Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/SLNSW Volunteers Training January 2019

SLNSW Volunteers Training January 2019

Friday 25 January 2019

Facilitators:

• Aliaretiree (talk) 06:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Participants:

• Beanieboo65 (talk) 00:45, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• Orangejuice65 (talk) 00:52, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• Tweggy65 (talk) 00:56, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• SLNSW Bloss (talk) 00:57, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• Turnip65 (talk) 00:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• SLNSW Pip (talk) 00:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• Porridge65 (talk) 00:58, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
• Snapandrattle33 (talk) 11:59, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
• Rumble65 (talk) 12:12, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

About Wikipedia

• 5th most popular website in the world (English language Wikipedia)
• There are lots of other editions of Wikipedia in different languages. There are a current total of 293 active Wikipedias.
• Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 5,791,555 articles and it averages 561 new articles per day. If it was all printed out in books it would take 2780 volumes.

Examples of the State Library team contributing to Wikipedia

• List of newspapers in New South Wales
• List of Australian diarists of World War I
• Journals of the First Fleet

Examples of some Sydney region articles

• List of public art in the City of Sydney
• St James' Church, Sydney

Resources

Getting started

• New user account tutorial
• Introduction to referencing with Visual Editor

Video tutorials

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

• A video to show you How to edit Wikipedia using Visual Editor - Part 1: Creating Your Account & Enabling Visual Editor

Wikipedia policies and guidelines

• Introduction to policies and guidelines
• Introduction to the Manual of Style

Good sources to use

• Trove
• Dictionary of Sydney
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian Women's Register

Adding a citation

• Hesba Fay Brinsmead look in Austlit for a suitable reference.
• Ethel Turner look in Austlit for a suitable reference.
• Ivan Southall look in Austlit for a suitable reference.
• Ruth Park look in Austlit for a suitable reference.
• D'Arcy Niland look in Australian Dictionary of Biography for a suitable reference.
• William Beckwith McInnes look in Australian Dictionary of Biography for a suitable reference.
• John Longstaff look in Australian Dictionary of Biography for a suitable reference.