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Librarians' approach to Wikipedia

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Based on a presentation at the New York City College of Technology, Mar 16, 2010. [1]

WP:Meetup/NYC next on Sunday March 21, 2010 at Columbia University

Introduction

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How reliable is Wikipedia as a source?

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  1. recognized (within limits)
  2. reputation
  3. credentials of authors
  4. Controls for quality
  5. Format and medium: online, print, etc.
  6. Technical quality
  7. Degree of detail
  8. Freedom from bias
  9. Currency of information
  10. Confirmation by other known reliable sources
  11. Sources given for information
    1. Reliability of sources
    2. Appropriateness of sources
    3. Currency of sources

positive factors affecting reliability

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  1. Large number of contributors
  2. Varied background of contributors
    1. Education
    2. Interest
    3. Geography
    4. Language knowledge
  3. Specialist contributors
  4. WikiProjects and Workgroups
  5. Screening of contributions
    1. Recent Changes
    2. Edit filters
    3. New Pages
    4. Patrolled pages for Biography of Living people (forthcoming)
    5. Quality ratings: featured articles,...
    6. Blocking
  6. Policy on sourcing
  7. Policy: Not Censored
  8. Edit histories
  9. OTRS

Negative factors affecting reliability

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  1. Concentration of editors on popular topics
  2. Anonymity
  3. Impermanence
  4. Pressure groups & cabals
  5. Cultural bias
    1. Recentist
    2. Anglocentric
    3. Political inclinations
    4. Philosophical inclinations
  6. Taboos

Getting Started

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Rules

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Organization

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Quality

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Good things

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What librarians can do at Wikipedia

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Helping people find and cite references

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Reference work

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Helping teachers

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Writing Articles

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Editing as you see problems

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Further Reading

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key resources

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and

  • WP:Meetup/NYC next on Sunday March 21, 2010 at Columbia University

Other Projects

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Notes

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  1. ^ based on a presentations at XXVII Annual Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition held at Charleston, SC, Friday , November 9, 2007, and revised for Science Technology Medical Librarians SIG at METRO [1], Friday, February 8, 2008, and subsequently for CUNY in 2009
  • WP as a prefix means in the part of Wikipedia devoted to discussing the project, rather than the actual articles
  • WT as a prefix means the talk pages for WP: pages

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