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Australia and New Zealand report

Australian Paralympic Committee and other Australian and New Zealand GLAM efforts

By Wikimedia Australia members, New Zealand Wikimedians and LauraHale

Wikimedians to the Games

The Australian Paralympic Committee and Wikimedia Australia will be formally announcing a program being launched on 10 January 2012 to improve content related to the history of Paralympic Movement in Australia. This program will provide an opportunity for two Wikimedians to travel from Australia to London to cover the 2012 Summer Parlaympics for Wikinews and Wikipedia with a behind the scenes perspective courtesy of a pair press passes provided by the Australian Paralympic Committee. Their airfare and accommodation will be covered Australian Paralympic Committee and Wikimedia Australia . Selection will be based on a two round process. The first round will run from 10 January 2012 to 20 April 2012. The second round will run from 21 April 2012 to 30 June 2012. Participants will be required to write one Good Article related to Australia and the Paralympic Movement, and to publish one article about disability sport in Australia on Wikinews. Beyond that, there will be a point system and the top four point earning participants at the end of the first round will get press passes to attend the Games. Points will then be reset and the top two point earners in the second round will earn paid accommodation and transport in order to report on the Games. Details about this incentive program can be found at HOPAU: Wikimedians to the Games.

Australian Paralympic Committee

Marayke Jonkers with her silver medal from the SM4 150m individual medley at the 2002 IPC World Swimming Championships in Mar del Plata, Argentina

Pictures donated by the Australian Paralympic Committee are being used across other language wikis, with an article about Marayke Jonkers being created in French and using a picture featuring her.

Paralympians continued to appear as Did You Knows (DYK) on Wikipedia's main page. Articles that appeared in December included Angie Ballard which had 750 article views, Hamish MacDonald, Karni Liddell and Branka Pupovac which had over 5,000 views between them. The project's Wikimedian in Residence, Laura Hale created 11 spoken word articles in December. Combined with the spoken word article by Chris Nunn for the Chris Nunn article, this brings the total number of Australian Paralympic articles up to twelve. These twelve articles represent 13% of all Sport Spoken Word articles and 1.2% of all Spoken Word articles on English Wikipedia . Thirteen articles about Australian Paralympians were added to Simple Wikipedia. These were the first articles about Australian Paralympians to be created on the wiki. They also represent most of the articles on Simple Wikipedia about Paralympians, with only two articles existing before.

On 18 December, Australian basketballer Jeremy Doyle, who was supposed to be on the men's wheelchair basketball team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, passed away as a result of cancer. The community is sorry for his loss, and at least ten different editors made edits to the article about him since the news became public. The day the news broke, there 4,500 views of his article and 3,500 views a day later. On 21 December, a Spoken Word version of his article was created. A Finnish language article was also created after news of his death broke.

Priya Cooper, the subject of the first Australian Paralympic article to become a Good Article.
On 22 December, the Priya Cooper article became the first Australian Paralympic article to earn Good Article status. Improving our article quality has been a major push for this project.

The History of Paralympic Movement in Australia project was again mentioned in an e-mail circulated to staff at the Australian Paralympic Committee. This e-mail highlighted some of the many accomplishments for the project since it has launched, and helped to boost project visibility amongst staff.

The involvement of the Australian Paralympic Committee in encouraging people to document the history of the movement on Wikipedia led to an increase in the number of articles about Australian Paralympic movement during 2011. At the beginning of 2011, there were only 56 articles with an average rating of 1.3 on English Wikipedia about Australian Paralympians. As of 30 December 2011, there were 373 with an average rating of 1.6. [1] At the beginning of 2011, there were 15 articles about Australia at the Paralympics with an average rating of 1.3 and at the end, there were 33 articles and a rating of 1.5.[2] During the year, over forty Australian Paralympic related articles appeared on the main page of Wikipedia as Did You Knows, including several that featured pictures. One of these articles had over 10,000 views. The GLAM participation has helped to improve important Wikipedia content related to disability sport. The table below gives an idea of to the level of activity involved by showing information about the top 30 most edited articles in the past year.

