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Hi VedranaB, I hope that you don't find the wording of the welcome template above too off-putting! As I mentioned to you in our phone conversation today, I have been talking to people in our various cultural institutions about setting up a Wikipedia GLAM project, with the aim of recruiting volunteers associated with these institutions and teaching them the basic skills to edit Wikipedia, thereby improving the articles on a range of South Australian topics. Eventually we would like to form a WP support group with regular meetings with guest speakers. If you would like to be involved, please don't hesitate to contact either myself or User:Bilby. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 23:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the call, I appreciate it. As you can tell, I'm still finding my feet with wikitext! The GLAM project sounds great. Are you in touch with other people from History SA? VedranaB (talk) 01:05, 27 March 2013 (UTC)VedranaB

I know Jude Elton because we're both on the committee of the Port of Adelaide Branch of the National Trust, and I've been in contact with Kevin Jones and others at the Maritime Museum over the Torrens Island Quarantine Station issue. I also met Catherine Manning at the Museums Australia conference last year - I sent her an email on Monday, with an invitation to a stakeholder meeting on TIQS that I am organising for next month. I have mentioned my Wikipedia GLAM project interest to them all, but haven't yet followed it up with them as much as I have with others at the SA Museum and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

The current government budgetary pressure on all our institutions means that the staff do have to concentrate on their core business, which is why I think that getting the interest and involvement of members of the volunteer and Friends groups associated with the institutions is likely to be an important first step in getting the GLAM project off the ground. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 02:10, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

This might be something to raise at one of the next curators' meetings? ([[User:VedranaB|VedranaB]]&#124[[User talk:VedranaB|t]] )([[User:VedranaB|COI]]) (talk) 02:41, 27 March 2013 (UTC)VedranaB

That could be quite useful - the more people who start thinking about the possibilities and benefits, the better. I've emailed Jude, and left a message on Bilby's Talk page, to let them know that we are having this conversation. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 03:17, 27 March 2013 (UTC)