Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan Carter
2009/1/27 Charles Gregory : > 2009/1/27 Gnangarra >> >> While its nice and can be advantageous to piggy back on other groups for >> confrences, the decision on when to hold the AGM and whether theres an event >> to coincide with it must be that of our members/committee complying with >> requiremen

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

2009-01-27 Thread YellowMonkey
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 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Nathan Carter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Peter Halasz wrote: > > Hi. > > > > How do copyrights work on interviews

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

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan Carter
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Peter Halasz wrote: > Hi. > > How do copyrights work on interviews? Does the interviewee have joint > copyright? And more specifically, are we able to place any interviews > with Wikimedia members under a Creative Commons license (with the > interviewee's permissio

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Students given Wikipedia assignments

2009-01-27 Thread Mark Hurd
FYI, Below is two posts to the ABC's Science Matters list. -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) Forwarded conversation Subject: Students given Wikipedia assignments was Re: Arguments from ignorance From: Morris Gray Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:36 AM To: ABC Scienc

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread John Vandenberg
2009/1/27 Charles Gregory : >... > 2. I believe our AGM needs to be held between July-November. I'm not sure > how Linux Australia gets away with holding theirs in January. They may be > incorporated in a different state with different rules? According to [[en:Linux_Australia]], they are incorpo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Stephen Bain
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > Not exactly. To clarify, the rules talk about "the annual general > meeting", but we can have a "Special General Meeting" (Rule 10) or more > than one. Annual reports are presented at the AGM, but rule changes and > the like can come t

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

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Foord
Here is tha transcript link http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2475604.htm and the mp3 link http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/pm/200901/20090127-PM5-wiki-vandals.mp3 to the program (apologies if it has already been posted) Paul 2009/1/27 Charles Gregory : > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11

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

2009-01-27 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote: > Also funny - the comparison between vandalism of WP bios and celebs > having their twitter & myspace accounts hacked. Not quite the same > thing. > > Brianna > > That is crazy! And that was a Uni professor who said that of course, th

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Lloyd Nguyen wrote: > 2009/1/27 Charles Gregory : > > Pros: > > > > 2. It takes the decision making out of our hands - less > > process/policy/bickering > > I think I have to disagree on this one, since that would be > piggybacking far too much. I see making a jo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Charles Gregory
2009/1/27 Karl Goetz > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:33:16 +1100 > Charles Gregory wrote: > > > Cons: > > > > 1. The LCA city is not always appropriate for a WM-AU meetup due to > > us being of a smaller size. eg. Hobart, Cairns, Darwin, NZ, possibly > > Perth. Workaround - we decide our own venue in

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Lloyd Nguyen
2009/1/27 Charles Gregory : > Pros: > > 2. It takes the decision making out of our hands - less > process/policy/bickering I think I have to disagree on this one, since that would be piggybacking far too much. I see making a joint conference with LCA more as a good start to begin learning how to d

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

2009-01-27 Thread Brianna Laugher
Also funny - the comparison between vandalism of WP bios and celebs having their twitter & myspace accounts hacked. Not quite the same thing. Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ ___ Wikimed

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

2009-01-27 Thread Brianna Laugher
2009/1/27 Andrew : > (whoops, pressed send by accident) ... was omitted entirely. The bit they > did quote ran something like, the needs of the encyclopaedia for neutral > reliable articles and the needs of the community which maintained the > articles needed to be balanced, and that there was a ri

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WM-AU national gathering

2009-01-27 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:33:16 +1100 Charles Gregory wrote: > Hi everyone, > Hi mate, > > Cons: > > 1. The LCA city is not always appropriate for a WM-AU meetup due to > us being of a smaller size. eg. Hobart, Cairns, Darwin, NZ, possibly > Perth. Workaround - we decide our own venue in those

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

2009-01-27 Thread Gnangarra
I'd say for interviews specifically about WM-au then asking for it to be under a free license would be a good idea but for instances like this where the value to "us" is in being contacted and quoted then it shouldnt be a concern 2009/1/27 Peter Halasz > Hi. > > How do copyrights work on intervi

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

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Halasz
Hi. How do copyrights work on interviews? Does the interviewee have joint copyright? And more specifically, are we able to place any interviews with Wikimedia members under a Creative Commons license (with the interviewee's permission)? Or does a joint copyright need to be a precondition of the in

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

2009-01-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/27 Mark Hurd : > WikiPedia Australia's President Brianna was sound quoted the most. Yuh. Lesson 1: they'll always use the title. So the trick is to get NPOV into a soundbite ... - d. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikime