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

Wikipedia’s 1Lib1Ref campaign is back in 2022 and we need your help representing SLQ!

Imagine a world where every librarian added one more references to Wikipedia? 1Lib1Ref is a campaign aimed to achieve that dream, organised by librarians around the world to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia making the content more accurate and creditable. No to the fake news! The campaign runs annually from 15 May to 5 June.

Who better to add creditable references than Librarians, skilled information professionals! State Library of Queensland also gets the benefit of adding links to our content on the world’s 5th most visited website, attracting 6.1 billion clicks per month! You can read about some of the most popular State Library of Queensland content on Wikipedia in our blog, loved by millions across the world!

Wiki editing is very simple and training is available for those who haven’t used Wikipedia before. During the campaign, Collection Engagement is hosting Drop-in editing sessions, see dates and times below. If you can't attend one of these session you can still contribute during the campaign.

If you’re interested in participating please contact Troy Keith or Tania Schafer in Collection Engagement. You can choose to make the edits any time during the 3 week period or you can attend an online drop in session run by Wikimedia Australia & New Zealand. Collection Engagement will also host 3 onsite drop in sessions in the Neil Roberts Research Lounge, L4, please BYO your own laptop.

Wikipedia has organised a dashboard for State Library of Queensland to track our edits and compete against other libraries around the world. Please let Troy or Tania know your Wiki username so we can add you to the dashboard and have your edits counted.

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.

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.

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

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

• General editing guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SUjQW0yXyww-iwUgZ5soFbPeL7xqQccn/view
• One page specific guide on how to add a reference: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_add_a_reference_(1pager).png
• Simple instructions on the 1Lib1Ref page: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/1Lib1Ref_2022