[Wikimediaau-l] Farrelly on Wikipedia in SMH

Great piece from Elizabeth Farrelly in *The Sydney Morning Herald *today. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-wikipedia-at-15-is-a-beautiful-exercise-in-scholarly-excellence-20151209-glj79f.html Whiteghost.ink ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

[Wikimediaau-l] Telling our stories

The Learning and Evaluation people have published this new resource on Meta that provides tips, resources and infographics about how to tell the story of any effort so that it comes across clearly and in an interesting way. It should be helpful for sharing anything and reporting what we are doing.

[Wikimediaau-l] Tribute Editathon

Hi Everyone, We now have a VIP attendee at the Tribute Editathonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/May_2014on Saturday 10 May. One of the people who played a lead role in the development of The Encyclopedia of Women

[Wikimediaau-l] Tribute editathon

Dear All, We have set up a time and place to participate in the global editathon tributehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wadewitz_Tribute_Edit-a-thonsto User:Wadewitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wadewitz, a generous, talented and prolific Wikipedia editor who died recently in an

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Tribute editathon

May 2014 16:06, G. White whiteghost@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, We have set up a time and place to participate in the global editathon tributehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wadewitz_Tribute_Edit-a-thonsto User:Wadewitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wadewitz, a generous

[Wikimediaau-l] FYI: Short report on the ADA Forum

Here is a readable short report from a QUT Law lecturer on the Australian Digital Alliance Forum: The only way to fix copyright is to make it fair. http://bit.ly/1nYTToP Whiteghost.ink ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal

It took a long time to get St James' Church, Sydneyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_Sydneyup to FA status, but now that it is done, I am pretty sure that a QR code would be acceptable and appropriate, given that: a) St James' is a heritage building of some significance in Sydney

[Wikimediaau-l] Backstage pass and editathon soon

Hi All, Last week I attended THATCamp Sydney http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/ held at the State Library of New South Wales. One of the Library managers presented a session about the library's current massive digitisation project and its relation to their forthcoming exhibitions about World War I.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

I heard that comment on radio and immediately added a balancing ref to a scientific opinionhttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#label/The+Conversation/141dca106db92c85n that was published in *The Conversation* (an online journal of expert views in easy-to-understand language, or as they put

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

This is great work Gnangarra and the WA team! The metrics and evaluation issue is topical at the moment. I have just been sent a survey from the Program Evaluation Design Team (PED) at WMF. They also provided this prep spreadsheet

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

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] Funding Query

Hi Adam, I went to the initial meeting/workshop/training session of the new Program Evaluation and Design (PED) Team that is now working closely with the Grants Team. In line with what Sue has recently said about measurable impact for money spent, the team is developing and disseminating tools

[Wikimediaau-l] Great opportunity - backstage pass and editathon

Dear All, I have just returned from a meeting at the State Library of New South Waleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_New_South_Walesat which it was confirmed that our proposed WWI editathon will take place on site on 23 November. This is a great opportunity for us because the

[Wikimediaau-l] This Month in GLAM

The June issue of This Month in GLAMhttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletterhas been published. Australia's reporthttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2013/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_reportis included among those from the rest of the world. Regards,

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Residency results

Forwarding report to Wm-Au members on my Residency at the State Library of New South Wales. Whiteghost.ink -- Forwarded message -- My short Residency at the State Library of New South Wales is now finished. I believe it has been a successful collaboration, which has produced a

[Wikimediaau-l] AMAZE editathon and backstage tour at the State Library of New South Wales

Hello Everyone, This is notice of an editathon at the State Library of New South Wales which is offering breakfast, a curator-led tour of their AMAZE Gallery,http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/amaze.htmland a venue space to work on articles related to the Crossing of the Blue Mountains

[Wikimediaau-l] [[Aboriginal sacred site]]

Hello Everyone, Aboriginal sacred site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_sacred_siteis one of Today's articles for improvementhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement. It is being showcased and linked from the Main Page for a week (13-19 May), so now is a

[Wikimediaau-l] This Month in GLAM

Hi All, The April issue of This Month in GLAMhttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2013/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_reporthas been published containing a report from Australia. Regards, Whiteghost.ink ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing

[Wikimediaau-l] This Month in GLAM

Hi All, The March edition of *This Month in GLAM*http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletterhas been published. It contains the first report about the Wikipedian-in-Residency at the State library of New South Wales. Whiteghost.ink ___

[Wikimediaau-l] Australian Wikipedian in Residence

Dear Australian Wikimedian and Cultural Partnerships teams, I'm extremely pleased to announce that this week I started as Wikipedian-in-Residence at the State Library of New South Wales (SLNSWhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales), which is our oldest library and has a

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Committee changes at Wikimedia Australia

I am really happy that we are talking about using the skills available to us in the best way; that we are co-operating with one another; and that we are acknowledging people's good will and commitment. We need a lot of different skills and everyone is busy but it seems that now, not only are we

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A couple of proposals on the WMAU wiki

Hi All, Having finally found the proposal page, I have just posted an evaluation of the Winter Sports Proposalhttp://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Proposal_talk:Paralympic_Winter_Sports#Evaluating_the_proposalthat I hope it is helpful to the committee and the members. Whiteghost.ink On 9 December

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WWI edit-a-thons

Having participated remotely in this year's WWI editathon http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathonrun in June by WM-UK, I intend to participate in the next one. However, I would really like Wm-Au to be more widely involved, preferably with edit-a-thon(s) at the same time.