“ Sarah Severson is a Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Alberta Library in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 and Métis territory. She works with a team to support the Library’s Publishing and Digital Production Services, which includes an open journal and educational resources publishing program and digitization. She is interested in how open knowledge paradigms are changing the online publishing landscape and alternative forms of publishing and has been working with different Wikimedia projects for years. ”

“ The pandemic has affected all spheres of life and diluted any boundaries between our homes and workplaces. Because of these circumstances, we wanted to dedicate some space to talk about this project, its successes and failures, the risks and challenges that we faced, and the forces that kept it going and almost stopped it. Last, we wanted to dedicate space to highlight and uphold the work of our contributors, both those who made it to the final publication and those who did not. Their efforts have not gone unseen and their work should not be left unheard. ”

“ Kai is the founder of the Wikipedia project BIPOC in the Built.
Jennifer L. Sullivan is a Health Sciences Librarian at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Her focus is on science literacy, information literacy, cultural competence, and the medical humanities. She finds immense joy in working with and building relationships with her students, and in guiding them toward greater competence and confidence in their levels of information fluency and research efficacy. ”

“ We want to thank all of our contributors who proposed, wrote, and completed their chapters during the COVID-19 crisis. The crisis reminded us, once again, of the importance of open-access information—not just as a source of educational content but also health information. ”

“ Carme Fenoll i Clarabuch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Librarian. She is a librarian with a long career in the eld of public libraries and cultural management. She holds a degree in Librarianship and Documentation from the University of Barcelona and master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management from the Open University of Catalonia. From 2012 to 2017 she was Head of the Public Library Service of the Catalan Ministry of Culture, where she promoted the #Bibliowikis project. She has continued to be linked to Wikipedia as a volunteer. ”

“ Our contributors are librarians, library staff, disciplinary faculty, and Wikimedia volunteers—acting as intermediaries between Wikimedia projects, faculty, and students. As more librarians engage with Wikipedia in the coming years, we hope this publication will act as a launching pad for future international collaborations, projects, and publications.
References
Cooke, R. (2020, February 17) . Wikipedia is the last best place on the internet. Wired. Retrieved January 24, 2021, from https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/. ”

“ Allué Blanch is a Catalan Wikipedian since 2013 and has led and promoted activities related to open education, including the milestone of an official agreement between the University and Amical Wikimedia.
Roberto A. Arteaga is an academic librarian in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. His research interests include critical information literacy, instructional design, and e-learning. Off work, he listens to a lot of heavy metal and tries to find time to play video games, watch anime, and read. ”

“ Ann Glusker, PhD, is Sociology, Demography, & Quantitative Research Librarian at University of California, Berkeley, where she helps plan in-person Wikipedia edit-a-thons. Previously she was Research and Data Coordinator for the NNLM Pacific Northwest Region. She has worked as a public health epidemiologist and medical librarian and is deeply committed to engaging all people with the use and understanding of data. ”

“ One place where this influence was felt was the peer review process. In general, there is some expectation of anonymity as part of this process, as the anonymity contributes to a sense of safety where the work being reviewed is only being critiqued on the basis of the work and not on the basis of the person. Unfortunately, because some of our grants required that we disclose who some of our contributors would be, it meant that we had to change our peer review process to a single-blind review. ”

“ Crystal Fulton, a UCD Academic Fellow, has researched and taught in the areas of information and digital literacies, information and communication behavior and public services, and social media for over twenty years. ”

“ Ji Yun Alex Jung serves as Open Technology Specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries, where he was previously Wikipedianin-residence. He formerly co-organized Civic Tech Toronto and continues to contribute to a number of open-ended, decentralized projects both digitally and nondigitally. He spends a lot of time designing for easy collaboration and participation and only builds things that others can build on. He can be reached on his Wikipedia user page: User:Utl_jung. ”

“ This publication is just a microcosm of what academia and teaching have become during the pandemic, and the fact that we were working with authors from different countries did not make this process any easier for anyone. There were times when we did not hear from one of our contributors and couldn’t help but think that the unthinkable had happened. There were times when all we could do was try to act professional and continue to work as if everything was fine ”

“ In the near future, funding opportunities might be limited and those that remain will have more strict guidelines and outcomes. If the goal is to develop a peer-reviewed publication, identifying a pool of qualified reviewers should be part of the initial planning process. ”

“ Proffitt, M. (2018) . Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting communities of knowledge. American Library Association.
Wikimedia Foundation Mission. (2018) . Wikimedia Foundation. https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/. ”

“ Movement of Kyrgyz Wikipedians, 8 Movimientos Sociales, 191 Mukherji, Diva, 207 Murrieta, Aidee, 183, 187, 189 Museu Paulista, 264 MVP. See minimum viable product (MVP) N NAF. See Name Authority File (NAF) Nairn, Margaret, 207 Name Authority File (NAF) , 293, 297 Name Authority Records (NARs) , 291, 292, 294 Nanginá Research and Intercultural Services Cabinet, 185 Narrating Him/Her in My City (2017–2019) , 257 NARs. ”

“ Agnes Chamberlin, 234 Anatomia, 234 Discovery and Early Development of Insulin Collection, The, 233, 235, 236, 242n1 open access, 232–33 open digital collections, 232–33 Open Technology Specialist, 230–43 deeper resource integration, 237–39, 238 engagement, 241 library capacity-building, 239–41 Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office (SCCO) , 232 Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection, 233, 234 Wikimedian-in-Residence, 218–20 Wikipedia initiatives at, 233–36 Wikipedian-in-Residence (WIR) , 230, 231 UOC. See Open University of Catalonia (UOC) UPenn. ”