Hi all, as you may or may not know, a couple of years ago I was working with the "Dictionary of Sydney" [DoS] - an digital history project to get recognised experts to write about all aspects of Sydney's history/people/places etc. Whilst I was there one of the things I was particularly involved with was ensuring that each contributing author had the option of licensing their content under CC-by-SA, and I'm pleased to say that the vast majority did so.
Just this week saw a new update to the website with a variety of new articles to add to the existing collection - as described in their blogpost: http://dictionaryofsydney.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/drumroll/ *You can see all the articles that are freely-licensed by going here and clicking on the "sort by license type" button at the top http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries* As you can see these articles can be of huge value to WP content about Sydney - some are even expert peer reviewed and published in the UTS Sydney Journal <http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/sydney_journal>. Because they're stable articles by named authors in a government-research-grant funded publication they are good sources to reference in their own right, as well as providing many good footnotes within the articles to primary sources. Of course, being CC-by-SA, they are also able to be copied directly into Wikipedia and Wikified (something I've previously done with Sydney artists' Camps <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps>, Glebe Island <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island> and Hugo Alpen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Alpen> . Is there anyone here who has the time and technical knowledge and would like to: a) make a neat attribution template<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Attribution_templates>for when content is copy/pasted into WP from the DoS, e.g. the way we do with Template:Catholic Encyclopedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Catholic_Encyclopedia>. You can see the text I've written manually to provide attribution at the end of the articles mentioned just above? b) relatedly, make a specific source template<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Specific-source_templates>for when we wish to use DoS articles as a citation (to add to the collection of other Australian source templates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_specific-source_templates> !)? c) If it's possible, create some kind of checklist where we can mark off which articles have been imported and integrated, which ones have been used for footnotes only, and which have done neither? If people in Sydney are interested perhaps we could ask the folks at DoS or their partners the StateLibrary if they would like to host an "editathon" where we can spend some time working on this in person? Anyone interested? Next time I get a chance I'm going to try and merge their article on Bungaree <http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/bungaree> into WP's much less comprehensive article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungaree> though if anyone wants to beat me to it, go right ahead! -Liam p.s. I've crossposted this to Australian Wikipedians Noticeboard here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_board#Dictionary_of_Sydney_has_new_freely_licensed_content> . wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
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