The Facebook post is not (strictly speaking) accurate. They're just cataloging them on-wiki, not preserving them. Perhaps "During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top pocket. Now, over 1300 of them are cataloged on Wikipedia." ?
--Ed On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > We just published "Gathering memories from the trenches of the Great War" > to the blog. URL: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ > > Many thanks to Michael for this post. > > Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed. > > *Twitter (@wikipedia/@wikimedia):* > • How @statelibrarynsw is preserving Austalian war diaries with Wikipedia > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ > > *Facebook/Google+:* > • During World War I, despite being forbidden by their superiors, many > Australian soldiers kept a personal diary small enough to hide in their top > pocket. The State Library of NSW set out to collect them in 1919, and > they're now being preserved on Wikipedia. > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/16/great-war-memories/ > > thanks, > Joe > > -- > *Joe Sutherland* > Communications Intern [remote] > m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: > JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)> > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Ed Erhart Editorial Associate Wikimedia Foundation
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