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Note: Page numbers in italic and bold indicate figures and tables; Page numbers followed by “n” indicate chapter notes.
- A
- Àbac, 165
- academic primary source research-based learning programs, 35–45
- education programs
- future recommendations for, 43
- Historical Book Review, 39–40
- impact in and beyond the classroom, 42–43
- limitations of, 43
- On Expedition course, 38–39
- Opening up old books: Investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht, 40–42
- noneducational Wikimedia project
- Wiki-Scientists project, 44
- education programs
- Academy of Medicine of Toronto, 235
- ACRL. See Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
- AFC. See Article for Creation (AFC)
- AfLIA. See African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA)
- #AfLibWk, 124, 126
- African academic libraries, partnering with Wikimedia projects, 119–29
- Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 96
- African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA)
- and Wikimedia partnerships, 119, 124–27
- challenges to, 127–29
- opportunities for, 127–29
- and Wikimedia partnerships, 119, 124–27
- AfroCROWD, 98
- Aguilar, Verónica, 185–86
- Allen, Clarissa Minnie Thompson
- Treading the Winepress, 294
- Amazon, 289
- American Library Association, 71
- American University of Central Asia (AUCA), 5, 7–9, 15
- Amical-way, 159, 163, 166, 169
- Amical Wikimedia, 158, 161–66, 168
- Anais do Museu Paulista, 264–74, 265
- Andorran Copyright Law, 165
- Appiah, Kwame, 96
- Archives of Gender and Sexuality, 115
- Art+Feminism, 22, 123, 139, 220, 222
- Article for Creation (AFC), 225, 226
- Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 64, 302
- Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, 55, 64, 68–72, 80
- Association of Research Libraries, 296
- Athena Scientific Women’s Academic Network (SWAN), 204
- AUCA. See American University of Central Asia (AUCA)
- authentic learning, in cultural anthropology, 64–76
- advice and recommendations, 74–76
- assessment, 85
- assignment, 67–68, 80, 83–85
- disciplinary information literacy
- empowering learners, 74
- gender bias, 73–74
- information literacy, as social justice, 71–73
- Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, 68–71
- Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, 69–70
- Scholarship as Conversation, 70–71
- learning outcomes, 80, 81–83
- literature review
- editing Wikipedia, in higher education classrooms, 66
- librarians–faculty collaboration, 66–67
- semester lengths, 85–86
- Wikipedia editing assignment, 80
- Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, 69–70, 73
- B
- Backer, Alice, 98
- BAnQ. See Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
- BDCV. See Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas (BDCV)
- Berson, Amber, 220–21
- Bezzi, Tommaso Guadenzio, 264
- bibliographic references, structuring, 260–75
- context, 263–65
- data visualization, 273–74, 274
- sources on Wikimedia projects, 261–63, 262
- Zotero, importing scholarly articles into Wikidata via, 266–73, 267–70, 273
- Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas (BDCV)
- WIR in, 177, 182–91
- collaboration, 184–86
- fireplaces, building, 186–91, 188
- #1Bib1Ref, 183–84
- strengths, leveraging, 184–86, 185
- WIR in, 177, 182–91
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), 115
- Bibliothèques de la Ville de Montréal, 115
- #Bibliowikis
- in Catalonia’s public libraries, 158–70
- volunteer-driven philosophy, 162–67
- deployment, 163–65
- strengths, 165–67
- threats, 165–67
- uncertainties, 165–67
- weaknesses, 165–67
- BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), 94, 96, 101
- BIPOC in the Built, 99
- Bizdin Muras, 7
- Blackening Wikipedia, 98
- Black Lives Matter movement, 92
- Black Lunch Table (BLT), 97, 98
- Black scholars, encyclopedic knowledge of, 94–96
- Black Wikipedians, 91–102
- future of, 99–101
- libraries and archives, 93–96
- responsibility of, 96–99
- BLT. See Black Lunch Table (BLT)
- Blyden, Edward W., 95
- Bobiwash, Rodney, 219, 238
- Bourg, Chris, 93, 94
- Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 294
- Brightspace, 54
- Brooklyn Public Library, 98
- Buolamwini, Joy, 99
- C
- Carliner, Jesse, 218, 219, 227–28
- Carroll, Emma, 204
- Catalan language, 159–60
- Catalan librarians, Wikipedia’s benefits and opportunities for, 161–62
