HI Liam Can I take this to create the basis of a section on the event in https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2013/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_reportwhich is due out in 3 days
Cheers Gideon On 2 December 2013 12:20, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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