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Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/SLNSW Volunteers Training February 2020

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SLNSW Volunteers Training February 2020

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Friday 28 February 2020

Facilitators:

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Participants:

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About Wikipedia

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  • 5th most popular website in the world (English language Wikipedia)[1]
  • There are lots of other editions of Wikipedia in different languages. There are a current total of 293 active Wikipedias.[2]
  • Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,022,157 articles and it averages 572 new articles per day.[3] If it was all printed out in books it would take more than 2649 volumes.[4]

Resources

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Getting started

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Video tutorials

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Ewan McAndrew has been the Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He shares a lot of videos on YouTube that will help you to see how Wikipedia works

Wikipedia policies and guidelines

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Good sources to use

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Adding infoboxes

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References

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  1. ^ "Alexa Top 500 Global Sites". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. ^ "List of Wikipedias - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Wikipedia:Statistics". Wikipedia. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Wikipedia:Size in volumes". Wikipedia. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.