Article Edits in last year Total edits Total contributors Last updated
Australia_at_the_1996_Summer_Paralympics 203 203 15 08 November 2011, 03:37:53
Priya_Cooper 151 176 36 23 December 2011, 22:39:52
Louise_Sauvage 100 156 65 16 December 2011, 00:41:02
Elizabeth_Edmondson 92 92 18 26 November 2011, 03:50:34
Jeremy_Doyle 72 72 17 24 December 2011, 06:54:52
Frank_Ponta 71 71 16 01 October 2011, 19:42:01
Jessica_Gallagher 59 59 10 02 December 2011, 00:37:27
Daniela_Di_Toro 52 52 18 09 December 2011, 12:19:50
Amanda_Fraser 47 47 15 11 December 2011, 02:05:11
Daniel_Fitzgibbon 47 47 9 30 November 2011, 16:02:29
Casey_Redford 44 44 13 04 December 2011, 09:07:46
Troy_Sachs 43 43 8 19 November 2011, 10:40:27
Tristan_Knowles 41 41 10 18 December 2011, 10:09:30
Evan_O'Hanlon 40 47 16 28 December 2011, 14:54:28
Fabian_Blattman 39 39 12 22 December 2011, 09:00:39
George_Bedbrook 37 37 5 21 December 2011, 07:38:23
Brad_Ness 35 42 16 25 December 2011, 22:58:16
Steve_Graham 34 34 3 13 November 2011, 06:38:47
Catherine_Huggett 32 32 7 26 November 2011, 19:55:44
Matthew_Cowdrey 32 106 44 28 November 2011, 10:48:32
Justin_Eveson 31 31 8 29 December 2011, 13:15:44
Kerrie_Engel 31 31 6 08 November 2011, 13:40:17
Shaun_Norris 31 31 7 26 November 2011, 18:40:27
Marayke_Jonkers 30 47 18 13 December 2011, 23:27:14
Alicia_Aberley 29 29 11 15 December 2011, 09:36:53
Brendan_Dowler 29 29 8 29 December 2011, 12:59:11
Angie_Ballard 28 28 11 22 December 2011, 08:51:14
Elizabeth_Wright_(swimmer) 27 27 11 03 December 2011, 05:11:16
Liesl_Tesch 27 27 14 13 December 2011, 20:59:30
Brett_Stibners 26 26 7 26 November 2011, 18:44:54

GLAMcamp Amsterdam

At GLAMcamp Amsterdam, LauraHale talked to several people about the the Australian Paralympic Committee efforts to do Spoken Word articles and showed them the Chris Nunn article. She also spoke about the content collaboration program which the APC and Wikimedia Australia are co-developing. The project has the potential to offer one of the largest incentives to help encourage Wikipedians to edit of any GLAM partnership type incentives run to date. Beyond that, she talked to people about the process of GLAM partnerships as part of the tender process, and dealing with geographic challenges related to Australia and Oceania at large. She also learned about Wiki Loves Monuments, implementation issues related to the event and invited European organisers to come to Australia to talk to local Australians about organising it in Australia.

State Library of Queensland

On 9 December, a workshop was held at the State Library of Queensland. It was attended by over ten people. Participants worked on creating articles around several topics including Reading in Queensland B-24D Liberator Crash on 26 February 1945, Ipswich to Grandchester Railway, 1865, Kilcoy District Historical Society, Queensland children's book illustrators, Brisbane suburbs with Aboriginal names, Public Library Service Queensland, Lieutenant George Edwards, and Raymond McCosker. The Australian community was asked to help improve these articles on Wikimedia Australia's mailing list and on the Australian Wikipedia Noticeboard.

