Alex, thank you so much for this interesting email! Yesterday, AIB (Italian Library Association) ask me to write a report of #1Lib1Ref, with a focus on italian community partecipation. I'll see link above very carefully, but do you think we have meaningful data by the end of January? Cheers Chiara
2016-01-13 20:59 GMT+01:00 Alex Stinson <[email protected]>: > Hi Wikimedians! > > The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign > taking off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global > libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping > the world get access to reliable knowledge. > > Please explore the hashtag on Twitter and other social media: we have > several dozen websites, library organizations, and individuals blog and > reflect on their experience. For example: > https://twitter.com/search?q=%231Lib1Ref . I have included a preview of > some of our tracking below for a sense of our scale. > > Please use the campaign to promote the exciting GLAM, research, and > Wikimedia community projects you think librarians would be interested in. > > We still need your help: > > - > > Keep sharing and emphasizing the hashtag #1lib1ref. Try to pair your > posts with #Wikipedia15 when you can. > - > > Help translate the main page of the campaign into more languages: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref > - > > Note: We use some of the headers and sentences in this page, to > generate multilingual social media posts. > - > > The campaign technically starts on Friday, but we need to continuously > remind the global libraries community that they a) can start adding > references now, and b) should continue adding references all next week. Oh, > and its not just librarians who are adding references for the campaign -- > that's just our target audience :) > - > > Publish blogposts talking about Wikmedia’s opportunities with > libraries. Here are a small sample blog posts that might help inspire your > work: > - > > From our Italian Colleagues : > > http://librarianscape.com/2016/01/09/wikipedia-un-posto-per-bibliotecari/ > - > > From DLF: https://www.diglib.org/archives/11060/ > - > > From our Catalan colleagues: > > http://blogcrai.ub.edu/2016/01/13/el-crai-de-la-universitat-de-barcelona-sadhereix-a-la-campanya-1lib1ref/ > - > > Reach out to the librarians using the hashtag: some of them are even > hosting lunch gatherings, or small editing events that engage library > staffs. These librarians are potential leaders for local events and > GLAM-Wiki activities. > > > If successful, we hope to run a similar campaign next year, with more > direction and leadership from a volunteer committee (this year we decided > to move quick, and test the concept alongside #Wikipedia15 ). If you are > interested in helping organize, let us know at > [email protected] . > > > Give feedback on the campaign and resources that would be helpful for next > years campaign on the talk page on meta : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref > > Thank you so much for those who have already stepped up to lead on social > media and translating the meta page! > > Alex Stinson > > Project Manager > > The Wikipedia Library > > > What impact are we seeing? > > We are tracking several different elements of this campaign: > > - > > Usage of the hashtag in social media -- over 600 tweets have used the > hashtag since January 4. We are also tracking the hashtag on facebook and > linkedin -- both of which are major networks for librarians. > - > > Our facebook event is beginning to spread - > https://www.facebook.com/events/975178119187954/ -- please invite more > people from your library networks > - > > Page views - we are seeing between 400-600 pageviews, with nearly 7000 > views in the last month on the English Version of the campaign page, and > Italian, French and Spanish are seeing 40-60 views a day. Moreover, > Catalans page, which is on ca.wikipedia, has seen over 2000 visits in the > last month: > http://stats.grok.se/ca/latest/Viquiprojecte:Bibliowikis/1Lib1Ref > - > > We are beginning to see hashtag used on English Wikipedia’s edit > summaries http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/1lib1ref . Based on > other social media discussions, we think this represents <60% of the > activity so far. > - > > We are working with Stephen LaPorte to help the tool support top 20 > language Wikipedias, and Wikipedias like Romanian where we know > community > members are sharing the campaign. Let us know if you don’t think your > language will be in that group. > - > > A new phabricator item has been -- it would be incredibly useful > for other kinds of campaigns: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123529 . Please leave feedback > and use cases. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > >
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