Hi everyone,
15 January 2016 will be the 15th anniversary of the (English) Wikipedia.
Many events are being held around the world to help celebrate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events
.. but so far only one of these is in Australasia!
If you would like to organise one in your city - Wikimedia Australia can
provide financial assistance - please get in touch at
contact(a)wikimedia.org.au - or reply back to the mailing lists if you want
to put the call out to other members and Wikimedians in your area.
Regards,
Charles Gregory / User:Chuq
Committee Member - Wikimedia Australia
charles.gregory(a)wikimedia.org.au
http://wikimedia.org.au
Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your
donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
*http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>*
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Here's an update posted recently to the History of Paralympics Australia
project blog.
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From: "Blogger" <no-reply(a)blogger.com>
Date: 13 Nov 2015 6:40 pm
Subject: [HOPAU] 11/13/2015 06:40:00 PM
To: <leighblackall(a)gmail.com>
Cc:
We're back! And the plan is to re-commence updating this blog as the source
of news and information about the Australian Paralympic history project.
Although it's been a three year break since this blog was maintained, there
has been lots of activity on the Australian Paralympic history project in
that time:
- 836(+) Wikipedia articles have been created (more on them below).
- 46 oral history interviews have been recorded under the National
Library of Australia's Paralympic project
<http://www.nla.gov.au/oral-history/australian-centre-for-paralympic-studies…>
as part of its oral history and folklore program.
- 1,902 images from the Australian Paralympic Committee's collection of
more than 40,000 have been digitised and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Australian_Para…>
for widespread use.
- The APC's audio-visual collection has been digitised and catalogued by
the National Sports Information Centre. The catalogue is fully
discoverable online
<http://ausport.hosting.libero.com.au/libero/WebOpac.cls?VERSION=2&ACTION=SE…>
and the NSIC manages all requests for access under an agreement with the
APC.
- Athletes and other members of past Paralympic teams have loaned or
donated scrapbooks, medals, uniforms and other memorabilia to the APC.
Loaned items have been scanned or photographed and returned. Donated items
are also scanned or photographed and stored in the APC's
archives.Agreements with organisations such as the National Sports Museum
mean that some of these items are on display in significant national
collections, pending the establishment of a permanent Paralympic display.
- The APC library in the APC Sydney office is a unique collection of
1,312 items, including books about Paralympic sport and Paralympians,
results from international competitions, magazines, reports, submissions
and proposals relating to the APC and Paralympic sport. The library is
catalogued through the NSIC and the Clearinghouse for Sport, which means
that all items are fully discoverable online, with subsequent access
controlled by the APC.
- The APC archives contain more than 600 boxes of documents that date
back to the foundation of the APC in 1990, plus uniform items and
memorabilia that have been donated or have been archived from Games teams
since 2000. While these are sorted and indexed, there is still a large task
to curate the important historical documents so they are available to those
involved in the Paralympic history project and other researchers. The
National Library has agreed to accept the curated core collection into its
national collection, to ensure its ongoing preservation and access to
future researchers.
- Work is proceeding on the written history of the Paralympic movement
in Australia, which will include an online format with links to the
Wikipedia articles, photos, videos, oral histories, the library and
physical collections. The written history is due for completion in 2017.
The Wikipedia HOPAU project has been one of the great success stories. In
October 2015, the articles created through the project were collectively
viewed 114,974 times. These were the 20 most popular articles:
2000 Summer Paralympics - 1477
Ashley Adams - 1445
Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics - 1367
Disability sport classification - 1347
Australia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics - 1319
Ellie Cole - 1137
Kurt Fearnley - 1064
Daniel Bell (Australian swimmer) - 1019
Para-athletics classification - 984
Australia at the 1976 Summer Paralympics - 951
T44 (classification) - 947
T35 (classification) - 842
Elizabeth Edmondson - 797
T20 (classification) - 715
T37 (classification) - 713
Para-equestrian - 689
Kelly Cartwright - 684
Australia at the 1972 Summer Paralympics - 679
T38 (classification) - 662
T12 (classification) - 647
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Posted By Blogger to HOPAU
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at 11/13/2015 06:40:00 PM
Yesterday, Magnus added the Design & Art Australia Online database
(formerly the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online) was added to
his 'mix-n-match' tool for Wikidata:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=115
Like it says on the tin, this is a database of Australian artists compiled
from a whole range of unis associated with the project (it's an ARC-funded
project based at UNSW). As such, it's a very useful authority control
system for Wikidata. Click the link above and go to 'auto' or perhaps 'game
mode' to start connecting DAAO records to Wikidata items :-)
Other Australian artist authority control systems already in Mix'n'Match
are:
National Gallery of Victoria artist ID:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=95
Australian Dictionary of Biography:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details&catalog=63
There's LOTS of other Authority Control systems in Mix'n'Match if
Australian artists aren't your cup of tea: https://tools.wmflabs
.org/mix-n-match/?
Meawhile, if you'd like to know more about the Wikidata 'sum of all
paintings' project, here's the homepage: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/
Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings
Cheers,
-Liam
wittylama.com
Peace, love & metadata