Canterbury 24 May
Times
10.00am - 4.00pm
Venue
- Campsie Library
- 14-28 Amy St, CAMPSIE NSW 2194
- Map
Course leaders
- Whiteghost.ink
- Richard Ames, ( Ariconte)
Workshop objectives
This introductory workshop aims to help participants to learn Wikipedia editing skills by giving them as much opportunity as possible to practise. It is not a presentation and its focus is editing, rather than creating text. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- edit the text and format of Wikipedia articles to improve them;
- link articles to others;
- add appropriate references and images;
- engage with the Wikipedia community in discussions about article quality and content;
- find supporting pages about policy and style.
Pre-workshop
Before the workshop, participants should:
- Choose a user name and create a user account
- Consider articles and topics to work on and suggest them below
- Prepare a few paragraphs (on paper or an electronic notepad) about an article or topic to work with during the workshop
- Add user name to the participant list.
Session plan
| Time | Topic | Activities and objectives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 - 11.00 | Welcome to Wikipedia | What, why, getting around; notability; choosing articles for creation and improvement, sandbox | |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Editing | Creating and improving articles, summary style | |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | References | Adding your sources | |
| 12.30 - 1.00 | Layout and organisation | Structure; Content; Categories | |
| 1.00 - 1.45 | LUNCH | ||
| 1.45 - 2.15 | Images | Copyright; Uploading images to Commons; Categories | |
| 2.15 - 3.00 | Fixing things | Publishing, Disambiguation, redirects, broken links | |
| 3.00 - 3.15 | The Community | Help and discussions - talk pages, Wikiprojects; the Teahouse | |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Questions | Publishing; answers to questions arising; what to do next? | |
| 4.00 | CLOSE | ||
Topics (target articles for creation or improvement)
Notes:
- Search Wikipedia first to see what already exists on your topic (Enter key words in Wikipedia's "Search" bar)
- Choose a topic on which there are reliable third party sources (see WP:Notability). The hard nosed test is at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Further explanation is at Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia.
Put the topics you are interested in working on here
| Article | Username | Work needed/Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield Library | Check the notability of this topic. It might not have enough written about it | ||
| Ashfield Public School | lots of source details in Trove | ||
| The Haberfield Centre | Reneefittler | Historic building where Haberfield Library is located | |
| Clovelly, New South Wales, Malabar, New South Wales | Sdfwrk | Update information on Malabar and Clovelly suburbs, including adding historic pictures. Clovelly article improved. | |
| Fairfield City Museum and Gallery | jemawi | Create article on museum & gallery, including historic building relocated to the site | |
| Louise Taplin (1855–1901) | was matron of The Infants Home in Ashfield for 15 years until her death, and led the home through the 1890s depression | ||
| Henry Halloran (poet) (1811–1893) | Poet and resident of Ashfield, and was married to Elizabeth Underwood's daughter Elizabeth [1] | ||
| Samuel Henry Terry | Wealthy landowner and politician spent the last part of his life in an Ashfield residence named The Lilacs. [2] | ||
| Amy Schauer | Cookery instructor and author. [3] | ||
| Randolph John Want | Solicitor and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council who was buried in Ashfield. [4] | ||
| Edward Thomas Jones Wrench | One of the founding partners of real estate agents Richardson and Wrench buried in Ashfield. [5] | ||
| Readers' advisory | more Australian content would add value? | ||
| Genreflecting | needs citations | ||
| Liz Danforth | does not contain recent Tunnels and trolls work information | ||
| Book discussion club | minor content addition | ||
| Como Pleasure Grounds NSW | Helencll | Lots of source information in Trove; could be broken out from parent article; historical images exist and contemporary ones too | |
| Ku-ring-gai Library, New South Wales | Don't write about your own organisation. A non-employee should do this one. | ||
| Canterbury Bicentennial Tapestry, New South Wales | Renowned weaver Margaret Grafton was commissioned by Canterbury City Council to research, design and weave this tapestry to commemorate the 200th anniversary on European Settlement in Australia [6]. | ||
| The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW) | Nicbankstown | Historical site in the Bankstown areas that is often researched. Article created. | |
| Hannah Laycock | Kirstinac | Pioneer woman of the Canterbury area who received the largest of the Canterbury land grants, and named it "Kings Grove" | |
