[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: ERA journal list on Wikidata

2014-02-27 Thread John Vandenberg
abbreviation (for Law journals), preceeding journal, SCOPUS journal identifier. These properties are being populated from Wikipedia by my bot, but if anyone is interested I could use help in defining useful properties and populating them. -- John -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Meeting today..?

2014-01-11 Thread John Vandenberg
of being facilitator at a Wikidata workshop being here in Jakarta. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Meeting today..?

2014-01-11 Thread John Vandenberg
/2014 1:15 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are at least two items the committee should be attending to before the meeting today. The IRC log from the last public meeting should be published. The minutes from the last committee meeting should be published. fwiw, I am

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application

2014-01-08 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info Date: Jan 9, 2014 12:37 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today?

2014-01-06 Thread John Vandenberg
business etc. Meeting will be held at the usual time (4pm AEDST / 3pm AEST / 3:30pm ACDST / 1pm AWST). I'll put out a proper notice during the week. Thanks. I've updated the wiki. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Upcoming_eventsdiff=11165oldid=11157 -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today?

2014-01-04 Thread John Vandenberg
Was that decision communicated to the members and community? What time next week? On Jan 5, 2014 1:18 PM, Steve Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: Not today - we decided to postpone it to next week as most folk are still on leave/holidays etc On 05/01/2014 5:16 PM, John Vandenberg jay

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Reimagining Travel and Participation Support grants

2013-12-11 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Date: Dec 12, 2013 7:15 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Reimagining Travel and Participation Support grants To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi all, We've published an analysis of the Travel and Participation

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Cc-nz] New CC IGO Licence

2013-12-08 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Matt McGregor matt.mcgre...@royalsociety.org.nz Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:25 AM Subject: [Cc-nz] New CC IGO Licence To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion cc...@lists.ibiblio.org Hi all, CCHQ has been collaborating with WIPO and

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Advocacy Advisors] Joining a letter on copyright term in the TPP?

2013-12-06 Thread John Vandenberg
. ___ Advocacy_Advisors mailing list advocacy_advis...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Launch Today

2013-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org Date: Dec 3, 2013 6:22 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Launch Today To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi all, The fundraising team is kicking off our year-end campaign in

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: Wikisource 10th aniversary proposal : Proofreading contest

2013-11-19 Thread John Vandenberg
A bit more planning has been happening on the wiki. Is there anyone else from Oz interested in helping run this? -- Forwarded message -- From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com Date: Nov 20, 2013 12:52 AM Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: Wikisource 10th aniversary proposal :

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

2013-11-14 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Aloha from Hawaii! I'm at an Internet cafe so must be brief. I too would like to see us 'weigh in' on the matter of the copyright review and as some of you may recall I made a submission to the initial round myself

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [ands-general] Fwd: fyi. Digital Humanities meetups in Sydney

2013-11-06 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ingrid Mason - ANDS ingrid.ma...@ands.org.au Date: Nov 7, 2013 5:20 AM Subject: [ands-general] Fwd: fyi. Digital Humanities meetups in Sydney To: ands-gene...@googlegroups.com Cc: ** apologies for cross-posting ** Hi folks, Following on from the

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource 10th aniversary proposal : Proofreading contest

2013-11-01 Thread John Vandenberg
Great concept. I think this would a great little project, and worth the expense for the WMAu chapter. I helped run a small wikisource competition with Wikimedia Indonesia (esp. Ivonne Siska) to transcribe a 550 page dictionary, and found it to be very successful, but does require quite a bit of

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

2013-10-09 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: .. Sorry for this email by Kerry not being approved when it was sent. The images pushed it to the moderator, who was at Wikimania. Fwiw, it is possible to add trove references. 1. Open the transclusion dialog 2. On the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

2013-10-09 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: .. Sorry for this email by Kerry not being approved when it was sent. The images pushed it to the moderator, who was at Wikimania. Fwiw

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Chapters] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Funds Dissemination Committee: Report on first year of operations

