Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/January 2017

State Library of NSW staff are participating in #1Lib1Ref 2017. The global #1Lib1Ref campaign will run for 19 days, from 15 January – 3 February 2017. The launch on 15 January coincided with Wikipedia’s 16th birthday. #1Lib1Ref is a global Wikimedia Foundation / Wikipedia Library campaign encouraging librarians around the world to improve the referencing in Wikipedia articles by adding a reference. Everyone is welcome to participate, and they'd like library workers to include the hashtag #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary on any edits they do from 15 January – 3 February 2017.

Instructions

 * staff are advised to review the SLNSW staff editing policy SLNSW website and SLNSW Wikipedia project page
 * please include #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary for all edits from 15 January - 3 February 2017

Drop in editing session times
Staff are welcome to attend a session to edit and to assist new or less experienced editors at these sessions.

Participants

 * Mcarneyaus
 * Janehalifax
 * Aliaretiree
 * AdventurerForHire

Australian stub articles

 * Australian artists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_artist_stubs
 * Australian scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_scientist_stubs
 * Australian musicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_musician_stubs
 * Australian writers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_writer_stubs

Training resources

 * How to create a user account
 * If you've never edited Wikipedia and want to get started there are some useful tutorials.

There are two different ways to add references to an article when you edit Wikipedia:
 * see instructions for the old way to add references in Wiki Markup
 * see instructions for the new way to add references in Visual Editor

Outcomes

 * #1lib1ref SLNSW subjects updated: May Gibbs, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Abel Tasman, Luís Vaz de Torres, John William Draper‎, Globes, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Alfred John Tattersall, George Brown (missionary), John Gould, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, John Tebbutt, William Bligh, Ross Sea party 1914–1917, James Bonwick, John William Draper, Carte du Ciel‎, State Library of New South Wales, Stereo photography techniques, Harold Cazneaux, New Tivoli Theatre,Sydney, Ken Woolley Architect, Sir Francis Forbes, Garrick Theatre, Sydney, Faith Bandler, Hermes (publication), British-Australasian Tobacco Company, Robert Merlini, Shakespeare, Matthew Flinders, James Cook, Joseph Banks, David Scott Mitchell, William Dixson, British Australasian Tobacco Coy, Magic, Cervantes, women writers, crime writers, sport, sociology, Tasman Map, Indigenous history, Cora Gooseberry and various collection items.
 * stub articles: Melini, Book Dummies, Garrick Theatre
 * 193 references updated