[Wikimediaau-l] WP:AUS newsletter segment on WMA needed
Would someone like to hop down to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/Newsletter/December_2008 and fill in a summary for us? Thanks ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: ABC's 'PM' covering Wikipedia Flagged Revs proposal
I did use YellowMonkey I just didn't say my roles are. Casliber and Chuq did the same On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:47 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/28 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/28/2476045.htm I went on the attack in the forum, although I didn't declare who I was I suggest, in general, be open about who you are and what you do. (I comment frequently on blog posts about Wikipedia with my name and speaking in terms of us, adding that I'm an en:wp editor/administrator and/or WMF volunteer media contact as appropriate.) Same as we'd expect of involved people commenting on a Wikipedia article talk page. - d. ___ 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] Australian Higher Education Supplement today - Wikipedia story
I think that if people read the article (and haven't already made up their mind) then they will notice the pundit has already made up his mind before he did the interview... 2009/2/11 Kimberlee Weatherall k.weather...@law.uq.edu.au Rather negative Wikipedia story in *The Australian *higher education supplement (page 1, also here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25037270-12332,00.html ). Kim Kimberlee Weatherall Senior Lecturer TC Beirne School of Law The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Work Telephone: +61 7 3346 7503 Mobile: +61 403 762 544 ___ 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] Australian Higher Education Supplement today - Wikipedia story
Is the Sunday Times, of the Times of UK? One of their journos bludged his Keith Miller blog post off my article about Miller. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:10 PM, YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.comwrote: I think that if people read the article (and haven't already made up their mind) then they will notice the pundit has already made up his mind before he did the interview... 2009/2/11 Kimberlee Weatherall k.weather...@law.uq.edu.au Rather negative Wikipedia story in *The Australian *higher education supplement (page 1, also here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25037270-12332,00.html ). Kim Kimberlee Weatherall Senior Lecturer TC Beirne School of Law The University of Queensland St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Work Telephone: +61 7 3346 7503 Mobile: +61 403 762 544 ___ 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] '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] GLAM Challenge
ah, what the restraints of the editing topic? Daniel has signed himself for metoericigical incidents I suppose as the [[Australian Cricket Hall of Fame]] is a museum exhibit, the inductees themselves are also museum exhibits, well pictures of them anyway I have a few in mind On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: After a slow start to nomination we have extended the period to nominate until 24th July with the Challange running from the 13th until the 31st July 2009/7/3 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com During the last few months Wikimedia Australia has been organising GLAMhttp://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAMwe want everybody to be apart of this event, we know not everyone can attend in person so we have organised the GLAM-Challengehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/GLAM_challenge Its not just an ordinary challenge we have kindly recieved from some of the participating institutions a number of items which will be given away as prizes for your efforts, prefernece will be given to efforts that produce something to further the knowledge of Australian subjects or have an association to one of the GLAM institutions in any Wikimedia project http://wikimedia.org/ What do you need to do to be apart of this between now and the 13th July you need to sign up as an entranthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/GLAM_challenge#Entrants. Create a subpage from your user account on meta identifiing your theme list all your edits on your theme between the 13th July and 23:59UTC on the 19th July, by 23:59utc on the 20th, judging will start after that date. The recipients will be contacted directly by email, with prizes announced by the 1st August. -- Gnangarra. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/ -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] GLAM Photographs
can you ID the folks please??? Thanks On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Photographs from wednesday night and the first day of GLAM-Wiki have been posted to Commons, they can all be found in the category:GLAM Wiki 09 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_Wiki_09Anyone else who took photos can you please include them in this category -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] results - Glam challenge
Did you forget to mention Bilby? On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody The Glam Challeng finished earlier this month now that I have been able to contact the winners I'd like to congratulate User:Yellow Monkey and User:The Ed17 they are both eagerly watching for the postman for the wonderful donations from The Australian War Memorial, The National Gallery of Australia and The Powerhouse Museum. -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
Well, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Tasmanian_Devil/archive1 Endangered in more ways than one http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_of_Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Green_Tree_Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emu All needing work, particularly FoA, before they get shot at FAR On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Peter Halasz qub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I like the idea of having an article about the Brown Mountain crayfish before it's even formally described :) The transcript of the Environment East Gippsland v VicForests court case is online, and it includes testimony and a survey/report from Rob McCormack (Day 8), who's one of the discoverers of the crayfish. Originally it was thought to be an Orbost spiny crayfish, but VicForests disagreed, saying you couldn't tell from the photo and it was probably a more common species. So the environmentalists had another look and it turned out to be an undiscovered species. The outcome of the case is that VicForests has been found to be failing to do animal surveys before logging (largely they have done none at all), and must now show that they are doing so, as required by our laws. http://www.eastgippsland.net.au/?q=campaigns/brown_mountain/court_documents McCormack talked about the process of having it described too, so that's in the transcript if you'd like a read. (I should look over it again). No idea which scientific journal it will be published in or how it will be licensed. And I believe this page shows a photo of the crayfish, though it's labeled Endangered Orbost Spiny Cray: http://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Brown_Mountain_old_growth_forest Peter. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for raising some more possibilities Peter. [[VicForests]] doesn't exist, and is only mentioned four times on English Wikipedia. The court case also has enough coverage in RS to be notable in its own right; it does sound like a landmark decision. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/environmentalists-hail-court-win-20100811-11zgj.html http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/prosecution-withdrawn-20100812-121iz.html Do we know where the description of the Brown Mountain crayfish is going to be published? A google search for that name turns up only one page: [[User:Pengo/missing]]! ;-) Can we talk to the discoverer? It would be lovely if it was published in a CC journal, like [[w:ZooKeys]], which has a partnership with EOL and Wikispecies, so the images can be used on Wikipedia immediately. Otherwise we could ask the discoverer to consider releasing some images under a CC license. I'm footloose in Brisbane this week, with two nephews to entertain. If anyone wants some photos of animals in a zoo somewhere in SE Qld, let me know and I should be able to grab them and upload them in October. btw, we don't have a Wikipedia nav template for Zoos; the closest is [[List_of_zoos#Australia]]. That is another task for October ;-) -- John Vandenberg On 9/20/10, Peter Halasz qub...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A recent supreme court case was fought around a number of endangered species in Victoria. I don't know how many of them have specimens in zoos, but I was hoping to find some time to try to find out and get some shots and video. The two main charismatic ones are: - the spot-tailed quoll (aka tiger quoll) - the long-footed potoroo Other important species that played roles in the recent court case (Environment East Gippsland v VicForests) are: giant burrowing frog, large brown tree frog (Litoria littlejohni), Sooty Owl, Powerful Owl, Greater Glider, Square-tailed kite, Orbost spiny crayfish, Brown Mountain crayfish (newly discovered, and still in the process of being described...this last one definitely won't be at zoos), Other topics of interest include: hollow bearing trees, as many of our endangered species rely on tree hollows either for shelter or for prey (or both). I've started [[tree hollow]], but it could use a boost; and Australia's logging industry which is both a major threat to endangered species and also may play a role in conservation as they move to plantation-based production: e.g. the major deal in Tasmania happening right now, which may see the end of native forest logging in Tasmania (also home to Tiger Quolls), and there's some talk of a similar deal in Victoria. The tiger quoll in particular could use some new images, and can probably be found at zoos? It's mainland Australia's largest carnivore marsupial and is the mainland population is particularly endangered. Chris Belcher has a good write up about them and their current status here: http://eastgippsland.net.au/files/Spot-tailed_quoll_Belcher_December_2009.pdf I think we should be capable of taking some
