Public libraries across the world have been partnering with Wikipedia to offer resources enabling accuracy on their site for many years.

A new position called a Wikipedian in Residence is being offered through the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University.

Jenny Higgins has been in the position for just two weeks. She was one of the organizers of an event called Wiki-Edit, at the A.C Hunter Library, where people learned to edit Wikipedia articles to fill gaps in articles relating to the provinces history.

She says in this province a lot of the articles are short and flagged as needing more citations.

Higgins says people need to edit those to add information from magazines, books, articles, newspapers.

You can literally edit almost all of the wiki articles by just pressing the pencil in the top right corner.

They will be reviewed before being revised. Susan Kent was one of the topics (people) on the list given out at the event this evening. pic.twitter.com/pIXkLoKl73

Victoria Battcock (@VicBattcockVOCM) October 24, 2019

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Library Spreading Wiki-Knowledge to Fill Online Gaps in Province's History - VOCM