[Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
October is Zootober. http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/zoo/ Is anyone involved in an Australian zoo? If so, how can we help? Wikimedians could go to Australian zoos armed with camera's, and we could create a Commons page including our images collected in October. Or we could

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread Liam Wyatt
Nice one :-) Another possibility is asking a zoo to pick an animal or species that they're actively invlolved in conservation work with - to improve biological articles about thee endangered species (for which the zoo should have good references for). I know that Melbourne Zoo has a recently

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
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: were I to contact a vague associate at Taronga and perhaps discuss the possibility of them hosting a wiki meetup and perhaps have a small 'get to know each other' type discussion / session a la GLAM - could I be so bold as to mention