The Facebook post is not (strictly speaking) accurate. They're just cataloging them on-wiki, not preserving them. Perhaps "During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. Now, over 1300 of them are cataloged on Wikipedia." ?
--Ed
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
We just published "Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great War" to the blog. URL:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/
Many thanks to Michael for this post.
Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.
*Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* • How @statelibrarynsw is preserving Austalian war diaries with Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/
*Facebook/Google+:* • During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. The State Library of NSW set out to collect them in 1919, and they're now being preserved on Wikipedia. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/
thanks, Joe
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