Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/Wagga Wagga

Times

 * 10:00 start
 * 11:00 coffee break
 * 12:30 - 1:30 lunch break
 * 2:45 coffee break
 * 4:00 finish

Venue

 * Bob Osborne Skills Centre 208 Fernleigh Road Wagga Wagga NSW. Google map of location.

Course leaders

 * Bidgee
 * Peterdownunder

Skills and topics covered

 * 1) Intro to Wikipedia
 * 2) Understanding the user interface
 * 3) Create a Wikipedia userpage
 * 4) Linking
 * 5) Using an image
 * 6) Create a sandbox page,
 * 7) Page formatting
 * 8) Using talk pages
 * 9) Notability
 * 10) Start or edit a Wikipedia page
 * 11) Referencing and citations in Wikipedia
 * 12) Uploading images
 * 13) Moving pages

Possible editing topics

 * please suggest the topics you would like to contribute on the day - make sure you search Wikipedia first
 * Wagga Wagga Cattle Driving Bill
 * Study of prostitution in Wagga Wagga 1870 - 1890
 * Parkview Public School (page does not exist)
 * Leeton High school (minimal information available)
 * Leeton Art Deco Festival
 * Henry Lawson Cottage Leeton
 * Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser
 * Wagga early militia unit G Coy 1st Regiment NSW Infantry
 * West Wyalong New South Wales
 * Gundagai Timelines and links.

Participants

 * Cathy Lange (added information to West Wyalong, New South Wales and to Wikivoyage)
 * Leetonlib (created a draft on Leeton Parkview Public School)
 * Blue hand of doom (created a draft on Wagga cattle driving bill)
 * leetonlm (created a draft on Henry Lawson Cottage, also added information to Leeton, New South Wales)
 * Webkat (created a draft on Wagga Wagga's two ‘Annis & George Bills’ Horse Troughs)
 * Leoniemoore (created a draft on G Compay 1st Regiment New South Wales Infantry, Wagga Wagga
 * LittleAud
 * Gunlibrary (created a draft on Timeline of Gundagai)

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


 * 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.

Useful related projects

 * Wikimedia Commons
 * The Simple English version of Wikipedia