Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] WMAU new committee and FDC statement
I'd like to thank Adam Jenkins and Pru Mitchell for nominating me and those of you who voted for me. I look forward to working with you towards achieving the mission of WMAU that I hope we all share http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Statement_of_Purpose whatever our differences may be in the relation to the best way of achieving these. Kerry _ From: c...@chuq.net [mailto:c...@chuq.net] On Behalf Of Charles Gregory Sent: Sunday, 25 November 2012 10:48 PM To: WMAu members; wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [wmau:members] WMAU new committee and FDC statement Hi everyone, Wikimedia Australia today held their 2012 AGM and has elected a new management committee. President - John Vandenberg Vice President - Graham Pearce Secretary - Charles Gregory Treasurer - Craig Franklin Ordinary members - Steven Zhang, Kerry Raymond We would also like to thank outgoing Vice President Laura Hale, and recent outgoing Secretary Anne Frazer for their service on the committee over the past year. Thanks to all members for their participation, with a rate of about 65%. Special thanks also must go to Adam Jenkins and Steven Clark for overseeing the election process for us. The new committee has also made a statement regarding the FDC outcome: The new board of Wikimedia Australia accepts the determination of the Funds Dissemination Committee in regards to our proposal for Round 1. We are grateful for their recommendation to allow us to re-apply in Round 2, while also recommending we apply to the Wikimedia Grants Program for interim funding. The board looks forward to working with the FDC to achieve a more positive outcome for the chapter, and the community in Australia. Regards, Charles Gregory charles.greg...@wikimedia.org.au Secretary, Wikimedia Australia ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [OKFN-AU] Australian Government told to make open access research mandatory
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au Date: Nov 25, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: [OKFN-AU] Australian Government told to make open access research mandatory To: okfn...@lists.okfn.org On Friday, Bernard Rentier, Rector, University of Liege, Belgium, told a meeting of senior academics and government officials how open access to research publications can become a routine part of government funded research. Professor Rentier was speaking at the Australian National University in Canberra on Open Access to Scholarly Publications: A European Perspective, as part of a visiting Belgium delegation. He pointed out that open access was opposed by most publishers as it conflicted with their business model, whereas it fitted the university's business model. Within universities the researchers who create publications do not pay for them, the library does. Professor Rentier suggested the Liege Model could be adopted more widely. The university started creating a repository and a policy requiring authors to deposit their publications with it. He pointed out that it is difficult to get academics to comply with such a policy, but it was possible. One way is to incorporate this in the requirements for research grants: the researcher is required to agree to deposit their publication in the repository or they do not get a grant. See: http://openaccess.eprints.org/**index.php?/archives/853-The-** Liege-ORBi-model-Mandatory-**policy-without-rights-** retention-but-linked-to-**assessment-procedures.htmlhttp://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/853-The-Liege-ORBi-model-Mandatory-policy-without-rights-retention-but-linked-to-assessment-procedures.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/**COMP7310/http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ __**_ OKFN-AU mailing list okfn...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**listinfo/okfn-auhttp://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-au Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/**options/okfn-auhttp://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-au ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] English only fundraiser
-- Forwarded message -- From: Zack Exley zex...@wikimedia.org Date: Nov 26, 2012 2:11 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, We have some information on the fundraiser launch to share. We are still planning on launching Monday, November 26, but we're going to make a change this year in the timing of campaigns around the world. Every year, as we get closer to the launch date, we test more frequently and discover new messages and designs that make the fundraiser much more efficient (i.e. more money per day, shorter fundraiser, fewer and/or smaller banners). In the past couple weeks, we've discovered some new designs and messages that we believe will let us shorten the fundraiser by a lot -- *and* make the banners much smaller than they've typically been. But we don't have time to adapt these to all the countries and languages in the world right away. This has pushed us to do something we've known is the right thing to do for some time. We're going to run this end of year campaign only in 5 countries (US, CA, GB, AU NZ) and then spend three months meticulously localizing and translating (and testing for new purely local messages) before running the global campaign in all other counties, in which our best messages and designs developed in December will be used across the world. We will use the time over the next month to run short tests of various messages and payment options in other languages and countries in preparation for the global campaign that we'll run in April. So people in the five-country campaign will still only see a campaign once a year (in December). And people in all other countries will still only see a campaign once a year (in April). *Everyone, everywhere will only see one campaign per year* -- unless they happen to travel from, say, the US in December to India in April. We're excited about breaking the campaign up for several reasons. Over the next month, we will be able to focus on testing and finding the best messages. The new Facts banners have opened up more testing possibilites for us, and we'll learn a lot about our messages in the next month, while we can test 24 hours per day. We'll use the lessons learned from the December five-country campaign and spend the next three months applying them correctly and testing multiple versions in other languages and countries. What we've learned over the past few years is that the same messages tend to win all over the world. But that translating short, colloquial fundraising messages takes a long time and many translators to get right. And we're finding a new best message basically every day. We don't think it's good if only English readers are getting our best messages. So overall, we think we'll be able to run both the English banners and the multilingual banners better by breaking up the campaign. Our volunteer translators have already done a ton of work translating our current best messages -- and we are very thankful! We're using all of those translations now, in our testing and they will be the basis of the April campaign. We will be engaging the community of volunteers, donors and readers even more in the coming months to optimize the translations of the new messages and ramp up testing in various languages. Moreover, there are technical updates to the translation system that we'll be able to use during the April campaign that are not released yet. We are looking forward to more of our readers receiving better messages and donation experiences in countries around the world. More info to come! Instead of replying to this thread, please comment on the Fundraiser 2012 meta discussion page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2012 Zack Megan, WMF fundraising ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
