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Rh organized, and the 4 classes that integrated Wikipedia in their assignments (Gutiérrez De la Torre, 2017). In this section, I will try to dissect the actions that led us to get those little fires burning, but moreover, the steps to build our own hearth.

Starting the Fire: Our First Spark #1Bib1Ref

The first step was to ensure that the Wiki project resonated with the BDCV librarians’ views and values. Murrieta and I decided to start with #1Bib1Ref, an Ibero-American initiative that seeks to motivate librarians to add references to Wikipedia and thus enhance the quality of one of the most visited websites in the world. We decided to make this our first task for two main reasons: it did not require much technical knowledge, and it offered the BDCV the opportunity to interact with a community that is close both linguistically and culturally. The aftermath of this event seemed to indicate this was the right starting point: it lay the foundations of our first library-to-library liaison (with the University of Guadalajara’s Library Network), the tutorials that Aidee Murrieta prepared for the campaign were featured in one of the most famous librarian blogs in our region (infotecarios.com), our “call for action” is one of the most viewed #1Bib1Ref videos in YouTube (¿Cómo Participar En La Campaña #1BIB1REF?, 2018), and our workshop was viewed more than 340 times.

Moreover, it was exciting to see how our own team made this project their own in a proactive and creative manner. For example, reference librarian Máximo Domínguez devised a strategy for our social networks using the 1Bib1Ref logo. In one month, Domínguez’s strategy got 139 likes and 72 retweets (Twitter Search, 2018). Another reference librarian, Tomás Bocanegra, printed out of his own pocket stickers for the team and volunteered to run a Facebook group to answer questions from other librarians who wanted to join the movement. This group has, to date (November 2020), sixty-two members (#1Bib1Ref, n.d.).

To sum up, there were three factors that helped us light this first fire: our library dean’s support by integrating this activity into the library’s annual plan; having someone in charge of planning, documenting, and creating liaisons (in this case it was Aidee Murrieta and myself, but