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Wiki

for

Science

Librarians

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Lane Rasberry

Wikipedian in Residence,

Consumer Reports

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lrasberry@consumer.org

User:bluerasberry

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Agenda

  • Why should anyone care
  • What is Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia and libraries

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Care because Wikipedia gets traffic

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In summary -

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Wikipedia more popular

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Popular + noncommerical

5. Wikipedia

99. BBC.com

105. BBC.co.uk

137. Pirate Bay

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192. Mozilla

227. Internet Archive

234. NIH.gov

423. US Post Service

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What is Wikipedia?

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Anyone can edit

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5 million articles

80+ languages

80,000 editors

Encyclopedia...

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Sentence -

Citation

Wikipedia’s rule

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Wikipedia + Libraries

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2017 and still -

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Most information is not easily accessible online

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Audience metrics

likes

tweets

views

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- Host shares info

- Wiki gets content

- Attendees enjoy

Wiki partnership

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Thanks Jamie Saragossi at Stony Brook!

Health communication, autumn 2015 class

Open Access Week 2016, library project

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Thanks Touro and librarian Sara Tabaei

Physical therapy, spring 2016 class

Physical therapy, spring 2017 class

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Thanks both schools for Cochrane support

Global ageing, October 2016 class

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Wiki + Science

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Questions?

Lane Rasberry

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Thanks SlidesCarnival.com for the Slides!