Purpose

This study aims to show that digital literacy can serve as a tool for effecting social change and highlights the achievements of an academic library in digital content creation using the Wikipedia platform.

Design/methodology/approach

The study adopted qualitative research method, Interview and document analysis were used for data gathering. Data gathered were analysed using content (conceptual) analysis.

Findings

Findings showed that the library has created or edited digital content for various categories of women, such as women in academia, industry and politics. These entries have received more than eight million views over a period of two years, which shows that the entries are being utilised. However, the editing exercise had been confronted with challenges such as accessing reliable citations in terms of the notability and verifiability policy of Wikipedia amongst others.

Practical implications

Currently, people rely more on online resources for their research, leaving physical library resources unused. Even, more students start their research online using Wikipedia. Thus, libraries could create visibility for their physical material using regularly visited sites like Wikipedia and its sister projects such as Wikidata; otherwise, these physical materials will remain invisible to the people that needed them.

Originality/value

Contributing to Wikipedia by creating a new entry or editing an existing one can help students to deepen their knowledge about a subject; Wikipedia editing may serve as an avenue for improving information literacy skills. Drawing from the theory of cyberfeminism as used in the study, information and communications technology has the potential to empower women and transform gender relations.

中文翻译：

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揭开面纱：维基百科与非洲的学术图书馆合作，通过艺术+女权主义维基百科编辑马拉松为非洲女性创造知名度

目的

本研究旨在表明数字素养可以作为影响社会变革的工具，并突出学术图书馆在使用维基百科平台创建数字内容方面的成就。

设计/方法/方法

本研究采用定性研究方法，采用访谈法和文献分析法进行数据收集。使用内容（概念）分析来分析收集的数据。

发现

调查结果表明，图书馆为各种类别的女性创建或编辑了数字内容，例如学术界、工业界和政治界的女性。这些条目在两年内收到了超过 800 万次观看，这表明这些条目正在被使用。然而，编辑工作面临着挑战，例如在维基百科等的知名度和可验证性政策方面访问可靠的引文。

实际影响

目前，人们更多地依赖在线资源进行研究，而没有使用实体图书馆资源。甚至，更多的学生使用维基百科开始他们的在线研究。因此，图书馆可以使用经常访问的网站（如维基百科）及其姊妹项目（如维基数据）为其实体资料创建可见性；否则，这些物理材料对需要它们的人来说将是不可见的。

原创性/价值

通过创建新条目或编辑现有条目为维基百科做出贡献可以帮助学生加深对某个主题的了解；维基百科编辑可以作为提高信息素养技能的途径。根据研究中使用的网络女权主义理论，信息和通信技术具有赋予妇女权力和改变性别关系的潜力。