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Rh with students and professors led by volunteers. Some social researchers aligned with the Amical-way have integrated acquired knowledge in Catalan #Eduwiki and #Bibliowikis projects by preparing help manuals and ethical guides on editing Wikipedia in bachelor’s theses (Castells, 2020), highly skilled academic research, or regular teaching (Aibar, 2016; Lerga Felip & Aibar Puentes, 2015).

Different educational initiatives promoted by academic libraries have been carried out that link open teaching and Wikipedia. University libraries have lines of work related to supporting the development of open, online teaching materials. For this reason, some events related to open education have been carried out, such as the Open Education Weeks (Solé, 2020). Under the title “Open Educational Resources: Sharing to Educate,” UAB hosted a working day dedicated to deal with open educational initiatives in the framework of Wikimedia programs with participation of librarians, teaching staff, and Wikipedians (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei de Biblioteques, 2020). University librarians are an example of transition toward a prioritization of digital environments. In this context and amid the experience of COVID-19, initiatives with added value and reduced face-to-face public services, such as #Bibliowikis, can play a big role in the pursuit of common goals with little physical interaction. In all educational levels, a reformulation of didactic approaches is proposed with the addition of new enjoyable distance learning environments and embedding technologies for new generations (Rapanta et al., 2020).

Conclusion

The main difficulty faced by librarians editing Wikipedia has been the lack of time and the impossibility of naturally integrating editing into their daily routine—librarians necessarily prioritize ordering and face-to-face reference service at the counter. The successful philosophy of #Bibliowikis has relied on the values of volunteering, overturn, and scaffolded training, which are evolving asymmetrically among both librarians and Wikipedians in a changing sociodigital and Wikimedia environment. Despite this, #Bibliowikis has shown its success by