| Ku-ring-gai Stealers Baseball Club, New South Wales | Shdrenth | Community sporting organisation - does not have a current page. Not sure if it fits the notability criteria. Wikipedia has entries for 2 US major league players who started in Australia with the club and we could link them? | |
| Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park | Shdrenth | Could look at to edit. Material on Trove | |
| Wurlitzer Organ at the Orion Centre in Campsie | Additional Material on Trove; needs clear title to distinguish from Wurlitzer and other related articles, such as North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory "The Capitol Wurlitzer"? |
Participants
Nicole; Renee; Kirstin; Helen; Jennifer; Ellen; Khuyenluu; Kristin; Catherine; Sharon; Sean; Philip; Sarah
Libraries represented
-
Ashfield Library
-
Bankstown City Library and Information Service
-
Canterbury Library
-
Fairfield City Library Service
-
Ku-ring-gai Library, Gordon
-
Liverpool City Library
-
Randwick Library
-
State Library of NSW
-
Sutherland Library
Questions
Add any specific questions you have here
Post-workshop
- Continue to improve your article/s and discuss it/them on the article talk pages
- Discuss articles with other Wikipedians via their user pages
- The Wikipedia Training Manual developed by the Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time.
- Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide with video
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style
- Model of copyright licences
| User Name | Nice people | Edit button | Nice feeling |
|---|---|---|---|
| This video shows some of Wikipedia's contributors, explaining their user names. | This video focuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians, and ends with a comment by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what makes the project special. | This video is a direct invitation by Wikipedians to "click that [edit] button and see what happens". | In this video, Wikipedians talk about the joy of being part of a global community of editors. |
- The Impact of Wikipedia A series of powerful videos of people from around the world explaining how Wikipedia has impacted them
- Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
- Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
- wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
- Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). See how many people are reading your articles.
- Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
- WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.
| Welcome to Wikipedia | Ten Simple Rules | Introduction to free licenses | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality | The Wikipedia Cheatsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| This 17-page guide covers creating a user account, editing basics, communication, and how articles evolve and are evaluated, and includes a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup. | This editorial from PLoS Computation Biology focuses on how to contribute effectively as an expert. | This brochure helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | This reference guide covers specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. |
- ^ Dickey, Brian (1972). "Halloran, Henry (1811–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press. p. 327.
- ^ Walsh, G. P. (1976). "Terry, Samuel Henry (1833–1887)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 6. Melbourne University Press. pp. 258–259.
- ^ Ryan, Donna Phillips (1988). "Schauer, Amy (1871–1956)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Want, Richard (1976). "Want, Randolph John (1811–1869)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 6. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Kingston, Beverley (2005). "Wrench, Edward Thomas Jones (1828–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ http://photosau.com.au/canterbury/scripts/genericIncluder.asp?filename=info/Tapestry
Canterbury 24 May
Times
10.00am - 4.00pm
Venue
- Campsie Library
- 14-28 Amy St, CAMPSIE NSW 2194
- Map
Course leaders
- Whiteghost.ink
- Richard Ames, ( Ariconte)
Workshop objectives
This introductory workshop aims to help participants to learn Wikipedia editing skills by giving them as much opportunity as possible to practise. It is not a presentation and its focus is editing, rather than creating text. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- edit the text and format of Wikipedia articles to improve them;
- link articles to others;
- add appropriate references and images;
- engage with the Wikipedia community in discussions about article quality and content;
- find supporting pages about policy and style.
Pre-workshop
Before the workshop, participants should:
- Choose a user name and create a user account
- Consider articles and topics to work on and suggest them below
- Prepare a few paragraphs (on paper or an electronic notepad) about an article or topic to work with during the workshop
- Add user name to the participant list.
