[Wikimediaau-l] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 - discount for early birds, scholarships

2011-06-02 Thread John Vandenberg
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[Wikimediaau-l] Meta2011, May 25-27, Canberra

2011-05-19 Thread John Vandenberg
the opportunity to support and participate in Meta2011” said Liam Wyatt, Wikimedia Foundation Cultural Partnerships Fellow. John Vandenberg, President of Wikimedia Australia, will be presenting a workshop as part of the Professional Development stream at the conference on Friday 27th May, 2011. IMM

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-21 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Another 400 free Credo Reference accounts have been made available for

[Wikimediaau-l] SLQ donation report 2

2011-03-04 Thread John Vandenberg
Grahamec Jeff79 John Vandenberg WestyQld2/JRA_WestyQld2 Kerry Raymond Lankiveil Mattinbgn Melburnian Nick-D Rcbutcher Saberwyn SatuSuro Shiftchange Tony1 And self-identified Kiwis, or people residing there: Ingolfson Jeff79 Tony_Wills Do you recognise any additional Australians or Kiwis in the report

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [LA-Jobs] National Archives of Australia - Contract Development work

2011-03-02 Thread John Vandenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: LA Jobs List j...@lists.linux.org.au Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:53 PM Subject: [LA-Jobs] National Archives of Australia - Contract Development work To: j...@lists.linux.org.au A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website.

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia:Relicensing agreement

2011-03-01 Thread John Vandenberg
in the wiki. Thank you, John Vandenberg On behalf of the Wikimedia Australia committee. 1. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Resolution:Updating_official-wiki_license ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - mid next week

2011-02-27 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:47 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: One of the attendees to RecentChangesCamp 2011, Canberra is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet Footscray offices at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which suits

[Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - next Wed or Thur

2011-02-24 Thread John Vandenberg
There are also two events planned for Canberra in a fortnights time; more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - next Wed or Thur

2011-02-24 Thread John Vandenberg
whoops; sorry for the dup. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:43 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Jani Patokallio, one of the participants RecentChangesCamp 2011 @ Canberra, is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet office at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday

[Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - mid next week

2011-02-23 Thread John Vandenberg
of March), and Sydney (venue and date still being finalised). More info about these can be found here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2011/RecentChangesCamp_Expanded -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] #women4wikipedia chat now

2011-02-21 Thread John Vandenberg
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23women4wikipedia more info at http://women4wikipedia.net/#events -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Proposal to offer bounties for improved OpenDocument support

2011-02-19 Thread John Vandenberg
. As this functionality is critical for ease of use and adoption, I suggest a bounty of $1000. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread John Vandenberg
the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread John Vandenberg
We have a local copy in Brisbane and Armidale. The metadata is in a static XML file. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal

2010-12-15 Thread John Vandenberg
. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal

2010-12-15 Thread John Vandenberg
user has their own personal area to host forks, all in one wiki so that the administrative workload is less . However this can also be achieved on Wikipedia; copy an article into your userspace and it is unlikely to be edited by anyone else. -- John Vandenberg I'm not sure

[Wikimediaau-l] http://bit.ly/wmau

2010-12-12 Thread John Vandenberg
This link (http://bit.ly/wmau) points to the old memberdb membership signup. I'm not sure who owns it, or how to change it. Could it be updated to http://civicrm.wikimedia.org.au/signup.php The old 'membership' subdomain will be moved to the new server soon. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] http://bit.ly/wmau

2010-12-12 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: OK.  Angela's solution is the best that we can do then. All sorted. Thanks everyone. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
? Another option is for us to host our official wiki on the WMF servers, as a 'project' which I assume means the stewards can step in and perform oversight checkuser when required. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Newspaper cites from Trove

2010-11-22 Thread John Vandenberg
NLA is exposing DC records va OAI, however I don't think the newspapers are yet available via OAI. http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/oai/ http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListMetadataFormats http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets On Tue, Nov

[Wikimediaau-l] WMAu IRC discussion tomorrow night

2010-11-17 Thread John Vandenberg
may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-11-16 Thread John Vandenberg
Sorry folks. That page has been deleted. Wikimedia Australia has been working on a process for proposals, and this proposal did not follow the process. The committee has talked a lot about allowing non-members to edit the wiki, and I would love a good proposal, but the one that privatemusings

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-11-16 Thread John Vandenberg
accounts and be able to rant on our website. If so, what is our policy on who can have accounts and their usernames? Who is going to decide what content is acceptable or not? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Billabong

2010-11-15 Thread John Vandenberg
some existing links. 'mulwikisource' and 'oldwikisource' have been added to access the multilingual/main wikisource project. The interwiki table can be viewed here http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:Interwiki Quite a lot of them appear to be useless for our purposes. -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] WikiAcademy program - Regional historical societies

2010-11-13 Thread John Vandenberg
planning. We hope that there will be many of these WikiAcademy events occurring in 2011, hopefully in many states. -- John Vandenberg, WMAu president ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediaau-l] fundraiser - IRC

2010-11-12 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi everyone, I will be idling out in the freenode IRC channel wikimedia-au for the majority of today. If Australians have issues with or suggestions for the current trial fundraiser banner, thats the best place to go. irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-au -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Internet filter back in the news

2010-10-19 Thread John Vandenberg
], and raising the issue of images on Wikimedia Commons. 1. http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/SOP 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia#UK_IWF_blockage_of_Wikipedia -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-10-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: btw, we don't have a Wikipedia nav template for Zoos; the closest is [[List_of_zoos#Australia]].  That is another task for October ;-) A new article with a lot of red links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
improve the Wikipedia articles about Australian zoos... Any other ideas? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: ps. is the small grants program still in effect? I presume so; if not, please assume that any sensible project will be considered by the committee, via this grant scheme or another approach. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
anything even vaguely resembling GLAM in October. A Backstage Pass to any zoo would be great, and is more achievable. http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Backstage_pass Feel free to get the ball rolling with Toronga Zoo. -- John Vandenberg

[Wikimediaau-l] Slashdot asks for our assistance; conscience votes in Australia

2010-09-17 Thread John Vandenberg
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/17/0428224/Conroy-Still-Hell-Bent-On-Internet-Filter ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default

2010-05-03 Thread John Vandenberg
Woo hoo! This is fantastic news. A big thank you to all involved. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jessica Coates j2.coa...@qut.edu.au Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM Subject: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default To: cc...@lists.ibiblio.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] The A E Bert Roberts photograph collection

2009-11-07 Thread John Vandenberg
requires attribution of the digitiser, but does not assert copyright over it. nice work Craig! -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

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

2009-08-14 Thread John Vandenberg
and readers. -- John Vandenberg (hopping of hobby horse...) ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikisource features New Holland flora

2009-06-14 Thread John Vandenberg
/Index:A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland.djvu A list of all featured texts can be seen here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Featured_texts -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-21 Thread John Vandenberg
to import Wikipedia articles into the organisation wiki, which should be used for ... *organising*. If we need to build a resource that isnt a collection of encyclopedia articles, it should be developed on Wikibooks. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l

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