Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
Wow, what a great partnership, congratulations! That's wonderful. Good timing, too ;) I look forward to hearing more about the collection. Brianna On 17 December 2010 15:18, John Vandenberg wrote: > Hi, > > I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has > donated 50,000 public domain jpeg images to Wikimedia Australia, and > we are currently in the process of uploading them. > > We are still in the process of launching everything. The central page > for documenting and discussing it is here: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland > > To get a feel for the people at the library behind this effort, and > the library sector here in Australia, I recommend reading this paper > written by Margaret Warren, who is one of the key people we have been > working with at the library. > > http://www.nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2010/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-20100809-Public.domain.material.in.Collections.pdf > > We will be running new banners every day, and Wikimedians are welcome > to create their own banners and we'll run the best ones. The banners > need to use the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > -- 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] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
We have a local copy in Brisbane and Armidale. The metadata is in a static XML file. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them > from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, > because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get > them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. > > -Peachey > > ___ > 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] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
Hi, I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has donated 50,000 public domain jpeg images to Wikimedia Australia, and we are currently in the process of uploading them. We are still in the process of launching everything. The central page for documenting and discussing it is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland To get a feel for the people at the library behind this effort, and the library sector here in Australia, I recommend reading this paper written by Margaret Warren, who is one of the key people we have been working with at the library. http://www.nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2010/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-20100809-Public.domain.material.in.Collections.pdf We will be running new banners every day, and Wikimedians are welcome to create their own banners and we'll run the best ones. The banners need to use the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal
Since this meets all the other prerequisites, I'm happy to endorse this as a member of the committee to go to the official proposal stage. I would ask that you direct future correspondence on the matter to the wmau:members list though, if only so that we don't bother those on this list who are not members of, nor have any interest in the activities of the chapter. Cheers, Craig Franklin Treasurer - Wikimedia Australia -Original Message- From: private musings [mailto:thepmacco...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 12:22 PM To: Wikimedia-au Cc: cfrank...@halonetwork.net Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal Thanks Laura, I gather I now need to get the nod of a committee member in order to start building the information on the official wiki - I've copied Craig (our treasurer) in on this, because we've had a mini correspondence about this proposal, and hopefully he'll be able to give the nod, and we can get going :-) Obviously the approval of any other committee member would be most welcome at any time also. cheers, Peter, PM. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Laura Hale wrote: > I second this. > > Sincerely, > Laura Hale > > > Hi all, > > I am interested in working on a proposal for WMAU to sponsor the > creation of a 'PersonalWiki' or 'GroupWiki' tool, which I think could > > have some interesting and useful applications. > > The basic idea is for the tool to be a simple and straightforward way > of creating 'fenced wiki environments' - a collection of content which > can then be worked on / played with / investigated / read by a micro > > community of whomever the curator chooses. I hope there are tons of > exciting possibilities, and have detailed a bit more here; > > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Journal:A_Wikimedia_Australia_proposal > > > Please do get involved, or just ask questions, if you'd like to - and > in particular, if you'd like to be involved as a WMAU member in > getting this proposal going, it would be greatly appreciated - per our > > rules (below) we need two firmly committed members as a first step :-) > > http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal_process > > best, > > Peter, > > PM. > > > > -- > mobile: 0412183663 > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > > > ___ > 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
