[Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
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 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
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 born elephant cub [or is 'calf' the correct term?] that might be a good reason to focus on that species. -Liam On 20/09/2010, at 12:51, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: 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 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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
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 WMAU as part of the proposal? I'd like to say something like 'we from Wikimedia Australia would like to organise something like this' - I'm hoping that my role as simply a member sufficiently empowers me to take such initiatives? Roll over GLAM, WIZOO! here we come. I doubt we could achieve 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 mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
