Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia

2016-01-27 Thread Leigh Blackall
>> multiple sessions to teach the hands-on stuff, even better. Practice is >> important. >> >> >> >> I have some slidepacks for general talks and edit training (source >> editor) available if you want to use them as a starting point. I don’t yet >> have a

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia

2016-01-24 Thread Kerry Raymond
] On Behalf Of Paul Foord Sent: Sunday, 24 January 2016 2:36 PM To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia Hi all At a meeting of the Genealogy SA Research and Development Committee I o

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia

2016-01-23 Thread Gnangarra
Hi Paul This sounds like a great initiative WMAU committee isnt aware of any co-ordinated project along these lines the nearest would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia/stage_II_worksheet which was done as part of the Toodyaypedia project. For some people they might

[Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia

2016-01-23 Thread Paul Foord
Hi all At a meeting of the Genealogy SA Research and Development Committee I offered to provide a session on writing biographies for Wikipedia. Triggers for this were: - my experience finding obituaries and other sources in Trove that appeared to justify an article, or allowed significant