Doing wikipedia

when you're not editing

wikipedia

Stuart Yeates

History

● Started 10 years ago

● 100 million hours of TV / day in the USA

● Divert 1% of those hours

● Build an encyclopedia

● ...from the point of view of TV watchers…

● → GLAM + diversity initiatives

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Encourage the generation of quality

secondary sources

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Digitise Holdings

3

Open licensing of holdings

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These are the primary reasons we

love GLAM institutions

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Open licensing of institutionally-

generated content

5

Publishing historical institutional

content to the web

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Publishing historical industry

content to the web

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Publishing obituaries

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Encouraging user groups to publish

reviews

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Use an interoperable authority

control scheme

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Don't change your URLs

Systematic Bias

● Understand what biases you have

● Understand that individual Wikipedia editors

are almost certainly worse than you are

● Things you can do to help...

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Churn historical institutional content

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Prioritise historically female-

dominated professions and

organisations

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Prioritise historically Māori-

dominated professions and

organisations

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Encourage the generation of quality

secondary sources

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Proper authority control for iwi

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Use proper personal names

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Use specific geographical names

Questions?