[Wikimediaau-l] wikimedia.org.au a tad borked
Hi, Just letting everyone know that we are aware wikimedia.org.au is a tad broken at the moment. I think it suffered a bit of a code upgrade fail. Hopefully it will be resolved this evening. Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator
Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally speaking) On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm happy to say that Wikimedia Australia is going to embark on its first projects-based 'event' - an editors' challenge (light-hearted editing competition) with the theme of Australian GLAM. The aim is to improve the coverage and quality of Australian GLAM-related topics across the projects. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/GLAM_challenge The plan is to hold it over the week of July 13-19th which is still about 4 weeks away. Any registered user will be able to take part. At this point I'm looking to appoint someone to be the coordinator for the event. The coordinator's responsibilities would be to raise awareness of the event in the lead-up, answer onwiki queries, and then check submissions for validity. Maybe also help gather prizes. The coordinator will get help from the committee, especially me and Liam, if they need it, but we won't be running the show. If we can't appoint a coordinator I don't think it will run. The judges will likely consist of the coordinator, a WMAU ctte member and someone from a GLAM instutition. The judges would choose the winning entrants (according to how many prizes there are) and choose a title for each award (like Most impressive expansion of an existing article... or maybe something more interesting-sounding!). If you are interested in coordinating the GLAM Challenge, please reply to me OFF-LIST within the next week or so. You don't have to have done any kind of organising before, but a strong familiarity with the norms of the Wikimedia projects would be a good idea. :) If you have any thoughts about the event itself feel free to edit the wiki page or shoot a line back here. cheers, Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] wikimedia.org.au a tad borked
All better now, carry on as per usual programming... Brianna 2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: Hi, Just letting everyone know that we are aware wikimedia.org.au is a tad broken at the moment. I think it suffered a bit of a code upgrade fail. Hopefully it will be resolved this evening. Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator
2009/6/16 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com: Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally speaking) Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it does end up getting FA status. Does that make sense? cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator
Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to just make it a weekend! Brianna 2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: 2009/6/16 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com: Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally speaking) Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it does end up getting FA status. Does that make sense? cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 'GLAM Challenge' (editing competition) July 13-19 -- looking for a coordinator
Yeah - I don't imaging we'll be holding anyone to a particular external standard like FA or GA, but rather to intrinsic standards like most improved or most new stubs or most challenging topic that kind of thing. And yes, there is not a long lead time for this, but then again, that's not the end of the world. We've already have two major institutions offer to donate a prize for the comp - and no, it's not something from their collection :-) Best, Liam, [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I thought any longer than a week and you might have trouble holding people's attention to the task. I was originally thinking to just make it a weekend! Brianna 2009/6/16 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: 2009/6/16 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com: Isn't that a tad short? Nobody, eg, writes a FA that quickly (generally speaking) Well, the intention is not to do the edits and get it through FA approval in a week. As an entry to this challenge you'd generally just be submitting your edits. My thinking was that the judges will be able to see what you're trying to achieve, regardless of whether or not it does end up getting FA status. Does that make sense? cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
