Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Cartoons

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The purpose of this project is to improve/create articles for Australian cartoonists and cartoonists much of whose work is about Australia; to improve the corresponding wikidata and wikicommons by adding and annotating images of their works; to use the cartoon images to improve pages about Australian politics and events; and to write about cartooning and cartoons.

Of the associated images in Commons we hope to use at least 6% and to clearly show enwiki users where to find images of the cartoonists' works.

Participants

• MargaretRDonald (talk) 00:15, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
• Oronsay (talk) 23:51, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
• JarrahTree (talk) 02:51, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Associated Wikidata SPARQL queries

Cartoonists

1. Australian cartoonists/caricaturists +/- deathdate +/- enwiki article Persons born in Australia, or whose citizenship or country of residence is Australia
2. cartoonists/caricaturists +/- deathdate +/- enwiki article, on wikiproject focus
3. Anyone described as a caricaturists/cartoonists
4. Winners of the Jim Russell award by date of award
5. Winners of the Stanley award by date
6. Winners of the Jim Russell award by date
7. copyrightstatus of cartoonist's cartoons cartoonists whose copyright has definitely expired

Cartoons

1. Cartoons in Wikidata
2. Cartoons on the focus list of WikiProject Australian Cartooning (Note that all these cartoons, need main subject wikidata statements, and depicts statements)
3. Frith cartoons in Wikidata +/- main subject
4. David Low cartoons in Wikidata David Low cartoons in Wikidata +/- depicts
5. George Molnar cartoons
6. Counting cartoons by author
7. Counting cartoons - published in The Bulletin

Linking Wiki project work

Wikidata

The wikidata property maintained by WikiProject (P6104) (or better: on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008)) taking the predicate value Qitem :WikiProject Australian Cartooning) should be used as a wikidata statement to connect Qitems to this project.

queries using this property

1. cartoonists/caricaturists +/- deathdate +/- enwiki article, on wikiproject focus
2. Cartoons on the focus list of WikiProject Australian Cartooning

Wikicommons

1. Wikiproject Australian cartooning
2. Category:Cartoons of Australia
3. Category:Political cartoons about Australia
4. Category:Comics Artists from Australia

Glamorgan a tool for tracking image use

Wikipedia

Stanley Award has a number of redlinks for cartoonists which need to be turned to blue.

Some categories used

Many pages appear in several of these.

1. Category:Australian cartooning
2. Category:Australian editorial cartoonists
3. Category:Australian women cartoonists
4. Category:Australian cartoonists
5. Category:Australian caricaturists
6. Category:Stanley award winners
7. Category:Jim Russell award winners
8. Category:Cartoonists from Melbourne

Meetings

Agenda 19 May 2023

Resources

• Behind the lines
• Grand Comics Database
• Australian cartoons in the Political Cartoon Gallery
• Cartoonists/Illustrators in Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)
• Australian Cartoonists Association, including Stanley Awards and some cartoonists' portfolios and bios
• Re:collection Australian graphic design archive, includes some cartoonists
• ADB bios mentioning "cartoonist" - includes the subject of some cartoons, not just the creators
• Australian Copyright Law]
• Search the collection | Collection - State Library of NSW  
• Pikitia Press: NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN COMICS AND CARTOONISTS

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