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268:'s Online group to discuss how Wikimedia Australia and the greater Knowledge community could help the War Memorial meets its institutional objectives and mission statement of assisting "Australians to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society." LauraHale and Hawkeye7 mentioned the quality of work being done on the MilHist project and the credibility English Knowledge has with Australian military historians, the assessment project in MilHist, the community of avid contributors which can be tapped by the War Memorial, the photographers that would be interested in doing projects related to the War Memorial's mission, and efforts to improve content for the centennial of the 128: 297: 448: 117: 443: 43: 511: 122: 368: 600: 568: 276:. In turn, the Australian War Memorial discussed with LauraHale and Hawkeye7 possible programming ideas going forward which included the possibility of Australian War Memorial staff training and a possible event for Commons photographers. There are plans to follow up with additional conversations later in March. 199:
That's it for us this month. We would like to encourage you to check out the "Australian War Memorial" section below and its accompanying op-ed, both written by Hawkeye7. We are both excited to see what will come out of it, and perhaps you can use his approach as a model to approach a military
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would also like to issue a call for contributors. We would like writers for whatever suits your fancy, from op-ed articles on most things Knowledge-related, review essays assessing a museums' or a similar institution's coverage of a military history-related topic, book reviews of any military
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is offering free, one-year accounts to their search engine of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, trade magazines and encyclopedias. Our writers in military history will most likely find the first and third categories to be of use, so if you would like, signups are
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history-related book, or an interview of just about anyone as long as it can be tied back to military history or Knowledge. We are also open to other ideas – use your imagination, and we will work with you on getting your piece included in next month's newsletter!
140:, the home for news about military history on Knowledge! This month is seeing a few interesting discussions. The first concerns the current 'essay' we have on the notability requirements for military biographies, 152:. The second is a full Request for Comment on the use of medal pictograms in articles – whether they should be used at all, and if so, how big and how detailed? The discussion on that is located 78: 74: 539: 82: 623: 351: 172: 66: 25: 376: 305: 556: 579: 257: 153: 149: 488: 458: 586: 57: 42: 21: 532: 51: 17: 392: 167:
and improve it as best they can. The contest runs until 28 March. More information about the contest is available at
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completed its fifty-seventh round of competition last month. A total of 20 articles were submitted by 4 editors.
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back in 2007. Casliber has revived it, and interested editors are encouraged to pick one article from the
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is the monthly newsletter of the English Knowledge's Military history WikiProject.
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also fielded entries. Please submit any articles you are working on for
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In Knowledge news, old-timers will remember a "Core Contest" run by
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met with Liz Holcombe, Marylou Pooley, and other members of the
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (T)
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came first with 43 points from 9 entries, followed by
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Knowledge:WikiProject Military history
News
March 2012

Your military history newsletter
Issue LXXII, March 2012
Front page
Project news
Article news
Book reviews
Op-ed



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guideline
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Danny
vital article list
the contest page
the Signpost
HighBeam Research
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Ian Rose
talk
Ed
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