The Wikipedia Library

Introduction
The Wikipedia Library is a team in the Product department at the Wikimedia Foundation which focuses on supporting the Wikimedia community in doing research, adding verifiable information, and citing that content to reliable sources.

The team began as a community project funded by grants, before moving into the Community Engagement department in the Community Programs team. It now resides as a project in the Product department.

Our primary project is the Library Card platform, through which we provide the Wikimedia community with free access to otherwise paywalled sources of information. We also work on improvements to Wikimedia's citations, assist campaigns like 1Lib1Ref, and support community tools that help keep our projects reliable.

Current projects

 * We're currently working on Authentication-based access for the Library Card platform.

FY 20/21
In the coming year we expect to work on the following projects:
 * Design - We’re going to work with the Product design team to review and improve the Library Card platform’s user interface and workflows.
 * Search - We’re planning to deploy a library discovery tool to help users search content from across the library’s available collections.
 * Wikilink - We have an analytics tool to track how users are making use (or not) of Wikipedia Library content. Specifically, the Wikilink tool tracks link additions by editors to publisher websites. This tool is currently very basic and has a number of outstanding issues. We want to spend some time making stability and performance improvements to the tool to ensure we’re collecting reliable and accessible data about the project.

Contact
You can contact the team at wikipedialibrarywikimedia.org.