👩‍🏫Presentations

The main links go to my slides, and I've provided video links where they are available, usually re-recording presentations from my office for the best audio quality.

• Interview with Glen Nelson on The Center's Studio Podcast

• Utah Women on Wikipedia (video) - The first nine minutes give an overview of why libraries should be interested in editing Wikipedia and the rest is trivia about Utah women's history, using information from Wikipedia my team has edited. I gave this presentation for the Utah Historical Society's Virtual Perspectives Speaker Series in March 2024.

• What Wikipedia can do for BoM Studies (video) - How currently, Book of Mormon scholarship is difficult to access, for various reasons, and how summarizing it on Wikipedia can help address those obstacles, with advice for scholars about how to edit Wikipedia. I gave this presentation at the Book of Mormon Studies Association (BoMSA) conference in 2023.

• Leveraging the Power of Wikipedia and Wikidata for Your Library (video) - How Wikipedia can help libraries and how libraries can help Wikipedia. Short introductory presentation for the Utah Library Association in 2023. My colleague Nicole Lewis presented the Wikidata portion.

• Wikipedia's Citations are Influencing Scholars and Publishers - Blog post I wrote for the scholarly kitchen.

• Why Wikipedians-in-Residence Should Edit Wikipedia (video) - Wikipedia has many content gaps. Wikimedians-in-Residence are perfectly positioned to help fill some of them. Presentation for Wikimedia+Libraries and Wikimania's WREN session in 2022.

• Redefining Outreach "Failure" (video) - We have measured outreach success through the number of attendees, edits, and new pages created. But what are some other ways that outreach can succeed? Another presentation for Wikimedia+Libraries 2022.

• How to track and increase page views for images on the Wikimedia Commons - short presentation I gave at 2018 Wikiconference North America. Depending on when you're reading this, the tracking tools may or may not still work.

• Mix'n'match and your data - another presentation I gave at 2018 Wikiconference North America. Mix'n'match is a tool you can use to link database records to their corresponding Wikidata items. This could be part of a "linked data" initiative at your library! Wikidata is still in an early phase where everyone is adding stuff. I like to think of contributing to Wikidata as making deposits in a databank. The more everyone contributes good data, the more it will be useful to everyone (we hope).

• Simple English Wikipedia - a presentation I gave to a linguistics class to prepare them for an assignment to "translate" a page from English Wikipedia to Simple English Wikipedia. Be sure to see the notes on each slide for the relevant information--I give a nice overview of what linguists have done with Simple English Wikipedia in the notes on slide 4. Also, I have since found out that copy-pasting from VE to VE is effective and retains references (so copy-pasting from source editor to another source editor isn't required). There may be issues with other page elements, however.