User talk:Ltas01

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Your article about the Independent suggests you might be based in a library in Hobart or Tasmania and doing a newspaper project similar to those in Western Australia and other states?

If so - those projects (around Australia and utilizing Trove) - are well worth looking at - good work! JarrahTree 00:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello JarrahTree
Thanks for the welcome and the compliment. As you know I am new to Wikipedia, including how to use Talk to communicate with you. For instance, I'm not sure if I should "ping" you as one of the instructions suggest or just start typing in the Edit screen as another suggests.

I'm taking the latter course which hopefully works okay.

Yes, I am based in a library in Hobart. We are looking to develop further content for WikiProject Tasmania especially Category:Newspapers published in Tasmania. Ltas01 (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Please consider the way that the Western Australian project has gone - we have tried to make sure that the accessibility on mobile devices is a component of overall list and article design - ( i used to edit a community newspaper for a short time somewhere in Tasmania in the deep dark past ) - you have made a very good start with the launceston item - please note there is a tendency on the part of some mainlanders to have very dry newspaper articles with a tendency towards blandness - the trove articles that bring a bit of colour to items are always appreciated. Also there is a tendency to underlink to related issues topics and places - which suggests a short knowledge of what is on wikipedia - always worth checking beyond the straight forward obvious...

There are also some trove quirks that need feedback (to them) - some scanned newspaper on trove when the wikipedia format comes over from trove - letters are accidently upper case when they should be lower.

please feel free to contact on or off wiki.. I can feel the thump from the concrete breaks on sandy bay road as I write this some distance from the road itself... JarrahTree 01:57, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I have looked at some West Australian project articles and appreciate the point about mobile devices. Also, having looked at some feature articles, I get the idea that suitable linking is a quick way to expand access, especially to other Tasmanian-related articles. Apart from work on Tasmanian newspapers articles, we'd like to encourage joining up (as Wikipedians) anyone who has relevant skill-sets e.g. historians, PHD students, librarians who are familiar with Tasmanian heritage and archival resources. These can be researchers in our facilities or any of our librarians and archivists who have an interest in participating. We will also try to identify priorities for editing and original articles for other categories in WikiProject Tasmania. Given your previous Tasmanian experience, I’m interested in any suggestions for priorities. If you're in Hobart sometime, please feel free to call by the History Room 91 Murray Street for a chat.Ltas01 (talk) 23:24, 28 March 2017 (UTC)