Wikipedia and Libraries
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My talk given at the International Association of Music Libraries, July 16, 2014, explaining the reasons why libraries and librarians should collaborate more with Wikipedia and how they can make contributions.
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Wikipedia and Libraries
- 1. Wikipedia and Libraries Bob Kosovsky, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts bobkosovsky@nypl.org | @kos2 Music Division - New York Public Library International Association of Music Libraries July 18, 2014
- 3. • Over 4.6 million articles in English Wikipedia • 287 Wikipedias by language • Over 30 million articles in all Wikipedias • 6th most-used website on Earth1 • 365 million readers worldwide • “Most popular reference work on the Internet”2 1 Alexa.com, accessed 11 July 2014 2 “Wikipedia” in Wikipedia, footnotes 5-9, accessed 11 July 2014
- 4. Editors of Wikipedia • As of November 2011, 31.7 million registered users; 270,000 active any given month For English Wikipedia (figures as of May 2014) • 902,541 active Wikipedians • 3 million edits per month • 801 new articles per day Source: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#wikipedians
- 5. Google’s Knowledge Graph uses data from Wikipedia
- 6. Even Birdopedia is derived in part from Wikipedia http://www.birdingbirds.com/encyclopedia/
- 7. Wikipedia core content policies: • Neutral point of view • No original research • Verifiability “Wikipedia intends to convey only knowledge that is already established and recognized. It must not present new information or original research. A claim that is likely to be challenged requires a reference to a reliable source.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- 8. “Verifiability, not truth” “Among Wikipedia editors, this is often phrased as "verifiability, not truth" to express the idea that the readers, not the encyclopedia, are ultimately responsible for checking the truthfulness of the articles and making their own interpretations.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- 9. My user page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kosboot
- 10. My talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kosboot
- 11. Grosse or Große? Discussion from the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gro%C3%9Fe_Fuge
- 12. Everything is a collaboration https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hands_4_Holding.jpg
- 13. Digital project: creating metadata for thousands of songs. I wanted to include performance information for the 1891 musical “Wang” by composer Woolson Morse. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1153760
- 16. Della Fox appeared in several musicals of the 1890s, including two composed by Woolson Morse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Fox
- 17. The universe of Linked Data: DBpedia (Wikipedia in data format) at the center https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
- 18. Authority record for Kellermann http://lccn.loc.gov/no2013114694
- 19. VIAF record for Julian Klemczyński
- 20. Article on Julian Klemczyński https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Klemczy%C5%84ski
- 21. National Library of Australia’s “Ask a Librarian” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Darwin,_Northern_Territory
- 22. At least 270 Wikipedians who identify as librarians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_librarians
- 23. 1st level of engagement: adding external links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Brooks
- 24. Multiple links (from the article on the Austrian National Library) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library
- 26. 2nd level: Expanding existing articles (An 8,000+ word article on M.I.T. but only a few words on its five libraries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
- 27. From the article on the Library of Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_congress
- 28. Article creation: 1) on a library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts
- 29. Article creation: 2) on a collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Collection
- 30. Article creation: 3) on a specific item https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_4175
- 31. An orphan article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_Sinf%C3%B3nica_da_Guarda_Nacional_Republicana
- 32. These articles link to Drexel 4175 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_(English_composer)
- 33. Assessment of WikiProject Eurovision articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Eurovision/Assessment
- 34. Article on Drexel 4175 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_4175
- 36. Some of the many thousands of images from the National Archives and Records Administration (U.S.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_from_the_National_Archives_and_Records_Administration_ needing_categories_as_of_19_May_2014
- 37. GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
- 38. Wikipedia Loves Libraries https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Libraries
- 39. “The mission of Wikimedia is to empower and engage people around the world to collaboratively collect and develop open educational content, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. We see libraries as our natural partners in this endeavor. Working together, we can promote scholarly and cultural knowledge, information literacy, and open access.” https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Libraries
- 40. “Catalogs are not the methods by which the community learns about things” Katherine Reagan, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
- 41. https://commons.wikimedi a.org/wiki/File:INF3- 129_War_Effort_It%27s_up _to_You_(Britannia)_Artist_ Tom_Purvis.jpg
- 43. Behind the articles, Wikipedia is also a social network dedicated to a mission – don’t be shy asking for help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse
- 44. The universe of Linked Data: DBpedia (Wikipedia in data format) at the center https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2010-09-22_colored.png
- 47. Thank you – now REGISTER! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&campaign=loginCTA
Editor's Notes
- Many articles on Wikipedia are accompanied by media files: most of them are pictures, but there are also sound files and videos. To improve management of these files, they are stored in a separate project known as
- Wikimedia Commons, or more simply, "The Commons." (Remember that “WikiPedia” is the encyclopedia, one of several projects administered by the WikiMedia Foundation. The Commons is another one of these projects.) There are over 21 million media files stored on the Commons. The incredible thing about the Commons is that all the files are either public domain, or can be used (usually with liberal licensing) for commercial and non-commercial use.
- The National Archives and Records Administration of the United States has taken the bold step to recognize that people are more likely to find materials on Wikimedia Commons then through its own website, catalogs or finding aids. They have embarked on an ambitious program of uploading at least two million images to the Commons. Since these are images produced by the U.S. Government, they are all in the public domain.
- One of Wikimedia’s major outreach projects is establishing relationships with GLAM – galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. The National Archives is just one of many organizations who collaborate with Wikimedia in several ways—all for the purpose of increasing exposure to their collections, while enhancing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
- Libraries and archives in particular have developed a special connection to Wikimedia. Let me read to you what is written on this library portal.
- “The mission of Wikimedia is to empower and engage people around the world to collaboratively collect and develop open educational content, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. We see libraries as our natural partners in this endeavor. Working together, we can promote scholarly and cultural knowledge, information literacy, and open access."