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Wikimania 2023 Session Highlight: Navigating the Wikipedia Library 

Ever wanted to find journals, books, or news articles to use while editing Wikipedia and been blocked by a paywall? It’s a common occurrence given that, according to one 2018 study, only 28% of scholarly literature is Open Access (Piwowar et al., 2018). For Wikipedians looking for reliable sources to use, these paywalls can be incredibly problematic. However, as I learned at a Wikimania 2023 session, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has a solution! The Wikipedia Library.

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Wikimania 2023: Musings of a First-Time Attendee

February 3, 2023. The day I created my Wikipedia account for a grad school assignment. All I had to do was find a Wikipedia article and write a paper suggesting future edits and analyzing the article’s edit history. If you asked me in February whether I thought a single assignment about Wikipedia editing would have such an impact on my life, I would have said absolutely not.

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