1. #QWiki
The Wikipedia Editing Club for Queensland GLAM

2. #QWiki is about…
Demonstrating the capacity of GLAM orgs to make Wikipedia a more robust research ecosystem
Building information and digital literacy skills in GLAM staff
Increasing the visibility of libraries engaging with Wikipedia

3. #QWiki is the place for you to…
Become confident in your editing skills
Showcase GLAM collections
Edit articles around a different theme each month
Novice or experienced everyone is welcome.
Editing together is a great op to learn more and network
Themes have included International Women’s Day, Library and Information Week, NAIDOC Week, Brisbane Writers Festival, Anzac Day, and updating electoral maps in time for last years state election
We work mainly within the biography of Queensland
A lot of SLQ content is licenced CC BY 4.0 – so we are able to add it to Wikipedia

4. What impact are we having?
Over 1k edits to Wikipedia - An increase in quality content and citations
361 Wikipedia articles
80 Image Uploads
31 Editors
64.6K words added
8 million views
The stats for our web traffic referrals – the top 25 websites that access our digitised collections show between the 15/16 and 16/17 Financial Year and Wikipedia jumped from 12th place to 3.
9 en.wikipedia.org to 3 en.wikipedia.org
11 Commons to 5 Commons
26 mobile version of Wiki to 14th place
Mobile version of Commons making its first appearance in the top 25 in 16/17 in 18th place
So we can see the tangible impact Wikipedia is having on the discoverability of our collections.