Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/The Newspaper Project

The partnership between the State Library of NSW and Wikimedia Australia started with in-house Wiki training, and a program to write Wikipedia articles about current and historic NSW newspapers (those that are digitised in Trove).

The Newspaper Project encompasses both List articles and articles on individual newspapers. The project includes creating/editing articles for NSW newspapers as they are digitised by the National Library of Australia as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. A list article of over 2000 current and historic newspapers published in NSW was created as part of the project.

Overall process

 * 1) Newspapers in Australia: write a summary of the State's newspapers in this article;
 * 2) List of newspaper in [State] : create a comprehensive master list in sortable table form in a "List" article such as this;
 * 3) List of newspapers in Australia: update this list to link to the master list for the State;
 * 4) Example of article on an individual newspaper: develop articles on individual newspapers (linked from the master list), such as this.

Detailed process
The detailed process for creating Newspaper articles in Wikipedia is set out at Newspaper project procedures.

For further information about the process talk to Suzebrass.

The detailed process for creating journal / magazine /directory articles in Wikipedia is set out at Journal and magazine procedures.

Ongoing and completed work

 * During the initial phase of the project (training days and working group), work in progress on individual newspapers was tabulated at NSW newspaper articles.
 * Ongoing activity on newspaper article creation is managed internally, with new newspapers articles linking from the List of newspapers in New South Wales.

Events

 * NSLA Training Day November 2013

Related articles

 * Media of Australia
 * List of defunct newspapers of Australia (This article will no longer be necessary when all the sortable lists in table form are completed because one of the columns is "Defunct".)
 * List of newspapers in Australia by circulation
 * List of non-English-language newspapers in New South Wales (This article could be replicated to cover other states. It is linked from Newspapers in Australia. )

Categories
Note: Use the first category for articles about individual newspapers; use the second for list articles.
 * Category:Newspapers published in Australia (including State-specific subcategories)
 * Category:Lists of newspapers published in Australia