Content tagged Wikipedia
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- IFLA releases 6 videos on Wikidata and Wikibase in Libraries
In February 2020, IFLA received a WikiCite grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to carry out a WLIC 2020 satellite event in Dublin. Due to developments related to COVID19, the project was...
News - 24 September 2020
- #1Lib1Ref 2020 starts today!
Today is the start of the biannual 1Lib1Ref event! From 15th January to 5th February 2020, librarians around the world will contribute to the 5th campaign taking place on Wikipedia. The...
News - 15 January 2020
Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Wikipedia
- #1Lib1Ref 2019
For the third year in a row, the Wikimedia Foundation is organising #1Lib1Ref. This highlights the potential for librarians to improve Wikipedia by adding citations. These in turn make...
Event - 16 January 2019
Tags: 1Lib1Ref, Access to information, Access to knowledge, Cultural heritage, Event, Wikipedia
- Delivering Information for All: #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018
#1Lib1Ref – one librarian, one reference – is the Wikimedia Foundation’s initiative to engage the collective knowledge of libraries to improve the quality and...
News - 25 May 2018
Tags: Access to information, Copyright, local content, Wikipedia, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)
- Presenting the IFLA Wikipedia Opportunities Papers
Over the past year, Librarians and Wikipedians have been working together to showcase the many successful collaborations between libraries and Wikipedia. Starting with the first...
News - 17 January 2017
Tags: Access to information, Wikipedia
- Wikipedia birthday greetings
15 years ago a new multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopaedia project was launched. With the birth of Wikipedia, freedom of access to information reached a...
News - 15 January 2016
Tags: IFLA, IFLA President, Wikipedia