Wikipedia:GLAM/SLIC/Resources for Librarians

Other libraries engaging with Wikimedia

 * The National Library of Scotland


 * The National Library of Wales


 * The Bodleian Library


 * Webjunction blog on extending the reach of public libraries.


 * Webjunction run a blog series called Librarians who Wikipedia.


 * Catalan Wikipedia's library engagement programme

Getting started

 * The GLAM-Wiki Project page The GLAM-WIKI project supports GLAMs and other institutions who want to work with Wikimedia to produce open-access, freely-reusable content for the public.


 * The Wikipedia Library User Group aims to bring together Wikipedians and Librarians.


 * The 1Lib1Ref campaign is an annual event, which aims to get each librarians to add 1 reference to Wikipedia.

Image licensing & Wikimedia Commons

 * An overview of copyright with regard to uploading images to WikiCommons


 * A guide to determining when images enter into the public domain in the United States

Wikimedia campaigns and resources
The Wikimedia community organises yearly campaigns as a way of galvanising efforts from the community of editors on specific topics. These campaigns are a great way of introducing Wikipedia editing to new audiences and offer new opportunities for hosting coordinated events on a larger scale between multiple libraries. Below are some of the resources that we created during the SLIC residency for specific campaigns. These resources can be updated, reused and adapted for future use.

1Lib1Ref
1Lib1Ref is Wikipedia's annual campaign to get more librarians involved in editing Wikipedia, by adding just one - or maybe more! - citations to the encyclopedia. The 1Lib1Ref campaign coincides with Wikipedia's birthday every year on the 15th of January and runs for three weeks until the 5th February.

Wiki Loves Monuments
Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo competition run throughout the month of September by the various chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation, including the UK. The aim of the competition is to crowdsource as many open license high quality photos as possible of the beautiful monuments, archaeological sites and listed buildings throughout the world.

Wiki Loves Libraries
Wiki Loves Libraries is a campaign that can be run in October to coincide with Open Access week and is an opportunity to encourage libraries to engage with more Wikipedia activities. In 2018, the SLIC residency used the opportunity to organise an inter-library exchange programme during which librarians helped create new pages for libraries in Scotland. The campaign can be adapted to any other type of Wikipedia editing events that libraries wish to host around that period.

WikiProject Women in Red Editathons
WikiProject Women in Red is a dedicated group of Wikipedia editors working on improving the coverage of women's history on Wikipedia. The percentage of women's biographies on English Wikipedia is currently at less than 18%, so we have a lot of work to do to achieve gender parity. Librarians can help improve those figures by hosting a Wikiproject Women in Red editathon focuses on creating new biographies for women in their local area.

Wikiproject Women in Red provide a lot of useful resources to support new editors who wish to create biographies of women. As part of Book Week Scotland, the SLIC Wikimedian in Residence also created the WikiProject Women in Red approved video How to Use Wikipedia (Like a Rebel) on how to fight the gender gap and create new biographies for women.

Monitoring & Evaluation tools

 * GLAMorgan - showing views of pages that include files from a specific commons category.


 * GLAMorous - tracking the usage of images in a particular commons category.


 * Wikimedia video tracking tool - tracking how many times someone has started watching a video.


 * Programs and Events Dashboard - Managing & tracking Wikimedia programs.

Useful links



 * Copyright Cortex - a guide to copyright and digital cultural heritage.


 * Wikipedia Library User Group Twitter account.


 * Wikipedia + Libraries Facebook group.


 * Join the Wikipedia and Libraries mailing list.


 * Subscribe to the Wikipedia and Libraries YouTube channel.


 * The Wikipedia Library / Databases

Also of interest
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 * en:WP:The Wikipedia Library ]]

The Wikipedia Library

The Wikipedia Library provides Wikipedia editors with access to research databases and other resources. Access to the library is provided through the Wikipedia Library Card scheme.