Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Well if this was not a Wiki, I could agree with you. However in a Wiki we need to be complete, we need to understand an issue and work towards a solution. Your assertion that the community "is not fixing that problem and indeed is unable to fix that problem" is therefore an assertion that is b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-28 Thread Jennifer Pryor-Summers
Gerard Thank you for explaining to me what it is that I fail to understand. In the same spirit, let me adopt for once your own, somewhat assertive terminology, to explain to you what you do not understand, namely the scale of the problem: the major Wikipedia projects have millions of unreferenced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-28 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The thing you fail to understand is how much of what we do is done by a community. What we need is collaboration with the world of libraries. It is embodied by librarians and yes, it is important that they are on our side. To be on our side, they need to know Wikipedia, what we are doing in Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-28 Thread Jennifer Pryor-Summers
Jake Thanks for that, but I think we need to preserve a sense of proportion here. According to a recent WMF Research finding, see https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/03/can-machine-learning-uncover-wikipedias-missing-citation-needed-tags/ ,"one out of four articles in English Wikipedia does n

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing 1Lib1Ref (1Bib1Ref) in May 2019!

2019-04-25 Thread Jake Orlowitz
Librarians and library lovers, Next month from May 15th to June 5th we will be joining together around the world to make Wikipedia more reliable. You can participate in #1Lib1Ref by simply adding a citation to Wikipedia's content. That's all we ask and imagine: a world in which every librarian (