Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/SLNSW Volunteers Training January 2019
SLNSW Volunteers Training January 2019[edit]
Friday 25 January 2019
Facilitators:[edit]
- Aliaretiree (talk) 06:15, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Participants:[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 5,791,555 articles and it averages 561 new articles per day.[3] If it was all printed out in books it would take 2780 volumes.[4]
Examples of the State Library team contributing to Wikipedia[edit]
- 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[edit]
Resources[edit]
Getting started[edit]
Video tutorials[edit]
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[edit]
Good sources to use[edit]
Adding a citation[edit]
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ "Alexa Top 500 Global Sites". www.alexa.com. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ^ "List of Wikipedias - Meta". meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ^ "Wikipedia:Statistics". Wikipedia. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
- ^ "Wikipedia:Size in volumes". Wikipedia. 30 December 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.