Liam ''there are a couple of trained Wikipedia editors among the staff of each state/territory library now,''
you sure about that, it would be usefull to know if that is verifiable (do you have a citation with that?) NSW, VIC, ACT, QLD may indeed be the centre of the universe, its just havent heard who they are in WA or TAS for instance would be useful to know who how why what etc sats from wa On 2 December 2013 20:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Wikimediaau-l mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaau-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. WP training at NLA last week (Liam Wyatt) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:20:42 +1100 > From: Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia-au <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], Kathryn Barwick <[email protected]>, > Mylee Joseph <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] WP training at NLA last week > Message-ID: > < > caagzlhtgybyqgdxl5veutlumnesso56n5mcsqtog36rmgpj...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Friday, user:Aliaretiree and user:Rubicon49bce (Mylee and Katherine from > the State Library of NSW) and myself did a full-day training workshop at > the National Library for representatives of each of the other State > Libraries in Australia. This is part of the project to write articles about > digitised newspapers in Trove. The event was under the auspices of the > annual 'Australian Newspapers Plan' consortium meeting (a committee of all > the state libraries to coordinate their newspaper collecting/preservation). > > WP event project page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia > :GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales/NSLA_Training_November_2013 > > This training session was significant not only in terms of the fact that > there are a couple of trained Wikipedia editors among the staff of each > state/territory library now, but also because this was the culmination of > the SLNSW Wikipedia project (which included the Wikipedian In Residence > with user:Whiteghost.ink earlier in the year). The project was always > hoping to be able to develop enough skill and confidence within the > SLNSWthat editing WP became part of 'business as usual' for their > staff, and > that they could then train other state libraries too. So, to sit up the > back of the room and watch two of my former 'students' deliver their own WP > training day was brilliant! > > Thanks especially to user:99of9 (Toby, also one of the original > SLNSWtrainers) for helping out remotely during the day and over the > weekend in > ensuring the articles we created were given the once-over and all our new > users were welcomed. > > You can see the practical results of the day, in terms of new users and new > articles created, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia > :GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales/NSLA_Training_November_2013#Trainees > [note there are two articles currently sitting in the 'articles for > creation' queue and one is currently being debated for deletion. If people > could weigh in on those that would be helpful]. > > Sincerely, > -Liam / Wittylama > > p.s. > On a side note - here at the NLA we just had a public guest talk by user: > edsu (Ed Summers) from the Library of Congress. He spent basically the > entire time talking about how good wikipedia was and why GLAM-Wiki was > really important, and showing off some of the visualisation tools he's > created to demonstrate that - such as Linkypedia > http://wikistream.wmflabs.org/ > and Wikistream http://wikistream.wmflabs.org/ > You don't often get a better endorsement than that! > > -Liam > > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaau-l/attachments/20131202/5d3c8da1/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > End of Wikimediaau-l Digest, Vol 87, Issue 2 > ******************************************** >
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