Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/NSLA Training November 2013

Times
9.00am - 4.00pm

Venue
National Library of Australia

Course leaders

 * Aliaretiree
 * Rubicon49bce - Created demonstration article: The Capricornian. ✅ Demonstration image
 * Wittylama

Trainees

 * - The Kadina and Wallaroo times (at "Articles for creation")
 * - Adelaider Deutsche Zeitung (at "Articles for creation")
 * - Northern Times (Carnarvon, W.A.) ✅
 * - Canberra Community News ✅
 * - The Federal Capital Pioneer ✅
 * - The Central Queensland Herald ✅, The Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser (currently nominated for deletion), The Charleville Courier ✅
 * - Traralgon Record ✅
 * - Canberra Illustrated: A Quarterly Magazine ✅
 * - The Eylandt Echo ✅
 * - The Leven Lever ✅, The Clipper ✅
 * - The Western Star and Roma Advertiser ✅ (was initially proposed for deletion, since passed)
 * - The National Leader ✅

Workshop objectives

 * to learn basic Wikipedia editing skills
 * to create articles about newspapers published in Australia that have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

Cover images

 * Federal Capital Pioneer (Canberra, ACT : 1924 - 1926)
 * The Capricornian
 * National Leader
 * Christmas issue of Leader
 * Canberra Illustrated
 * Northern Times (Carnarvon)

Pre-workshop
Before the workshop, participants should:
 * Choose a user name and create a user account

Newspaper editing procedures
More information about the SLNSW Newspaper Project.
 * Newspaper editing procedures

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Other useful Wikipedia resources

 * The Wikipedia Training Manual developed by the GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time.
 * GLAM/BeginnersGuide with video
 * Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * Wikipedia's Manual of Style
 * Model of copyright licences


 * The Impact of Wikipedia A series of powerful videos of people from around the world explaining how Wikipedia has impacted them
 * Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
 * Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
 * wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). See how many people are reading your articles.
 * Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
 * WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.


 * Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums working with Wikipedia