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Thank-you for your excellent presentation! Great to see innovation from our libraries. Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk 04:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of DIY rainbow crossing‎

The article DIY rainbow crossing‎ has been proposed for deletion. The proposed deletion notice added to the article should explain why.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. 168.12.253.66 (talk) 15:15, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

I've made a suggestion for what should be done about this article on the the article's talk page. Wittylama 11:22, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Awarded to Aliaretiree for persistence with List of newspapers in New South Wales in the face of a daunting combination of expanding scope and a need for great precision. Whiteghost.ink (talk) 11:04, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia trainers requested in New South Wales

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• http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/2013-July/003677.html

We'd love to see you there! Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Journals of the First Fleet

Orlady (talk) 08:02, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your commitment to developing the world's body of information on 19th century homemaking books. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:40, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	thankyou for expanding the Eva Johnson article Richard Bruce Bradford (talk) 01:27, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Trove

Harrias ^talk 00:03, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

what christmas...

Hi, the sands and wise directories need lots of work - I had only started the wise for wa, but in the geneaology section of what is left in the wa state library (shrinking like a harvest of violets, shelves reduced, stock reduced, staff reduced, and even leaks about the whole service being on the block so to speak) there are victorian and tasmanian live copies of old wise directories.. but time is in the way - good on you for starting the sands one anyways - the wise (and I am sure there are others as well) - cheers satusuro 11:11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

With the wise article - I noticed the habit of links in the first sentence - sorry to be a stickler, but really, lead sentences and paras are meant to be summaries with no links - per MOS. Not sure where the links in the first line thing has come from, but unless I see otherwise that is what I have expected... WP:LEAD satusuro 09:27, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Sydney Jewish Museum

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Aliaretiree. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Photographic plate, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
• instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Repeatedly adding information about State Library of New South Wales where you are employed to articles about the Library, changing article content without consensus and failing to address concerns on discussions posted on Talk page per WP policy. NotaBene 鹰百利 ^Talk 13:00, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi NOTABENE, yes I did forget to write on the talk page before editing... definitely something I should have remembered to do as it is covered in the SLNSW staff editing policy on the SLNSW project page - my mistake. I was actually trying to improve the referencing on the article to include as many non-COI sources as possible and was very surprised to see your edit that the item in question was not in the collections of the SLNSW so added a citation to the record in the catalogue. My motivation was to improve the information available on wiki about an item on the Australian Memory of the World register (a subset of the UNESCO project) but I guess rules must trump facts with citations in this case. I hope you will continue to expand the article to be more balanced in scope and not limited only to the scientific applications of this photographic technique, for the benefit of future readers. Aliaretiree (talk) 11:09, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Aliaretiree You missed the point of the concerns raised. Not only is the source of the information potentially biased, you as an editor of the articles have the conflict of interest, and should not have made the edits to the articles in question. It is not a matter of rules versus facts. You are employed by an organisation, writing about that organisation, where the only source of the information is that organisation itself (a primary source, in case you are unclear of the concern regarding potential bias), and you had an undisclosed conflict of interest, as did your colleague Margaret.I.Riley when that person made similar edits to Wikipedia articles regarding the place with which you both were affiliated, yet you see no potential for bias or conflict of interest? Your flippant remark that this is merely “rules must trump facts with citations” displays a cavalier attitude regarding an understanding about bias. (N.B., it was only after you and your colleague repeatedly added incorrectly sourced information that was challenged that you added a proper citation). The idea of discussing on the Talk page is to gain a consensus from disinterested parties who would then make any edits, not for you to add potentially biased information to an online encyclopedia.

Being affiliated with an organisation should preclude you from editing articles about that organisation, not just in violation of your institution’s policy, but Wikipedia guidelines (vide supra, “avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organisation, its competitors, projects or products;”) and academic ethics as well. You should have mentioned the source of the information on the Talk page, and let unbiased editors decide on the use of the information and make the edits, especially since your sources were a primary source from the organisation itself, and a 60 year old magazine article. I hope you refrain from making similar edits to Wikipedia where you have a conflict of interest, even if you disclose that conflict, and where you use the organisation itself as the sole source of information (id est, a primary source) about that organisation. NotaBene 鹰百利 ^Talk

A beer for you!

Good work on the Thancoupie article. Jschnur (talk) 07:28, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

List of NSW newspapers

Is now too big and too long. Something needs to be done. An average user of wikipedia could not easily access. Strongly suggest it is broken up into regions and Sydney. JarrahTree 05:51, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

I am quite concerned that effort is put in by someone to specifically take it on as a task, at some stage, so it would be very useful to have a conversation on wiki or off, as to how it is done - as the size is beyond a usual user of wikipedia to deal with. Rather than go to noticeboards and other similar exposed locations that can invoke the usual suspects, I was hoping you might offer some suggestions or criterion. In western australia we have gone to regions. Your comment(s) would be appreciated JarrahTree 01:18, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

JarrahTree I appreciate your input, we will review it and try to make it more user friendly, but for now it is the most complete list of newspapers published in NSW that exists in any source. The history of settlement in NSW and the history of newspaper publishing in NSW, which seems to have had a golden age in the late 1800's - WWI, make dividing into Sydney and regional areas an unworkable solution as the greater Sydney region is now quite extensive but was not when many of the historical newspaper titles were published. As you can tell from the history, this list article is constantly being updated and referenced by a lot of people creating articles about the newspapers themselves as they are digitised in the national digitisation program so any major changes will need to be consultative. Aliaretiree (talk) 01:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

If only completeness was an aspect of what it is all WP:ABOUT.