- Catalan Wikipedia (Viquipèdia), 158–62, 161
- Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC), 168
- CC. See Creative Commons (CC) license
- CDC. See curriculum development consultant (CDC)
- CEAS. See Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales A.C. (CEAS, College of Ethnologists and Social Anthropologists)
- censorship, 14
- chapbooks, 279
- Chávez, Micaela, 182
- Chinese Language Curriculum Guide (Junior Secondary and Senior Secondary), 251–53, 251
- Chinese University of Hong Kong Library (CUHK Library), 247, 248
- “Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk Project (Fun Project)”, 248–54
- Chiu, Alfred Kaiming, 94
- Cisneros, Jaime, 189
- Citation Hunt, 76
- #CiteNLM edit-a-thons, 144–56
- academic libraries, as partners, 152–56
- collaboration, 153–54
- evaluation, 155–56
- host selection, 153
- implementation, 153–54
- campaign history and evolution background, 147
- 2018 campaigns, 147–49
- 2019 campaigns, 149–50
- 2020 campaigns, 150–52
- academic libraries, as partners, 152–56
- #CiteNLM Guide for Organizers, 150, 154
- civic activism, 14–15
- COBDCV. See Official College of Librarians and Documentalists of the Land of Valencia (COBDCV)
- Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropólogos Sociales A.C. (CEAS, College of Ethnologists and Social Anthropologists), 184
- Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios (National College of Librarians), 186
- COLMEX. See El Colegio de México (COLMEX)
- Concordia University Library
- Wikimedian-in-Residence, 220–21
- Connaught Laboratories, 235
- copyright debt, 199
- Coren, Ashleigh, 147
- Creative Commons (CC) license, 9, 22, 23, 168, 189
- critical information literacy, 18–32, 66
- existing infrastructures, 21–23
- iterative collaboration, 23–24
- representation, 27–28
- technology and culture through Wikipedia, understanding, 24–27
- critical pedagogy, 19
- Crockford, Ally, 201
- crowdsourcing, 144–56
- cultural anthropology, authentic learning in, 64–76
- advice and recommendations, 74–76
- assessment, 85
- assignment, 67–68, 80, 83–85
- disciplinary information literacy
- empowering learners, 74
- gender bias, 73–74
- information literacy, as social justice, 71–73
- Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, 68–71
- Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, 69–70
- Scholarship as Conversation, 70–71
- learning outcomes, 80, 81–83
- literature review
- librarians–faculty collaboration, 66–67
- Wikipedia in higher education classrooms, editing, 66
- semester lengths, 85–86
- Wikipedia editing assignment, 80
- culture through Wikipedia, understanding, 24–27
- curriculum development consultant (CDC), 126, 127
- D
- data visualization, 273–74, 274
- Data Visualization Internship, 204
- Davidson, Cathy N.
- New Education, The, 31
- Dean, Phillip Hayes, 294
- Design Justice Network, 101
- Dewey Decimal Classification System, 94
- Dewey, Melville, 94
- Díaz Roble, Tajëëw B., 190
- DIB. See Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB)
- Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), 58
- Diderot, Denis
- Encyclopedie, 95
- DigiComp: Core Competencies for Digital Citizenship, 50–51, 53
- digital citizenship skills, in undergraduate classroom, 47–60
- development of, 48–52
- collaboration, 51–52
- DigiComp: Core Competencies for Digital Citizenship, 50–51, 53
- higher education, 49
- learning design and outcomes, 54–60
- academic’s perspective, 53–54
- librarian’s perspective, 54–56
- Wikipedian’s perspective, 56–59
- development of, 48–52
- digital competence, 48
- disciplinary information literacy, 71–73
- Discovery of the Middle Ages: From Parchment to the Internet, 36
- Dorion, Michel, 112
- Du Bois, W. E. B., 94–96
- Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage (SAE), 44
- E
- ECTS. See European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
- Edinburgh Seven, 201–2, 201, 207, 208, 209
- edit-a-thons, 18–23, 52, 54, 97–99, 124, 164, 165, 168, 182, 184–88, 190–92, 197, 201–4, 208, 219, 222, 224, 243n9, 263, 284, 287
- #CiteNLM, 144–56
- debriefing with collaborators, 137–38
- hearing from peer coaches, 138–42
- challenges, 141
- diversity, 139
- identities, 139
- interests, 139
- prior knowledge, 139–40
- recommendations, 141–42
- resource and community, 140–41
- strengths, 139–40
- institutional context, 134–35
