There's quite a long list of improvements that could be made to the
Wikipedia footnote format that Trove produces automatically. Many of them
are already logged in their internal code-review system at the National
Library but, due to internal prioritisation of the bug/feature queue this
doesn't
ave been copied in a library somewhere. Might Fair Use impact
> on this? So, not so much "artists" but producers of more
> educational-in-nature content might lose their royalties from CAL if Fair
> Use was introduced?
>
> Regards,
> Leigh
>
> On Sat, Jun 17, 20
Hi Aussiepedians again, also crossposting to the Public Policy group,
TL;DR summary: Australia Fair Use campaign on Wikipedia will stop on
Monday; Australians encouraged to send a letter to their MP (and bring our
total over 10,000) here:
https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/#emailform
Dear Aussiepedians,
As some of you may have seen by now - the banner campaign is now LIVE and
kicking.
Peter Martin, wrote an excellent article for SMH/Age/Canberra Times, and it
is doing REALLY well on social media (apparently "Fair Use" is trending on
twitter in australia):
Thank you for this update Seddon,
(I've cc'd Jessica & Trish from the Australian Digital Alliance, and Jon
from Electronic Frontiers Australia - who are helping to coordinate this.
Those of you who were at the Melbourne meetup with Katherine this week will
have met Jon there).
Things are moving
Yesterday, Magnus added the Design & Art Australia Online database
(formerly the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online) was added to
his 'mix-n-match' tool for Wikidata:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/?mode=catalog_details=115
Like it says on the tin, this is a database of Australian
STOP THE PRESS! Great news:
I've just learned that literally last week Legal Deposit in Australia was
extended to include digital!
http://libcopyright.org.au/news/collecting-digital-legal-deposit-extended-national-library
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On 30 June 2015 at 13:11, Liam Wyatt
Seeing this post on Wikimedia-l about broken links reminded me of something
I was wondering about a while ago...
As many of you know, one of the projects at the National Library [where I
no longer work, just to make that clear] is called Pandora. It's the
Australian web archiving service and
I just saw this tweet from Magnus (cc'd) where he announced that the
Australian Dictionary of Biography is now imported into his mix-n-match
tool to facilitate the connecting of Wikidata items to various forms of
Authority Control:
https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/604687988514160642
Here's
Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit) GLAM
consultancy organisation in Greece that wants to do a wiki-town project
with the city of Thessaloniki. They've already got the city council and
several museums of the city, and some [as yet undefined] level of support
from
:
wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt
*Sent:* Monday, 4 May 2015 8:21 PM
*To:* Australian Wikimedians mailing list
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns
Interestingly, I just had a conversation this week with a (for profit)
GLAM consultancy
Hanks for posting that nick - I was just about to write an email to say the
same thing :-)
Getting a National Library of Australia card is free and online, and
they'll post it to you anywhere in the country. From there you've got
access to LOTS of open and closed-access databases which you can
that everyone can have access, and
the universities can save money?
On 06/11/2014 7:37 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','liamwy...@gmail.com'); wrote:
Hanks for posting that nick - I was just about to write an email to say
the same thing :-)
Getting a National
/2014 8:30 AM, Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','schneeschme...@googlemail.com'); wrote:
2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com
javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','liamwy...@gmail.com');:
You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single
/contact/
If that doesn't work I will contact my local PR person to see what we
can do to get a bulk dump somehow.
Cheers,
Peter
On 6 May 2014 10:24, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists,
I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's
Dear Australian Wikimedians, cultural partners list,
(also cc'ing Ed, in case the Signpost might like to mention this).
*TL;DR - The National Library is actively requesting Wikipedians ask
reference questions and links to the service are now on all Wikiproject
Australia templates on WP article
Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists,
I read today on the Creative Commons Australia blog that CSIRIO's
ScienceImage library has been re-licensed to CC-BY:
http://creativecommons.org.au/blog/2014/04/csiro-releases-scienceimage-archive-4000-cc-by-photos-free-for-reuse/[for
non-Australians CSIRO is
Thanks for pointing this out.
