I'll let know when its done so you can have a poke round and including any thing else you'd to see noted
On 4 December 2013 11:46, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly :-) > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > > On 4 December 2013 14:44, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> SLNSW that 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-Wikiwas >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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