2013-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
. Then there is the costs of chapter staff, and the many volunteer hours thrown into it. There is also the time that WMF spent on their application and management of the FDC grant to WMF, which could be excluded from 'the cost of FDC' with some interesting definitions. -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [@OKFNau] HealthHack Melbourne

2013-09-29 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Fiona Tweedie fiona.c.twee...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:13 AM Subject: [@OKFNau] HealthHack Melbourne To: okfn...@lists.okfn.org Hello lovely Melbourne friends! We've got an exciting event coming up at the end of October, a weekend

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Banned Books Week

2013-09-25 Thread John Vandenberg
Do we want to try to start an Australian 'banned book' transcription project ? -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com Date: 26 September 2013 09:53 Subject: Banned Books Week To: discussion list for Wikisource, the free library wikisourc

[Wikimediaau-l] Paralympics workshop today

2013-09-20 Thread John Vandenberg
There is a paralympics workshop today (now) at SLNSW, with online participation happening as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales/Paralympics_Workshop I am hanging out in IRC, if anyone wants to join in online. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Visual Editor - your thoughts?

2013-07-05 Thread John Vandenberg
of the rollout to IP-editors to be delayed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Amended_VisualEditor_deployment_schedule -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Warning: Visual Editor - turn it on and it seems you can't turn it off!

2013-07-02 Thread John Vandenberg
. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Server problems

2013-06-27 Thread John Vandenberg
Many of the Wikimedia projects are experiencing significant problems right now, resulting in errors like 'Fatal exception of type MWException'. The tech team are working on it. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] This Saturday – in a language version near you

2013-06-24 Thread John Vandenberg
This Saturday, we have an online only WWI edit-a-thon. If you are interested, please sign up at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_edit-a-thons/Australia#First If you have questions, post them here, or email Hawkeye7 (hawke...@gmail.com) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hawkeye7

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Contracting: procurement subcommittee

2013-06-23 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi, The following email has been sent through to the members mailing list. If you have the desired experience, we need you! ;-) Please join our public meeting next Sunday to help us establish the contracting model. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

2013-02-14 Thread John Vandenberg
/?section=podcast Cheers, Craig Franklin ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Deepen the Conversation with Sue Gardner, Wikimedia] If you missed out on tickets you can still lis...

2013-02-11 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: State Library of Queensland notification+o9j24...@facebookmail.com Date: Feb 12, 2013 10:36 AM Subject: [Deepen the Conversation with Sue Gardner, Wikimedia] If you missed out on tickets you can still lis... To: Deepen the Conversation with Sue

[Wikimediaau-l] Brisbane meetup with Sue Gardner on 11 February 5-8 PM

2013-01-30 Thread John Vandenberg
in the field and then send the committee an email explaining what you've been doing if we dont already know ;-) Share this email with any wiki people who you believe may be interested in attending. p.s. the ical link is broken at the moment. Thanks, John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-01-21 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Simon Shek simon.s...@wikimedia.hk Date: Jan 22, 2013 3:59 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Hi all, Scholarship

[Wikimediaau-l] Board meeting and public meeting - January

2012-12-21 Thread John Vandenberg
to come. Probably members first, regular contributors next, etc. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Public_(2013-01-06) I've set up a public facebook event for you you to easily invite more people and to confirm attendance. http://www.facebook.com/events/434461029942004/ John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Affiliations Committee needs you!

