[Wikimediaau-l] Vale Janet Hawtin Reid (@lucychili)
Dear Wikimedians It is with great sadness that I record the news of Janet Hawtin Reid's death <http://bluehackers.org/2018/05/11/vale-janet-hawtin-reid> last week. Janet (known online as Lucychili) was involved in the early formation of Wikimedia Australia, leading the Adelaide contingent at our Incorporation meeting <https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Incorporation_(2008_April_21)> in April 2008. She was an organiser of Adelaide meetups, including Meetup #2 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup_2> which was significant for having Jimmy Wales as a guest. It was also my first wiki-related event, and I attended because my friend and work colleague Janet invited me. I am personally grateful to have known and worked with such a creative artist and original thinker. It was wonderful to catch up with Janet and her partner Kim at the last Adelaide Meetup #20 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup_20> in January this year. Janet would also be known to many of our community for her tireless advocacy of open source, particularly those who have affiliations with the wider Australian FOSS community. As a sign of respect for Janet, and to remember her tireless support for Open Source in Australia, Linux Australia have added her name to the linux.org.au X-Clacks-Overhead HTTP header entry. Her funeral will be held in Adelaide tomorrow afternoon, Monday 14 May, at Enfield. On behalf of Wikimedia Australia and the community, I extend our sincere condolences to Kim, and to Janet's family. Stay safe everyone, and in Janet's memory, consider who you can invite to get involved in our community. Kind regards, Pru -- Pru Mitchell President Wikimedia Australia pru.mitch...@wikimedia.org.au http://wikimedia.org.au Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. We welcome your support by membership or donations to keep the Wikimedia mission alive. *https://wikimedia.org.au <https://wikimedia.org.au>* ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Crown Copyright in photographs
Hi Ross Thanks for pursuing this question and for sharing the response. It is very helpful in a number of contexts. It begs the question as to where this communication could be stored so that those who need it can find it easily. Any ideas? Thanks again, Pru On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Ross Mallett <hawke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I got a reply about my query as to the status of crown copyright > photographs. > > There was some concern about those that were not yet out of copyright on > the US URAA date (ie 1 January 1996) > > The UK government has declared that its crown copyright expire worldwide. > The Australian government has confirmed that this is the case here too. > Put simply, all crown copyright photographs in 1966 or earlier are in the > public domain. > > Ross > > > > UNCLASSIFIED > > Dear Dr Mallett, > > > > Thank you for your letter of 17 March 2017 to Senator the Hon George > Brandis QC, about copyright in photographs belonging to the Crown. Your > letter has been forwarded to Senator the Hon Mitch Fifield, > Minister for Communications and the Arts, as copyright law and policy > falls within the portfolio responsibilities of Minister Fifield. I am > responding on his behalf. > > > > The Government has recently amended the provisions in the *Copyright Act > 1968* relating to the term of protection for unpublished Crown > photographs. The Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) > Bill 2017 passed in the Senate last week and will come into effect six > months from the Bill receiving Royal Assent. > > > > The changes set out in the Copyright Amendment Bill provide a new term of > protection for unpublished Crown copyright material. The amendments > repealed sections 180 and 181 of the Copyright Act 1968 and inserted a new, > consolidated section 180 that provides for a new standard term of > protection for works, sound recordings and cinematograph films owned by the > Crown of 50 years from the year in which the material is made (that is, > ‘date made plus 50 years’), whether the material is made public or not. You > can find the text to the Bill on the Australian Parliament House website: > http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_ > Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r5832 > > > > You also asked whether Australian Government copyright material would be > in the public domain in the United States and I confirm that once the term > of copyright protection expires in Australia, the domain is worldwide and > not limited to Australia. > > > > I trust this information will be of assistance and apologise for the delay > in responding. > > > > Kind regards, > > [image: cid:C4234CC5-D32A-44FF-A754-F96227B373F7] > > > > *Ruth Schofield* > > A/g Assistant Director */* Content and Copyright Branch* / *Content > Division > > Department of Communications and the Arts > > > > 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603 > > GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601 > > > > *–* > > > > communications.gov.au <https://www.communications.gov.au/> > > [image: cid:17F0759F-5B67-41BB-B991-66700A2CA00A] @CommsAu > <https://twitter.com/CommsAu?lang=en> > > > > arts.gov.au > > [image: cid:17F0759F-5B67-41BB-B991-66700A2CA00A] @artsculturegov > <https://twitter.com/artsculturegov?lang=en> > > > > > > > > > -- > [image: Avast logo] > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=emailclient> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=emailclient> > > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- Pru Mitchell Vice-President Wikimedia Australia pru.mitch...@wikimedia.org.au http://wikimedia.org.au Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive. *http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Donate>* ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
