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Adding academics to Wikipedia by academic librarians: reflections on Ukrainian context

Name(s) and/or username(s)[edit]

User:Anntinomy

Topic[edit]

Type of submission (Please choose one)[edit]

  • Individual Presentations (15 minutes)

Keywords and hashtags[edit]

academics, scholars, faculty staff, biographical Wikipedia articles, academia representation, conflict of interest, quality issue

Abstract[edit]

Promoting Wikipedia by Ukrainian Wikimedians and Wikipedia’s reputation as another space for scholar profile brought some visible results over the past decade. Along with hosting edit-a-thon events and encouraging library users to edit Wikipedia, academic librarians are also getting involved in editing. They add content as part of their professional activity: articles about professors and academia seems to be on the top of their interest in this process. And by reviewing those articles, I observe some advantages and disadvantages of such work. Let's figure what prevails...

Expected outcomes[edit]

  • Pros and cons of writing on academics by librarians of the same institution shared
  • does and donts on involving librarians in editing discussed

Duration (without Q&A)[edit]

15 min

Specific requirements[edit]

Also submitted Like Wikipedia but showier: gallery page about library on WikiCommons

Interested attendees (Please add yourself, and you may indicate your questions to the presenter).[edit]

  1. I'm always curious about how to get academic librarians interested in editing! Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 16:40, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2. I personally avoid editing articles about professors or employees at my institution. However, I did help an academic library in Europe that was doing this (because it did not go as planned and they needed help fixing the situation). Bridges2Information (talk) 17:31, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Ngostary2k (talk) 10:06, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Lilian Viana (talk) 22:33, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Klaul (talk)


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