Hi all
At a meeting of the Genealogy SA Research and Development Committee I
offered to provide a session on writing biographies for Wikipedia.
Triggers for this were:
- my experience finding obituaries and other sources in Trove that appeared
to justify an article, or allowed significant expansion of a stub. Often
for politicians and sportspeople there is already a stub that can be filled
out.
- finding that a number of the articles apparently written by family
historians were not encyclopedic in their selection of information nor well
presented.
It looks like there will be a 1.5 hour session:
- an intro to WP
- familiarisation with Wikiproject Biography (WP:Notability)
- WP:RS
- Using hardcopy and online resources, (WP:Citing sources)
Any thoughts, comments, offers to work on the project. Is anybody else
already doing something along these lines?
Regards
Paul Foord
Kaya
Wikimedia Australia is happy to announce that the plans for the WikiData
Down Under Tour are sufficiently finalise to allow everone to make their
plans for Febraury. The keynote speaker is Andy Mabbett also known as
User:Pigsonthewing Andy has considerable experience in working with
WikiData and sharing data across projects he'll endeavour to share as much
of the experience as possible over the tour.
Full details are at: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikidata_Tour_Down_Under
Below is an idea of when and where he'll along with where there will
opportunities to meet, learn and chat with Andy
-
- Melbourne
- 7-11 meetup on the 10th, workhsop on the 11th
- Sydney
- 12-13 meetup on the 13
- Canberra
- 14-17
- travelling to perth on 18th
- Perth
- 19 - 25 public conference 19th, workshop 20th
- travel to Indonesia 25th
For people in Brisbane
- Kerry will be attending the Sydney events and organising a session on
what shes learnt later on
- we are also talking with WM Indonesia they are planning a similar
event in april.may we'll bring their speaker across to Brisbane for a
couple of days.
For members else where the Chapter has the ability to help one or two of
you get to an event please send a request through with the event you'd like
to attend and why with as much detail as possible we'll assess each request
individually you'll be required to report back to members on attending
--
Gideon
President Wikimedia Australia
WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
Hey, does anyone know why
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia is being annoying
about caching the coming events list? It's been ages since the Upcoming
Events page was updated, but it's not reflected on the homepage. :(
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is going nowhere, one of the big issues is that there is a lack of
> understanding on how WikiData works and whats it purpose is.
>
>
> Wikimedia Australia solution is invest community money into bringing
> someone who has contributed to Wikidata to Australia to do a series of
> talks and workshops around the country over a three week period.
Ah, that sounds interesting. Could you provide more information about
that please? I havent seen this mentioned on the public mailing lists
before.
Wikimedia Indonesia is doing a Wikidata project next year and lapping
up all the training they can get. I am sure they would be interested
in having a trainer stop over in Jakarta on the way to or from
Australia.
--
John Vandenberg