Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit) GLAM
consultancy organisation in Greece that wants to do a wiki-town project
with the city of Thessaloniki. They've already got the city council and
several museums of the city, and some [as yet undefined] level of support
from
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Interestingly, I just had a conversation
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Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit)
GLAM consultancy organisation in Greece that wants to do a wiki-town
project with the city of Thessaloniki. They've already got the city
council
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wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt
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Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit)
GLAM consultancy
Thanks Gnangara, there goes my dream of travelling around Australia
initiating projects and teaching people/professionals to edit :)
On 01/05/2015 5:34 pm, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote:
Leigh
I think its a rather complex issue and can see a few red flags there to
start with that would
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns
Thanks Gnangara, there goes my dream of travelling around Australia initiating
projects and teaching people/professionals to edit :)
On 01/05/2015 5:34 pm, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote:
Leigh
I think its
Leigh
I think its a rather complex issue and can see a few red flags there to
start with that would cause a lot of issues, *Paid photographers? Paid
historians? Paid editors?*. For Wikitowns or for that matter any project
really needs to be driven by the volunteer community both from within and
G'Day
Yes Australia has two ongoing Wikitown projects
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Freopedia
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I'm created both projects and are responsible for their on going activity,
the projects activity spikes
I believe Wikimedia AU did some work with this type of stuff…
On Friday, May 1, 2015, d...@bisharat.net wrote:
What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at
Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to
have had limited appeal. Noting also
