About me edit
This is the user page for LPascal. I am a social historian, writer and researcher and I love art, literature and people's history. I'm interested in the history of ideas and social movements. I volunteer in the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) research library and archives. I focus on both the Know My Name (KMN) project, an initiative of the National Gallery of Australia to celebrate the significant contributions of Australian women artists, and the Australian Women in Religion project. I aim to improve and increase the articles in Wikipedia about Australian women artists and Australian women in religion. I was appointed as Wikimedian-in-Residence at the University of Divinity for the AWR project, from May to August 2023. I also write biographical articles for the Australian Dictionary of Biography's People Australia.
Here's an article from The Guardian about women editors and women's bios on Wikipedia
My Wikipedia contributions
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Created edit
Significant edits edit
Kept women on Wikipedia edit
Sometimes another editor marks a bio of an Australian woman for deletion because they don't think she is notable. Other editors can vote to keep the bio or delete it and the consensus wins. There is also the option to revise the article to show her notability. I have helped save and keep these Australian women on Wikipedia.
Watchlist: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women; Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia
More edits to do edit
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| List of suffragists and suffragettes (update and link names)
Put some Aus content into Theology Aus and women content into Lists of Christian theologians |
Pat Gilmour (curator) | Helena Scott |
| Improve Barbara Darling article
Include Aus women bishops in list of bishops |
Countess Report | Harriet Scott |
| Update for Australia: False accusation of rape | Wikidata for Maureen Cripps and Jacinth Myles | |
| Check edit-a-thon new articles thru dashboard
[https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/a-century-of-quilts/#artists Put quiltmakers on Aus women artists list A Century of Quilts - National Gallery of Australia (nga.gov.au)] Research notability Research Jean Elwing 15 Aug 1935 - MISS JEAN ELWING Barbara Tribe - Wikipedia |
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Links to project pages and quick links edit
Australian women artists edit
WP:KMN Know My Name project page * List of Australian women artists on Wikipedia project Australia To Do list * IWD edit-a-thon 2021 * Notability: Creative professionals * List of Australian women artists * Feminist art timeline Australian feminist art timeline * List of Indigenous Australian visual artists * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red * AWA category * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/NGA/Volunteers_and_Staff_(2020)/articles/edited * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Gallery_of_Australia/Know_My_Name_Edit-a-thon_(June) * 2023 dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Gallery_of_Australia/Know_My_Name_(2023) * Docs https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_bqeKvuUU_wnRViS2ItTjI_xmkuHp8ys * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/National_Gallery_of_Australia/Know_My_Name_Edit-a-thon_Canberra_(16_March_2024)
Australian women in religion edit
Wikipedia:WikiProject 1000 Women in Religion * https://divinity.libguides.com/feminist/women-in-religion * https://divinity.libguides.com/feminist/wikipedia * Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion https://books.atla.com/atlapress/catalog/book/40 * https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Divinity/AWR_Wikimedian-in-Residence_(2023)/ * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Religion/Suffragists * Notability: Religion * Common outcomes: notability of bishops * Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red * Women in religion * Wikipedia:Moving a page
Drafts and notes edit
Wikipedia library edit
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/ * https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/users/my_library/ *
First Nations edit
First Nations people Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia * Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes) * List of Indigenous Australian visual artists - Wikipedia * List of Indigenous Australian visual artists
Userboxes edit
Wikipedia:Userboxes * Personal stats Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia/Personal statistics
Manual of style edit
Wikipedia:Manual of Style * Wikipedia Manual of style/Visual arts (shortcut WP:VAMOS) * Wikipedia Manual of style/Spelling (shortcut WP:MOSS) * National varieties of English (shortcut MOS:ENGVAR) * MOS:Biography * MOS:NAMES
Policies, guidelines edit
Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons (shortcut WP:BLP) * Writing about women * What Wikipedia is not (shortcut WP:NOT) * Notability policy (shortcut WP:N) * Content assessment (class) * Self published sources, WP:BLPSPS, WP:BLPREMOVE * Wikipedia:External links * Infoboxes * Notability books Wikipedia:Notability (books)
Commons edit
Wikimedia Commons, search and upload * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_VRT_release_generator * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS *
Training edit
Video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiREA9Gw0flnYN6QkvnLRWegebOn_uHYQ * Wikimedia training: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Training
Userpages edit
Other work edit
I worked for 24 years in the Australian Public Service. I have researched, written and published reports, policy papers and national strategies for cultural heritage, gender equality, family relationships, fathers, child protection. Prior to the public service, I worked in local government, taught professional communication at university, worked with young people with disabilities and as a youthworker. Aside from my professional writing, in the early 2000s I wrote short stories with five of them published. I use my three tertiary qualifications in history, education and librarianship and my research experience to write articles on Wikipedia.
Highlights edit
Director of research and data for the National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children, 2017-2018
Director, Australian Government Office for Women, 2007-2012
- Prepared, published and delivered the Women’s Budget Statement for the Australian Government two days after Budget, annually for five years, 2007-2012
- Established the Australian Gender Indicators published by the ABS, www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/4125.0
- Commissioned and published research on sharing of unpaid care between men and women, women’s homelessness, superannuation and women, women’s workforce participation, women’s human rights, women and the tax and transfer system, international best practice in gender mainstreaming.
Facilities and conservation advisor, new National Museum Construction Coordination Taskforce, 1998
Wrote and published National Conservation and Preservation Strategy for Australia’s Heritage Collections, 1997, with the Heritage Collections Council.
Project officer, National Office of Local Government, advising on that new-fangled thing, the Internet, libraries as local access points, how government could use it to communicate and provide services, 1994-95.
Fiction edit
I have had five short stories published and I am included in the AustLit database austlit.edu.au
- “The oleander”, Reid's Magazine: The short fiction and poetry magazine, March vol. 1, no. 1, 2005; (p. 39-40)
- “Blackbirds”, All change please, 2004, Cardigan Press, (p 22)
- “Home”, The Canberra Times, 10 January 2004, (p. 8a)
- “Bush baby”, The Canberra Times, 23 March 2002, (p 20)
- “Nan's home for drovers”, Blast, Winter no. 47 2002, (p 10).
Research, non-fiction edit
- National Conservation and Preservation Strategy for Australia’s Heritage Collections, https://aiccm.org.au/conservation/collection-care/
- The heart of the nation’s existence: A review of reports on the treatment of children in Australian detention centres, attachment to Chilout Submission 29 to Senate Standing Committees on Community Affairs inquiry into Children in Institutional Care, 2005, https://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/senate/community_affairs/completed_inquiries/2004-07/inst_care/submissions/sublist