Todo: promote #1lib1ref project on Wikipedia

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I am excited about the #1lib1ref project on Wikipedia. The goal is to get every librarian in the world (or a reasonable subsection) to add a citation to a Wikipedia article, just one. This helps make Wikipedia better in the process. I added my cite today to the Free Your Mind… and Your Ass Will Follow article. I’m not even trying to be sassy, that is just the page that was handed to me by this great tool that lets you know which articles need citations. I did some Googling, found a Google Book that had some supporting detail for the fact in question, used a book citation tool to turn it into Wikistyle and there you go. I might do two, just in case someone doesn’t have time to add a citation to Wikipedia this week. We have a facebook page and a lot of people using the #1lib1ref hashtag on Twitter. Join us!

3 thoughts on “Todo: promote #1lib1ref project on Wikipedia

  1. I tried a couple of these. In one I didn’t add a citation; instead I just removed some vapid unproven PR-speak; in the other I dug up some film history in a book, clarified some language, and cited the addition.

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