This is a great idea, I reckon - and I've got a few other ideas that might
be interesting around this! (more anon) - it's interesting (to me anyways)
to note though that recommending a 'schools wikipedia' does kind of imply
that the actual wikipedia might not be a good fit for schools - doesn't
hi all,
If you get a moment, check this page out;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Powerhouse_Museum
It's a sort of holding page on our wiki for centralising the information
about how our relationship to the PHM folk may develop - right now I've been
trying to start a bit of a report for them to
not really au specific (apart from that handsome devil
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I've created http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Contacting_external_folk as a
place to centralise some information, and chat about good processes for how
non-committee members (and indeed anyone really) may be able to make contact
with external agencies for various reasons - take a look if you
Hi all,
one more quick one - I won a wiki bet recently, and now a fellow editor has
to cough up 20 bucks to WMAU - I'm sure the committee has accepting web
based donations as a priority, but I thought I'd flag that there's at least
a $20 incentive to get that up and running as soon as poss :-)
Hi all,
being a 'starter of many things' (and the jury's out on whether or not I
finish any of them!) - I've created this page;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools%27_Wikipedia_Australia
I'm aware of quite a few discussions in this area, and believe it's a great
direction for the chapter to
before 1949 should be OK to import though.
2009/1/20 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com
ah - cool! thanks heaps guys - I guess the Permission Error is just a bit
wrong - it should say the action is limited to sysops!
I'll certainly take you up on the offer, James, although probably need
mornin' all
it's great to see people talking about this - and I particularly agree with
Andrew that there's a good chance we could do something great here :-)
So far, I've been more interested in giving people 'bite size' wikipedia's
to play with / learn from from the angle of learning about
an interesting one;
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/here-comes-britannica-20/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html
talking about some new developments in Brittanica's approach it's a
shame we (the chapter) didn't get a mention, or a quote or something - but
never mind :-)
the story is
I've added the art gallery of nsw to the wiki page linked upthread, because
it seems they're getting involved in the 'Wiki loves art' project which I've
signed up to. This is getting quite exciting, being a truly international
project now, and any Sydneysiders on this list who'd like more
wrote:
2009/1/21 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com:
mornin' all
it's great to see people talking about this - and I particularly agree
with
Andrew that there's a good chance we could do something great here :-)
So far, I've been more interested in giving people 'bite size
by which I mean I think one would be good! - or 'let's try and keep some
momentum on that' :-)
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Backstage_pass
I reckon it's probably time to start rattling a few cages here and there - I
certainly have a couple of folk in mind to see if they might want to attend
-
G'day all,
I just thought I'd ask the committee (and anyone else) if they've heard
anything about possible attendance at an 'all chapters' meeting in Berlin in
April... in particular if fund-raising is being considered, or maybe just to
check that we're 'on the radar' down here :-)
cheers.
,
Peter,
PM.
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2009/2/11 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com
G'day all,
I just thought I'd ask the committee (and anyone else) if they've heard
anything about possible attendance at an 'all chapters' meeting in Berlin
in April... in particular
, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com
wrote:
G'day all,
I've just been browsing a bit around our website (
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia ) - and wondered if
perhaps
we might be able to generally aim a little higher / improve it a bit.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
see
http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/parents-warned-of-wikiporn-risk/2009/05/23/1242498976065.html
Unfortunately it's not a good news one, dealing with 'Wikiporn risk' - but I
think a 'well done' to brianna for sounding wise and sensible in a difficult
situation is due :-)
The worry is
Hi all,
Having been fairly active on the aussie wiki for the last little while - a
thought occurred to me... Have we tried allowing open access to editing?
The whole idea of allowing IP editing is sort of counter-intuitive in many
ways - but perhaps it might help engage folk passing through? -
, highest
accessibility), the wikis with open editing seem to accumulate some
spam/automated gibberish/general crap though (not a raging torrent, but
enough to be annoying).
Just my 2 cents.
