Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of New South Wales/SLNSW Volunteers Training February 2020

SLNSW Volunteers Training February 2020

Friday 28 February 2020

Facilitators:

• Aliaretiree Aliaretiree (talk) 22:58, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

About Wikipedia

• 5th most popular website in the world (English language Wikipedia)
• There are lots of other editions of Wikipedia in different languages. There are a current total of 293 active Wikipedias.
• Currently, the English Wikipedia includes 6,022,157 articles and it averages 572 new articles per day. If it was all printed out in books it would take more than 2649 volumes.

Resources

Getting started

• New user account tutorial
• Introduction to referencing with Visual Editor

Video tutorials

Ewan McAndrew has been the Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He shares a lot of videos on YouTube that will help you to see how Wikipedia works

• A video to show you How to edit Wikipedia using Visual Editor - Part 1: Creating Your Account & Enabling Visual Editor

Wikipedia policies and guidelines

• Introduction to policies and guidelines
• Introduction to the Manual of Style

Good sources to use

• Trove
• Dictionary of Sydney
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian Women's Register

Adding infoboxes

• There are infobox templates for different types of subjects.
• They always fall on the right hand side of the page (automatically)
• e.g., Infobox person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_person
• e.g., Infobox artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_artist
• Expert tip: COPY AND PASTE from an existing infobox and change the info locating to the right of the equals signs.
• Note: Not all forms in the infobox template need to be filled in. Fill in what is needed.
• A video tutorial for adding infoboxes
• some examples of artists with infoboxes Louisa Atkinson, Dorrit Black, Norma Bull, Margaret Forrest