User:Troykeith85/2022 1Lib1Ref

Thanks to those State Library staff who have volunteered to help add SLQ content to Wikipedia pages during the 1Lib 1Ref 2022 campaign.

What’s 1Lib 1 Ref you ask?

Basically in a nutshell, during the dates 15 May – 5 June we want to get as many references to SLQ content inserted into Wikipedia pages as possible. Why do we want to do this I bet your asking, some points below..…..

Wikipedia is the 5^th most visited website, attracting 6.1 billion clicks per month!
When you Google any topic a Wikipedia page will be in the top search results. A good Wikipedia page has links to creditable, authoritative material such as SLQ’s content & collections.
Having links to our material on Wikipedia helps get our content & collections out to a global audience and helps drive online traffic to our blogs, website and catalogue.
The campaign is mutually beneficial to Wikipedia as we are making their information more creditable and authoritative.
It’s interesting to see where SLQ’s content is turning up. Read this blog to find out what are the most viewed Wikipedia pages with State Library content: State Library content, loved by millions across the world!
An example of a Wikipedia page full of SLQ references is Lillian Cooper. Lots of links for those interested in Lillian Cooper to our blogs and Dangerous Women podcast.

So go ahead and get editing! If you're proficient at using Wikipedia you can make edits anytime you like between 15 May – 5 June. If you're new to Wikipedia or just want a designated time to make edits, join us for one of the onsite drop in sessions in the Fellowship Research Lounge, L4, BYO laptop:

Drop-in Wikipedia Editing Sessions
Day	Date	Time	Venue
Wednesday	18 May 2022	10:30am - 12noon	Fellowship Research Lounge, L4
Thursday	27 May 2022	10am - 12noon	Fellowship Research Lounge, L4
Wednesday	31 May 2022	10am - 12noon	Fellowship Research Lounge, L4

Editing Tasks

You can check out what content other SLQ Wiki editors are adding to Wikipedia by clicking on the activity tab of the Dashboard.

If you're working in any particular editing project feel free to list the details below to inspire other Wiki editors:

TroyKeith85
- Adding a paragraph and link to the James C Sourris Digital Stories for those artist who have a Wikipedia page.
- Adding links to significant oral histories from the collection.

MetadataMindset
- Adding links to SLQ Indigenous Languages resources to relevant Indigenous Language Wikipedia pages.

You can choose any Wikipedia article and use any SLQ content to cite - the website, catalogue records, blogs. All our blogs have a creative commons license so you can copy part of the text from a blog and insert it into a wiki page, then cite the blog (use the SLQ blog citation template below). If you want a specific task to work on you can put links to our 120 Birthday Blogs into relevant Wikipedia pages. For example we have a blog on the stinging gympie gympie plant, copy some text from the blog, insert it into the Wikipedia article (Dendrocnide moroides) and reference the blog or add a link to the blog under External Links heading in the bottom of the Wikipedia page.

SLQ Blog citation template

Follow the steps below to use the Creative Commons citation template for referencing SLQ's blog:

Highlight the text you want to reference.
Click on Cite.
Click on the Manual Tab - Basic.
Click on Insert - Template.
Search for SLQ and click on the SLQ CC BY template. Fill in the details of the reference.
Click insert to finish the citation!