-- All the best,
Nick.
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found myself nodding furiously at Pengo's first post :-)
@nickj - it sound to me that you have the appropriate technical know how to
implement the 'open editing once you've confirmed your email' approach which
this thread seems to be moving towards - would you be prepared to make the
appropriate
the editing to
non-members but AFAICR that was the issue - not a technical one.
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love metadata
Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM, private musings
thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
found myself nodding furiously at Pengo's first post
G'day all,
I thought I'd just remind one and all that next week it's meetup time
again for Sydneysiders :-)
See http://www.customware.net/repository/display/WikiWednesday for
more details, and if you're anywhere near the Sydney area, do try and
come along - I've heard the presentations are
This is rather important + serious stuff which relates to the 'GLAM' sector
- hopefully we'll be leading the way in ensuring good communication may help
resolve problems like this;
(basically a Commons user has received a legal letter relating to uploads of
photographs of gallery items)
/07/2009, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
This is rather important + serious stuff which relates to the 'GLAM'
sector
- hopefully we'll be leading the way in ensuring good communication may
help
resolve problems like this;
(basically a Commons user has received a legal letter
just a quick second on the offer to help - I think it's really quite
important that we as a chapter are able to join the fundraising process -
p'raps it's all underway, and we're all signed up but the list isn't up to
date. If so, hopefully someone in the know can update, and if not, it'd be
great
be great if they could make
themselves known :)
Sorry for the radio silence of late... I have some communiques I am
due to put together and send to this list ASAP... so hopefully
sometime over the Cup weekend.
cheers
Brianna
2009/10/30 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com:
just
Hi all,
Just popped in to http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/2009-2010_AGM#Nominations to
see how we're going, and noticed that the cupboard is bare with nominations!
- it's just over a fortnight to go before we appoint all the roles - it'd be
great to see any candidate statements etc. - if nom.s have
G'day all,
The AGM came and went yesterday in pretty much record time! I must thank
Liam for opening up his place for a very-mini-Sydney meetup, and it was, as
ever, great to hear all the voices from around the country on the conference
call - personally I find that bit quite inspiring, so it's
G'day all :-)
I mentioned in a previous post (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-November/056092.html)
that I was personally interested in getting some external advice from
Volunteering Australia (
http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s01_home/home.asp ) about good
re : 'I though that Wikimedia is built on a philopsy of anyone can edit,
surely promoting that philopsy is the aim of the chapter. Wouldnt it be wise
for Wikimedia-Australia to hold that as corner stone of its purpose. Does
anyone think that the goals and ideals which we hold dear should not be
Having open editing for accounts only sounds great to me :-)
If this idea could gain consensus, and get done by christmas I think that
would be wonderful :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote:
I think that presenting editing access to
I've been chipping away a bit on the wiki, and thought I should probably
report this error which now appears at the top of the page;
bWarning/b: file_get_contents(
well... being a technical genius 'n all - I identified the problem as due to
the wiki source logo - and I changed Image: to File: - something tells me
that this is nothing to do with why the problem went away.. but it has.
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:58 PM, private musings
'...As it is, three already busy committee members are the main
editors.'
cough cough !! ;-) (ps. I think Andrew's post sort of has cause and
effect a bit bassackwards ;-)
I see it this way - if engaging and growing membership is a priority then
lowering the bar for engagement is a good
Hi Adam :-)
I reckon this list is a pretty good starting point - and although it may
seem like everyone is most interested in access rights to the wiki, I think
that's probably also just a temporary thing - as you've probably seen,
mailing lists can get all focussed on odd things for a while -
...I guess this topic is bound to come up - so no harm in a thread or two, I
reckon
No doubt press commentary is worth a look ( see
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/net-censorship-move-a-smokescreen-expert-20091216-kw7d.html)
for example.
Dealing, as this proposal does, with
be useful to look at whether or not WMF projects qualify / are
appropriate for such an exemption - I would think traffic may warrant it?