I just found her on twitter and had a chat. https://twitter.com/AmyAntonio86
Amusingly, and somewhat frustratingly, she wasn't aware that there
*are*Wikipedians in Australia, despite having a recent PhD in
literature and
social media for higher-education...
I've
Now that's a pretty damn cool release!
Just looking through the flickr stream I can see some pics that we will
have no use for (staff Halloween party, anyone?) but a *whole bunch* that
we can - individual airframes, maintenance work underway, plane interiors
(inc. the cockpit) and fittings, ground
...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt
*Sent:* Wednesday, 5 February 2014 9:11 AM
*To:* Wikimedia Australia Chapter
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Are the Wikimedia projects social media
Hi Leigh,
as the social media coordinator at a cultural institution now, I'm
simultaneously trying to have
It's a fantastic idea, and nice work Gnang finding it and bringing it to
everyone's attention. I recall back for the Wiki10 (10th anniversary of
Wikipedia celebrations) the WMF tried desperately (but in vain) to get an
antartic research group to host a party in order that there could be a
party on
/Australia_and_New_Zealand_reportwhich
is due out in 3 days
Cheers
Gideon
On 2 December 2013 12:20, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, user:Aliaretiree and user:Rubicon49bce (Mylee and Katherine
from the State Library of NSW) and myself did a full-day training
workshop at the National Library
Sats, I'm not sure why you're so cynical about this, but there indeed were
people from each state and territory. I never said that the Eastern
mainland states were the centre of the universe.
You can see from the project page where they came from because they wrote
newspaper articles from
On Friday, user:Aliaretiree and user:Rubicon49bce (Mylee and Katherine from
the State Library of NSW) and myself did a full-day training workshop at
the National Library for representatives of each of the other State
Libraries in Australia. This is part of the project to write articles about
Congratulations to the new team, and thank you to the former team. Especial
thanks to Craig for your consistent professionalism and hard work over the
term of your presidency.
Best,
-Liam
On 23/11/2013, at 5:41 PM, Steve Zhang wrote:
I want to thank everyone who supported my candidacy. I
Aloha from Hawaii!
I'm at an Internet cafe so must be brief.
I too would like to see us 'weigh in' on the matter of the copyright review
and as some of you may recall I made a submission to the initial
round myself (specifically relating to faithful reproductions of 2D PD
artworks).
I would be
Good morning :-)
I've just been called by the producer for ABC702 morning show (presenter is
Linda Mottram) and asked to talk on radio sometime between 10 and 10:30
about Wikipedia's errors, how we improve the contet etc, etc, - in the
context of the recent bushfire / Greg Hunt story in the
Regards,
Charles
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Liam Wyatt
liamwy...@gmail.comjavascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'liamwy...@gmail.com');
wrote:
Good morning :-)
I've just been called by the producer for ABC702 morning show (presenter
is Linda Mottram) and asked to talk on radio sometime
) but I think I must be in
the system somewhere in the ABC tagged under Wikipedia :-)
All the best,
-Liam
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On 25 October 2013 10:24, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you everyone.
I'm on hold now - going live any second.
http://www.abc.net.au
Thanks Mark, Nick, Gideon,
In response to your points thus far, (and others - please send me any
responses you have too!)
The general gist, if I can put it this way, is the current cite code is
working, don't fix it until it's broken. Which is good to hear :-) This
answers my question no.1, but
Nicely spotted Mark. Thanks.
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On 7 August 2013 12:48, Mark Hurd markeh...@gmail.com wrote:
I just want to point out a slight variation on the cites provided by
these two URLs:
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5811404
As many of you know, the National Library and its Trove service include a
WP citation code in the cite this drop down in all search results (along
with permalink, and various standardised footnoting styles). At the
Library we are currently in the midst of a very broad tech and
database integration
Dear Aussie mailing lists,
I'm forwarding below the email from the Australian Law Reform Commission (
ALRC) - Copyright Review. The announcement today is that after several
months of reading the initial submissions, they are now releasing their
discussion paper on what ideas they're thinking of
I don't suppose anyone can point me to a community leader of Open Street
Map in Australia (ideally in Canberra)??
