User:How to:1Lib1Ref/Basics

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Overview

Basics

Not so Basics

Basics

Pre-requisites

Here's a list of things your users should know before joining the campaign. You'll find this emoji 👉 to mark what type of workshop you should be thinking about in case they don't.

So let's check if your users know the basics of:

1. 💻 How Computers Work and How To Edit in WYSIWYG Interfaces 👉 Media Literacy Workshop

2. 📚 Trusted Sources and Where to Find Them 👉 Information Literacy Workshop

3. 🤝 How Wikipedia works 👉 Wiki-basics workshop (get some inspiration here)

#1Lib1Ref basic tricks

Prepare

1. Prepare your workshops!
   1. 👩‍🏫 Get inspired by the slides others have prepared (& you can reuse!)
   2. 📺 Get some ideas from past workshops available on YouTube (in English, in Spanish)
2. Have a list of reliable sources!
   1. 📚For instance, AfLIA has created this list of reliable sources for each country in Africa that participated in their campaigns <3

Share

Organizers around the world have shared with us their most successful strategies for the #1Lib1Ref Campaign, you could:

1. Start a Social Media Campaign to Promote Your Activities
   1. Create a Hashtag and a template to share the Stories of Why Librarians are joining. For instance, AfLIA posts both with #1Lib1Ref to connect with the whole world, and #AfLibWk to connect regionally
   2. Create a short video in which librarians show how they can join the campaign, here's how the WMCZ did it!
   3. Write a blog post about your campaign and share it. Get inspired by these examples:
      1. Mexico (in Spanish)
      2. Punjabi experience (in English)
      3. Japan (in Japanese)
      4. Ucrania (in Ucranian)
2. Create a landing page in your own language or for your region (i.e. Spain, Latin America, Czech Republic)
3. Get your prizes ready!
   1. They could be barnstars, like the beautiful ones WMCZ created

      

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   2. It could be a certificate. Like the ones Wikimedia Serbia hands out

      

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   3. They could be professional development points

💡The Library And Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) offered CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points to members who do a certain amount of edits/additions. Usually 1 CPD point for every 25 edits

1. 1. 🎁It can be customized gifts. Check out the Ucranian planners / post its.
   2. It can be Wikimedia Swag, and you can ask for some prizes here

#1Lib1Ref tools

1. Citation Hunt. An amazing tool to get a list of articles with the "citation needed" template. The tool works with more than 10 languages. Here's how to use it:

2. Hashtags. A very useful tool to count all contributions that used a specific hashtag in the edit summary