The Wikipedia Library project hopes between January 15 and February 3, 2017 to coax every librarian in the world to add one reference citation to a Wikipedia article. There are over 166,000 librarians in the United States alone, so let's guess about 300,000 in the world?
The campaign as of January 16 has generated 1,543 contributions. So, they've already met about 0.5% of their goal!
GoooooooooooOOOOOOOO LIBRARIANS!
#1Lib1Ref
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Re: #1Lib1Ref
Obviously the stated goal is not the real goal, which is to raise WP's profile with librarians and to get more of them directly contributing footnotes from the mass of sources available around them. The 0.5% Kohs Quotient™® cited here means very little.thekohser wrote:The Wikipedia Library project hopes between January 15 and February 3, 2017 to coax every librarian in the world to add one reference citation to a Wikipedia article. There are over 166,000 librarians in the United States alone, so let's guess about 300,000 in the world?
The campaign as of January 16 has generated 1,543 contributions. So, they've already met about 0.5% of their goal!
GoooooooooooOOOOOOOO LIBRARIANS!
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Re: #1Lib1Ref
How do we know how many librarians have added a reference without notifying WMF? There are edits from libraries all the time; no way of knowing if it's a librarian or just someone using the place as a free Internet café.
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Re: #1Lib1Ref
That's the beauty of Wikimedia Movement Key Performance Indicators -- there's so much ambiguity, anything can be painted as a rip-roaring success!Poetlister wrote:How do we know how many librarians have added a reference without notifying WMF? There are edits from libraries all the time; no way of knowing if it's a librarian or just someone using the place as a free Internet café.
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