Wikimedia and Libraries User Group/Meeting minutes/2021/April/21

April, 21 2021: Fostering Connections: Wikimedia and Libraries Global Meetup

Thank you to everyone who responded to the open invitation. It was great to hear about so many projects and initiatives. Links to projects, tools and presentation slides are listed below:

Tools and tips

• OCLC: Using WorldCat holdings data to fill gaps in Wikipedia https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8222 (see also: https://oclc.wistia.com/medias/4i5n2iossc , a talk Chris Cyr en Merrilee Proffitt about this blog including a demonstration of the tool)
• Penn Libraries Deep Backfile project researching copyrights of serials in the collection, to identify those that are in the public domain and can be shared freely with the world. Findings are published on the Web, through web pages and JSON structured data files linked with Wikidata. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/db/
• Forward to Libraries finds books on a Wikipedia article's subject at a reader's local library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Forward_to_Libraries
• Pattypan uploader for Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pattypan
• url2commons https://admin.toolforge.org/tool/url2commons
• Wikidata request a query https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query

Project pages

• Western University, Ontario Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/University_of_Western_Ontario
• State Library of NSW, Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales
• NYU Manga Wikidata project https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_NYU_Libraries/NYU_Manga_Collections
• Wikisource transcription projects https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Transcription_Projects
• Smithsonian Wikimedian at Large and edit-a-thon projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Smithsonian_Institution/American_Women%27s_History_Initiative_(AWHI)
• WikiProject Women in Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red
• WikiProject Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Wikidata Pilot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot
• Wikidata and ORCID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORCID
• Boston University Wikipedia in the Classroom https://library.bu.edu/wikipedia
• African Studies Centre, Leiden NL collection images added to Wikimedia Commons https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/photographs
• Swiss National Library Wikimedia Commons upload https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Swiss_National_Library
• Wikipedia Weekly https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa5oYsCabGo7XwwKGqo7Qcw

Presentation: Structured Data on Commons by John Cummings (UNESCO) and Alicia Fagerving (Wikimedia Sverige)

• Presentation slides: in Google docs
• Project documentation at Documentation at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
• Wikipedia Weekly: Structured Data on Commons explained (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLFReHgDpWo

Future initiatives and opportunities for WLUG to support wikibrarians / librarians / wikimedians in our work:

• Calendar of events where Wiki and Library communities have opportunities to represent and share Google spreadsheet
• Workshop: How to organise an editathon https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon
• Workshop: Wikimedia Commons and structured data
• OCLC Wikipedia + Libraries Better Together: training gives confidence to consider what you want your impact to be on Wikipedia specifically https://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/wikipedia-libraries.html