5 As a general statement, Wikipedia is an unparalleled general information source for the everyday Web user in magnitude and use. More concretely in university settings, studies have consistently demonstrated students’ heavy reliance on Web search engines and on Wikipedia. See Weber et al. (2018) for a relatively recent German study containing a literature review and Bury (2011) for a study from York University.
6 Data maintenance—of links to material and corresponding descriptions—is imperative to keeping information accessible and up-to-date in the long run. Wikidata, an open and collaboratively edited database “of all things” by the Wikimedia Foundation, is interesting in this light since it provides an easy and open interface for persistent description, which can serve as a single access point for data maintenance.
7 The template and documentation are available on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Archival_records
8 An up-to-date list of articles linking to Template:Archival records can be viewed on: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Archival_records&namespace=0.
9 Formal edit-a-thon collaborations in 2020 include: International Day of Women and Girls in Science edit-a-thon at the Ontario Science Centre (https://rascto.ca/content/ontario-science-centre-international-day-wom-en-and-girls-science) and Ontario Wikipedia edit-a-thon for Open Education Week ( https://www.openeducationweek.org/events/ontario-wikipedia-edit-a-thon).
References
Bury, S. (2011). Faculty attitudes, perceptions and experiences of information literacy: A study across multiple disciplines at York University, Canada. Journal of Information Literacy, 5(1), 45–64. https://doi.org/10.11645/5.1.1513.
Gertler, M. (2015). ree priorities: A discussion paper. https://threepriorities.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Three-Priorities-Discussion-Paper.pdf.
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Russell, R. (2020, February 10). Wikipedia “edit-a-thon” helps ll information gaps about Black history in Canada. University of Toronto Scarborough News. Retrieved October 16, 2020, from https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/our-community/wikipedia-edit-thon-helps- ll-information-gaps-about-black-history-canada.
