User:How to:1Lib1Ref/Basics

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Overview

Basics

Not so Basics

Basics

Pre-requisites

Here's a list of things your users should know before joining the campaign. You'll find this emoji 👉 to mark what type of workshop you should be thinking about in case they don't.

So let's check if your users know the basics of:

1. 💻 How Computers Work and How To Edit in WYSIWYG Interfaces 👉 Media Literacy Workshop

2. 📚 Trusted Sources and Where to Find Them 👉 Information Literacy Workshop

3. 🤝 How Wikipedia works 👉 Wiki-basics workshop (get some inspiration here)

Prepare for #1Lib1Ref

1. Prepare your workshops!
   1. 👩‍🏫 Get inspired by the slides others have prepared (& you can reuse!)
   2. 📺 Get some ideas from past workshops available on YouTube (in English, in Spanish)
   3. ♻️ Reuse some of the resources on how to add references (see resources section below)
2. Craft a list of articles you want to edit!
   1. You can use Citation Hunt (see tools section below)
   2. Or you can ask for a list from this pilot project
3. Have a list of reliable sources!
   1. 📚For instance, AfLIA has created this list of reliable sources for each country in Africa that participated in their campaigns <3
   2. 📖 And there's a great online session on how to access Jstor, and other amazing databases via The Wikipedia Library

Promote #1Lib1Ref

Organizers around the world have shared with us their most successful strategies for the #1Lib1Ref Campaign, you could:

1. Start a Social Media Campaign to Promote Your Activities
   1. Create a Hashtag and a template to share the Stories of Why Librarians are joining. For instance, AfLIA posts both with #1Lib1Ref to connect with the whole world, and #AfLibWk to connect regionally
   2. Create a short video in which librarians show how they can join the campaign, here's how the WMCZ did it!
   3. Write a blog post about your campaign and share it. Get inspired by these examples:
      1. Mexico (in Spanish)
      2. Punjabi experience (in English)
      3. Japan (in Japanese)
      4. Ucrania (in Ucranian)
2. Create a landing page in your own language or for your region (i.e. Spain, Latin America, Czech Republic)

Celebrate #1Lib1Ref with prizes

Get your ways of recognition ready! Here are five ideas

1. They could be barnstars, like the beautiful ones WMCZ created

   

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2. It could be a certificate. Like the ones Wikimedia Serbia hands out

   

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3. They could be professional development points💡The Library And Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) offered CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points to members who do a certain amount of edits/additions. Usually 1 CPD point for every 25 edits
4. 🎁It can be customized gifts. Check out the Ucranian planners / post its.
5. It can be Wikimedia Swag, and you can ask for some prizes here

Resources for #1Lib1Ref

• Adding citations one pager

• Adding citations with the visual editor (video)

• Cómo añadir referencias (Spanish)

• Cómo agregar referencias (Video español)

#1Lib1Ref tools

1. Citation Hunt. An amazing tool to get a list of articles with the "citation needed" template. The tool works with more than 10 languages. Here's how to use it:

2. Hashtags. A very useful tool to count all contributions that used a specific hashtag in the edit summary