikimedia Foundation sets policies to do with legal issues, but not with content
• Decisions are ideally reached through discussion between interested parties, but occasionally requires uninvolved help (dispute resolution)
• Can be somewhat abrasive at times
Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia
• Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view
• Wikipedia is free content that anyone can edit, use, modify and distribute
• Editors should interact with each other in a respectful manner
• Wikipedia does not have firm rules
Wikimedia projects