Editing Wikipedia at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - NYTimes.com
The partnership is intended to benefit both Wikipedia and the library.
Ben Vershbow, the manager of NYPL Labs, the library’s research and
development unit, acknowledged “a relatively recent history of suspicion
and antagonism” between libraries and open-source Internet databases,
but he said he believed that relationship had healed. “We’re training
our staff to learn best practices of Wikipedia, to add links and
content, in appropriate ways, to articles which correspond with their
areas of expertise,” he said.