I'm looking to get some OSM events set up during the National Library's
major exhibition later this year about historic maps.
-Liam
--
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Hi All,
Some of you may have already received this email, but for those that havn't
...
The team behind Trove, the single search system for Australian library
content (which notably includes the digitised newspapers collection that
many of use use for WP footnotes) has just initiated a major
As someone who has been working with Whiteghost.ink in the GLAM space in
Sydney, with the SLNSW specifically, and in a wide variety of other
ways for many years, I am extremely happy and proud of this announcement!
In a way it is the payoff from having the first ever GLAM-Wiki conference
in
/digital_excellence/index.html Which
is great news for people like us :-)
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On 25 February 2013 08:08, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Australian lists, and Cultural partnerships list,
I've been invited to give a presentation to the staff of the State Library
It was recorded by the ABC, SLQ was just the venue. So, no free license
possible.
-Liam
On Friday, 15 February 2013, K. Peachey wrote:
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
Tony, I'm a bit confused here... From what I can see you're the one who
reply-all'd to Craig's initial email, and then in that last email you also
included multiple contact details. Can you clarify?
-Liam
On Tuesday, 11 December 2012, Tony Souter wrote:
I wasn't aware that my name and my
For those of us not on the committee (neither this year nor last year),
could you point us to the text of the grant request you're referring to?
I'm assuming it's public given that you've cc'd both the general Australia
list and the Chapter members' list.
-Liam
On 3 December 2012 15:12, Laura
, 2012, Liam Wyatt wrote:
For those of us not on the committee (neither this year nor last year),
could you point us to the text of the grant request you're referring to?
I'm assuming it's public given that you've cc'd both the general Australia
list and the Chapter members' list.
-Liam
This is certainly a reason for the status quo (I'm not saying it's a good
or bad reason, just that it is one that is true) but from recollection the
*primary* reason we locked editing when first creating the Chapter's Wiki
was as an incentive for membership of the Chapter. We quickly realised that
Just had a little flurry of DM tweets with him. He works for Sydney local
ABC radio (AM 702) and noticed how the biography of Cyclist Alexander
Vinokourov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vinokourov was updated
with the olympic victory before he'd even dismounted. They're thinking of
using
post today about the Royal Botanic Gardens image
collection sounds really promising! Please tell me if I and/or Creative
Commons Australia can be of assistance there.
Cheers,
-Liam
On Wednesday, 13 June 2012, Liam Wyatt wrote:
Hi All,
Just a bit of an update on some of the things that Creative
Hi All,
Just a bit of an update on some of the things that Creative Commons
Australia are up to that are related to Wikimedia...
1.
A couple of weeks ago I believe it was Russavia who was asking about the
Australian War Memorial (AWM) given commons was working out how to deal
with many deletions
issue of adding the content.
On Tue, 15 May 2012 03:02:59 +, Liam Wyatt wrote:
Hi all,
I've been informed by the National Museum of Australia that they're
really interested in helping to make sure that the important
Australian connection to the history of Wireless LAN [1] and IEEE
802.11 [2
Hi all,
I've been informed by the National Museum of Australia that they're really
interested in helping to make sure that the important Australian connection
to the history of Wireless LAN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_LANand IEEE
802.11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11 is
For the copyright geeks,
the AFACT v. iiNet high court appeal was just published - and was
unanimously dismissed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFACT_v_iiNet_Ltd
This is a HUGELY important precedent as it says iiNet did NOT authorise
copyright infringement by its users. You can read the judgement
Hi All,
As some of you may have seen on the WMF blog, yesterday I had the pleasure
to announce the first ever free-license release of content from the ABC - a
few dozen historically significant archival videos as part of their broader
80th birthday celebrations. Here's the announcement:
the article has developed over the course of the
day. We've got it up on screen right now - so... go! :-)
Sincerely,
Liam / Wittylama
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On 13 March 2012 13:01, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
user:whiteghost.ink and I are currently in Tambo - a very
heading back to
Charleville and then flying back to Brisbane tomorrow morning. There'll be
more photos of our own loaded to Commons over the weekend.