- preparation for, 135–37
- student employee expertise to improve, 132–43
- #Eduwiki, 167, 169
- Ekiti State University, 123
- El Colegio de México (COLMEX), 182
- Gender Studies Program, 184
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 49, 94–95
- Ennegreciendo Wikipedia, 98
- Equate Scotland Careerwise, 204
- Escobar, Claudia, 189, 190
- Escobar, Israel, 185
- ESMUC. See Catalonia College of Music (ESMUC)
- Espinal, Isabel R., 93
- European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), 37
- experiential learning, 53, 60, 240
- F
- Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, 122, 123
- FESABID. See Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentalist, and Museology (FESABID)
- fireplaces, building
- documentation, 187–89, 188
- feedback, 189–91
- MVP approach, 186–87
- First Satellite Launch in Kyrgyzstan project, 13
- Floyd, George, 92
- Fondation Lionel Groulx, 107
- Foster, Kelly, 284
- Framowitz, Daniel Tsvi, 179
- Francophone Wikipedia, liaison contribution to Québécois LGBTQ+ content in, 106–17, 108, 110
- FRBR. See Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
- Freire, Paulo, 26, 28
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), 288
- “Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk Project (Fun Project)”, 248–54
- Fun Writing Literary Footprints Project (2019–2021), 258
- G
- Galvan, Angela, 93
- Gates, Henry, Jr., 96, 99
- gender
- bias, 11, 73–74
- imbalance, 10, 11
- inequality, 12, 72–74
- justice, 10, 11
- Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: A Global Perspective, 64, 65, 67–68, 80
- GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), 21–22, 178, 219, 220, 223, 226, 261, 263
- Google Books, 289, 295
- Google Search, 128, 235, 236, 236, 289
- Grupo de Usuarios Wiki Movimento Brasil (Wiki Movement Brazil User Group), 263
- H
- Hall, Tracie D., 93
- Hart, Heather, 97
- Hathcock, April, 93
- Heilman, James, 147, 148
- higher education, Wikipedia in, 49, 65
- editing, 66
- Highton, Melissa, 199
- Hinojo Sánchez, Àlex, 164
- Historical Book Review, 39–40, 43
- Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki, 247–58, 254, 255
- collaborative learning platform for, 257
- features of, 254–56
- Hong Kong Literature Research Centre (HKLRC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 247–49
- “Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk Project (Fun Project)”, 248–54
- Honma, Todd, 93
- Honours+ program, 37
- hooks, bell, 28
-
- I
- IFLA. See International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Illinois State University Research Grant, 288
- inclusiveness, 14
- Indiana University Ruth Lilly Medical Library, 152
- information literacy, 7, 35, 52, 55, 65, 75, 121, 136, 143, 197, 221, 228, 239
- critical, 18–32, 66
- definition of, 68
- disciplinary, 71–74
- Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, 55, 64, 68–72, 80
- health, 151
- instruction, 67
- skills, 32, 42, 64, 66, 67, 200, 203
- as social justice, 71–72
- in cultural anthropology, 72–73
- traditional, 15
- Information Services Group (ISG), 202
- Information Social Justice, 72
- Institute of Ecology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, 184
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 166, 296
- International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), 291
- International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), 291
- ISBD. See International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
- ISG. See Information Services Group (ISG)
- ISNI. See International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
- J
- Jesuit Library, 68
- Jex-Blake, Sophia, 201, 208
- Jung, Ji Yun Alex, 218, 219, 223
- K
- Kenneth Dike Library, University of Ibadan, 123
- Kibombo, Alice, 127
- Kloda, Lorie, 220, 221, 224, 227
- knowledge equity, promotion of, 200
- Koerner, Jackie, 100
- Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, 1
- Kolb, David A., 60
- Kuhlthau, Carol
- “Inside the Search Process,” 75
- Kyrgyz Wikipedia, 7–8
- L
- Lagos State University, 122
- Lamotte, Mado, 112
- LC. See Library of Congress (LC)
- LCCN. See Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
- LCDGT. See Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT)-controlled vocabulary
- LCSH. See Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
- learning design, 54–60
