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Events and highlights from Wikipedia Loves Libraries 2012.

There was a Wikipedia Loves Libraries planning workshop event in July at Wikimania 2012.

Online

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Open Access Wikipedia Barnstar
Open Access Wikipedia Barnstar
  • Open Access Wikipedia Challenge at Peer to Peer University The challenge is to embed media that was harvested from Open Access journals in Wikipedia, earn special barnstar too.

United States

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries events can be held on any day in October or November 2012.

With grassroots organizing help from local Wikipedia:Meetup groups and the Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) committee...

Everyone is free to start a Wikipedia Loves Libraries page for your local institution, and please sign up at your event's meetup page:

  • Northeast
  • Midwest
  • South
  • West
Contact User_talk:Draconrex for details and discussion about interest.

Mexico

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Australia

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South Africa

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  • Centurion - on 29 and 30 October, a 2 day Train the Trainer session was held by ITOCA and Wikimedia South Africa, in which a group of approximately 30 delegates (mostly librarians, with a few academics and public and private sector workers included) were taught the basics of how to use Wikipedia in libraries and academic settings. The trainer was David Richfield.