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238 basis of those links. Building on those accomplishments, the OTS has enabled deeper resource integration into Wikipedia in a number of ways.

First, the OTS has explored contribution using a greater breadth of sources from UTL. In particular, they have experimented extensively with the use of archival material and finding aids, to the extent that no interpretation is added by the editor. These sources are less understood in the context of Wikipedia yet invaluable for their potential to ground less visible topics that might otherwise go uncharted due to a lack of accessible citations. These efforts have yielded the contribution of Wikipedia biographies on important figures in the peripheries of popular knowledge—such as those of scholar-activists Rodney Bobiwash and Roxana Ng—for whom secondary source coverage had been sparse, particularly in digital format.

Second, UTL is moving beyond single-event contributions into maintenance of resource links on Wikipedia. Whereas Wikipedia has accumulated upward of 3,600 links to UTL through both third-party and library-initiated contributions, an estimated 40 percent of these links have expired over time and no longer direct users from Wikipedia to the intended pages. e OTS has begun to update these links, using persistent identifiers where possible in order to future-proof contributions.



Figure 2 Template:Archival records.

Third, the OTS has begun to develop mechanisms for sustainable contribution to Wikipedia, which build on UTL’s contributions to