Alex Stinson is the GLAM Wiki strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation.
For the last two years, he has been supporting the Wikipedia Library
program developing partnerships with publishers and libraries that
improve Wikipedia's importance in the research ecosystem. His
professional and educational background is in English Literature and
Digital Humanities. Before working at the foundation, Alex was an active
volunteer as first an editor on English Wikipedia (User:Sadads ~98,000
edits), a Wikipedia Education Program Ambassador and a GLAM-Wiki
Advocate. In those roles, he has supported over a dozen university
course in in the Education program, and helped start the conversation
with the Smithsonian, and supported other GLAM-Wiki partners.
This talk examines the changing landscape of Wikipedia's need for
citation, verification, and other kinds of authoritative sources, to
answer the question "Why are Wikipedia's interest in Verifiability so
important for our community and outreach?" I will provide some high
level overview of how sources came to be so important in various
Wikipedias, recent research on the value and impact of our current
citations, and community programs that focus on the importance of
citations, such as the Wikipedia Library, it's #1lib1ref campaign and
Wikicite 2016.
Google Slides available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MGet2gHNcHRYowgi4WNDqjDSGZtII-w5g0rI8q0nFNY/edit#slide=id.p