Wikipedia:GLAM/Rutgers

Rutgers University Libraries GLAM Project
 "Cultures, Diversity, and Inequality—Local and Global"

Rutgers University (RU) liaison librarians will participate in a project to evaluate the depth and authoritativeness of Wikipedia diversity content and identify content gaps based on the relevant Rutgers curricular; and work with Wikipedia editors to add reliable RUL licensed resources and digital content to close the identified gaps in Wikipedia articles. To that end, we will get familiar with Wikipedia editing culture and carry on this program to make our unique contributions to Wikipedia articles.

Rutgers University Art Library

For selected topics, teams will work with our Wikipedia editors to:

  1. Narrow or refine the topic as needed
  2. Research how well the topic is covered in Wikipedia according to the criteria of: completeness, availability of substantive peer-reviewed resources, objectivity of approach
  3. Edit articles by addressing each of the above issues
  4. Add one or more articles as needed for topics deserving an article that are not represented in Wikipedia.

Selected topics

  • Women in Jazz
  • Newark Jazz history
  • Asian immigrant experience in NJ (Chinese and Japanese, include Chinese immigration to NJ, Seabrook experience, Newark Chinatown)
  • Cultural competence in health care

Rutgers members

  • Grace Agnew (Project Sponsor)
  • Adriana Cuervo
  • Kayo Denda
  • Thomas Izbicki (Project Sponsor)
  • Ron Jantz
  • Melissa Just (Project Sponsor)
  • Linda Langschied
  • Yu-Hung Lin (Project Leader)
  • Rhonda Marker
  • Lily Todorinova (Co-Project Leader)
  • Tao Yang
  • Yingting Zhang

Wikipedians in Residence

Project templates

TemplateExample
{{WikiProject Rutgers University Libraries}}
WikiProject iconRutgers University Libraries
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of Rutgers University Libraries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Rutgers University Libraries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Rutgers University LibrariesWikipedia:GLAM/RutgersTemplate:WikiProject Rutgers University LibrariesRutgers University Libraries
{{RUL-invite}}

Hello, GLAM/Rutgers! We are looking for editors to join the Rutgers University Libraries collaboration, an outreach effort which aims to support collaboration such as Wiki-Academies, article writing, and other activities to engage the Rutgers University Libraries in Wikipedia. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks!!!

{{User WPGLAM/Rutgers}}
This user is a member of Wikiproject Rutgers University Libraries.

Get involved

If you are interested in contributing to the projects spearheaded by the Rutgers University Libraries' Wikimedian-in-Residence program, there are a number of different ways to do so. Those with a general interest in contributing may wish to contribute to Wikimedia Projects, and new users may find general information regarding editing and contributing to Wikimedia articles to be helpful (see Beginner's guide). Those who are specifically interested in working with the RUL by participating in a public outreach event such as an Edit-a-thon are encouraged to leave their user details below or to contact the RUL Wikimedians in Residence, User:Staticshakedown and User:WeijiBaikeBianji.

Participants

Please add your details here, or contact us on the discussion page. When adding your details, please include any specific projects you might be interested in contributing to (i.e. transcribing digitised texts to Wikisource), any topics you are interested in, or have significant previous knowledge of:

———————————————

Press

External links to press and blog posts about the RUL GLAM project:

  • Stinson, Alex; Orlowitz, Jake. "What happens when you give a Wikipedia editor a research library?". Wikimedia Blog. Retrieved 18 March 2015.