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 actually like the idea of a QR code to share the person story.
The biggest issue will be getting the followup support they will need I suggest you introduce them to WP:AWNB as place to get quick answers and just to be careful they should be aware of COI . Let us know when your talking and we will be on the watch for new editors. On 24 January 2016 at 12:36, Paul Foord <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 expansion of a stub. > Often for politicians and sportspeople there is already a stub that can be > filled out. > - finding that a number of the articles apparently written by family > historians were not encyclopedic in their selection of information nor well > presented. > > It looks like there will be a 1.5 hour session: > - an intro to WP > - familiarisation with Wikiproject Biography (WP:Notability) > - WP:RS > - Using hardcopy and online resources, (WP:Citing sources) > > Any thoughts, comments, offers to work on the project. Is anybody else > already doing something along these lines? > > Regards > > Paul Foord > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
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