Extra credit [Oct. 11, 2012, 6:45 p.m.]
How can I, as an individual librarian, help make Wikipedia better?
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Do librarian type things:
- here is a project for librarians at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Libraries which anyone interested can join; this is a good way to meet other editors with similar interests and get ideas of projects to work on
- Answer questions about source quality on Wikipedia's Refernce desk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk
- And also on reliable sources noticeboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard
- Categorize articles.
- Teach Information Literact using Wikipedia as an example: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10691310802554895