Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities direction

2008-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin It will most likely need some work done to it but its something! ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities direction

2008-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, K. Peachey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin It will most likely need some work done to it but its something! Even better, i just

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities direction

2008-11-21 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, K. Peachey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, K. Peachey [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin It will most likely

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

2008-12-13 Thread K. Peachey
Still, doing this groundwork can be useful for other things, namely, identifying that the articles on some of our earlier Prime Ministers could use a bit of spit and polish. Here is a table of all their current rankings [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australia/Australian_Schools_Selection]] It

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

2008-12-13 Thread K. Peachey
2008/12/14 Nathan Carter cartma...@gmail.com: Which state did you undertake your education in? QLD, but i might only have some stuff from last year and this year (11/12) left and i didn't do that many OP courses =( ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

2008-12-14 Thread K. Peachey
2008/12/14 Nathan Carter cartma...@gmail.com: Still, it will all help. Cheers! On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:41 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: 2008/12/14 Nathan Carter cartma...@gmail.com: Which state did you undertake your education in? QLD, but i might only have some stuff

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

2009-01-19 Thread K. Peachey
2 problems. Export on Wikipedia only gets about 100 revisions rather than the full history, Wouldn't that be breaking the GFDL? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Commons on Picture Australia

2009-02-02 Thread K. Peachey
Wouldn't number three already be covered by the API system? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

2009-05-29 Thread K. Peachey
If spam is the main reason to have accounts, would using a CAPTCHA for non-confirmed accounts help? (is that a simple option in Mediawiki?) Otherwise I'd recommend nothing more restrictive than confirm email address to edit Peter Halasz [[User:Pengo]] I believe, although maybe wrong but its

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] schools - a post-glam movement ;-)

2009-06-19 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, private musingsthepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just created this page; http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools with the intention of encouraging all those interested in liaising with educators / schools directly to jump in and whip up a few project pages

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] fixing wmau wiki

2009-11-30 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: I bet I could fix it in under 5 minutes if I had shell access. -- Tim Starling Bug andrew and tell him what to do then :p ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Foundation-l] open wikis for chapters....?

2009-12-12 Thread K. Peachey
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com wrote: There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] warning on the wiki

2009-12-14 Thread K. Peachey
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: I believe that the chapter wiki uses a third-party extension so that we can access Commons.  In my experience, this extension is a bit flaky and sometimes causes problems.  I don’t have access to the code, but I’d say

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Chapter selected board seats - call for candidates, deadline extended

2010-05-17 Thread K. Peachey
For those not on foundation-l or announce-l, The deadline has been extended. (Forwarding this here since it was discussed the other day. Oh and sorry for the top posting, just seems nicer this way) -Peachey -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com Date:

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] (no subject)

2010-08-15 Thread K. Peachey
I think you will find that it is spam. -peachey ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-11-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote: Would a separate wiki be a better idea? That way the committee wouldn't need to worry about the unofficial content being confused for anything they'd approved. And the community wouldn't need to worry about their pages being

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

2010-12-16 Thread K. Peachey
I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open-Edge (education) conference - Sydney, 9 Oct

2011-10-21 Thread K. Peachey
Was it in the moderation queues maybe and someone cleaned them out? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia Public IRC meeting today at 5PM AEDST

2012-12-01 Thread K. Peachey
don't you mean #wikimedia-au? On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Steven Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Australia public meeting will start today, 2nd December 2012 at 17:00 hours (5:00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDST) ) in

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Deepen the Conversation with Sue Gardner, Wikimedia] If you missed out on tickets you can still lis...

2013-02-13 Thread K. Peachey
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: No sound!!! WFM (at the moment). ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

2013-02-14 Thread K. Peachey
Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to commons (in the appropriate format) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thehelpfulone thehelpfulonew...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you can play back the

[Wikimediaau-l] FWD: [---] Missing details: the sanitisation of Tom Waterhouse's Wikipedia page

2013-05-13 Thread K. Peachey
FWD from another mailing list, -- Forwarded message -- From: --- Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM Subject: [---] Missing details: the sanitisation of Tom Waterhouse's Wikipedia page To: ---

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] time to join Wikimedia Australia?

2013-06-16 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: … you get to spend more time with people who don’t think you are weird for editing Wikipedia at 3am in your pyjamas [delete this reason if you don’t edit at 3am in your pyjamas] … You mean that isn't normal‽‽

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Events list on the WMAU website - please help us keep them up to date!

2013-06-23 Thread K. Peachey
Here is a map based past/upcomming events on the website so if you notice anything missing (I remember stuff better when I see it visually) please update the wiki. http://hostr.co/0tNCJHCYk39z / http://hostr.co/file/0tNCJHCYk39z/WMAU-events.png -peachey

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Contracting: procurement subcommittee

2013-06-23 Thread K. Peachey
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Chris Watkins chriswater...@appropedia.org wrote: Thanks John, Looking at http://wikimedia.org.au I see an IRC meeting on 7 July - is that the one you mean? Yes, first sunday of every month. ___ Wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] looking for edit training?

2013-08-29 Thread K. Peachey
From my makling list account this. On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Kerry Raymond wrote:: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Tony1/Proposed_membership_table ** ** and we could certainly do that, but it would need some contact details though, which people may or may not be confident

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Graham is famous!

2013-10-01 Thread K. Peachey
Next on Sick Sad World, The cats who administer Wikipedia On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Charles Gregory wikimediaau.li...@chuq.netwrote: Well, sort of :) http://redd.it/1njw6s Regards, Charles ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today?

2014-01-04 Thread K. Peachey
On 5 January 2014 17:09, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I'm afraid it wasn't, no. It will be next Sunday at 4PM AEDST (the usual time, just a week later. Steve Small question, How do you class something as moved, If no one knew about it?

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today 4PM AEDST (in one hour)

2014-03-01 Thread K. Peachey
Well the only reminder/notice (at least on the public list) was a hour before start time, Of course you won't have a lot of buy in from that, because not everyone sits at home on the weekend in front of the their systems. On 2 March 2014 17:29, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: we'll able

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-16 Thread K. Peachey
On 16 March 2014 17:50, Steven Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: 2. … but actively disrupting the list is against both the rules and spirit of the list, and always has been. … [Citation Needed], I see no rules http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Mailing_list or

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-18 Thread K. Peachey
There used to a be a good document on TS wiki for their mailing lists we could link to. On 18 March 2014 21:59, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 March 2014 10:49, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

2014-04-17 Thread K. Peachey
Well randomly cancelling them out of thin air and sending reminders a hour or two before does tend to cause that. Amongst the other issues of course On 17 April 2014 14:34, Steve Zhang cro0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, We would have someone noting what happens on the hang out in IRC and

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

2015-04-30 Thread K. Peachey
I believe Wikimedia AU did some work with this type of stuff… On Friday, May 1, 2015, d...@bisharat.net wrote: What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to have had limited appeal. Noting also