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Where's The Source? Adding Citations to Wikipedia
Library & Information Week 2023
Each year Australian libraries take part in Library & Information Week.
Events are held around different themes, with this year being about information sources, and asking the question "Where's The Source?"
Wikimedia Australia held a handful of events online and in-person, including a presentation on Mythbusting Wikipedia that over 150 people attended.
This presentation gave an introduction to Wikipedia and covered topics such as how Wikipedia is being used in classrooms, its reliability, how anyone can easily add sources to improve Wikipedia.
The hot topic of AI was also covered, and we showed how AI tools are using Wikipedia as a source of information and the new Wikipedia ChatGPT plug in to help stop AI creating fake information.
Library & Information Week is managed by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and the events this year broadly focused around information sources and how AI could disrupt information literacy and understanding.
A video of Wikimedia Australia's presentation will be made available on ALIA's YouTube channel soon.
Adding Trove citations to Wikipedia
Trove is a website run by the National Library of Australia.
It features thousands of digitised newspapers, magazines, archived websites, and photos, and is connected to most Australian library catalogues as well as those of other GLAM institutions.
They are an excellent source of information, and you can easily add citations from Trove to Wikipedia because every item has a Wikipedia-style citation already created.
You can read our simple guide on how to find these here, and add to the hundreds of thousands of Trove and National Library of Australia citations already being used across Wikipedia.
