Re: [Wikimediaau-l] (no subject)
The reference to Julian Assange suggests that the poster is looking for Wikileaks - which is in no way associated with either Wikimedia Australia or the Wikimedia Foundation. I presume the best way to submit documents to Wikileaks is to go to Wikileaks (.org, in fact) and click on the great big link marked Submit documents. CM On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: 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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Should we petition the pollies on copyright law?
Since the Ideascale site is now closed, I'll post my latest big idea here: One of the biggest gripes that Wikimedians and other open content fans have had in recent years is the issue of claiming copyright over retouched and/or digitised versions of public domain content. Since we would probably not want to determine the copyright status of such items via an NPG-style lawsuit, should we be engaging with politicians to develop clearer copyright laws? Obviously this would require further conversation with the GLAM sector, who would generally be on the side of having such things be copyrightable, but at least if the copyright status of digitised replicas of PD works was legislatively determined then we would all know where we stood with the law rather than the iffy case of We claim it's PD but if it came to court the judge could swing the other way we have now. CM ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] ABS CC survey
Apparently, it's been 1 year since the Australian Bureau of Statistics applied the Creative Commons license to all of its online content, and now they'd like to find out who's been making use of it. There's a survey on their website, so if anyone here has, for example, incorporated ABS data into a WP article or something under the CC license, it's worth giving it a look. Someone might want to pass this on to the CC-AU people, too. http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/4a256353001af3ed4b2562bb00121564/8b2bdbc1d45a10b1ca25751d000d9b03?opendocument?utm_id=HPI http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/creative%20commons%20survey Cheers, CM ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Friday March 20 Canberra brunch
As for a venue, I've heard good things about Milk and Honey (http://www.milkandhoney.net/milkandhoney/). I do apologise for being the one responsible for such an unsightly meeting time, but I'm actually going to Sydney that afternoon. I'm also excited to hear about contacts with these other organisations - a great leap forward for WMAu. Also, on the convention front, after this little shindig I will email the Canberra Convention Bureau who have said that they will start scouting venues for us, since I will not be able to meet with them directly for the two weeks I am out of state. CM SUL: [[User:ConMan]], not [[User:Confusing manifestations]] :P On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 0:02, Brianna Laugher brianna.laug...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On March 20th Liam and I will both be in Canberra, meeting with lots of interesting folk from interesting orgs (thanks to Liam's interesting rolodex). One of our meetings will be a brunch around 9am. We would really like to meet up with local editors who are interested in helping make a wiki conf in Canberra around November happen. (See http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/AusWikiConf_2009 for some background) If you are not too interested in that but still want to meet up, that's cool too. :) Please email me offlist so we can swap contact info and such for when a venue is set. thanks! Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ Personally, I wouldn't call a 9am meeting bruch so much as breakfast :-) but that's the way it has worked out - this is the only available time when we are all in the same place. It would be really good to meet Canberrans whether they are interested in helping our with a wiki conf and/or members of the chapter or neither. We will be meeting in a cafe (as yet to be determined by [[user:confusing manifestations]] ) in the City district at 9am on Friday week. Please come along if you can! For those who are interested to know, over the course of that Thursday and Friday we have arranged meetings with directors from: the National Gallery; the Australian War Memorial; the National Library (twice) and the Australian institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Other insitiutions will be joining us such as the Australian Digital Alliance. The purpose of these meeting quite loose. Simply put, these institutions have had ad hoc dealings with wiki•edians, from a variety of people, across a range of issues, for several years. We are going to fly the flag and answer their questions and see where discussion takes us. From their point if view, just being able to put a face to this vast thing called wiki will be important. If you have specific questions that would like us to pose to these institutions please contact either Brianna, myself or the Wikipedia Australia committee. All the best, -Liam [[witty lama]] ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Innovative Ideas forum - National Library
Not 100% sure yet. I'm flying up from Sydney on Tuesday 24th, I think I'm booked in for lunch on the 25th, my cousin's getting married on the 28th (the reason for the trip, obviously) and I'm not 100% sure when I fly out. And, since it's a wedding, there will probably be other family-related things going on. However, I will keep you posted. CM 2009/2/18 Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com: You'll be in Perth that sounds like a good excuse for organising a meetup, do you have any time available? 2009/2/17 Confusing Manifestation confusingmanifestat...@gmail.com Oh great ... Seeing as I'll be in Perth that weekend, anyone else like to go? CM 2009/2/17 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: For anyone who will be in Canberra on the last weekend of March, the National Library of Australia will be hosting their Innovative Ideas Forum on the topic of the Value of Social Networking for Cultural Institutions on Friday the 28th. There will be several speakers of renown and some really cool projects discussed (such as the Australian Newspaper digitisation project). However, this is already fully booked. You can add your name to the waiting list if you want. They do not advertise this widely and it is by word of mouth that people find out about it. I don't know how many from the waiting list will get a spot, but you can always give it a go. http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/meetings/innovative-ideas-forum/2009/ All the best, -Liam [[user:witty lama]] ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 2008-11-09 ctte meeting minutes
This is what I was trying to get at. Hence why I said that the organisations who we'd work with wouldn't necessarily be donors (and probably often wouldn't, since then there wouldn't *be* any mixing of money and editing). And let's put it this way - would you rather us having a section on an article's talk page that says These people gave WMAu members this information, and these sources, which we've used to fix up this part of the article, or read another article in the newspapers that says A leak from such-and-such says that this organisation was paying RANDOM PERSON to clear out the bad press in their Wikipedia article? Of course I recognise that any organisation is going to want to turn their article into free advertising, but the trick will be to make sure that they are made aware, right at the beginning, that they will have zero control over the final content of the article, but hopefully a few of them will be smart enough to realise that there can still be a net benefit for them even if half of the article is critical of them. CM 2008/11/13 Liam Wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow - that's one damn long sentence! :-) I agree entirely - this is what I was getting at with the idea of the backstage tour. An organisation shows members of WM-Au around some part of its facilities that are not normally accessible and we then donate some time to improving their article (and teaching them how to improve articles on the topic that that organisation knows about). This would be a really tangible benefit of WM-Au membership. To respond to Andrew Garrett's concern Money and articles don't mix - this does not mean give us money and we will improve your article. Rather, those organisations that are interested in working with us (whether they are donors *or not*) can share their expertise and we share our expertise back - a win win. It is just more than likely that the organisation that wants to be a member is the same kind of organisation that wants to give us a backstage tour. Under no circumstances would it be a situation where they pay to have access to our editing abilities/time. -Liam ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
