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On 4 December 2013 14:44, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> 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 <liamwy...@gmail.com> 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 >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> 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 > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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