Phase 2

Measures of success:

Create roles for 5 new volunteer coordinators
Regularize usage metrics reports hosted on Labs
Send out Books and Bytes 5 times
Identify and onboard 2 potential librarians to co-coordinate TWL
Form 10 new visiting scholar positions
Release a working version of the OCLC full text reference tool
Create a spec for OAuth integration with at least 1 research donor
Contact 30 new database partners; enter talks with 10; form or renew 5 partnerships
Receive $200,000 worth of donations (individual replacement value)
Receive 2000 new accounts
Pilot TWL satellites in at least one of German, Spanish, and Arabic communities

Phase 1

Timeline for The Wikipedia Library

Timeline	Date
Form library specialist advisory committee	End of July
50 total publishers/organizations contacted.	Mid-August
100 total publishers/organizations contacted.	End of September
Revise management flow for all accounts	End of September
Completed tech spec on future development of the library	End of October
Pilot OCLC partnership	End of October
New account signups and distribution for new TWL resource donations	End of November

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

Note that progress will be regularly posted on Facebook: here

June

Updated TWL project pages: TWL
- TWL Nav header placed at WikiProject Resource Exchange and all related pages
Facebook page created and updated Link
Areas of focus reset
- Access to existing local/open library resources (e.g. OCLC)
- Donations of Paywalled sources
- Wikipedia Visiting Scholars/Research Affiliates
- Outreach to Libraries (e.g. Wikipedia Loves Libraries, ALA)
Renewew HighBeam donation for an additional 1000 accounts (individual replacement value = $199 per account)
- Second round of HighBeam metrics numbers run Link
Newest member added to TWL: The Cochrane Library, initial offering of 100 accounts but no maximum set ($300-$800 per license)
- Sign-up page created: Link
- Signups advertised throughout English Wikipedia (EdwardsBot) and Globally (Global Message Delivery)
Created contact list of potential members to the TWL advisory council
- Interviewed several open access leaders, and library professionals
Initiated partnership with OCLC/WorldCat
- Met with OCLC team in Cincinnati and San Mateo
- Created project plan: OCLC and introductoryslideset
- Received full access to Search and E-Switch APIs
- Met with WMF Legal and Tech folks about privacy protections
- Planned pilot to place two Wikipedians as Visiting Scholars at University Libraries

July

Redesigned the Wikipedia Library portal: TWL
Coordinated transfer of new HighBeam passwords for signup: Highbeam
Completed next round of signups for Questia partnership: Questia
60+ applicants for Cochrane partnership collected: Cochrane
Built relationship with 2 New York Times business development executives to discuss getting access for editors to NYT archives. Set up meetings for continued talks in August.
Expanded contact list of potential advisory members to the TWL advisory council to include signed-on participants of The Wikipedia Library (offline list due to email addresses)
Built and tested working demo for OCLC's Search and E-Switch (fulfillment) APIs: [1]
Collected OCLC privacy policy statement from staff lawyers and shared with Wikimedia Foundation's legal department (Michelle Paulson, in person at Wikimania with follow-up through email).
Online meeting with digital librarian and Wikipedian The Interior discussing position as lead librarian for TWL.
Created the project plan for Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program: Project plan

August

Continued redesign of TWL portal: added profiles, news section, social media links
Created page index for TWL
Collated helper list from related wikiprojects and pages
Messaged signed-on TWL participants to create profiles
Meeting with The Interior
Meeting with LaneRasberry
Created pilot of library Research Desk
Phone call with OCLC about progressing on the API and Visiting Scholars program
Meeting with Liam Wyatt about integrating Wikipedia editors research queries into libraries' workflows
Meeting with Aubrey McFato
Participation in open access -l mailing list
Participation in Code4lib mailing list
Meeting with NY Times
Collected email information for Cochrane participants
Delivered Questia accounts for round 3
Began designating TWL participants in pilot leadership positions
Meeting with Quiddity about TWL page curation and account management library help
Contacted Aubrey, DGG, and Daniel Mietchen about organizing roles
Meeting with Liam Wyatt and the National Library of Australia to discuss reference assistance pilot program
16 members with profiles in TWL so far

September

Meeting with Amanda French, Research Faculty at the GMU Center for Humanities and New Media about giving a talk at her institution, taking on two Wikipedia visiting scholars, and other ways to network with the library and digital humanities community.
Meeting with Daniel Mietchen to discuss Signalling Open Access initiatives and forming a team to pilot it
Phone call with Cindy Cunningham to discuss eswitch, visiting scholars, and open access integration
Phone call with Lauren Magnuson to discuss library partnerships, visiting scholars, and related library tech resources and groups.
Participation in OA Button Hackathon
Added to Wikimania 2014 Open Access Outreach Group
Mirror TWL portal on Meta
Meeting with Phoebe Ayers to discuss TWL, pilot programs, and UC Davis colaboration
Meeting with Cindy Cunningham to advance 4 pilot programs: visiting scholars, eswitch api, reference desk (question point), and signalling OA
Added Open Access File of the Day to TWL portal
Meeting with Timothy Thompson, metadata librarian at University of Miami
Meeting with Dork Alahydoian, business development at NY Times about donation
Offer from Cochrane collaboration to add spanish language version [2]
Cochrane form emails collected, transfered to Cochrane, accounts set up
Cochrane citation examples page created and expanded

October

HighBeam 8 delivered
Meeting with Pat Earley, new Wikipedia Library Librarian
Contract with Pat Earley
Confirmed talk at George Mason University Center for History and New Media, October 22nd 3pm, "The future of libraries and Wikipedia"
Confirmed, GMU CHNM will take on the first ever Wikipedia Visiting Scholar in an affiliate, unpaid, remote research position.
Reached out in partnership with OCLC to 4 additional potential Visiting Scholar partners
Arranged coding contractor for E-Swtich script
WMF legal approval for E-Switch privacy/data logging disclosure
Meeting with Cindy Cunningham, Max Klein, Bruce and Merrilee at OCLC to discuss library outreach
Participate in conference call/working session for new WikiProject Open
2 meetings with Pat Earley, new TWL Librarian
TWL navigation box added to WP:Reference desk
First edition of Books and Bytes, the TWL newsletter goes out
Meeting with head of OCLC's Dewey Decimal service to discuss partnerships and open licensing
Contacted Lexis Nexis
Presented The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia at George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig's Center for History and New Media
Books and Bytes issue #1: W:EN:WP:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/October2013

November

Books and Bytes issue #2: W:EN:WP:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/November2013