linking from Wikipedia

[row3 at lehigh.edu]

Hi all,

Recently, inspired by talk on this list among other things, I made my first 
contributions (albeit quite limited) to Wikipedia. I had noticed that the 
Wikipedia Copernicus article linked to an external site displaying the scanned 
title page of his De revolutionibus, but did not link to the complete digital 
facsimile hosted by my own institution, or similar resources at other 
institutions. So I added links to our own and other digital facsimiles to the 
Copernicus, De revolutionibus, and Brahe articles.

I was a little unsure as to how proper it was to create such links to your own 
institution, but assumed it would be appropriate in this situation especially 
given the nature of the existing external links.  I posted a question to the 
discussion page for the article just to confirm that these links were 
appropriate and have received at least one positive response.

I am curious as to whether others have similarly used Wikipedia as an 
opportunity to link to the resources offered by their own or another library. 
Should we be doing this regularly? Under what circumstances do you think it is 
appropriate?

Thanks for your help,

rob

Rob Weidman <http://dig.lib.lehigh.edu/row3/>
Digital Library Technical Coordinator
Library & Technology Services
401 Linderman Library
Lehigh University
row3 at lehigh.edu
610-758-3043



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