And now, back on the road!
-Liam/ Wittylama Whiteghost.ink
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On 15 March 2012 11:07, Liam Wyatt liamwy
Anyone interested in going to this (Sydney, Tuesday 10-12:30)?
This was sent to me (and presumably everyone else on their database) by the
Australian Digital Alliance - who are worried about the government making
kneejerk amendments to copyright law that will hider internet innovation,
as a result
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
Hi all,
Sorry for th late notice, but a Ben Smith, who is a French Wikipedian
[[User:benjism89]] is visiting Australia with two friends and wants to meet up
for dinner in Sydney on Wednesday. So... Open invitation to all wiki-folk who
are in/can get to Sydney!
He's staying near Sydney Uni,
Hi all,
crossposting to the Australia lists cultural partners list,
I'd just like to send a quick message to you all to tell you what I'm up
to, now that my GLAM Fellowship with the WMF is over. I would not
normally feel the need to interrupt everyone by detailing what my
employment is, but it
Dear all,
In case you were unaware, there's been a lot of debate recently about two
bills being proposed in the US that are called SOPA and PIPA and how these
will, if enacted, greatly harm the free internet as we know it. The en.WP
article about this bill, if you want background info, is here:
Are you sure it's for October? THat seems a bit of a short lead-time given
it's already the 21st! :-)
I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at the last one of these events (
http://open-edge.info/liam-wyatt ). If it's anything like that one in 2009
this is a nice small 1 day conf dedicated
Hi all,
as you may or may not know, a couple of years ago I was working with the
Dictionary of Sydney [DoS] - an digital history project to get recognised
experts to write about all aspects of Sydney's history/people/places etc.
Whilst I was there one of the things I was particularly involved
On 2 June 2011 02:02, Nick Jenkins nic...@gmail.com wrote:
Whilst it's not expected that this meeting will immediately result in
the ABC making their media archive PD, we do hope that this will be
the start of, as they said in Casablanca, a beautiful friendship...
Could try starting down
Dear Australian Wikimedians,
(I'll crosspost this to the Wikiproject Australia noticeboard)
Next week on Tuesday myself alongside Leigh Blackall (User:Leighblackall
from Uni of Canberra), Andrew Garrett (user:werdna dev from the WMF) Jutta
(User:Juttavd from Cancer Council Aust) and Jessica
to see you all there for some stimulating wiki discussions.
Don’t forget to forward the event details to your wiki contacts (eventbrite
let’s you choose your social media channels ;-) )
Kind regards,
Jutta von Dincklage, Chris Watkins and Liam Wyatt
[image: recent changes camp expanded.jpg
Thank you very very much for this Rose,
I'm forwarding it to the Australian mailing list from where the request
originated. Hopefully someone with more technical understanding than I have
will be able to work some wiki-magic with that information.
Sincerely,
Liam
(I'm sending this from an
I've put the relevant person at the NLA - Rose Holley (who was a speaker at
GLAM-WIKI :-) ) - in touch with Moondyne. Hopefully they can put something
together!
Best,
-Liam
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On 16 November 2010 01:55, Moondyne moondyne...@gmail.com wrote:
This proposal is potentially something that Museums Australia (the peak body
for museums -small and large) might be willing to help out with in some
fashion. They attended GLAMWIKI in Canberra and made it clear to me afterwards
that they saw the most benefit/interest in working with Wikimedia
Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we
can follow suit someday.