Session plan
| Time | Topic | Activities and objectives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 - 11.00 | Welcome to Wikipedia | What, why, getting around; notability; choosing articles for creation and improvement, sandbox | |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | MORNING TEA | ||
| 11.15 - 11.45 | Editing | Creating and improving articles, summary style | |
| 11.45 - 12.30 | References | Adding your sources | |
| 12.30 - 1.00 | Layout and organisation | Structure; Content; Categories | |
| 1.00 - 1.45 | LUNCH | ||
| 1.45 - 2.15 | Images | Copyright; Uploading images to Commons; Categories | |
| 2.15 - 3.00 | Fixing things | Publishing, Disambiguation, redirects, broken links | |
| 3.00 - 3.15 | The Community | Help and discussions - talk pages, Wikiprojects; the Teahouse | |
| 3.15 - 3.30 | AFTERNOON TEA | ||
| 3.30 - 4.00 | Questions | Publishing; answers to questions arising; what to do next? | |
| 4.00 | CLOSE | ||
Topics (target articles for creation or improvement)
Notes:
- Search Wikipedia first to see what already exists on your topic (Enter key words in Wikipedia's "Search" bar)
- Choose a topic on which there are reliable third party sources (see WP:Notability). The hard nosed test is at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Further explanation is at Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia.
Put the topics you are interested in working on here
| Article | Username | Work needed/Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield Library | Check the notability of this topic. It might not have enough written about it | ||
| Ashfield Public School | lots of source details in Trove | ||
| The Haberfield Centre | Reneefittler | Historic building where Haberfield Library is located | |
| Clovelly, New South Wales, Malabar, New South Wales | Sdfwrk | Update information on Malabar and Clovelly suburbs, including adding historic pictures. Clovelly article improved. | |
| Fairfield City Museum and Gallery | jemawi | Create article on museum & gallery, including historic building relocated to the site | |
| Louise Taplin (1855–1901) | was matron of The Infants Home in Ashfield for 15 years until her death, and led the home through the 1890s depression | ||
| Henry Halloran (poet) (1811–1893) | Poet and resident of Ashfield, and was married to Elizabeth Underwood's daughter Elizabeth [1] | ||
| Samuel Henry Terry | Wealthy landowner and politician spent the last part of his life in an Ashfield residence named The Lilacs. [2] | ||
| Amy Schauer | Cookery instructor and author. [3] | ||
| Randolph John Want | Solicitor and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council who was buried in Ashfield. [4] | ||
| Edward Thomas Jones Wrench | One of the founding partners of real estate agents Richardson and Wrench buried in Ashfield. [5] | ||
| Readers' advisory | more Australian content would add value? | ||
| Genreflecting | needs citations | ||
| Liz Danforth | does not contain recent Tunnels and trolls work information | ||
| Book discussion club | minor content addition | ||
| Como Pleasure Grounds NSW | Helencll | Lots of source information in Trove; could be broken out from parent article; historical images exist and contemporary ones too | |
| Ku-ring-gai Library, New South Wales | Don't write about your own organisation. A non-employee should do this one. | ||
| Canterbury Bicentennial Tapestry, New South Wales | Renowned weaver Margaret Grafton was commissioned by Canterbury City Council to research, design and weave this tapestry to commemorate the 200th anniversary on European Settlement in Australia [6]. | ||
| The Homestead (Georges Hall, NSW) | Nicbankstown | Historical site in the Bankstown areas that is often researched. Article created. | |
| Hannah Laycock | Kirstinac | Pioneer woman of the Canterbury area who received the largest of the Canterbury land grants, and named it "Kings Grove" | |
| Ku-ring-gai Stealers Baseball Club, New South Wales | Shdrenth | Community sporting organisation - does not have a current page. Not sure if it fits the notability criteria. Wikipedia has entries for 2 US major league players who started in Australia with the club and we could link them? | |
| Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park | Shdrenth | Could look at to edit. Material on Trove | |
| Wurlitzer Organ at the Orion Centre in Campsie | Additional Material on Trove; needs clear title to distinguish from Wurlitzer and other related articles, such as North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory "The Capitol Wurlitzer"? |
Participants
Nicole; Renee; Kirstin; Helen; Jennifer; Ellen; Khuyenluu; Kristin; Catherine; Sharon; Sean; Philip; Sarah
Libraries represented
-
Ashfield Library
-
Bankstown City Library and Information Service
-
Canterbury Library
-
Fairfield City Library Service
-
Ku-ring-gai Library, Gordon
-
Liverpool City Library
-
Randwick Library
-
State Library of NSW
-
Sutherland Library
Questions
Add any specific questions you have here
Post-workshop
- Continue to improve your article/s and discuss it/them on the article talk pages
- Discuss articles with other Wikipedians via their user pages
- The Wikipedia Training Manual developed by the Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ to help participants continue to use their Wikipedia editing skills in their own time.
