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WikiProject Libraries

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Goals and scope

Goals

• Coordinate maintenance of library-related content
• Develop and discuss proposals for improvements to Wikimedia (especially literature-related sites) based on library experience
• Assist at the Wikipedia Reference Desk
• Assist with categorization

Scope

This WikiProject covers all areas of library and information science, including (but not limited to):

• Libraries, librarians, and librarianship in all its aspect (historical, fictional, ancient to contemporary and beyond!).
• All areas of information science, including information organization, retrieval, search, access, and manipulation (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Computer Science).
• Archives, archivists, and archival science.
• Preservation and conservation of recorded information (sometimes overlapping with WikiProject Museums).

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To do

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Article alerts and assessments

Automatically generated list of new articles with Library keywords

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 22 Feb 2014 – Jazz Loft Project (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 15 Feb 2014 – List of database subscriptions provided by US public libraries (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Tbennert (t · c) was deleted; see discussion (8 participants)

Article assessments

Libraries articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	1			2
FL		1	2	1			4
GA	2	1	3	25			31
B	3	8	27	70			108
C	5	11	44	134			194
Start	8	41	270	1,963		1	2,283
Stub	2	13	75	1,869			1,959
List	5	4	86	248	3		346
Category				1	598		599
Disambig				2	5		7
File					32		32
Portal		1					1
Project					11		11
Template					24		24
NA				2	30		32
Assessed	25	80	508	4,316	703	1	5,633
Unassessed		1	1	1		2	5
Total	25	81	509	4,317	703	3	5,638
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 700424336000000000024,336			Ω = 5.32

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article identification and assessment

• Identify, assess, and tag the talk pages of relevant articles using the {{WikiProject Libraries}} banner

• Provide assessment for unassessed articles for both quality and importance.

• Provide assessment for Libraries articles of unknown importance

Writing new articles

• Develop articles on Requested articles: Library sciences
• Develop articles on List of basic library and information science topics.
• See also content at LISWiki

Group collaboration

Collaborate for two months on a single article to develop it up to Featured Article status!

• Readers'_advisory - November/December 2009

Fact checking and adding sources

• See the Fact and reference check project.
• Add links to library special or digital collections to appropriate articles.
  • See Tacoma Narrows Bridge for an example.
  • See the presentation Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections.

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See also

See also all subpages of WikiProject Libraries.

Cleanup

See the cleanup listing generated by WolterBot.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Bibliographies
• WikiProject Biography/Science and academia - Science & academia biographies
• WikiProject History of Science
• WikiProject Academic Journals
• WikiProject Digital Preservation
• WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles - host of the List of missing journals

Additional resources

• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers
• Category:Wikipedian librarians
• German Wikipedia: Library Reference Service
• COinS in Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:ISBN
• GLAM

Projects of the Wikimedia Foundation

• b:Introduction to Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin
• m:Wikicat
• v:Learning Project

External links

• Libweb - Library WWW Servers
• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Libraries

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

Guide to WikiProjects

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