2012-12-12 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com Date: Dec 12, 2012 7:49 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Affiliations Committee needs you! To: wikimediaannounce-l wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Dear

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wma-comm] Re: Outstanding grant request

2012-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
Laura, It is your proposal; you should publish it yourself. http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Proposals_process John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Dec 3, 2012 10:56 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: The committee was sent it. WE've been sending follow up e-mails pretty

[Wikimediaau-l] Fellowships

2012-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Strategic_Plan#Consolidate:_Take_responsibility_for_Foundation_resources_in_Australia John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fellowships

2012-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
on talk pages, emails, etc. etc. We could have applications published before the FDC due date (~1 March), with a decision to be made after the FDC due date - at least then the FDC knows what they are funding. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing

[Wikimediaau-l] Transcript of today's public IRC meeting

2012-12-02 Thread John Vandenberg
The transcript of today's meeting is available online. http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Meeting:Public_%282012-12-02%29/Transcript -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Transcript of today's public IRC meeting

2012-12-02 Thread John Vandenberg
No. LangCamp wasnt discussed. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Dec 3, 2012 1:56 AM, JP Béland lebo.bel...@gmail.com wrote: Did you discuss about the LangCamp? JP Le 2 déc. 2012 05:05, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com a écrit : The transcript of today's meeting is available

[Wikimediaau-l] Freopedia in 45 mins

2012-11-30 Thread John Vandenberg
There will be an edit-a-thon today at the Local History Collection in the Fremantle library from 12:30 until 17:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Freopedia -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [OKFN-AU] Australian Government told to make open access research mandatory

2012-11-25 Thread John Vandenberg
-- 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,

[Wikimediaau-l] English only fundraiser

2012-11-25 Thread John Vandenberg
-- 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

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Fwd: Call for two Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

2012-11-09 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com Date: Nov 10, 2012 1:34 AM Subject: [cultural-partners] Fwd: Call for two Wikipedians in Residence in Africa To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch Please see below

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Looking for a Semantic MediaWiki developer

2012-10-27 Thread John Vandenberg
Is there a place on mediawiki.org to place this sort of thing? John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Oct 27, 2012 9:48 PM, Chris Watkins chriswater...@appropedia.org wrote: I wonder if anyone could recommend a developer to do some work for Appropedia.org, upgrading our MediaWiki

[Wikimediaau-l] 2012 AGM: 25 November

2012-10-22 Thread John Vandenberg
of our system administrators, and all candidates in the election must not have access to the Wikimedia Australia server after the election opens. 1. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Committee_%282011-12-18%29#Voting_on_Resolutions_between_Committee_Meetings -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Edit-a-thon invitation - classical music of France

2012-10-07 Thread John Vandenberg
to see you there - in person or online! Sincerely, Whiteghost.ink -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Template for United Kingdom en.Wikipedians

2012-09-13 Thread John Vandenberg
Do we have something like this? John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com Date: Sep 13, 2012 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Template for United Kingdom en.Wikipedians To: wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org I

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: : ::HOPAU:: London Parlympic Games Results - APC History Project

2012-09-10 Thread John Vandenberg
The Paralympics are over! And most pages about Ozzies are already up to date. Well done to all who helped. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note -- Forwarded message -- From: greg.bl...@bigpond.com Date: Sep 10, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: : ::HOPAU:: London Parlympic Games Results

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Trisca Zorn interview desperately help needed

2012-09-03 Thread John Vandenberg
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_55_time_Paralympic_medalists_Trischa_Zorn John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 3, 2012 12:48 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: Hi, We really, really, really, really, really need help getting the Trischa Zorn interview

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open WMAU discussion on IRC at 17:00 hours (AEST) today 2nd September 2012

2012-09-03 Thread John Vandenberg
The log is at http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Public_(2012-09-02)/Log The main discussions were about WMAU's role regarding the IRC channel, audit requirements and the date of the AGM. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 2, 2012 9:04 AM, Ms. Anne Frazer fraz...@bigpond.com

[Wikimediaau-l] Australia at the Paralympics, in other languages

2012-09-02 Thread John Vandenberg
) Japanese and Swedish Wikipedias don't have an article about any nation. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Brisbane meetup this Friday 7pm

2012-08-01 Thread John Vandenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/6 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows

2012-07-30 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org Date: Jul 31, 2012 7:36 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia Fellows To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, The Wikimedia Fellows program will be holding IRC office hours in

[Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-28 Thread John Vandenberg
which the global appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia

[Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia Australia

[Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia Australia

[Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia Australia

[Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia Australia

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
to each recipient individually with a personal salutation, and we CC the public list so that there is a public record and also the recipients may wish to reply in public also. My apologies for the noise resulting from this. -- John Vandenberg On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:33 PM, JF unclemontez

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Subject: IRC office hours to discuss FDC eligibility criteria and next steps

2012-07-24 Thread John Vandenberg
This meeting is AEST: Thu 2:00 AM and 9:00 AM Perth/WST: Midnight Wed-Thu and Thu 7:00 AM -- John Vandenberg -- Forwarded message -- From: Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM Subject: Subject: IRC office hours to discuss FDC eligibility

[Wikimediaau-l] Sydney meetup; dinner this coming Monday

2012-07-22 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi everyone, We're planning a meetup this Monday in Sydney. Hope to see you there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/July_2012 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open WMAU discussion on IRC, Sunday 1st July - today at 17:00 hours (AEST)

2012-07-01 Thread John Vandenberg
The log of the meeting has been published at http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Meeting:Public_%282012-07-01%29/Log -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open WMAU discussion on IRC, Sunday 1st July - today at 17:00 hours (AEST)

2012-06-30 Thread John Vandenberg
I dont have an agenda. Its a public meeting. What do you want to discuss? On Jul 1, 2012 9:15 AM, Ms. Anne Frazer fraz...@bigpond.com wrote: ** Hi Gnangarra, John is preparing out notice for discussion and will let you know soon. Did you see the reminder at the end of the page :) - love to

[Wikimediaau-l] SLQ article on the front page of Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread John Vandenberg
SLQ has blogged about the workshops http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2012/06/20/getting-queensland-content-out-there/ -- Forwarded message -- From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:41 AM Subject: SLQ article on the front page of Wikipedia To: WMAu

[Wikimediaau-l] Wheelchair state championships on at Brisbane today and tomorrow

2012-06-09 Thread John Vandenberg
them. It would be especially useful to take photographs of any officials present to undertake 'classification' of people who are going to the Paralympics, if they give permission to be photographed for Wikipedia. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Charters Tower workshop

2012-06-05 Thread John Vandenberg
The draft articles for the training today can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SLQ/6_June_2012 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikimediaau-l] 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests DYK

2012-05-20 Thread John Vandenberg
up the DYK nomination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/1907_Sydney_bathing_costume_protests (Graham87, Lankiveil, Tony1 Shiftchange also worked on it) Can anyone think of a more interesting hook, and/or do the review of this article? -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikinews workshop tonight Friday 8pm AEST

2012-05-18 Thread John Vandenberg
/Special:Contributions/LauraHale -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] ::HOPAU:: Brisbane May 26 27 workshop and meetup

2012-05-17 Thread John Vandenberg
at http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Resolution:HOPAU_Workshop_May_2012 On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: The HOPAU project is holding a workshop on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 May. There will be about 10 people from interstate attending, including Graham (Perth

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

2012-05-11 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/05/2012, at 6:49 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I'd prefer stability over functionality, as our user base is small and they arn't using complex features.  Also upgrading takes time that the two sysadmins

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Linux-aus] FYI: GovHack 2012 - Over $30, 000 worth of prize money :)

2012-05-07 Thread John Vandenberg
At the Sydney meetup we talked about Toby (99of9)'s use of ABS data to visual economic factors. Maybe we could submit that, or something similar, to be in the running for the prize. Winning would be great exposure. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org Date:

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12–15 July

2012-04-30 Thread John Vandenberg
of additional funds the chapter should allocate towards scholarships at the public IRC meeting held on Sunday 6 May. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikimediaau-l] W2G stage 1 decision

2012-04-27 Thread John Vandenberg
), and carer The arbitration panel for the Wikimedians to the Games competition consists of Tony Naar (APC) and John Vandenberg (WMAU). Good luck to the participants continuing onto stage 2. Also thanks to the APC staff and volunteers who have helped in various ways with this competition thus far