- academic’s perspective of, 53–54
- librarian’s perspective of, 54–56
- Wikipedian’s perspective of, 56–59
- LGBTQ Media Representation, 22, 23, 28
- LGBT Thought and Culture, 115
- liaison librarians
- contribution to Québécois LGBTQ+ content in Francophone Wikipedia, 106–17, 108, 110
- librarians–faculty collaboration, 66–67
- librarians in Africa
- future directions of, 121–23
- history of, 121–23
- library-based residencies’ activities, 180
- library–faculty collaboration, 5–15
- Library Juice Press, 302
- Library of Congress (LC), 289, 290, 292, 297
- classification system, 94
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN), 291
- Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms (LCDGT)-controlled vocabulary, 289, 290, 292, 293
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), 289
- Library Services Unit of the University of Guadalajara, 186
- LibraryThing, 289
- Lih, Andrew
- Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia, The, 1
- Listeria, 293
- Littlejohn, Allison, 202
- M
- Maastricht Research Based Learning (MaRBLe), 37, 38
- Maastricht University Library, 37, 43, 45
- MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC), 288–90
- and Wikipedia lists, similarities and differences between, 291–96, 293
- MacMillan, Chrystal, 207
- Maize Books, 303, 307n2
- MaRBLe. See Maastricht Research Based Learning (MaRBLe)
- MARC. See MAchine-Readable Cataloging (MARC)
- Mason Undergraduate Peer Research Coaches, 132
- Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Freel Library, 152
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 99
- Mayer, Katherine, 92, 93
- McAndrew, Ewan, 203, 284
- Medical Library Association (MLA), 149–50
- Health Disparities Special Interest Group, 149
- Melnichenko, Mikhail, 180
- Mexican Movement of 1968, 186
- Microsoft Corporation, 96
- Migneault, Benoît, 115
- minimum viable product (MVP), 186–87
- MLA. See Medical Library Association (MLA)
- Movement of Kyrgyz Wikipedians, 8
- Movimientos Sociales, 191
- Mukherji, Diva, 207
- Murrieta, Aidee, 183, 187, 189
- Museu Paulista, 264
- MVP. See minimum viable product (MVP)
- N
- NAF. See Name Authority File (NAF)
- Nairn, Margaret, 207
- Name Authority File (NAF), 293, 297
- Name Authority Records (NARs), 291, 292, 294
- Nanginá Research and Intercultural Services Cabinet, 185
- Narrating Him/Her in My City (2017–2019), 257
- NARs. See Name Authority Records (NARs)
- Nartey, Felix, 125
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), 146
- National Library of Andorra, 168
- National Library of Israel, 179
- National Library of Medicine (NLM), 146, 147, 149, 154
- National Library of Scotland
- OCR transcription corrections using Wikisource, 277–85
- Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)
- #CiteNLM edit-a-thons, 144–56
- New Readers Outreach Survey (2016), 121
- Ng, Roxana, 238
- Nigeria Institute of Journalism, 123
- NIH. See National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 95
- NLM. See National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 123
- NNLM. See Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)
- Noircir Wikipedia, 98
- O
- OA. See Open Access (OA)
- OCLC, 127, 289, 295
- OCR. See optical character recognition (OCR)
- OERs. See open educational resources (OERs)
- Official College of Librarians and Documentalists of the Land of Valencia (COBDCV), 164
- OIF. See Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)
- Olaniyan, Olushola, 122
- Old Books in a New World, 36
- #1Bib1Ref, 183–84, 187, 188, 190
- O’Neil, Erin, 222, 223, 227
- #1Lib1Ref campaign, 2, 119, 123, 124, 125, 147, 150, 160, 164, 165, 177, 218, 284, 287
- On Expedition course, 38–39
- Open Access (OA), 232–33, 301–7
- advice and recommendations for, 306–7
- planning and preparation for Creative Commons license, 304
- funding, 302–3
- publisher selection, 302–3
- in the time of COVID, 304–5
- open educational resources (OERs), 7–10, 13, 20, 199, 203, 209
- Open Education Weeks, 169
- Opening up old books: Investigating the botanical archives of Maastricht, 37, 40–42
- open pedagogy, 19, 20
- Open Society Foundation, 7
- Open Technology Specialist (OTS)
- at University of Toronto Libraries, 230–43
- Open University of Catalonia (UOC), 168
- Open West Foundation, 98
- optical character recognition (OCR)
- Wikisource as tool for, 277–85
- Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), 109