(whether our content does or not, is a different matter!)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
...I guess
pps. because, in my view, wiki's are better for brainstorming and consensus
building than mailing lists... see
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/ISP_Filtering too :-)
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
ps. This section from the 'FAQ' is probably relavent
having recently written a larger-than-i'd-like cheque to the evil taxman,
this made me smile :-)
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/tax-man-caught-cribbing-from-wikipedia-20091218-l1za.html
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
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see http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Billabong#chapter_governance
I saw a post on the UK mailing list (
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediauk-l/2009-December/005004.html),
and I sort of felt that it raised some questions in relation to how we
do
things down here - I also recently
would you be up for posting the agenda ahead of time on the wiki - maybe
it'd be interesting to get comments on some of the issues? I'm genuinely
curious (with a smile!) as to what they may be :-)
ps. (for brianna really, I guess) - I don't know if there's anything you can
do about it, but I
ah, but fear ye not! - You can reassign votes at any time (I figured out how
to, so it must be easy ;-) - I think it's probably a good idea to 'vote
early, vote often' - particularly because it might help keep momentum in
other folk using the system?
either ways - be sure to vote big points for an
G'day all,
If you're interested in working with schools, or helping WMAU bring material
together - or if you're active in this area already, and could share what
you're up to, why not head to the 'offical wiki' and sign up / share / get
involved :-)
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools
I've had a
it brief as I am not speaking for the committee,
only as an individual member of it.
cheers
Andrew
On 2 February 2010 08:29, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
G'day all,
If you're interested in working with schools, or helping WMAU bring
material together - or if you're active
G'day all,
I wonder if I could pester a committee member with a spare moment to fill in
the redlink here;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetings
about the Jan. meetup :-)
I was able to pester Liam briefly on gchat, who indicated that it had been a
really good meetup, with a rather large amount of
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:47 AM, private musings
thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
G'day all,
I wonder if I could pester a committee member with a spare moment to fill
in the redlink here;
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetings
about the Jan. meetup :-)
That meetings page is for my
communication from the appropriate officer to the membership. If it's not
already linked, there is probably a good reason.
cheers
Andrew
On 11 February 2010 07:43, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
coolio :-) - I'm sure we'll figure out the best spot for the notes /
minutes etc. - I
ps. - it'd also be cool to make sure we drop updates in semi-regularly here;
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters%E2%80%99_Activity_Calendar
:-)
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
G'day all,
it's been over three weeks since the committee
malformed URL? - here's the proper one;
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters’_Activity_Calendar
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:09 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote:
ps. - it'd also be cool to make sure we drop updates in semi-regularly
here;
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki
G'day all,
If you're in Sydney, and have half a mind to come along to a meetup - please
do! Details are here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#March_10th_2010.2C_6pm_-_City_venue
There's plenty to talk about, and it's about time we had another chance to
chew the wiki cud - if
Hi all,
I see that the small grants application process is via email, and that each
application will be considered by the committee - could I take this
opportunity to encourage anyone interested in applying for a grant, or
setting up any sort of programme or activity, to consider also posting a
whilst we're on the wikimania subject - can we get a quick show of hands for
who's going?
/me can't take the time off to head to europe again unfortunately.
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jessica Coates j2.coa...@qut.edu.auwrote:
I'm sure most of the Wiki people out
G'day all,
does the chapter have any grants proposals heading in this year?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index
Do we have any structure for creating / supporting a chapter grant like
this?
I have a few ideas and opportunities - for wiki use in education, hopefully
in partnership with
Thanks heaps for all your hard work over the years, Brianna :-) - I get the
occassional glimpse of your influence all over the place, and I think it's
fair to say that you've worked incredibly hard both behind the scenes, and
as the founding president of WMAU - it's a great shame to lose you as
G'day all,
per the below, and here;
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Australia#web_page_speed_times
I thought I'd just try a gentle 'ping' to the mailing list to see if these
sorts of loading times are normal, or as I suspect, a bit below par - thanks
to all for the various
G'day all,
I wonder if we might find a good spot to have a discussion, as a chapter,
about some of the issues relating to the explicit content hosted on
Wikimedia Foundation projects (notably commons) and how it impacts education
outreach in general. Maybe some principles are easier to distill on
conversation rather than trying to make this an Australian-specific
issue?
