Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Minutes of May 04 committee meeting

2009-06-09 Thread Mark Hurd
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Sarah Ewart wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > Unfortunately I've had some health problems and was out-of-action for a few > weeks so my thanks must go to Nathan and  Brian for taking care of the > minutes. > > Cheers, > Sarah Hope you're feeling better now. "A few week

[Wikimediaau-l] Minutes of May 04 committee meeting

2009-06-09 Thread Sarah Ewart
Hi everyone, The minutes from the Committee's May 04 meeting are now up and available at http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meeting:Committee_(2009_May_04). Please note that planning for GLAM-Wiki has progressed a great deal since the M

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread Sarah Ewart
Yes, I also agree there's no consensus, but remember that this isn't the English Wikipedia and we don't necessarily do things by consensus. WP:CON can be useful in group decision making, but we're not bound by it and having a Wikipedia-style "consensus" for something doesn't necessarily mean it wil

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM, private musings wrote: > oh... ok! > carry on :-) How about we run a poll on the wiki.. oh wait, then the non members can't vote (aka me) Maybe you could try a flagged rev/protection type scheme where everything is protected to the "member" group by default and

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread Nick Jenkins
Yes, there's no consensus. I don't personally agree (online has become an attention economy, so people's time and therefore their edits are valuable, and we should make the barrier to entry as low and quick and unobtrusive as possible as we can, whilst keeping the number of spam/junk/gibberish edit

[Wikimediaau-l] FW: [cc-au] RiP: A Remix Manifesto. Get tickets for the special ccAustralia screening!

2009-06-09 Thread Jessica Coates
[http://awmusic.ca/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/awmusic.ca/images/awmusic/RIPposter.jpg] Creative Commons Australia and the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovationpresent a special screening of [http://bside-ima

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread private musings
oh... ok! carry on :-) On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Andrew wrote: > I don't see any such consensus emerging in this discussion - it actually > seems to be more the other way. > > 2009/6/9 private musings > >> it looks to me like we're heading for consensus that a bit more open >> editing wou

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew
I don't see any such consensus emerging in this discussion - it actually seems to be more the other way. 2009/6/9 private musings > it looks to me like we're heading for consensus that a bit more open > editing would be a good thing - not for IP addresses, but for folk who have > confirmed their

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-06-09 Thread private musings
it looks to me like we're heading for consensus that a bit more open editing would be a good thing - not for IP addresses, but for folk who have confirmed their email address (per Nick's technical suggestion)... could we implement this or could someone suitably empowered indicate how they see this