- Osadebe, Ngozi, 123
- Osuigwe, Nkem E., 125–26
- othering, 38
- OTS. See Open Technology Specialist (OTS)
- outlearning, 20
- P
- PALNI. See Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI)
- PCC. See Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC)
- peer coaches, 132–43
- peer learning, 132, 134
- Perseus Books, 96
- Phelps-Stokes Fund, 95
- Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), 168
- Porter, Dorothy, 94, 99
- Premium, 37
- Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), 75
- Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), 241, 291, 292, 297
- Project Passage, 289
- Public Library of the Government of Andorra, 165
- Public Library Service of the Catalan Ministry of Culture, 158, 161
- R
- Radford University McConnell Library, 152
- RDA. See Resource Description and Access (RDA) standards
- Read/Write My City Project (2015–2017), 257
- Reagle, Joseph
- Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, 1
- representation, 27–28
- research-based learning, 35–45
- Resource Description and Access (RDA) standards, 291
- responsibility, online environment and, 13–14
- S
- SSAE. See Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage (SAE)
- Sanger, Larry, 253
- Scholarship as Conversation, 70–71
- Scientific Library of Lomonosov Moscow State University, 180
- SCONUL. See Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL)
- search engine optimization (SEO), 284
- SEO. See search engine optimization (SEO)
- Severson, Sarah, 222, 224
- Shafack, Rosemary M., 126–27
- Simson, Frances, 207
- SMELL test, 55–56
- social justice, 20, 27, 64, 66, 74, 76, 101, 135
- information literacy as, 71–72
- in cultural anthropology, 72–73
- information literacy as, 71–72
- Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL)
- Seven Pillars of Information Literacy Core Model, 55
- Sophie Lucyk Virtual Library, 241
- Spanish Federation of Societies of Archivist, Librarians, Documentalist, and Museology (FESABID), 166
- Special Collections, 39–41, 43
- State Library of Queensland, 179
- Strickland, Donna, 73
- Summer Institute of Linguistics, 185
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 204
- SWAN. See Athena Scientific Women’s Academic Network (SWAN)
- T
- Taunay, Afonso d’Escragnolle, 264
- technology through Wikipedia, understanding, 24–27
- Temple University, 22
- “This Month in GLAM,” 180, 181
- Thomas, Sara, 201, 284
- Trumaine, Mitchell, 290
- twenty-first-century skills, 200
- U
- UAB. See Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
- Ubiquity Press, 303
- UCLA. See University of California, Los Angeles Biomedical Library (UCLA)
- UMass. See University of Massachusetts Lamar Soutter Library (UMass)
- UMB. See University of Maryland, Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library (UMB)
- UNESCO. See United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 158–59, 166
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 168
- “Open Educational Resources: Sharing to Educate,” 169
- University College Dublin, 47, 51, 55, 60
- University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
- Wikipedia edit-a-thons, 132–43
- University of Alberta Library
- Wikimedian-in-Residence, 222–24
- University of California, Los Angeles Biomedical Library (UCLA), 152–54
- OpenUCLA Centennial Initiative, 154
- University of Dundee, 205
- University of Edinburgh, 197–210
- accused witches in Scotland, map of, 204–5, 205
- copyright, 199–200
- Edinburgh Seven, 201–2, 201
- knowledge equity, promotion of, 200
- OER Service, 199
- residency, 202–3
- Scotland’s suffragettes, 206
- twenty-first-century skills, 200
- “Wiki Women in Red” workshops, 203–4
- women’s suffrage, interactive timeline of, 206–7, 207
- University of Guadalajara’s Library Network, 183
- University of Ibadan, Oyo State, 123
- University of Ilorin, Kwara State, 123
- University of Maryland, Baltimore Health Sciences and Human Services Library (UMB), 152, 153, 155
- University of Massachusetts Lamar Soutter Library (UMass), 152–53, 155
- University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 123
- University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library (UPenn), 153
- University of Toronto Libraries (UTL)
- Agnes Chamberlin, 234
- Anatomia, 234
- Discovery and Early Development of Insulin Collection, The, 233, 235, 236, 242n1
- open access, 232–33
- open digital collections, 232–33
- Open Technology Specialist, 230–43
- deeper resource integration, 237–39, 238
- engagement, 241
- library capacity-building, 239–41
- Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office (SCCO), 232
- Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection, 233, 234
- Wikimedian-in-Residence, 218–20
- Wikipedia initiatives at, 233–36
- Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR), 230, 231
- UOC. See Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
- UPenn. See University of Pennsylvania Biomedical Library (UPenn)
- UPF. See Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
- Urkund, 54
- UseModWiki, 257
- UTL. See University of Toronto Libraries (UTL)
- Uzzell, Janeen, 92, 93
- V
- Valencian Museum of Ethnology, 164
- Valentine, Jina, 97
- Velella, Rob, 179–80
- VIAF. See Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
- Village Girl Project, 12
- Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), 44, 291
- volunteering, 162–67
- VuFind, 289
- W
- Wales, Jimmy, 99, 120, 253
- Weiluan, Lu, 248
- white supremacy, 92–96, 99, 100
- Wikidata, 43–45, 262, 287, 296–97
- duplicates, checking, 269–70
- Wikidata Lab XXI: Structuring Bibliographic References, 264
- Wikidata Summer Institute, 284
- WikiEdu, 18, 20, 22–25, 27, 29, 85
- Wiki Indaba, 97–98
- Wiki Loves Falles, 164
- Wiki Loves Monuments, 284
- Wikimedia, 36, 39–42, 45, 120
- partnerships, AfLIA and, 119, 124–27
- Wikimedia Commons, 43, 56, 115, 164, 166, 179, 191, 233, 266
- Wikimedia Community of Interest, 284
- Wikimedia Community User Group Ghana, 98
- Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria, 98
- Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, 98
- Wikimedia España, 164
- Wikimedia Fan Club, 122–23
- Wikimedia Foundation, 91, 120, 121, 243n6
- Wikimedia Foundation for the first African Librarians Week (May 24–30, 2020), 124
- Wikimedia Movement. See Wikimedia
- Wikimedia Nederland, 36–38, 45
- Wikimedia Nigeria, 128
- Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR), 197, 214–28
- activity, 224
- Concordia University Library, 220–21
- definition of, 215–17
- engagement, 227
- future directions, 227–28
- hiring, 224–25
- interactive timeline of, 217
- paid role, 225–26
- priorities and goals, 226–27
- recommendations, 224–28
- resources, 217
- scope diagram, 216
- University of Alberta Library, 222–24
- University of Toronto Libraries, 218–20
- Wikimedia South Africa, 98
- Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Report, 109
- Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN), 122, 123
- Wiki Movimento Brasil, 264
- Wikipedia. See also individual entries
- Five Pillars of, 10, 101, 121
- potential in the classroom, 10–15
- as a work in progress, 10–15
- Wikipedia: Benelux Education Program, 36
- Wikipedia Education program, 49, 60
- Wikipedia Education Program, Maastricht University, 35, 36
- “Wikipedia et la communauté LGBTQ+: visible et vivante,” 113–15, 114
- WikipédiaFR, 106–17, 108, 110
- Catégorie classification system, 112–13
- Wikipedia in African Libraries project, 127
- Wikipedia + Libraries: Better Together, 127
- Wikipedia + Libraries: NNLM, 152, 156
- Wikipedia lists and MARC cataloging, similarities and differences between, 291–96, 293
- Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR), 126, 127, 164, 177–93
- BDCV experience, 182–91
- collaboration, 184–86
- fireplaces, building, 186–91, 188
- #1Bib1Ref, 183–84
- strengths, leveraging, 184–86, 185
- history of, 178–82, 179, 181
- University of Toronto Libraries, 230, 231
- BDCV experience, 182–91
- Wikipedians and librarians, reciprocity in description between, 287–97
- Wikipedia Student Program, 49
- Wikipedia Visiting Scholar program, 289
- Wikipedia Working Group (WWG), 147–56
- Wikipedia y Bibliotecas, 189
- “Wikiproject NLS Workflow,” 281
- Wiki-Scientists project, Maastricht University, 36, 44
- Wikisource
- Manual of Style, 280
- as tool for OCR transcription correction, 277–85
- “Wiki Women in Red” workshops, 203–4
- Winram, Laurence, 208
- WiR. See Wikimedian-in-Residence (WiR)
- WIR. See Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR)
- Woodson, Carter G., 95
- WUGN. See Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN)
- WWG. See Wikipedia Working Group (WWG)
- Wyatt, Liam, 178
- Z
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