Hi Leigh The Electronic Resources Australia (ERA) website has been left up by the National Library - in case any other organisation wanted to try and resurrect this program. http://www.nla.gov.au/content/electronic-resources-australia The Council of Australian University Librarians manage the university program: CAUL Electronic Information Resources Consortium (CEIRC) http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/ceirc Cheers, Pru Pru Mitchell pru.mitch...@gmail.com On 7 Nov 2014, at 9:38 am, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: Is there commentary or links documenting the attempt? It seems to me to be something that Open Universities Australia, or Universities Australia would/should attempt.. more so than NLA... On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: I say again: the NLA has tried, and will no doubt try again next time they have to renegotiate... On Thursday, 6 November 2014, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the least used subscriptions. If they pooled to the NLA, they'd be preserving those niche or historic subscriptions, and increasing the diversity of options across the board. How real is that risk of the publishers restricting the NLA. Can we use the German model to ensure it doesn't happen? On 07/11/2014 8:30 AM, Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com wrote: 2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national license has been proposed before (and especially supported by the smaller / non-metropolitan universities. And you'll be equally unsurprised to hear that the database companies don't like the idea. This is why the fact that you can get off-site access to a LOT of academic database for free via the national library is an open-secret... The national library is proud of the service but if university libraries stop subscribing and instead tell their students to go via the NLA, then the database companies might start disallowing offsite access in the future. I'd just like to point out that we have a similar scheme in Germany which is widely used and which is not dealt with as an open secret, but officially. The scientific libraries at Munich, Göttingen, Berlin, and Frankfurt have taken over the technical and the administrative side, while the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft provided the money. Everyone living in Germany may apply for access to the databases available. http://www.nationallizenzen.de List of databases: http://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationallizenz#Nationallizenzen_in_Deutschland Regards, Jürgen. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- -- Leigh Blackall +61(0)404561009 ___ 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] Creation of Noongar (Aboriginal) Wikipedia
Interesting that the question about whether oral history was a valid source came up at yesterday`s Paralympics workshop in Melbourne (great day by the way for anyone who can get to today`s session). If someone publishes an oral history do they usually verify facts before publishing? We thought not. Cheers, Pru Pru Mitchell pru.mitch...@gmail.com On 8 Mar 2014, at 11:37 pm, Andrew Owens orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote: that's a very valid point. I heard something a while ago about an initiative between India and South Africa supported by WMF which was collecting oral information from elders in those places in such a way that it could be used as a verifiable source on Wikipedia on topics not readily covered by regular secondary sources. kindest regards Andrew On 8 March 2014 19:52, Janet Reid lucych...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 March 2014 21:54, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: For what it's worth, this is something I thought about a lot during my time involved with WMAU. I don't think an Indigenous language Wikipedia is going to be viable in the short term. It would be nice for there to be a way to recognise Aboriginal perspectives. Citing is likely to be a challenge. Once I showed some community women in Maree the page for Maree It said her language was extinct. She said it was not. I posted to the talk page that local people did still speak the language. But the source was a living person whereas the extinction was citing a published book. Is there a different kind of wiki project which could accommodate that kind of perspective/source. Is it possible to make articles which are relevant in their relevant languages? Not make a full wikipedia but capture descriptions of communities and places in the relevant language? just a thought j ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools
Thanks Craig I can see some real potential here as a 'bridge' for schools coming to terms with concepts such as Wikipedia, and also for those with access issues (filters, bandwidth and costs). How long do you envisage such a project would take? How much work do you think is involved? It may be possible to organise some assistance with this, but I don't have any concept of what process would be followed to develop this project. Could you give some 'how to' information as background? Many thanks, Pru Pru Mitchell ph: 0433 551 204 me: http://me.edu.au/p/pru me.edu.au/p/pru e: mailto:pru.mitch...@bigpond.com pru.mitch...@bigpond.com -Original Message- From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Craig Franklin Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2008 9:38 PM To: Wikimedia-au Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools Okay, there seems to be a bit of interest here, so I've boldly created a subpage for planning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/Australian_Scho ols_Selection At the moment it's really just my thoughts on the subject, but as the advice on the edit page says; feel free to edit it mercilessly. Cheers, Craig --- Craig Franklin PO Box 1093 Toombul, Q, 4012 Australia http://www.halo-17.net - Australia's Favourite Source of Indie Music, Art, and Culture. - Original Message - From: Gnangarra mailto:gnanga...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia-au mailto:wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:43 PM Subject: [personal] Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools I'd be up for that, cant let it have solely an Eastern States POV :) 2008/12/11 K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au Anyone for a mini-project then? =). The existing SOS selection looks like it'll be a good base, but adding more Australian themed articles to it would probably be a nice attention grabber when we go talking to schools. Cheers, Craig I would be! maybe a task-force for WikiProject Australia? And we would have to decide what Australian contents gets in, eg: iconic/well known tv shows/what history content gets in. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.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
