Hi all,

At the Wikipedia Library, we wanted to find a strategy for help our network participate in the momentous Wikipedia ‘15 celebrations. 

We regularly talk with library advocacy groups like the International Librarians Network, international library networks like IFLA and DLF, professional publications like Infodocket, and scholarly publishers like JSTOR and Project Muse.  All of these have large networks of library professionals active in social media spaces and have expressed the desire to get more involved with Wikipedia.

To engage them for Wikipedia 15, we are creating a ‘mega microcontributions drive’ called #1LIB1REF.  We are going to run a week-long global campaign focused on librarians adding references to Wikipedia articles that need more or better citations.  The goal is simple: every librarian in the world adding one reference to a Wikipedia article, and then telling the world about it.

The campaign page describing how this will work is a live draft on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

We need GLAM-Wiki and TWL coordinators to help achieve broad impact with the campaign.  We are looking for help with the following:

• Feedback/improvements to the main campaign page

• Signing up to be a help contact in the "Contact a library leader" section

• Help with internationalization (i.e. adding translation tags, ensuring instructions for language-specific community policies, adding links to maintenance categories or tools for language editions not yet represented, etc)
  

• Sharing the campaign with Library or Archive partners in your community, and asking them to support it (We can include them as official partners during the week, if their social media team help share the campaign)

• Preparing or encouraging others to write blog posts and social media for the Wikipedia 15 conversation focused on libraries and Wikipedia (for example blog posts, see this post for ILN or this post about the State Library of New South Wales )

• Update GLAM-Wiki Contact pages like https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Contact_us

• Tweeting, lots of tweeting (and retweeting) and sharing on other social media platforms

We hope that the #1LIB1REF campaign will help spread the word about librarians not only trusting Wikipedia but contributing research support to make it even better.

In turn, we hope this campaign creates more interest in your local communities about GLAM-Wiki, Wikipedia’s role in Libraries, and how to improve Wikipedia’s support of research for both Wikipedia readers and editors. 

Please let us know how you plan to participate!

Cheers,