[Wikimediaau-l] Margaret Sheil vs Peter Suber

2012-04-27 Thread John Vandenberg
makes it sound.) The good news: Sheil's successor is likely to be better informed. The bad news: The publishing lobby will pick up on her misunderstandings and repeat them. More bad news: the U of Melbourne, where Sheil is becoming the new Provost, won't have an OA mandate any time soon. -- John

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [ands-general] Linked Data Meetups: Melbourne Tuesday 17th April and Canberra Monday 23rd April

2012-04-15 Thread John Vandenberg
These should be good to attend. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ingrid Mason ingrid.ma...@ands.org.au Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:48 AM Subject: [ands-general] Linked Data Meetups: Melbourne Tuesday 17th April and Canberra Monday 23rd April To: Ingrid Mason

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Volunteers Wanted: Funds Dissemination Process Advisory Group

2012-04-09 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:08 AM Subject: [Foundation-l] Volunteers Wanted: Funds Dissemination Process Advisory Group To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear all,

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia resolution on Chapters Council

2012-03-29 Thread John Vandenberg
Charter, Wikimedia Australia's delegation to the Wikimedia Conference 2012 in Berlin, namely Craig Franklin and Anne Frazer, are authorised to speak on behalf of the chapter's management committee. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council/Chapter_Support#2012-03-30_WMAU Kind regards, John

[Wikimediaau-l] Images from APC

2012-03-13 Thread John Vandenberg
and the Wikipedians to the Games program. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/hopau https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/HOPAU/W2G -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Images from APC

2012-03-13 Thread John Vandenberg
Yup; typo. Thanks Steve ;-) On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: Wait, 663,512MB?? Typo? That's like 660GB...that's bigger than my hard disk. Steve Zhang Sent from my iPhone On 13/03/2012, at 7:51 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD

2012-03-07 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Donna Benjamin do...@digitisethedawn.org Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01 AM Subject: A Digital Dawn - online today to celebrate IWD To: digitisethedawn digitisethed...@gmail.com International Women's Day 2012 The Dawn is now available online.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Chapter-selected WMF Board seats

2012-03-02 Thread John Vandenberg
encourage everyone to read the candidate statements, ask them questions, and provide feedback to the Wikimedia Australia committee members either - individually, or - email cont...@wikimedia.org.au, or - at the public IRC meeting this Sunday at 5pm (eastern time). -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Linux-aus] Brett Smith (FSF) talk in Melbourne, Monday 5 March 6pm

2012-03-01 Thread John Vandenberg
Reminder: the talk is this Monday 6pm at the University of Melbourne, in Lecture Theatre 1, ICT Building, Barry Street, Carlton. They ask that people register by 10am Monday at http://apps.freesoftware.asn.au/invite/brett-smith-fsf/ Is anyone planning to go? -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Linux-aus] Brett Smith (FSF) talk in Melbourne, Monday 5 March 6pm

2012-02-27 Thread John Vandenberg
For context, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership and https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp I've only skimmed this, but it seems to be mostly adding copy protection/technical protection measures (TPM), which are a problem for software but not very relevant to

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Australian women's national water polo team

2012-02-25 Thread John Vandenberg
was expecting you to look at this. I'm hoping that others will complement your work by working on these articles. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Australian women's national water polo team

2012-02-24 Thread John Vandenberg
Great work Laura and Bidgee! I noticed a problem with the first image page I clicked on.  Maybe others have the same problem. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANicola_Zagame.jpgdiff=67465143oldid=67443407 -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Australian Children’s Literature Digital Resources

2012-02-23 Thread John Vandenberg
secondary material. ... They don't have many full-text items. Only one. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowWorkworkId=C%23MU] Maybe we can do the transcription for them. ;-) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Australia -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

