Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/November 2012

This page is now inactive, and is retained for historical purposes, please refer to the main project page for the ongoing partnership.

The State Library of New South Wales GLAM partnership started with in-house Wiki training, and a program to write Wikipedia articles about current and historic NSW newspapers (see list of target articles - those that are catalogued in Trove). This subpage is kept as a record of those training days.

Exploring Wikipedia: Content Creation Training Manual

Participants could refer to a step-by-step training manual that has been developed by the Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time. Another potentially useful guide (with video) can be found at Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide.

Click here to see changes related to the workshops over the last 100 days.

How Wikipedians can help

Before 27 Nov

• Find weblinks to reliable sources which establish the notability of these newspapers, and add them as inline references to the corresponding line.
• Scrape public domain coverpages for the newspapers from trove, upload them to Commons, and link from here. We are likely to use a coverpage for each article's lead image.

On 27-28 Nov

• Work on any of the articles on the priority lists, especially those started by participants. The participants will be checking the related changes to see how you have improved their articles.

After 28 Nov

• Watchlist the new editors and new articles.
• Help anyone who continues editing after the event.

The Mitchell reading room at the State Library of New South Wales

27 November

Participants at training day 1

Times

• 10:00 start
• 11:00 coffee break
• 12:30 - 1:30 lunch break
• 2:45 coffee break
• 4:00 finish

Venue

• State Library of NSW

Course leaders

• Whiteghost.ink (talk)
• Wittylama (talk)
• 99of9 (talk)

Participants

• RhondaPatricia (talk · contribs) Y The Australasian Chronicle
• GabeMcCann (talk · contribs) Y Illustrated Sydney News
• Jaharkin48 (talk · contribs) Y The Castlereagh
• Aelean (talk · contribs) User:Aelean/sandbox (merged info to The Queanbeyan Age, because The Braidwood Independent is related and doesn't justify it's own article)
• Beklee (talk · contribs) Y Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer
• subimoir (talk · contribs) Y The Biz (newspaper)
• Aliaretiree (talk · contribs) User:Aliaretiree/sandbox (abandoned and worked directly on existing article Windsor Express and Richmond Advertiser), Y Henry Charles Lennox Anderson
• Stephanie Volkens (talk · contribs) User:Stephanie Volkens/sandbox (merged info with Illustrated Sydney News which another trainee was writing by accidental topic duplication)
• Juliana 8 (talk · contribs) Y Hawkesbury Herald
• Scootes81 (talk · contribs) Y The Colonist
• Jessiewood (talk · contribs) User:Jessiewood/sandbox (intending to put this at The Bathurst Free Press, but not yet ready)
• Five Figs (talk · contribs) Y Il Giornale Italiano (existing article)
• LibrarianPower (talk · contribs) User:LibrarianPower/sandbox (intending to put this at The Hawkesbury Advocate, but not yet ready)
• Jeanstshirt (talk · contribs) Y The Leader (Liverpool, New South Wales, newspaper)

28 November

Times

• 10:00 start
• 11:00 coffee break
• 12:30 - 1:30 lunch break
• 2:45 coffee break
• 4:00 finish

Venue

• State Library of NSW

Course leaders

• Whiteghost.ink (talk)
• User:Wittylama (talk)
• User:99of9 (talk)

Participants

• MoonSwan999 (talk · contribs) done content merge into existing article The Liverpool Herald
• kurquhart (talk · contribs) User:kurquhart/sandbox (some content merged into The Daily Examiner, the modern name for The Clarence and Richmond Examiner)
• brucabruca (talk · contribs) Y Meie Kodu
• greshamhotel (talk · contribs) Y Australian Town and Country Journal
• akingscote (talk · contribs) Y The Australian Children's Newspaper
• mcarneyaus (talk · contribs) Y The Hawkesbury Chronicle and Farmers' Advocate
• rubicon49bce (talk · contribs) Y The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal
• ikanderson (talk · contribs) User:ikanderson/sandbox (some content merged into Daily Liberal, the modern name for The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate)