Hi. :D
Bouncy mood. :D Very happy. I wanted to work on some articles about a
women's sport team in Australia and I chose the Australian women's national
water polo team as they occasionally train at the Australian Institute of
Sport. As luck would have it, they were running a training camp there this
week and playing a series of test matches against Great Britain. I got in
touch with the media manager for the team. I got permission from the media
manager to get profile pictures of every member of the team and the coach
of the team specifically for articles about the individual players. The
request was basically treated like any other request from a media
organisation, which was fantastic. :D The media manager told the players
why we wanted the pictures, and about 80 minutes before their match, we (my
Commons photographer Bidgee and I) had an opportunity to take the pictures.
These were then put into the articles about every player, articles we
either newly created or expanded. The whole lot was then nominated for DYK.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alicia_McCormack_(1).jpg>
Alicia McCormack <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_McCormack>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ashleigh_Southern.jpg>
Ashleigh Southern <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Southern>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bronwen_Knox.jpg>
Bronwen Knox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronwen_Knox> Australian women's
national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dalibor_Maslan.jpg>
Dalibor
Maslan<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalibor_Maslan&acti…
assistant
coach of the Australian women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gemma_Beadsworth_(1).jpg>
Gemma Beadsworth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Beadsworth>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Glencora_Ralph.jpg>
Glencora Ralph <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencora_Ralph> Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gregory_McFadden.jpg>
Gregory McFadden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_McFadden> coach of
the Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hannah_Buckling.jpg>
Hannah Buckling <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Buckling>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Lincoln-Smith.jpg>
Holly Lincoln-Smith
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lincoln-Smith>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isobel_Bishop.jpg>
Isobel Bishop <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobel_Bishop> Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Moran.jpg>
Jane Morgan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Morgan> Australian women's
national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kate_Gynther_(1).jpg>
Kate Gynther <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Gynther> Australian women's
national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kelsey_Wakefield.jpg>
Kelsey Wakefield <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey_Wakefield>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Melissa_Rippon.jpg>
Melissa Rippon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Rippon> Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nicola_Zagame.jpg>
Nicola Zagame <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Zagame> Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rowena_Webster.jpg>
Rowena Webster <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowena_Webster>Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ryan_Moar.jpg>
Ryan
Moar<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryan_Moar&action=edit…
assistant
coach of the Australian women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sophie_Smith.jpg>
Sophie Smith <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Smith> Australian women's
national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Brown.jpg>
Victoria Brown <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Brown> Australian
women's national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zoe_Arancini.jpg>
Zoe Arancini <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Arancini> Australian women's
national water
polo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_women%27s_national_water_pol…
player.
We're almost certain this is the first time ever on English Wikipedia that
a national team of ANY gender has given a Wikipedia photographer official
permission to take profile pictures specifically for use on Wikipedia. :D
That it is a team full of women makes me extra happy. The women were
incredibly nice about it. No complaints. All smiles. Some of them were
aware of existing articles about them on Wikipedia. (A few had won bronze
medals at the 2008 Games.)
On a related and yet unrelated note, there currently is NO article about
Great Britain's women national water polo team, who will be competing in
their first Olympics. (The women's event was only added to the Games in
2000, after extensive lobbying by Australian women. this despite the fact
that water polo for men was one of the foundation sports for the Games.)
There are a few pictures and videos I took at the first game in the test
series at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Water_polo_in_the_United_Kingdom.
The quality isn't as great as what bidgee took game wise for the
second
test series. Those pictures should be uploaded in a few days or so at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bidgee . It
would be awesome to see an article about the Great Britain team and some of
their players. :) (Or the Australian articles brought up to GA. ;o) )
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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