HI again Ok its up, I noticed you were at the SLNSW WWI editathon as well feel free to expand that, I have asked Toby to provide some details on the image tool mentioned as well
Thanks for your help Gideon On 4 December 2013 11:53, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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