User talk:Gopaldmmu

February 2019
Hello, Digital Library Service. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Peacock (talk) 13:07, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Digital Library Service (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Hello, thanks for your message. I'm a librarian at Manchester Metropolitan University Library and would like to correct information on our wikipedia page. So I definitely do have a conflict of interest, which I'd like to declare.Digital Library Service (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Digital Library Service", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it denotes a group not an individual. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 13:08, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Digital Library Service (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Thank you - I've applied to change my nameDigital Library Service (talk) 15:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Digital Library Service, you are invited to the Teahouse!
Please review the information at the top of this page and make the appropriate declarations. 331dot (talk) 12:17, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

GLAM and Wikipedia - a huge opportunity for MMU
Hello,. This is mostly a copy of my welcome and response to your question at the Teahouse, as I fear you may have got the impression we jumped on you a bit over your user account name. I would hate you to be put off, as Wikipedia is extremely keen to encourage cooperation between itself and Galleries, Libraries, Museums and Archives (we refer to them as 'GLAM').

There is a huge and exciting opportunity for university libraries such as your at Manchester to encourage their students and staff to use Wikipedia and to mobilise information or images that the library holds so that selected elements are freely available worldwide on Wikipedia. My own city university library (just down the road from you in Derby) has organised so-called 'editathons' where we taught the basics of using and editing Wikipedia, often focussing on some particular aspect of the institution's collections, or some other Wikipedia theme like Women in Red. Right now, Derby is even running courses for journalism students in which editing Wikipedia is a course component (see this page).

I should also say that Wikipedia even has a special Wikipedia Project called Glam-Wiki which I would encourage you and other staff at take a look at. Quite often, it's possible to find a number of enthusiastic local Wikipedia editors to work with you to run help events for students or the public, or simply to offer a venue for a 'Meetup', or perhaps as an opportunity to host a meeting for CILIP members with a session on how Wikipedia works. You might like to know that on June 9th 2019 there is a casual 'meetup' scheduled in Manchester, which could be an opportunity for you to engage with some friendly local editors. For details, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester/36.

Finally, one additional idea is that MMU could even consider the merits of making a number of selected images of items in its special collections available for use in articles. Images are mostly maintained in our sister project at Wikimedia Commons, though some are uploaded directly to english Wikipedia.

Should you ever need any help or advice on any of these ideas in the future, do pop over to my own talk page and we can bounce ideas around. BTW: When you get a moment, it would be nice to see a few lines about yourself and your interests in Wikipedia editing on your userpage, as its empty at present (see User:Cbderbylib for an example of another librarian's userpage). And "The Wikipedia Adventure" is an interactive tour around the basics of Wikipedia editing which you might find worthwhile doing. Very best wishes, Nick Moyes (talk) 13:15, 26 February 2019 (UTC) (formerly Senior Keeper of Natural Sciences at Derby Museum & Art Gallery)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi Gopaldmmu! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 15:04, Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (UTC)