[Wikimediaau-l] Anyone else want the job of wikimediaau-l list admin?

2018-01-16 Thread David Gerard
At present it's literally only me as wikimediaau-l list admin. This is less than ideal, i.e. I can't guarantee any sort of consistent service. It fell to me when everyone actually in Australia quit after some spurious legal threats. So that's the threat model ... Anyone want to volunteer as

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 March 2014 10:49, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: While legal threats are banned on the wiki projects, the mailing lists are managed differently, and there are differences in expectations of behaviour (and dispute resolution) for the mailing lists. Personally I'd consider

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-18 Thread David Gerard
For now I've put the following text on the listinfo page: Posters are expected to conduct themselves in a decorous manner appropriate to a working list. Posters not doing so may be moderated or removed. The list moderators' decision is final. I'd expect personal attacks or legal threats would

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 March 2014 22:33, Lyle Allan lylea...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Surely there should be a right of appeal. Just removing someone from a list on the sayso of one person is something that should not be acceptable. That's why a second admin would be an idea. OTOH, don't be a dick is the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-17 Thread David Gerard
Steven's answer looked complete and apposite to me. On 17 March 2014 12:49, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Moving on, and bringing it back to what is important, Steven, can you please address the questions which have been asked of you. Cheers Scotty On Sun, Mar 16, 2014

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 March 2014 15:45, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: So I would suggest for the future (1) when kicking someone, say so and why (unless there's a really good reason not to) (2) have a mix of list admins. I'll note also we have occasionally put people on moderation when they're

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Drama

2014-03-16 Thread David Gerard
On 16 March 2014 16:25, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Can you possibly explain how John doing the RIGHT thing would be a wheel war. Personally I'd kick you both off and say so, but that's just speaking as a third-party observer. It's not a *right* to post to a Wikimedia list.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] large collection of historic Australian photos found by UK archives

2013-01-31 Thread David Gerard
On 31 January 2013 04:39, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that all the ones I have looked at are labelled “no known copyright restrictions”. Would that translate to {{PD-Australia}} for uploading to Commons? That's not a guarantee. You'd need to consider each one. -

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Wiki Takes Freo and Joondalup

2011-11-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 November 2011 06:09, Andrew Owens orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote: One of the interesting opportunities arising from it is the possible collaboration with Picture Joondalup, a CC (restricted :( ) licenced collection of photos - mostly historical - that they've been building themselves.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Meeting with the ABC next week

2011-06-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 June 2011 03:22, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 1) I'd like to show them how Al Jazeera is publishing some of their footage under cc-by and see whether ABC could feasibly do the same http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Ye. 2) I'd like to see if the ABC News website would like to add

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bringing the wiki model to digitisation

2009-08-14 Thread David Gerard
Are any of the GLAMs actually archiving their preciouss high-resolution scans *offsite*? - d. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] GLAM and why use Wikimedia Commons

2009-07-13 Thread David Gerard
John is part of Wikimedia Norway. What sort of thing do museum liaison volunteers sell the idea of free to museums with? Please answer on foundation-l :-) - d. -- Forwarded message -- From: John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no Date: 2009/7/13 Subject: [Foundation-l] GLAM and why use

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] relavent to GLAM

2009-07-11 Thread David Gerard
On 11/07/2009, Andrew orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed with Gnangarra - I think if we approach them on agreeable terms and recognise that they have needs too that need to be factored in, and that we can fill them in on what we need and work out how that can be accommodated as well, then

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] relavent to GLAM

2009-07-10 Thread David Gerard
On 11/07/2009, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: This is rather important + serious stuff which relates to the 'GLAM' sector - hopefully we'll be leading the way in ensuring good communication may help resolve problems like this; (basically a Commons user has received a legal

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Phorm opt-out for wikimedia.org.au?

2009-04-30 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/30 Brian Salter-Duke b_d...@bigpond.net.au: I would certainly support you doing this and I do not think it will be disputed as the WMF and larger chatpers with more web presence have done so. However, perhaps the committee needs to discuss it. Most of the point of doing so is to do so

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: ABC's 'PM' covering Wikipedia Flagged Revs proposal

2009-01-29 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/29 YellowMonkey blnguyen2...@gmail.com: I did use YellowMonkey I just didn't say my roles are. Casliber and Chuq did the same Yes, I saw that :-) You all did fine IMO. - d. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: ABC's 'PM' covering Wikipedia Flagged Revs proposal

2009-01-28 Thread David Gerard
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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] contacting external people

2009-01-22 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/16 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com: WM-au neds an ID system and if we want to be more serious some form of accreditation system for photographers to attend these kind of thing. The reason is that we are then establishing that the person is a member of the association and that association

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Opinion piece on DVD copy protection: Collateral damage in video war by Max Barry

2009-01-11 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/12 Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com: There's a nice piece by Max Barry (author of Jennifer Government) in the Age, as well as on his blog, about how production companies using copy protection is breaking their own DVDs and converting paying customers into pirates.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

2008-12-10 Thread David Gerard
outcome. 2008/12/10 Craig Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really like this product, but maybe we should look at providing a tweaked version for Australian schools with more Australian topics (ie: less American Presidents and more Australian Prime Ministers). From: David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Quiet campaign on freely licensed politicians photos

2008-11-20 Thread David Gerard
2008/11/20 Stephen Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or lobby the government to have AUSPIC release the official headshots that they take of all of them. I remember that someone asked them about the pictures years ago but they wouldn't release them themselves; it might be better to go to the government