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Australian Jazz Museum

Australian Jazz Museum (AJM) and Wikipedia

Australian Jazz Museum is a museum located in Wantirna, Victoria. It incorporates the Victorian Jazz Archive and also houses the Australian Jazz Convention's extensive collection of material within its premises.

Its extensive collection includes discs, audio cassettes, posters, books, photographs, instruments and ephemera includes works by such Australian Jazz luminaries as Graeme Bell, Bob Barnard, Ade Monsbourgh, Smacka Fitzgibbon and Frank Traynor together with magazines, periodicals and newspaper articles on Australian jazz musicians and many international performers. 

Introduction to Wikipedia at AJM Feb 2023

On Feb 14 2023, Wikimedia Australia hosted an Introduction to Wikipedia event. Participants learnt how to edit a page and contribute Australian jazz content to Wikipedia.

Editing suggestions

There are many different ways for you to contribute today. Wikipedia is the product of millions of individual contributions and every change that is made, no matter how small, makes a difference!

We’ve prepared a list of suggested subjects and assembled some preliminary sources to get you started. Keep in mind Wikipedia’s Conflict of Interest guidelines when selecting your subject to make sure it is appropriate for you to make the edits.

Instructions

• Choose a subject from the table below. Write your username in the last column so different people don't work on the same page during the event. After the event anyone is able to edit any page.
• If the subject is living, please read and follow the guidelines in Wikipedia: Biographies of living persons, for both new pages and editing existing ones.
• If there is already a page for that subject, check the Talk page for any comments or suggested edits and check the Article page for any templates with suggestions for improvements.
• Use Australian English and spelling.

Subject	Suggested resources	Username working on page
Geoff Bull	The Canberra Times / Trove, The Canberra Times / Trove, Jazz / Eric Myers
Ade Monsbourgh	The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, Shepparton Advertiser, The Age, All Music, Jazz Australia
Swaggie Records	The Bulletin / Trove, The Canberra Times,
Jack Lumsdaine	NFSA, National Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Mercury, West Australian, The Sun, Truth, Wireless Weekly
Frank Coughlan	NFSA, NFSA, JAM / Eric Myers, Northern Champion, The Telegraph, The Telegraph
Tom Vincent	ABC, Tasmania Arts Guide, Cut Common Mag, Jazz Australia,
Allan Zavod	Australian Jewish News, Australian Jewish News, Australian Jewish News, Australian Jewish News, Brighton Grammar, Louder Sound,
Dale Barlow	Jazzchord / Eric Myers, Jazz Head, ABC, Oxford Reference,
Angela Davis	Australian Jazz, Australian Jazz, ABC, scenestr,
Michelle Nicolle	The Blue Mountains Gazette, SMH, MIJF

Categories

Categories are listed at the end of a wikipedia article. Categories can help group articles with similarities.

Suggested Categories for Biography or jazz related pages are, but not limited to:

Australian jazz

• Australian jazz musicians
• Jazz festivals in Australia
• Jazz clubs in Australia
• yyyy births
• yyyy deaths
• 20th-century Australian musicians
• 21st-century Australian musicians

Also, look at categories in articles similar to those you are editing to get more category ideas.

Things to remember

• Add links to everything you can, including place names, institutions, occupations, other people, genres (e.g. Swing music, Bebop) etc.)
• Use the Talk page to provide further justification for any changes you’ve made to existing information on the page (such as changing a date of birth), and remember to reply if people @ you!

Resources

Editing and Writing Guides

• Wikipedia Manual of Style – the style manual for all English Wikpedia pages.
• MOS, Biography, Lead section
• Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons – guide to writing biographies of living people or recently deceased.
• A simplified guide for contributing to Wikipedia
• Tips for writing your first article
• Detailed editing tutorial

Adding Images

• Adding pictures to an article
• Guidelines for images and other media files
• Wikimedia Commons - Images shared under an open license.
• Australian jazz on Wikimedia Commons

Relevant Projects

• WikiProject Jazz – group of editors writing and maintaining Wikipedia's articles on all things jazz.
• WikiProject Australian music – group of editors writing and maintaining Wikipedia's articles on Australian music.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red - Wikipedians who create and edit articles about women, a good place to get help and inspiration.

Sources

• Trove Find Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives etc.
• Google Books Find and search inside books, newspapers, and magazines.
• Archive.org Find and search inside books, newspapers, magazines, archived websites, and music liner notes.
• The Australian Dictionary of Biography

Get help or stay in touch!

If you're having any other issues, feel free to contact: Wikipedia Australia at contact@wikimedia.org.au