Internal Origin
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- Diverse group: countries, gender
- Diversity in library types: “state”, “academic/research”, no public librarian but some of us work with public librarians
- Library knowledge, Wikipedia knowledge
- Support of other members of the User Group
- Experience in working in the Library+Wikipedia intersection, lots of know-how
- some WMF staff support
- One of the strengths of this group is the fact that there are some founding members still here and could pass on some experiences
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- No resources, no budget, all volunteers (with other busy lives)
- Just advisory. No capacity to enforce decisions, only to influence
- Multiple timezones, makes it harder to hold meetings
- Newness of the group, most of us have never worked together before.
- Coming from different backgrounds, timezones, cultures and having different temperaments
- Inability to meet in person
- Relationship with Wikipedia Library is somewhat unclear (goals are somewhat different?)
- Inability to resource Wikimedia projects that libraries might want to undertake, difficult to locate local Wikipedians to engage with them
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External Origin
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- Spreading the message to the wider library community (staff and patrons) and engaging with them to shift attitudes
- Advocating for Wikimedia projects before librarians themselves and the academics
- Creating ways for more joint projects between libraries and Wikipedians (edit-athon, digitization, etc)
- Roll out more of OCLC course “Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together” (or things like it)’
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- Conflict of interest on-wiki as paid editors. Need to remind everyone (librarians and Wikipedians) of en:WP:CURATOR (ok for librarians to write about collections, not a CoI)
- Additions to and discussions of the last meeting’s brainstorm list of “what we might do”
- If possible, pick a couple of items on that list as our top priorities of things to do first
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