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Librarians Improve Wikipedia During Global #1Lib1Ref Campaign
The #1Lib1Ref campaign invited librarians—and anyone passionate about the quality of information resources on the internet—to add a reference citation to Wikipedia and flag it with the hashtag #1lib1ref. The hashtag stands for "one librarian, on...
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Q & A with Wikipedian-in-Residence, Monika Sengul-Jones
Our new Wikipedian-in-Residence, Monika-Sengul-Jones shares how she got started with Wikipedia, her favorite contribution to Wikipedia and some insight on the work she'll be doing with WebJunction.
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Monika Sengul-Jones joins OCLC as Wikipedian-in-Residence
Sengul-Jones will work with WebJunction to design and deliver an online training program that will introduce US public librarians to the innerworkings of Wikipedia this fall. The training will enable librarians to edit Wikipedia, guide patrons in its...
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Take a Coffee Break with #1lib1ref Wikipedia Campaign
We all know Wikipedia contains tons of information; in fact, as of today, December 8, there are 5,303,333 articles in the English Wikipedia alone. But did you know Wikipedia is in need of citations and references*—and that there's a simple and fun wa...
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OCLC Wins Knight News Challenge Award to Promote Collaboration between Public Libraries and Wikipedia
OCLC has been named a winner of the Knight News Challenge, an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, for a project that will promote collaboration between public libraries and Wikipedia and bring together authoritative library reso...
