Research and Learning Services took part in the #1Lib1Ref campaign this morning, celebrating Wikipedia’s 15th birthday by adding 32 new citations to the online encyclopaedia!

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Many Wikipedia articles have a ‘citation needed’ tag (350,000 in the English language version alone), meaning they contain assertions which are not backed up by evidence. We used the Citation Hunt tool to locate these articles and added citations using reliable sources such as journals, books and official websites. As the tool provides the editor with a completely random article, our citations covered a diverse and occasionally bizarre range of topics, including:

• Footballer Paul Dalton’s £20,000 move to Hartlepool from Manchester United in 1988
• The release of a 2-disc special edition of the 1951 film Quo Vadis in 2008, following a long photochemical restoration process
• Caldwell County High School’s victory in the 1963 state football championships
• CBS journalist Eric Sevareid’s involvement in the foundation of Burgundy Farm Country Day School

As well as editing random articles like these, we also identified existing pages for University of Edinburgh alumni, such as Dame Honor Fell, and added links to their digitised PhD theses in ERA, our online repository.

We’ll be doing more Wikipedia editing with colleagues from across the University of Edinburgh during Innovative Learning Week:, so make sure you join us! http://www.innovativelearning.ed.ac.uk/creating-open-body-knowledge-history-medicine-wikipedia-editathon-1

Articles edited today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_Kentucky#Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_Stephenson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dalton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Dunham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Fell#Early_life_and_education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami-Dade_County_Fair_%26_Exposition#Scholarships

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy_Farm_Country_Day_School

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Bailey-Serres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conor_McBride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_New_Zealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_(protocol)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_Vadis_(1951_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Stone_(author)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_(song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossmyloof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Allen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Goodnight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hit_(To_the_Body)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_of_July,_Asbury_Park_%28Sandy%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%28Edwin_Starr_song%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Tom_Joad_%28song%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prove_It_All_Night

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Shadbolt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Moggi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Plotkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Edinburgh_people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Muggleton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Michie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wei_%28scientist%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._C._Gordon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Bishop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Strother_Moore