In collaboration with the City of Canning Wikimedia Australia and its WA branch WikiClubWest will be giving a series of introduction sessions to Wikipedia and digitization of materials. These session will be to build community interest in supporting the Digitization Project that will focus on photographs, documents and items related to the history of the area. We'll also explore how people can expand articles on Wikipedia, add items to Wikidata, and of course upload media to Commons.
Introductory sessions started at 10am in each location;
- Monday 20th May 2019 – Riverton Library -- to register on eventbrite
- Saturday 8th June 2019 - Cannington Library
- Thursday
27th June 20194th July 2019 - Willetton Library - Monday 1st July 2019 - Bentley Library with WA WikiClubWest coordinator
During the school holidays we will host an all day event starting at 10am to digitize material from private collections and help the community get involved with Canning heritage and Wikipedia.
- Wednesday 10th July (School Holidays) - Wikipedia:WikiClubWest/City of Canning/Open Day - Riverton Library
- Sunday 21st July - Riverton Library - The Studio from 13:00
Program
editCity of Canning Libraries and Wikimedia Australia Information Session
Come and talk with Gideon Digby, Vice President of Wikimedia Australia, or one of his fellow wikipedians, who will discuss
- how Wikimedia really works
- what other projects are associated with Wikimedia
- why Wikimedia uses a Creative Commons licence
- how libraries and Wikimedia are helping each other
- how you and your library community can get involved
- answers to your wiki questions