User talk:Mcarneyaus

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Thanks for the feedback
Thanks for participating in today's workshop, and for your feedback at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/SLNSW - much appreciated. --99of9 (talk) 11:15, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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A page you started (The Southern Star (newspaper, Bega, New South Wales)) has been reviewed!
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Queensland Images
Hi Mcarneyaus. I've already uploaded the Queensland State Archives images to Commons, so hopefully all the ones you need are already there. --99of9 (talk) 02:37, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There was also a huge upload of State Library of Queensland images, which will also probably be of use. Both of these sets are already categorized pretty well, so another alternative would be to navigate directly to fairly specific Queensland categories (e.g. commons:Category:Currumbin,_Queensland) and take a look around. --99of9 (talk) 02:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Alright awesome - thanks 99of9!

Trove newspaper citations
Hi, Macarneyaus! Thanks for adding that citation to Royal visits to Australia. But I notice you did it "the hard way". There's an easier way! On any digitised newspaper article in Trove, there is a Cite button (top left corner of the screen). If you click on that and scroll down to the bottom, you will see a Wikipedia-format citation for that newspaper article. Just copy-and-paste into a Ref (use the icon with the open book and the red bookmark). Aside from being less work for you, the URL in the citation provided is guaranteed persistent by the National Library of Australia. The URL you get from the browser address bar is not guaranteed persistent. And it's not just digitised newspapers, anything in Trove, e.g. books, pictures, etc, all have the Cite button (not all in the same place on the screen but look around and it's there somewhere - for books, look in the individual versions), so it's easy to add any item in Trove into Wikipedia as a citation or external link etc. Enjoy! Kerry (talk) 01:28, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hi
If you are involved in training - 3 things should really be considered. Most articles in main space wikipedia have


 * Categories
 * Project Tags
 * Archiving

rather than leaving the ALIA GLAM page outside of category space, blanking the page, and not adding a talk page tag are perhaps something that might be seen as a bad example - or more positiveley - you could help show people how


 * Categories work
 * Project Tags
 * Archiving works

Just a suggestion - as it stood before I changed it an hour or so ago, the page was due for Tags...

maybe you could share this with rubicon, and trainees... satusuro 05:41, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

If I was someone in the wikimedia GLAM world and was to ask you how you have gone, your KPI's, your overall impact, if there is any sense of standard assemment procedures, the first thing


 * Adequate and clear identification of where you have worked and the general access to what has become the blanked data.

The time to actually go back into the edit history and create the relevant sub pages is something that should have been thought about before, the good thing is it is never too late...

* The Australian project and GLAM are very poorly maintained in project space (talk page tags). No one in the GLAM movement has ventured into creating a Project which can maintain and overview the articles in WP en mainspace, as there is a separate Wiki anyways, is their usual answer.

To actually show or link the Australia GLAM page would also alert yourself and rubicon to add your bits on the page as well.


 * Here in Western Australia we have specific training sessions that go to some lengths to give new users adequate facility to understand that follow up is critical to help new users who may not have as much wiki time to cope with things weeks down the line (ie real life is much more consuming for them than wiki time) - another point about blanking the page - how do or where did the other training sessions in others states people go? I would have though creating sub pages and resurrecting the data or information would have been a basic duty of care issue.

Ok, so its not so straight forward - there are records, but hey, missing categories, and things... the page links are very 'meta' and not the usual found on wp en main space editing - the links are partial... its Friday, I'll give it a break, for a bit... satusuro 06:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I would at a personal level (ie not institutional) strongly suggest that new users are welcomed with the Australian tag that exists in the welcome drop down, and even more so - direction to the state project noticeboards - you may do so, but is doesnt show up that you do so - the local context is something that can be ever so more welcoming, specially when you have people who might not edit for ages and begin to forget what they were told on the training day. Just a suggestion.  satusuro 03:44, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Further thought on this, have a look at what aly crockford did for her events - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Amabrennan - the welcome - you two really should be doing something specific for your location like that, seeing unwelcomed new users after some of your events made me see red - unused talk pages are not a good kpi for what you are doing. satusuro 13:51, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion, that looks really good. Rubicon49bce (talk) 22:26, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * User:99of9 has been helping us out with nice welcome pages :) Thanks! Mcarneyaus (talk) 03:21, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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