-Liam
Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com
Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST
To: wikimediauk-l wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject:
Dear all - especially Craig F,
Here at the Museums Australia conference at Melbourne University is David
Milne from the QLD Museum - the curator who put up some of their photos last
year in Commons. His presentation is up next after lunch. From the abstract in
the program it looks like it
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
On 15 August 2010 05:24, Pru Mitchell pru.mitch...@bigpond.com wrote:
BTW is there any progress report on the Bookshelf projects that were
discussed/funded(?) last year for education outreach activities
internationally?
There is a bit, yes.
Probably the best place for info is the homepage of
Just saw this on the Wikimedia UK list, which itself came from the comm-com
list.
The issue being: Does Australia want to do anything specific as part of the
potential Wikipedia's 10th Birthday celebrations in January. Furthermore -
does anyone want to put their hand up to run the show? :-)
-Liam
When you start quoting Sanger's recent spray against Wikipedia to back up
your argument then you know you've got larger problems
Seriously - whilst I think it's an important issue that Wikipedia needs to
be aware of how children could be affected by seeing adult material on
Wikipedia (and how
On 17 May 2010 00:23, Sarah Ewart sarahew...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
The committee is currently considering the issue of chapter selected seats
on the WMF board.
We have the opportunity to submit nominees for consideration by the
chapters. If you can think of someone you think might be an
The issue of whether there is new copyright created when a two-dimensional
PD work is scanned or photographed is one that is definitely one of the
biggest bones of contention between the Wikimedia community and the GLAM
sector, not just in Australia but worldwide. Even with the Bridgeman v
Corel
Dear Wikimedia Australia list,
Many of you may know this already, but some may not...
Today the judgement was handed down by Justice Cowdroy in the AFACT v iiNet
case. This is an extremely important case in Australian Internet law and
will potentially be used as a precedent internationally.
Yes, indeed this is a good question and an important issue.
On a personal basis I am completely opposed to the filter and I imagine most
Wikimedians in Australia are.
However, I would caution that the Chapter cannot be seen in word or deed to
be responsible for Wikipedia.
This was a problem faced
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:33:51 +1100
Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote:
I sent in a donation in lieu of joining and I don't really remember
why... but it was something to do with too much trouble to meet the
In fact, I don't even think that Sydney should be lumped in with Sydney when
talking about chapter activity in the last year :-) IIRC the only official
Chaper events that happened in real life last year were GLAM-WIKI
(Canberra), a Backstage Pass (Sydney), Linux-Australia conference booth
It seems there are a variety of arguments that have now been put forward
against opening up editing to non-members:
* It's a member benefit - I think we all agree that this is no longer held
as a valid claim. IIRC this was the SOLE reason why we didn't have open
editing to start with, but no
I too would like to see the chapter wiki being used more, especially for
planning IRL events.
Perhaps the issue is not so much that the Billabong isn't the right place
but that (as mentioned) it's not used by many people as yet - this is
largely a factor of the relatively low number of people who
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Sarah Ewart sarahew...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/11 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com
One disadvantage of this would be that one of the promoted benefits of
membership (being able to edit
Peter (Halasz), um... your last post is probably not helpful. I happen to
agree with you that it is a good idea to make the chapter Wiki more open to
editing. However, this is a discussion about the
validity/importance/appropriateness of doing so and making inflammatory
statements risks you
FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_account Shell Access (as far as I
can fathom it) means the keys to the back door of the house.
I for one would be very happy if Tim were able to do a bit of tinkering
under the bonnet of our website if he is willing to do so.
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you got any official support from the chapter for this bid?
As far as I'm aware, the chapter board has not said anything yet. My
hope is that making the first step of putting up a bid page will
generate some discussion
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Andrew orderinchao...@gmail.com wrote:
Just a note re the above:
The Chapter committee gave me permission/support to meet with and canvas
ideas with BES on an in-principle basis.
Subsequently to the first meeting, I sought committee approval to bring
David Milne has just written about this collaboration on the museum 3.0
ning here:
http://museum30.ning.com/profiles/blogs/glamwiki-trial-social-history
Lets try to find homes for these images within Wikipedia articles!
