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Lightning Round session presented Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at the 14th Biennial Conference of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) in Burlington, Vermont. The conference theme was "Sustainable Agriculture: Stewardship of Our Information Ecosystem." The submitted abstract is below: WikiProject Agriculture: Be an Agricultural Wikipedian Wikipedia will be 13 years old in It is ranked the 6 th most visited site on the World Wide Web. Many librarians and information specialists have a love hate relationship with this open access, free internet encyclopedia. Searching for agricultural information sometimes exposes a lack of information or existence of entries on specific topics, inaccurate information, or results in the frustration of a research dead end from unreferenced articles. Wikipedia is, of course, a collaboratively edited resource. A Wikipedia WikiProject is a group of contributors working together to improve the Wikipedia information and the pages on a particular topic or subject area. WikiProject Agriculture currently lists 76 members: many are agricultural producers, from various parts of the world, some list academic degrees and research experience. One member identifies herself as a science librarian. In the past year only 463 changes have occurred within the WikiProject Agriculture. Agricultural information specialists, such as USAIN members, are logical potential participants to be involved in improving and expanding Wikipedia’s agricultural related topics and articles. Be a part of providing quality content, updating, improving, editing, providing sources, or fact-checking areas in your subject specialty. How to take a role in shaping the future of this WikiProject or others, and become involved at a level with which each contributor is comfortable, will be highlighted. Dana W. R. Boden, M.S.L.S., Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Wikipedia – Good – Bad – Indifferent Frustrations Missing Limited information Sources missing

Get Involved – Improve – Expand – Correct – Cite

Wikipedia is made by people like you. 715,155,527 edits 4,505,313 articles 130,172 recent contributors gnup%26fromhttp%3D1&type=signupttp=1 Retrieved 5/2/2014

Getting Started Wikipedia:Welcoming committee Wikipedia: Introduction Wikipedia:Teahouse

Create Account Advantages : – Security & Privacy – More editing privileges – Communicate & Collaborate – Join WikiProjects – Record of edits – Contributions & Watchlist – Voice/Vote 2

Then Dive In! Edit existing entries “Play” in the Sandbox Expand from general entry to specifics No deadlines

WikiProject Agriculture A WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia. 3 This project aims primarily to provide a consistent article structure for agricultural related topics while striving to develop and improve said agriculture articles. The goal is to make Wikipedia a comprehensive source of factually accurate, neutral articles that include relevant, credible facts. Quite a List of covered agriculture subjects 4List of covered agriculture subjects

Resources & Sources 1.Wikipedia:Workshop/ACRL 2013 (10 April 2013). In Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 May 2014, from Several helpful items under Education and outreach resources 2.Wikipedia:Why create an account? (18 February 2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 May 2014, from Wikipedia:WikiProject (1 May 2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 May 2014, from Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture (9 april 2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 May 2014, from Logan, D. W., Sandal, M., Gardner, P. P., Manske, M. & Bateman, A. (Sep 2010). PLoS Computational Biology. V. 6 (9), p List of WikiProjects, In Wikipedia:WikiProject Council (22 February 2014). In Wikipedia. Retrieved 2 May 2014, from of WikiProjectshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council