Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

2013-10-08 Thread Gnangarra
well some that come to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Freo - Freopedia only cost for WMAU has been Craig to Perth for the Launch, and from reports was well recieved at Wikimania in Hong Kong... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Waroona, prelude to a Wikitown

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Funding Query

2013-10-08 Thread Craig Franklin
Hi, I just want to endorse Gnangarra's final comment here as well - the best way to get projects going is to get out and do them. I was at a very interesting Wikimania presentation given by Asaf Bartov in Hong Kong where he posited that you needed at least five people involved in a project for

[Wikimediaau-l] Other Projects from the West

2013-10-08 Thread SatuSuro
Notification and FYI to mailing list As I am currently an applicant - please note that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiki_Takes_and_GLAM_in_reverse a rough to be edited proposal is in process at meta any comments, feedback etc - please contact satus...@gmail.com also for those

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Funding Query

2013-10-08 Thread Adam Jenkins
The primary constraint for Wikimedia Australia in the past couple of years has been volunteer time, not money. I expect that that will continue to be the case for the next twelve to eighteen months at least. Perhaps part of the problem was that we did take that attitude, and it is true that an

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

2013-10-08 Thread G. White
Hi Adam and All, We don't have a shortage of ideas for things to do - I organised all the current proposals herehttp://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:List_of_proposals_for_2014_planning_processso that if we had spare resources or time (ha! is that likely?) we could prioritise them and plan,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Funding Query

2013-10-08 Thread Kerry Raymond
I think to get more volunteers involved we need a way to communicate with more volunteers. There appear to be many people in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Australia and its various sub-categories, sub-sub-categories etc. Perhaps we should talk to them on-wiki