Russian Pictures

Russavia is a member of Wikimedia Australia. Through out 2011, he has been working with Russian organisations to try to make photographic content related to Russia available on Commons. Resources he has assisted in making available include:

Government
  • Kremlin - www.kremlin.ru - all materials from the Kremlin website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|Kremlin.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Kremlin.ru as well.
Diplomatic missions
Embassies
  • Embassy of Russia in Astana - www.rfembassy.kz - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Astana website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|rfembassy.kz}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Rfembassy.kz as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Bujumbura - www.burundi.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Bujumbura website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|burundi.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Burundi.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Kabul - www.afghanistan.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Kabul website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|afghanistan.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Afghanistan.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Libreville - www.gabon.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Libreville website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|gabon.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Gabon.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Lusaka - www.zambia.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Lusaka website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|zambia.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Zambia.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Minsk - www.belarus.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Minsk website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|belarus.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Belarus.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in New Delhi - www.rusembassy.in - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in New Delhi website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|rusembassy.in}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Rusembassy.in as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Tirana - www.albania.mid.ru - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Tirana website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|albania.mid.ru}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Albania.mid.ru as well.
  • Embassy of Russia in Vienna - www.rusemb.at - all materials from the Embassy of Russia in Vienna website have been licenced under {{tl|CC-BY-3.0}}. Please use {{tl|rusemb.at}} for the permission, and this will place the file in commons:Category:Rusemb.at as well.
Consulates

RecentChangesCamp 2012

The University of Canberra, several Wikimedians and members of the wider Australian wiki community are busy planning RecentChangesCamp 2012 to be held in Canberra from 20 - 22 January 2012. At the last RecentChangesCamp, there were a handful of GLAM participants who talked about struggles using Wikipedia and related projects, and how these projects were used inside their organisations. All GLAM people are invited to Canberra to attend the event to learn more about wikis, both from a Wikimedia Foundation perspective and from a deployment inside their internal organisation perspective.

Wikimedia Lontar's Project

Wikimedia Indonesia's token of appreciation to Chris Woodrich as English Wikipedia Volunteer

In late November and early December, Indonesia wrote up Wikimedia Lontar's Project results, success measures and thanked participants including Wikimedians from Australia and Canada. The three major successes for the project included: Increased reach for the Indonesian language Wikipedia, increased article quality and credibility of articles on the Indonesian language Wikipedia, and diversified participation on Wikipedia.

Wikimedians involved included John Vandenberg (Wikimedia Australia), Chris Woodrich (English Wikipedia Volunteer, trainer and project monitoring), Kartika Sari Henry (Trainer and project monitoring), Mulwardi Tjitra (Trainer, project monitoring and central administration) and Creative Commons Indonesia: Ivan Lanin & Alifia Qonita Sudharto Lontar Foundation employees involved with this effort included Tanya Torres , Joy Wearne, Hani Siti, Wikan Satriati and Shaily.

New Zealand

New Zealand is not in Australia, but as there isn't a New Zealand chapter and Wikimedia Australia is trying to do greater outreach in the region we're happy to include them in Australia. Stuartyeates is a New Zealander active in the GLAM sector. He did a demonstration at the National Digital Forum sponsored by the National Library of New Zealand, Archives New Zealand and Te Papa Tongarewa (the national Museum of New Zealand) at Te Papa. The demonstration was mainly a series of one-on-one conversations with a range of librarians and archivists about wikipedia and how some of the quality control, authority control and Wikipedia:GLAM activities. Wikipedia:GLAM and Wikipedia:Help_desk were frequently mentioned as good places to start.

The following day Stuartyeates attended LODLAM-NZ, the latest in the series of Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums, in which he co-chaired a session with * (a Phd Student from Australia) on metadata vocabularies LODLAM NZ cares about. The session focused on the nature of mapping between metadata schema, particularly subject headings. Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku, for example, is a set of subject headings with the same universal scope as the Library of Congress Subject Headings, but there is no mapping between the two and this lack of mapping is an explicit design goal of Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku. Stuartyeates has recently leveraged Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku to populate Category:Redirects from Māori language terms and is in discussion with the National Library of New Zealand to get copyright clearance to create an automatically-generated experimental portal from the MARC file.


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Australia news

Our content area is representing Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia for the second month in a row. I really prefer to have them grouped together as Wikimedia Australia has strong ties to Indonesia, providing early support to one of their library related projects, and the chapter wants to increase GLAM related support to New Zealand, where there currently is no chapter. Given that we'd like these three to remain together, should we consider a rename? If yes, what? --LauraHale (talk) 11:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the term you are looking for is Australasia. Stuartyeates (talk) 02:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No, that sounds wrong. :P Australia and New Zealand should work in the short term. --LauraHale (talk) 08:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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