Wikipedia:GLAM/State Library of Western Australia/The Newspaper Project

The State Library of Western Australia, with assistance from Wikimedia Australia, started a project to write Wikipedia articles about current and historic Western Australian newspapers (those that are digitised in Trove).

The Newspaper Project encompasses both list articles and articles on individual newspapers. The project includes creating/editing articles for WA newspapers as they are digitised by the National Library of Australia as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. The list article of current and historic newspapers published in WA will be updated as part of the project.

Procedure

Overall process

Newspapers in Australia: update some specific information in this article relating to WA newspapers.
Create regional lists of newspapers, for example Pilbara newspapers.
Update the List of non-English-language newspapers in Western Australia
List of newspapers in Australia: update this list and link to the master list for WA.
Example of article on an individual newspaper: develop articles on individual newspapers (linked from the master list).

Detailed process

The detailed process for creating Newspaper articles in Wikipedia is set out at Newspaper project procedures.

For further information about the process talk to RenegadeStormie.

Ongoing and completed work

Ongoing activity on newspaper article creation is managed internally, with new newspapers articles linking from the List of newspapers published in Western Australia.
There's also a list of changes related to the above.

Bibliography

Some resources that might be relevant to newspaper research:

General

Battye, James Sykes (1985). Cyclopedia of Western Australia (Facsimile ed.). State Library of Western Australia: Hesperian Press. ISBN 0859050726. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

"History of WA newspapers". The West Australian: 2. 17 Jan 1893. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

"Newspapers in Western Australia". Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia: 174–178. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

"Histories of newspapers in Western Australia". Pens and Ems in Australia: 51–54. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Chanter, Alaine. Formative history of the press in Western Australia (Thesis). Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Regional

"History of Geraldton Newspapers". Geraldton Guardian: 2. 1 Dec 1988. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Read, John. The Newspapers of the Eastern Goldfields (Thesis). State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Mallett, Kathleen. "History of Marble Bar Newspapers". To the Bar Bonded: 211–213. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

"Newspapers of York". Barladong: The York Society History and Heritage Journal (3): 27–44. 2002.

Kirwan, John (1949). "The Story of a Goldfields Newspaper: Kalgoorlie early days". Journal and Proceedings. IV (1). Western Australian Historical Society: 4–22.

Title specific

"Sad Demise of the Gnowangerup Star". Wagin Argus, Dumbleyung Lake Grace Express: 3. 3 July 2003.

"How the Herald was resurrected in 1984". Toodyay Herald: 2. Dec 1999.

Christian, Brett (Autumn 1997). "Why the Daily really died". Scoop: 12–13. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

King, Norma (1995). The Voice of the Goldfields: 100 years of the Kalgoorlie Miner. Hocking & Co. ISBN 0867780576. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Savvas, Adrian; Gaylard, Geoff (1993). 160 Years of News form the West Australian. Frewville. ISBN 0949155241. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

"Gnowangerup Star". The West Australian (Country Edition): 52. 18 Oct 1986. Retrieved 20 May 2016.

Andrew, Lauritz (1973). A History of the Northern Times (Essay). Retrieved 20 May 2016.

The West Australian. Vol. XLIX, no. 9, 524. Western Australia. 5 January 1933 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2816122. Retrieved 20 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

"Story of Coolgardie's first newspaper". Golden West: 42–47. Dec 1921. Retrieved 20 May 2016.