I really think that the task solver doesnt necessarily have be you, I, or any one particular editor, but somehow even a taskforce aka group of interested eds in discussion about newspaper lists for australia - in other words the consultative process amongst editors that you raise is very important.

At this stage, considering your response, perhaps alpha or era breakups. If you have a look at the Western Australia project geographical lists - there are singular completeness collections that have been broken up into separate alpha components simply to make them manageable, as anything otherwise is well beyond a users capacity to load on mobiles, or older and lower power computers.

It would be good to think there is a positive forward thinking process that might resolve the issue of the size, and that there is a recognition of a definite need for the item to be made more amenable to users who are not on high capacity broadband crunchers JarrahTree 08:46, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Categories

Please note that parent and child cats (some confuse the issue by referring to subcat and supercat) are not needed on the articles you edited today - and most have been removed. 'Literary awards' are generic for all, 'Australian literary awards' is a 'child' and the parent does not get added. Thanks. JarrahTree 13:58, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Robert Merlini

Hello Aliaretiree,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Robert Merlini for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Snickers2686 (talk) 02:12, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi Aliaretiree, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! — xaosflux ^Talk 16:37, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

@Aliaretiree: please note, that in relation to the conflict-of-interest discussion above, autopatrol flag will put less eyes on your creations, however if you think a page is a possible COI, using Wikipedia:Articles for creation may be appropriate. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 16:43, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Your March editathon

As you are arranging an editathon on March 10, you might be interested in Women in Red's plans for Women's History Month. We have also developed Ten Simple Rules for new editors interested in creating biographies, which might be useful. We also have redlists on architecture: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Architecture and Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Architects.

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@Ipigott: many thanks, I'll add those links.Aliaretiree (talk) 01:21, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
  • Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: {{Creator}} (Phabricator) and {{Institution}} (Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the {{Artwork}} template (Phabricator).
  • Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template {{Wikidata Infobox}}. (Example)
  • Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• Join the community focus group!
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• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
• High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
• Review first designs for multilingual captions.
• IRC office hour, 13 February

Events

• Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
• EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
• Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

• The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

• A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.

• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.

• The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
• In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
• A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
• There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.

Wikimania 2018

• Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
  • Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
  • Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
  • Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
• Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.

Partners and allies

• We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
• Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).

Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:

1. Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

Development

• Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.

Stay up to date!

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Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:

1. m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
2. m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

• Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
  • Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
  • Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
• Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
  • Log for 4 October
  • Log for 1 November
• Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

• Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
• Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
• Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:

• Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
• "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
• Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
• Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
• Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

Presentations / Press / Events

• Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
• Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
• Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.

Partners and allies

• The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
• We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
• The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!

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Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

1. Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
3. Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

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Usernames

Quite concerned that the new batch of user names are actually using SLNSW in their usernames - please help them understand the problems of having usernames that include where they edit from - specifically WP:COI thanks JarrahTree 10:54, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

it is really great to see that people have changed their usernames - great! Trust the training goes well !! JarrahTree 03:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for keeping an eye out for our newbie editors. The SLNSW accounts are ones I set up to use in training under supervision and then they get their own unique ones set up. 8 new editors introduced to the wiki world today! Aliaretiree (talk) 03:27, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Excellent - I do hope they get good positive responses to their work! Please let them know that there are always Australian editors who really want to help if they ever get stuck! JarrahTree 04:22, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for coming today and sharing your skills and expertise with our attendees - your support was very much appreciated and made a big difference! Rubicon49bce (talk) 11:45, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of List of LGBT rights activists in Sydney for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of LGBT rights activists in Sydney is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of LGBT rights activists in Sydney until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 16:33, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

the list

I will make sure it is salted into a user page or somewhere, and further development into a different type of article will almost certainly survive later... Will need to explain all offline sometime soon - its complicated... JarrahTree 13:17, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

• Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
• Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you!

I just saw you wrote most of the Eirene Mort article - great work! I’ve been going through the list of missing articles of ADB women and slowly trying to them written. I was really happy about Zara Aronson in case you are interested 😀 anyway, I just wanted to thank you for your contributions and I am genuinely grateful for your high quality work on that article! - Chris.sherlock (talk) 01:55, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for your contributions to the City of Sydney Picture This editathon. --99of9 (talk) 03:58, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

1Lib1Ref 2021

Hi Aliaretiree

Queensland Memory is participating in Wikipedia’s 1Lib1Ref campaign again this year.

I found your name in the project pages for previous years and wanted to know if you would like to do some editing again this year?

Tania Schafer and I have scheduled 2 pop in sessions in the Edge’s Digital Media Lab, 10am-12noon Thursday 27th May or Wednesday 2nd June but the great thing about Wikipedia is you can do it wherever and whenever suits you! T

If you’re interested in helping us get the number of State Library edits up this year please read the 2021 project page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_Queensland/1Lib1Ref_2021.

Before you get started please sign up to the Dashboard so we can keep track of the number of edits SLQ has made. Or send me your Wiki name I can sign you up.

This year we are focusing on getting our JOL Blogs referenced or added as External Links on relevant Wikipedia pages, I can email you a document for blog content ideas. However if this doesn’t interest you see our project page for other ideas.

Let Tania Schafer or myself know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Troykeith85 (talk) 05:23, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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Proposal to collaborate on an article

Hey @Aliaretiree, Your contributions to article of John Metcalfe (librarian) and William Herbert Ifould helped me quite a bit in drafting an article about the Free Library Movement in Australia and New South Wales so i was inclined to ask if you'd be interested in adding to the 'history' section and the 'people' section of the article. Thank you.

Here is the draft: Free Library Movement Avast rumali (talk) 10:19, 13 July 2022 (UTC)