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Using the Library as a venue for an edit-a-thon Room bookings: small group study rooms (up to 6 people) for larger group bookings contact Venue Hire at the Library. Resources and expert guides: please contact the Library directly for staff assistance with resources and references to support editing at your event Free wifi access is available in the public areas of the Library, including the study rooms. While onsite for the editathon participants will have full access to the Library's electronic databases for locating and citing references, including JSTOR. If you live in NSW and sign up for a readers card you can also access many of the Library's databases remotely. Forthcoming Completed Edit-a-thons French Classical music editathon (13 October 2012) Paralympics Workshop 21 September 2013 World War I editathons (November 2013; August 2013) Wadewitz tribute edit-a-thon 10 May 2014 Know My Name 11am - 1pm 7 March 2020, Dixson Room BOOKINGS Symposium - Wikimedia in Higher Education (2013) Symposium project page Summary of presentation by SLNSW on 5 April Training Resources Getting started If you would like to watch some YouTube videos to help orient yourself to Wikipedia editing here is a playlist from Edinburgh University https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLShfeH51q5EA_z_muUHb4qLjrH-c0vTDV Setting up your user account How to create a new user account VIDEO TUTORIAL Why create an account New user account tutorial please add the template "this is a new user" to your user page Turning on visual editor There are two different ways to edit Wikipedia, we recommend you start with Visual Editor. How to enable the visual editor on Wikipedia VIDEO TUTORIAL Introduction to referencing with Visual Editor Adding a citation How to add a citation on Wikipedia VIDEO TUTORIAL Good sources to use to find citations and references Trove focuses on freely available digital content held in the collections of Australian Libraries, Archives, Museums, Galleries, University, Research and community organisations. Dictionary of Sydney Australian Dictionary of Biography Australian Women's Register Training Workshops SLNSW Training for interested SLNSW employees on 27-28 November 2012. SLNSW 13 March 2013: Masterclass Wagga Wagga 2 May 2013: training for librarians Canterbury 24 May 2013: training for librarians Broken Hill 29 May 2013: training for librarians Newcastle 6 November 2013: training for librarians NSLA Canberra 29 November 2013: training for newspaper digitising team SLNSW Staff Training April 2016 11 April 2016: internal training focusing on creating newspaper articles SLNSW Staff Training June 2016 30 June 2016: internal training focusing on creating biographical articles for notable NSW people Public Wikipedia Editing Training, 16 August 2016 SLNSW #1Lib1Ref 2017 January 2017: internal training and editing for #1Lib1Ref SLNSW Staff Training January 2017 : internal training focusing on articles about literary awards Wikimedia Commons 13 February 2017: a hands on introduction for GLAMs Food studies editathon 17 March 2017: editing workshop for food studies researchers SLNSW Volunteers Training January 2019 25 January 2019: introduction to editing for Library volunteers SLNSW Volunteers Training May 2019 10 May 2019: editing for Library volunteers SLNSW Volunteers Training February 2020 28 February 2020: editing for Library volunteers SLNSW Volunteers Training April 2021 22, 24 April 2021: introduction for Library volunteers SLNSW Volunteers Training 1lib1ref 2021 May 2021: 1lib1ref introduction for Library volunteers