Leveraging Wikipedia
Subtitle: connecting communities of knowledge
By: edited by Merrilee Proffitt
Published: 2018
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838916322; 9780838917329; 9780838917336; 9780838917343
Subjects: Wikipedia and libraries
Description: "This book takes a fresh look at Wikipedia and considers collaborations that will improve the visibility of library collections and the quality of Wikipedia"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why Wikipedia and libraries? / Merrilee Proffitt; title: What are galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) to the Wikimedia community? / Andrew Lih; title: Connecting citizens and the military: the experiences of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library as a GLAM institution in Wikipedia / Theresa A.R. Embrey; title: Bringing Wikipedians into the conversation at libraries / Alex Stinson and Jason Evans; title: Minding the gaps: engaging academic libraries to address content and user imbalances on Wikipedia / Kelly Doyle; title: The Wikipedia library: the largest encyclopedia needs a digital library, and we are building it / Jake Orlowitz; title: Wikipedia and education: a natural collaboration, supported by libraries / LiAnna L. Davis; title: Wikipedians and new service models: an exploration / Lily Todorinova and Yu-Hung Lin; title: Edit-a-thons and beyond / Sara Snyder; title: Embracing Wikipedia at the New York Public Library: a personal view / Bob Kosovsky; title: Wikidata and libraries: facilitating open knowledge / Mairelys Lemus-Rojas and Lydia Pintscher; title: Wikipedia and Wikidata help search engines understand your organization: using semantic web identity to improve recognition and drive traffic / Kenning Arlitsch and Justin Shanks; title: Bringing archival collections to Wikipedia with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP) editor / Mairelys Lemus-Rojas and Timothy A. Thompson; title: "I'm a librarian on Wikipedia": U.S. public librarianship with Wikipedia / Monika Sengul-Jones; title: Becoming a Wikipedian / Merrilee Proffitt.