1. Librarians & Wikipedia
By Cory Chainsman

2. About Me: Cory Chainsman @corychainsman
About Me:
Cory Chainsman
@corychainsman
2007
2011
2012
2013
2017
BS in Biology - William & Mary
MSIS - UNC SILS
Dryad
Repository for Biological Data
Wikipedian in
Residence
User Experience Designer - Isobar

3. What Can Librarians Do?
Edit
Organize
Engage Others

4. What Can Librarians Do?
Edit
Organize
Engage Others
Edit

5. What Can Librarians Do?
Edit
Organize
Engage Others
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Organize

6. What Can Librarians Do? Organize Edit Engage Edit Organize
Engage Others
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7. Librarians Can Edit Wikipedia

8. Edit WIkipedia Yourself

9. Make your Collections Accessible
Wikimedia Movement's GLAM outreach strategy
Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
Scan your books.
Open access to your databases.
Even if it’s not “clean” or “pretty” data

10. “Imagine a world where every librarian added one more reference to wikipedia.”
#1Lib1Ref
The campaign ended Feb 3rd, but it’s still a noble goal!
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11. Librarians Can Organize Wikipedia

12. Categories, Lists, and Info Boxes! Oh my!

13. Categories Administration categories or project categories
Used mainly by Wikipedia's editors for project management purposes, rather than for browsing.
Category:All_articles_with_unsourced _statements
Container categories
Only contain other categories
Category:Wikipedia_categories
Set categories
Contain articles on subjects in a particular class
Category:Taylor_Swift_albums
Topic categories
Contain articles relating to a particular subject
Category:Pop_music
Set-and-topic categories
A combinations of the two above types
Category:Taylor_Swift
Universal categories
Provide a complete list of articles which are otherwise normally divided into subcategories
Category:1989_births

14. Lists

15. Category of
Lists

16. Lists of Lists

17. List of Lists of Lists

18. Info Boxes

19. This is confusing. You can make it better

20. Librarians Can Engage Others in Wikipedia

21. How?
Partner to provide free access to paywalled publications, databases, universities, and libraries
Facilitate research for Wikipedians, helping editors to find and use sources
Build relationships among our community of editors, libraries, and librarians
Connect editors with their local library and freely accessible resources
Promote broader open access in publishing and research
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22. Partner
to provide free access to paywalled publications, databases, universities, and libraries

23. That’s us!
Facilitate
research for Wikipedians, helping editors to find and use sources

24. Build Other Librarians Galleries Libraries Archives Museums
relationships among our community of editors, libraries, and librarians
Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
Other Librarians

25. Connect
editors with their local library and freely accessible resources

26. Promote broader open access in publishing and research

27. Thank You Organize Edit Engage Cory Chainsman Sr. UX Designer, Isobar
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