WikiProject Librarians

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Library and information science portal Shortcut: WP:LIBRARIANS

Librarians

We librarians flatter ourselves that we know a thing or two about organizing information. It's time we stepped up and contributed to Wikipedia: not just to its content but to its structures and technologies. This project page is intended to provide a rallying point for these activities. --Helperzoom 06:20, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Table of Contents

Goals & Scope

Goals

• Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
• Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to [Wikimedia] (esp. lit-related sites) based on library experience
• Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
• Assist with categorization
• See also the similar but much more developed project page on the German Wikipedia.

To Do

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Article Alerts & Assessments

Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

• 30 Nov 2009 – Hopewell Public Library (talk) was kept; see discussion.

Did you know

• 1 Dec 2009 – A fact from National Archival Services of Norway (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

• 27 Nov 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Potsdam University Library (talk).

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Archives

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Article Assessments

Librarians articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	B	1	1	2			4
	C		1	1	2		4
	Start	2	2	3	5	6	18
	Stub	2		3	32	9	46
	List	1				2	3
	Assessed	6	4	9	39	17	75
	Unassessed	3	2		2	96	103
	Total	9	6	9	41	113	178

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

Article identification and assessment

• Identify, assess, and tag the talk pages of relevant articles using the {{WPLibrarians}} banner
• Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance.

Writing new articles

• Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics.
• See also content at LISWiki

Group Collaboration

Collaborate for two months on a single article to develop it up to Featured Article status!

• Readers'_advisory - November/December 2009

Fact checking and adding sources

• See the Fact and reference check project.
• Add links to library special or digital collections to appropriate articles.
  • See Tacoma Narrows Bridge for an example.
  • See the presentation Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections.

See Also

Find more about WikiProject Librarians on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

See also all subpages of WikiProject Librarians.

Cleanup

See the cleanup listing generated by WolterBot.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia - Science & academia biographies
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Science pearls - focused on "a few publications of the largest value, certain achievements that have changed our world."
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - host of the List of missing journals

Additional Resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project