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136 they loop in library faculty and staff. After a couple of event planning cycles, library faculty and staff discovered that the peer coaches wanted additional group discussions and more opportunities to ask questions, so they built in extra time for this during meetings. For example, during the planning for the Indigenous edit-a-thon, peer coaches identified materials in the collection that were outdated. Library faculty and staff noticed the materials perpetuated the themes of racism, sexism, and colonialism that the team wanted to eradicate from Wikipedia, so they discussed with the peer coaches what to look for in a text to determine whether it was an appropriate source for the event. This led to a broader conversation about why problematic materials are a part of library collections in the first place. Searching for materials reinforces skills the peer coaches already have while discussing and evaluating sources contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the collection. The entire process improves their information literacy expertise, supporting their dual roles as students and employees.

During one event planning meeting, the peer coaches and library faculty and staff had different scopes in mind for the edit-a-thon about Indigenous people. Originally, library faculty and staff thought the event would focus on Indigenous people from what is now the United States, but the peer coaches wanted to include Indigenous people throughout the world. After a discussion about scope, the team expanded the theme to include Indigenous people from all of North and South America. This led to the peer coaches discovering that many robust Wikipedia pages existed on Indigenous people in Spanish that were short or nonexistent in English. As a result, since many of the peer coaches speak Spanish, they developed lists of pages that could be translated and learned about Wikipedia’s processes for translation (Wikipedia contributors, 2020). These discoveries greatly increased excitement for the event, and the peer coaches came up with the idea for adding a Translation Station to the edit-a-thon. This is just one of many examples of how their ideas and suggestions improve the events.

After a few edit-a-thons, library faculty and staff recognized it would be beneficial to develop a formal curriculum for editing Wikipedia. Since peer coaches regularly co-teach instruction sessions, they