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love metadata
On 17 June 2010 03:47, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
G'day all,
I wonder if we might find a good spot to have a discussion, as a chapter,
about some
G'day all,
I'm curious as to which brave Chapter folk have made the trip up North and
will be attending Wikimania? - It'd be cool to have a bit of an australian
perspective update somewhere on the official wiki - I'm only really aware
that Liam will be there - any others?
Also - I had a (very)
Hi all,
Could I request an update from anyone involved in the following :-)
* Fundraising this year - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 -
I strongly support WMAU involvement in the fundraiser this year - but am
unsure as to who may be involved in what might be quite an effort to
?
* An Open Wiki - please please please open up the WMAU wiki to allow
registrations and editing by non members - I'll happily make the case for
this, but please just do it!
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:15 AM, private
Hi all,
Following my request for a mini-update, I'm happy to be able to offer one
myself, having just noticed the recent changes on the official wiki :-) (
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:RecentChanges in case you didn't
know)
Our most excellent treasurer has posted a financial report
Hi all,
I tried to get in touch with you a while ago, but it occurs to me that
perhaps my attempted forward of the below didn't really work, because
I forwarded a reply, not an actual message - if my post seemed
confusing, please accept my apologies.
I'm growing increasingly concerned with the
G'day all,
I thought this was of interest to AU wiki types, so hope Laura is ok
with me forwarding it :-)
It'd be great to get a WMAU contingent down / up / across there.
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com
Date: Thu, Nov 11,
to edit our
wiki; we are listening.
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
I've written a proposal on the official wiki to allow registration,
and hence editing, by non-members. It's here;
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki
16, 2010 at 10:05 PM, private musings
thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
oops,
my apologies for not having followed the process I'll do my best
to read up on how to follow it properly, and then give it another go.
The page basically just suggested that WMAU should allow registration
Hi all,
By way of a mini fundraising update, per
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics - it would
seem likely that by now (these stat.s go to the 25th only) we've over
the $200K mark, which means an incredibly healthy $100K+ balance for
WMAU - at this rate we could well be
Hi all,
I was just wondering if anything happened on this front? - It'd be
great to somehow open some aspects of WMAU up - ideally as soon as
possible! - are the committee discussing things further? (if so,
please just consider doing something - or at least discussing openly
:-) - pretty much any
for
the next meeting, at least for discussion, and I'll report back. :)
Adam.
On 3 December 2010 09:53, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was just wondering if anything happened on this front? - It'd be
great to somehow open some aspects of WMAU up - ideally as soon
Hi all,
I am interested in working on a proposal for WMAU to sponsor the
creation of a 'PersonalWiki' or 'GroupWiki' tool, which I think could
have some interesting and useful applications.
The basic idea is for the tool to be a simple and straightforward way
of creating 'fenced wiki
Thanks Laura,
I gather I now need to get the nod of a committee member in order to
start building the information on the official wiki - I've copied
Craig (our treasurer) in on this, because we've had a mini
correspondence about this proposal, and hopefully he'll be able to
give the nod, and we
: private musings [mailto:thepmacco...@gmail.com]
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To: Wikimedia-au
Cc: cfrank...@halonetwork.net
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal
Thanks Laura,
I gather I now need to get the nod of a committee member in order to start
building the information
Hi all,
Following some discussion on the members' list, and other chats I've
had with people recently, I thought I'd signal my intent to try and
work on a couple of proposal ideas. For those following current
proposals carefully, I have one 'on the table' concerning 'Personal
Wiki Tools' - I'm
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