- Wikipedia:GLAM/BeginnersGuide with video
- Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style
- Model of copyright licences
| User Name | Nice people | Edit button | Nice feeling |
|---|---|---|---|
| This video shows some of Wikipedia's contributors, explaining their user names. | This video focuses on the motivations and passion of Wikipedians, and ends with a comment by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what makes the project special. | This video is a direct invitation by Wikipedians to "click that [edit] button and see what happens". | In this video, Wikipedians talk about the joy of being part of a global community of editors. |
- The Impact of Wikipedia A series of powerful videos of people from around the world explaining how Wikipedia has impacted them
- Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (YouTube) – a humorous presentation by Wikipedian Steven Walling about the culture of Wikipedia and its editors.
- Wikipedia Vision – an animated map that highlights live edits from users around the world as they happen, demonstrating the global nature of the project.
- wikistream – a visualization showing a stream of edits to the most popular Wikipedia projects.
- Wikipedia article traffic statistics – a tool for charting how many hits any given article gets, great for comparing different kinds of articles at different times, e.g., Genetics (in the school year) vs. (in the summer), or YouTube (with weekend spikes) and Simpsons (with spikes when new episodes come out). See how many people are reading your articles.
- Manypedia – a tool for comparing a specific Wikipedia page from a language edition Wikipedia (for example, English) with its equivalent page on another language edition Wikipedia (for example, Arabic), exploiting automatic translation and additional statistics about both pages such as number of edits and editors.
- WikiTrip – a tool for visualizing the animated evolution in time of two kinds of information about the Wikipedians who edited the selected page: their location in the world and their gender.
| Welcome to Wikipedia | Ten Simple Rules | Introduction to free licenses | Evaluating Wikipedia article quality | The Wikipedia Cheatsheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
| This 17-page guide covers creating a user account, editing basics, communication, and how articles evolve and are evaluated, and includes a quick reference to help you to remember frequently used wiki markup. | This editorial from PLoS Computation Biology focuses on how to contribute effectively as an expert. | This brochure helps you understand the basic concepts of free licenses, as well as terms like "CC-by-SA" and "public domain". | This reference guide covers specific steps you can take to get the most out of Wikipedia, as well as a look at how its quality system works. | This one-page quick reference helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup commands. |
- ^ Dickey, Brian (1972). "Halloran, Henry (1811–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Melbourne University Press. p. 327.
- ^ Walsh, G. P. (1976). "Terry, Samuel Henry (1833–1887)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 6. Melbourne University Press. pp. 258–259.
- ^ Ryan, Donna Phillips (1988). "Schauer, Amy (1871–1956)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 11. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Want, Richard (1976). "Want, Randolph John (1811–1869)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 6. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Kingston, Beverley (2005). "Wrench, Edward Thomas Jones (1828–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ http://photosau.com.au/canterbury/scripts/genericIncluder.asp?filename=info/Tapestry