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Summer 2014

Authors: Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software, is the most visited reference site on the web. Only 270 librarians identify as Wikipedians of 21,431,799 Wikipedians with named accounts. This needs to change. Understanding Wikipedia is essential to teaching information literacy and editing Wikipedia is essential to foster successful information-seeking behavior. Librarians who become skilled Wikipedians will maintain the centrality of librarianship to knowledge management in the 21st century—especially through active participation in crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the online participation model that makes use of the collective intelligence of online communities for specific purposes in this case creating and editing articles for Wikipedia.

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McCook, Kathleen de la Peña, "Librarians as Wikipedians: From Library History to “Librarianship and Human Rights”" (2014). School of Information Faculty Publications. Paper 316. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/si_facpub/316

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