[Wikimediaau-l] Chapter-selected WMF Board seats

2012-02-14 Thread John Vandenberg
Last weekend during the public IRC meeting the hot topic was the chapter-selected board seats. You can read more about that .. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats During the discussion last Sunday we focused on how Wikimedia Australia will 'endorse' nominations. The

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

2012-02-14 Thread John Vandenberg
Hot off the press https://theconversation.edu.au/academics-line-up-to-boycott-worlds-biggest-journal-publisher-5384 There are now 99 Australians of 5961 in the Elsevier boycott. (up from 1.61% to 1.66%) The following Australians have added their name since my last email: Martin Asplund,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

2012-02-14 Thread Liam Wyatt
Nice :-) I really like The Conversation too. Scholarly opinion on current issues, non-profit and Australian - it makes an excellent reference source for Wikipedia :-) It's also using a Creative Commons license which is great [cc-by-ND, but that's better than all other media sources!]. -Liam