About this Event
You are invited to Wikipedia for Librarians and Information Professionals, a two-day workshop in Indianapolis for librarians and information and cultural professionals.
This workshop coincides with the 2026 Best Practices Exchange conference, which is being held at the nearby IU Indianapolis Luddy School of Informatics, and we invite BPE attendees to extend their trip to attend!
The work shop will take place on March 20th and 21st.
Agenda
Wednesday, May 20th, 10 am - 4 pm
- 9:30 - 10 am - Registration and light breakfast (coffee, pastries, & other beverages)
- 10 - 10:10 am - Opening Remarks, Day 1
- 10:10 - 11 am - Indiana Memory updates and meeting
- 11 - 11:10 am - Break
- 11:10 - 12 pm - Digital Public Library of American (DPLA) updates and meeting
- 12 - 1 pm - Lunch (Provided)
- 1 - 1:50 pm - Keynote - Khrisma A. McMurray: Love at First Edit: How I Became a Wikipedia Editor (includes student discussion)
- 1:50 - 2 pm - Break
- 2 - 2:50 pm - Basics of Wikipedia
- 2:50 - 3 pm - Break
- 3 - 3:50 pm - Practical tools to make Wikipedia editing easier
- 3:50 - 4 pm - Closing - Day 1
Thursday, May 21st,10 am - 1 pm
- 9:30 - 10 am - Registration and light breakfast (coffee, pastries, & other beverages)
- 10 - 10:05 am - Opening remarks, Day 2
- 10:05 - 10:50 am - Skills practice - tools & skills from Day 1
- 10:50 - 11 am - Break
- 11 - 11:50 am - Using digital collection items on Wikimedia Commons
- 11:50 - 12 pm - Break and wrap up
- 12 - 1 pm - Lunch & Wiki games
Since 2023, cultural institutions partnering with Indiana Memory have hosted over 2 dozen editathons and contributed over 300,000 images to Wikimedia Commons, collectively recording 25 million page views from this initiative. Come learn from our experiences!
Expert presenters will provide a general Wikipedia introduction and training on topics such as Wikipedia events and editathons, multimedia upload/editing, and metrics for impact. We will talk about tactics for approaching the Wikipedia community, image rights and metadata, model projects for various institutional contexts. All are welcome, but this program is especially targeted at staff who work with digital collections, and we especially encourage attendance from contributors to Indiana Memory and other nearby DPLA hubs.
Attend
There will be no registration fee to attend. We welcome attendees from beyond Indianapolis. For attendees traveling from the greater region, we will be offering limited travel stipends, (please answer the question in the registration form) with support from The Library Fund of Indianapolis.
**Travel funds requests are due by March 1st. We will not be accepting further travel fund requests after the deadline, but registration will remain open.
Organizers
The organizers of this event have collectively been involved in Wikipedia for decades, with extensive experience training on the use of Wikipedia in an institutional context. We have previously organized WikiConference North America at IU Indianapolis in 2024. This workshop is a project of the Central Indiana Wikipedia Partnership, organized by Indiana University Indianapolis and Wikimedians of Indiana, with funding from The Library Fund of Indianapolis and hosting provided by the Indiana State Library. Organizers:
- Christopher Marshall: Digital Collections Coordinator, Indiana Division and Indiana Memory, Indiana State Library
- Jamie Flood: Scholarly Communication Librarian, Butler University
- Dominic Byrd-McDevitt: Director of Community Engagement, Digital Public Library of America
- Jere Odell: Indiana University, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, Indiana University Indianapolis
- Olivia MacIsaac: Research Information Management Librarian, Indiana University Indianapolis
- Evan Miller: Digital Preservation and Digital Collections Archivist, Indiana University Indianapolis
Questions
Please reach out to Wikimedians of Indiana at <organizers@indy.wiki> with any questions.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Indiana State Library, 315 West Ohio Street, Indianapolis, United States
USD 0.00
