Starting today and running until 3rd February, Wikipedia is hoping to entice Librarians into helping them make their online encyclopaedia more accurate by adding one reference to an article to help it become more reliable then adding #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary to help them track participation.
How to Participate: Five Basic Steps
Find an article that needs a citation. There are many ways to do this. Here are some strategies.
Filling a “Citation Needed” using Citation Hunt
Finding an article with sourcing problems
Select an article while browsing
Cite a source from your collection or research
Find a reliable source that can support that article
Add a citation using Wikipedia Style. Click here to learn about adding citations and editing Wikipedia
Add the project hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the Wikipedia Edit Summary
Share your edit on social media and learn more about libraries and Wikipedia. Grab a userbox for your user page if you’re into that sort of thing.
For full details, links to start pages and more information visit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref to sign up and help them out!
