(29 Jul 2024) Stela Madruga, head librarian at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, began her journey with Wikimedia Projects in 2019: “The library where I work hosted a ‘Wikipedian Librarians’ event. It was initiated by a professor and his outreach team. The workshop aimed to teach…
(18 Jul 2023) The Swiss National Library is building a digital collection of Wikipedia articles related to Switzerland. The articles are to be permanently archived for future generations and made freely available online. To this end, the National Library is working with Wikimedia, the association for the promotion of free knowledge, Wikimedia said in…
(29 Jun 2023) Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009 following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License. This decision, made as part of a Terms of Use revision…
(22 Mar 2023) In her dual role as Instruction and Outreach Librarian / Professor and Liaison Librarian at Oregon State University (OSU) in the US, Laurie Bridges co-teaches a two-credit course about Wikipedia that she launched back in 2019. In part one of this article series, she ran through how she came to use…
(24 Feb 2022) Announcement from Wiley: We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Wikipedia Library, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which will connect Wikipedia editors with full-text access to Wiley Online Library content to drive better citations and more accurate content on Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s most-visited websites. With millions of…
(30 Aug 2021) An open version (CC BY-NC 4.0) of Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, edited by Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC Research) is now available for free download via the OCLC website. The book was first published by ALA Editions in 2018. The vision statement of the Wikimedia Foundation states, “Imagine a world in which every single…
(17 Mar 2021) Wikipedia is launching a paid-for service in an effort to charge big tech companies for access to its trove of information. While the encyclopedia is run by a non-profit that operates on donations, keeping the essential online resource free for general users, it is readying a commercial product for later this year, reports Wired.…
Changes proposed by the Wikimedia Foundation to diversify its community of editors raise existential questions for the online encyclopedia. (4 Jan 2021) In 2021 the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the more than 300 different versions of Wikipedia, plans to finalize a uniform code of conduct that details unacceptable behavior among the project’s editors—including insults,…
(4 Dec 2019) In 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation is launching the fifth edition of One Librarian One Reference (#1Lib1Ref) which will be held from 15th of January to the 5th of February 2020! This event invites librarians from all over the world to add a reference to the article of their choice on the online encyclopedia. Indeed, the Wikimedia Foundation…
(30 March 2017) What role does Wikipedia have in higher education, and how do research libraries contribute? Fiona Bradley, Deputy Executive Director, RLUK has blogged that several RLUK member libraries participated in Wikimedia’s flagship #1lib1ref campaign from 15 January-3 February 2017 to increase the number of citations on its articles; and others have hosted Wikimedians-in-residence…