2012-02-22 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:22 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Hot off the press https://theconversation.edu.au/academics-line-up-to-boycott-worlds-biggest-journal-publisher-5384 Baby steps .. https://theconversation.edu.au/all-research-funded-by-nhmrc-to-be-accessible-free

[Wikimediaau-l] Chapter-selected WMF Board seats

2012-02-14 Thread John Vandenberg
be voting, let us know early. There is no strict timeline on when the chapters will reach a consensus on the board members. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

2012-02-14 Thread John Vandenberg
and Technology 3 Statistics 3 Chemistry 1 Arts and Humanities 1 Earth and Planetary Sciences 6 Other -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Gendergap] List of lists of women

2012-02-12 Thread John Vandenberg
/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedia_articles/DNB,_people_prominent_in_ODNB and many more in the pages at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:DNBFooter The full text of DNB is available on Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB/Djvu_files -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

2012-02-03 Thread John Vandenberg
- Computer Science Dr Ian Charlesworth   Bureau of Meteorology Australia - Physics Derek McCormack   Senior Manager, Knowlege Exchange, Parenting Research Centre, Australia -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Wikimedian Australians of the Year: Giving thanks to our community

2012-01-24 Thread John Vandenberg
at: http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/page5.asp The PDF says that press applications needed to be submitted by Jan 20. ;-( -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediaau-l] Triple J Hottest 100

2012-01-24 Thread John Vandenberg
Tomorrow is also the Triple J Hottest 100. There are official parties in many towns, where it should be easy to take photos. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/11/parties/#address-search We have two images related to Triple J https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Triple_J Flickr

[Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp 2012 - Canberra - January 20-22

2012-01-04 Thread John Vandenberg
message -- From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:17 PM Subject: RecentChangesCamp 2012 - Canberra - January 20-22 To: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com Hi, Apologies for not informing wikieducator folk sooner. The third Australian RecentChangesCamp is being held

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Ada Initiative beginning monthly IRC catchup chats

2011-11-07 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: The Ada Initiative i...@adainitiative.org Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM Subject: Ada Initiative beginning monthly IRC catchup chats ** Note: this is a one-off announcement. If you want to receive further updates of the chat times, please see

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public domain day 2012

2011-11-01 Thread John Vandenberg
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_in_Australia#Deaths On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:01 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: We have a very important death in 1941... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_Paterson However, his works arnt public domain in the US, so this has limited

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Fwd: AdaCamp Melbourne (Australia): Saturday January 14, 2012

2011-10-31 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM Subject: [Gendergap] Fwd: AdaCamp Melbourne (Australia): Saturday January 14, 2012 To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects gender...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fundraising bug triage - 5 October

2011-10-04 Thread John Vandenberg
[[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Ada Lovelace Day

2011-10-01 Thread John Vandenberg
if they are notable? This is our first presidents blog post on the first Ada Lovelace Day in 2009. http://brianna.laugher.id.au/blog/9/ada-lovelace-day-stormy-peters -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia at This Is Not Art

2011-09-02 Thread John Vandenberg
. Wikipedia editors will provide insiders knowledge of the Wikimedia community, the mechanics of crowd sourcing and Creative Commons licensing. Bring along your photographs and stories to participate in a masterclass of creation and editing of Wikipedia content. -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Open Government Data Conference @ QUT, Brisbane - Friday, 23 September 2011

2011-08-30 Thread John Vandenberg
The event is free of charge and numbers are strictly limited. We would like to encourage people from all sectors of the community to attend. That means us! ;-) http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3048 http://creativecommons.org.au/OGDbrisbane -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] IRC meeting in 10 minutes

2011-08-07 Thread John Vandenberg
The Wikimedia Australia monthly IRC meeting starts in 10 minutes. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/IRC -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Melbourne meetup July 23

2011-07-18 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi Michelle, So far* the plan is to meet on the corner (on the Oskar side) and then walk up Errol until we find something that everyone is happy with. * Better ideas welcome! ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

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