Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of Queensland/1Lib1Ref 2019

" Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia."

#1Lib1Ref (One Librarian, One Reference) is a global micro contributions drive run twice a year, with the Southern Hemisphere version running from 15 May - 5 June 2019. The campaign is a call to action - if librarians each add one reference to Wikipedia, the potentially thousands of citations to reliable sources will benefit Wikipedia readers worldwide.

Why? Because authoritative and reliable sources matter! Wikipedia is a starting point for research, it’s the 5th most visited website in the world with 17 billion page views per month (that’s right, billion) and #1Lib1Ref is the campaign to address the knowledge gaps with the wonderful reference skills of librarians.

But you don't need to be a librarian, all staff are invited to participate and improve digital access to our collections and the quality of articles on Wikipedia.

Don’t cite Wikipedia, write Wikipedia.

Wikipedia does not want you to cite it. It considers itself a tertiary resource; an online encyclopedia built from articles which in turn are based on reliable, published, secondary sources (the kind librarians know how to find!)

State Library of Queensland's campaign for the 2017 and 2019 #1lib1ref were successful and if we think about Wikipedia in terms of focusing on scalability in the community, we want to improve upon our effort in 2019.

State Library is running six editing sessions over three weeks of the campaign between 15 May and 7 June. If you're a beginner or haven't edited for a while, don't worry, experienced Wikipedians will bet there to help you and we have easy editing tasks for you to work on.

To get started:

Confirm with your supervisor about attending one or more session. Remember, they are drop in sessions so how long you stay is up to you.
Create your Wikipedia account.
Encourage your colleagues to join you!

How to Edit:

There are three options for you to edit Wikipedia during the campaign:

During the editing sessions, Choose from the editing tasks we have created using Queensland related collection material (see 'Editing Tasks' below).
Filling a "Citation Needed" using the Wiki Labs Citation Hunt tool.
Choosing your own subject areas of interest, finding the Wikipedia article and adding some quality research and citations.

Why should I participate?

Because libraries and Wikipedia are natural allies! The Wikimedia Foundation writes, "Learning how to critically evaluate Wikipedia is a key skill. Librarians are in a perfect position to dispel myths and use Wikipedia as a case study for teaching information literacy skills; however, it can be hard to teach these skills without experience in Wikipedia's content creation process ... #1lib1ref is the library community coming together to examine Wikipedia critically, while also giving that most precious birthday gift: a citation."

Edit-a-thon sessions

Six editing sessions will be held at State Library of Queensland during the campaign. Come along to a session with your supervisor's permission.

There are 15 Mac computers available or you can BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

If you can't make it to a session, don't let that stop you, you can still edit at your desk! Be sure to let us know so we can enrol you as an editor and your edits will contribute to the overall State Library effort.

Day	Date	Time	Venue
Wednesday	15 May 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Tuesday	21 May 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Thursday	23 May 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Tuesday	28 May 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Thursday	30 May 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Wednesday	5 June 2019	9am – 12pm	Digital Media Lab, Ground Floor, The Edge, State Library of Queensland

Editing Tasks

There will be a variety of editing for you to choose, from easy to intermediate Wikipedia editing tasks. All of the tasks will improve Wikipedia with SLQ collection content and add to the global citation count for #1lib1ref. Every contribution counts! Lucky dips will be available at all editing sessions, or just contact us if you'd like some lucky dip tasks to work on at other times.

Lucky Dip Task: Real Estate Maps in Queensland

State Library of Queensland has a unique collection of digitised real estate maps and plans created by real estate firms from the 1850s to the mid-1900s. Real estate maps can provide information about how land was subdivided, auctioned, who the surveyors were and who sold the land. They can be gems for investigating urban development, local history and house histories.

Working in the place name article, we will be adding the information from the map about the subdivision of the land at that time. Citations will be the digitised map on the One Search catalogue and a Trove article corroborate that evidence, if it exists.

Editing Tasks

Step 1. From the Lucky Dip of place names, search and find your place name in Wikipedia.

Step 2. Search this Google Sheet for the current place name the map refers to (Column B - Current Place estate map refers to).

Step 3. Click the URL in Column E (the Handle) to open the map in One Search.

Step 4. Scan the map for the following details:

The date of the auction
The auctioneer or land seller
The number of blocks that are offered for sale or auction
Any information on the map that may help distinguish its position or tell us unique information (near to railway station, distance from nearest town centre etc.)

Step 5. In a new tab, search Trove digitised newspapers for the Estate name and the date of the auction (if available). For some of the maps, a corresponding Trove article has already been located, check Column E (Trove article URL) for a Trove url. If you find an article that endorses the information on the map, keep the tab open.

Step 6. In the place name Wikipedia article, click Edit and look for the History heading. If there isn't one, create it.

Step 7. Type in sentences the information you have found in the map. For example:

See Holland Park West:

In May 1914, on what is now known as Holland Park West, 62 subdivided allotments of "Hill Farm Estate" were advertised to be auctioned by G.T. Bell and Chandler and Russell. A map advertising the auction states the Estate was 12 minutes' walk from the Logan Road tram.

See Clayfield (redirected from Eagle Junction):

In February 1888, "Isleton Estate" made up of 236 allotments were advertised to be auctioned by R. R. Cottell. A map advertising the auction states the Estate was exactly opposite Eagle Junction Railway Station with 30 trains passing a day.

See Airlie Beach:

In December 1956, 18 allotments were advertised to be auctioned as Perpetual Town Leases by the Department of Public Lands office. The map advertising the auction states the allotments were situated approximately 15 miles north-east of Prosperpine.

Step 8. Cite your information using the handle and catalogue record information, and the Trove article (hint: use the basic form option and adding the Wikitext Wikipedia citation option in Trove to make a quick citation. It's easy - ask us how!). The format date when adding your web citation is DD/Month/YYYY e.g.: 25 February 2019.

Step 9. Go back to the Google Sheet, add the Trove article url (if available) to Column E.

Step 10. Mark off your place name and map title fields in the Google Sheet accordingly:

Green: You've successfully added the map and Trove article (if available) to the place name article. Nice work!
Orange: The map and/or article needs more investigation.
Red: If it's looking like this map cannot be added - there is an error somewhere, or you are really stuck identifying the map content.

Important!:

For those suburbs whose borders share a map, add the same citation to each place name.
For multiple place names, first check that the map entry in the Google Sheet isn't duplicated before adding as a citation.

Dashboard

We use the Wikimedia Outreach Programs and Events dashboard to monitor and evaluate our progress. The dashboard collects metrics and provides instant access to the number of editors involved in the campaign, articles edited, words added, articles created, uploads to Wikimedia Commons and article views - an estimate of the number of page views to the pages contributed to as part of the program, from the first edit to that page by an enrolled editor.

Keep an eye on our #1Lib1Ref 2019 dashboard to see how we are tracking!