Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook test features Wikipedia

2017-10-08 Thread David Goodman 
I am somewhat concern that we will need to take even greater effort in
double-check those first three sentences than we normally do in ledes. .

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> wonderful concept, and yes we need to do more about Newspapers on
> Wikipedia.   Fortunately for Australia there has been a number of state
> libraries working on creating articles about all newspapers, so we had
> links in referencing to the source details in each state so Australian
> newspapers are at least ahead of the curve on the information.  It may be
> something that can be suggested libraries, beside these two examples we
> have Northern Territory, Queensland and Victorian libraries also working on
> the project thanks to support from the Australian National Library which is
> another one of those projects to grow from seeds scattered by Liam Wyatt
> some years ago.
>
>
>-
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_
> of_Western_Australia/The_Newspaper_Project
>-
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_
> of_New_South_Wales/The_Newspaper_Project
>-
>
>
> On 6 October 2017 at 07:15, Toby Negrin  wrote:
>
> > Hi Andy -- at about 18 seconds into the video, you can see content that's
> > identified, albeit in light gray font, as being from Wikipedia with links
> > to the article and the license.
> >
> > -Toby
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Andy Mabbett 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 5 October 2017 at 21:20, Strainu  wrote:
> > > > 2017-10-05 23:14 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett :
> > >
> > > >> Sounds good - does anyone know of any screen-shots. or video,
> showing
> > > >> this in action?
> > > >
> > > > Check out the video in the original announcement that Toby linked to.
> > >
> > > I saw that video, but it neither mentions nor shows content from
> > Wikipedia.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andy Mabbett
> > > @pigsonthewing
> > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> > >
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMAu Committee - changes

2017-10-08 Thread Gnangarra 
Wikimedia Australia held its Annual General Meeting(AGM) of members this
afternoon(8 - Oct) Australian Time.  As a requirement under law here at the
AGM all committee positions are declared vacant and nominations/elections
are held just prior.  At the AGM the results are announced

   - President - Pru Mitchell
   - Vice President - Gideon Digby
   - Secretary - Tom
   - Treasurer - Robert

Four general members of the committee are also sort for the committee this
year we have one person continuing from last year, one person returning to
the committee, one new person joining and 1 position remains vacant to
filled at a later date

   - Caddie
   - Steven
   - Sam

Wikimedia Australia would like to acknowledge the efforts of the 2016-17
committee and looks forward to further successful progress through 2017-18

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