The document discusses the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation to provide open access to knowledge, emphasizing services like Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wikidata beyond Wikipedia. It highlights Wikipedia's accuracy, the importance of reliable sources, and principles such as neutrality and verifiability. Additionally, it addresses the benefits of open educational resources and encourages collaboration, professional development, and engagement through various Wikimedia initiatives.

1. Wikimedia for
Librarians
Scottish Government Library - Monday 5th December 2016

2. Wikimedia
Foundation
Imagine a world in which every
single human being can freely share
in the sum of all knowledge.
That’s our commitment.

3. “Our mission: to help people and organisations create and preserve open
knowledge and to provide easy access for all.” - Wikimedia UK Mission
Custodians of cultural heritage - outreach & education - preservation &
dissemination of knowledge - community & culture

4. Not just Wikipedia

5. Wikimedia Commons - the free media repository

6. reliablemetadata
Linktothecatalogue

7. Wikisource - the free library

8. Wikidata - the central store for the structured data
of Wikimedia sister projects

9. How do these 3 fit in with Wikipedia?

10. More than meets the eye
★ Quality & ratings scale
★ Vandalism picked up quickly
★ Wikipedia is more accurate than you think
★ Study by Nature in 2005, found Wiki nearly as
accurate as Britannica (2.92 errors per article comp to
3.86 on Wikipedia.)
★ Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2010 found Wiki as
accurate as Physician Data Query.
★ Ease of editing reflects ongoing debate

11. Wiki has a gender problem

12. Pillars of Wikipedia
An encyclopedia
Neutral point of view
Free content that anyone
can use, reuse or
distribute
Respect & civility
No firm rules
By Thermos (Thermos) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.5
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

13. Topics should meet Wiki’s
standard of notability
Avoid conflict of interest
(maintain neutrality)
No personal interpretation
(aka “no original research”)

14. Wikipedia:Verifiability
“...anyone using the encyclopedia
can check that the information
comes from a reliable source.”

15. What’s a reliable source?
If available, academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources.
Other reliable sources include
university-level textbooks
books published by respected publishing houses
magazines
journals
mainstream newspapers

16. Wikipedia:Quotations
Must be used with care, not overused
Must be properly attributed
Should not stray into personal interpretation

17. Standards of notability
(Wikipedia:Notability)

19. Wikimedia & Open Education

20. Open Education & Open Culture
By Spillerjzy (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

21. What are the
benefits of OER
in teaching &
learning?
Collaborative learning - co-curation
& co-creation
Public outreach
Accelerating research outcomes
Starting point, not an end point
Use of databases, understanding
sourcing, data visualisation
Professional development

23. The Wiki-Detective
Challenge
★ Find today’s featured article, &
its talk page
★ Find the list of contributions
★ Add the page to your watchlist
★ In which other languages is it
written?
★ In which categories does it fall?

24. Create your
user page!

25. #1lib1ref
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

26. Let’s talk about
markup
Just a little bit...
[[wikilink]]
[external link]
{{template}}
‘’Italic’’
‘’’Bold’’’
==Big heading==
: indent
~~~~ to sign a talkpage

27. Prepare your article in
your sandbox
Search for the article
name
Click “Create”
Copy & paste…
Add {{new user article}}
to the talk page
Benoit Rochon [CC BY 3.0], via
Wikimedia Commons