-Liam [[witty lama]]
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On Tue, Nov
...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Liam Wyatt
*Sent:* Thursday, 29 October 2009 6:47 PM
*To:* Wikimedia-au
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting Blog posts - provides an
insight into the challenges that GLAM institutions might have in dealing
Wow Craig,
this is great and the work you've been doing with the QM is really important
outreach and local interaction. It's one think for the Wikimedia community
to say give us your photos but you actually getting out there and building
a personal relationship with the institution is incredibly
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
You mean like the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project, which was the
subject of a very interesting presentation at GLAM-WIKI?
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
It's not strictly Wiki-like, but it shares
Um, is that 6am (australian) EST?
There are too many timezones and timezone acronyms floating around
What time is the next office hours in Australian timezones?
-Liam
On 8/11/09, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote:
The next Wikimedia Strategy office hours is tomorrow (email below).
The
Well, I'm not sure actually what that article means!
But, here's an even better link:
The first article in the press about GLAM-WIKI :-D
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/26683/1231/
It's not only long and positive, it's also factually correct!
-Liam [[witty lama]]
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at
may still apply after
this date, but it is possible that the *limited* amount set aside for these
bursaries would have already been fully allocated. Therefore, if you would
like to apply for this - apply early. Please do pass this information on to
others who may be interested.
Sincerely,
Liam
Dear All,
Mathias Schindler from the German chapter would like to know if there is
anyone interested in assisting a company who would like to improve their
article in WP but wants to do so whilst respecting our policies - especially
Conflict of Interest. The fellow who is their contact is in
Dear all,
I must send my apologies as I will not be attending this Wiki-Wednesday. I'm
currently at the Australian Historical Association conference at the
university of the Sunshine Coast:
http://www.usc.edu.au/University/MediaPublications/Events/EventsHidden/ConstructingThePast.htm
presenting
a
As you may recall, a bunch of Wikimedians visited the Powerhouse Museum in
Sydney a few months back for a Backstage Pass tour of their collection.
With that tour as a significant impetus, the museums instituted (mixed)
Creative Commons licensing on their entire collection
Yeah - I don't imaging we'll be holding anyone to a particular external
standard like FA or GA, but rather to intrinsic standards like most
improved or most new stubs or most challenging topic that kind of
thing. And yes, there is not a long lead time for this, but then again,
that's not the end
Dear Wikimedia-au list,
I got this email calling for anyone who'd like to attend a tour of the
Sydney Hospital - Australia's oldest. Specifically, the tour will be of the
Nightingale Wing which houses the country's oldest pathology museum with
human specimens from as far back as the First Fleet
From what I recall, the reason we didn't have open editing of the Wikimedia
Australia wiki is by way of providing something special to members. I am
personally not against the idea of opening up the editing to non-members but
AFAICR that was the issue - not a technical one.
-Liam
What you did get quoted as saying was good (as PrivateMusings said), and it
is a shame that what you just described was cut ou - especially the bit
about critical evaluation. It really is unfortunate that they can make a
news item about one parent who happens to stumble upon vandalism in an
Dear Wikimedia Australia list,
I just received this from the National Library of Australia newspaper
digisation project - they're moving out of Beta and into real project
mode. All very exciting...
What I find particularly cool about their interface is the way that they
have permanent links to
I'm definatley in for this! I live about 15 minutes drive from
Revesby. Do I need to call them to sign up or will you do that? Are
they expecting a formal presentation or a QA.
Please email me offlist with meetup details and/or contact info.
Best,
-Liam
On 11/03/2009, at 19:02, Confusing
you
tomorrow! (bah, have to wake up before 9)
2009/3/11 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:
Ladies and Gentlemen!
This is a final call for participants at the first “Backstage Pass
” tour to
be held by Wikimedia Australia in Sydney THIS FRIDAY @ 10am. Our
hosts for
the day are the Powerhouse
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