Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Sad news

The annual Wikimedia Conference in Berlin has just concluded, with representatives from all the affiliates across the movement - from Australia: Pru, Bidgee (and myself) were there. Thoughtfully, the organisers arranged for a quiet corner with a portrait from his previous attendance at the conferen

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Referencing NLA Trove in WP citations

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 get

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fair Use Campaign: Technical Update

t; works that have 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 Sa

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fair Use Campaign: Technical Update

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 As

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fair Use Campaign: Technical Update

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): http://www.smh.com.

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fair Use Campaign: Technical Update

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 ah

[Wikimediaau-l] DAAO in Mix'n'Match

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&catalog=115 Like it says on the tin, this is a database of Austral

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012

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 wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 30 June 2015 at 13:11, L

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] FindArticles.com died in 2012

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 http

[Wikimediaau-l] ADB in Mix-n-Match

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'

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

> > *From:* wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > 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] [W

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

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Warringah Wikipedians

Following up on this thread... A former curator of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is now the head of the local studies library and Museum at Parramatta city council. He was one of the curators present at world's first (?) wikimedian "backstage pass" tour and editathon of museum, in 2009 http://ww

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

pen? > On 07/11/2014 8:30 AM, "Juergen Fenn" > wrote: > >> 2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt > >: >> > You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national >> license >> > has been proposed before (and especially supported b

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

o that everyone can have access, and > the universities can save money? > On 06/11/2014 7:37 PM, "Liam Wyatt" > wrote: > >> Hanks for posting that nick - I was just about to write an email to say >> the same thing :-) >> Getting a National Library of Australia

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

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 acce

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO ScienceImage library now cc-by

s anything >> easier, I suppose I can start putting together a scraping script (but this >> may take me months at the rate I accumulate spare time). >> Toby >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Liam Wyatt > > wrote: >> >>> Thanks Pete

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO ScienceImage library now cc-by

e months at the rate I accumulate spare time). > Toby > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >> Thanks Peter, that would be great if you would use your inside-contacts. >> Much quicker and also probably more effective than a cold-call! >> Ideal

[Wikimediaau-l] Farewell and buongiorno!

Dear Australian and GLAM Wikimedians, It is with excitement and slight nervousness that I write to say that tomorrow my wife and I are moving to Bologna, Italy. She received a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Research Institute there. I resigned from the National Library of Australia las

[Wikimediaau-l] Ask a Librarian links from Wikiproject Australia articles

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 tal

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO ScienceImage library now cc-by

enceimage.csiro.au/pages/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 wrote: > > Hello Australian and GLAMtools lists, > >

[Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO ScienceImage library now cc-by

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 o

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Reliability of WP

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 pointe

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Jetstar relicences photos under CC-BY-SA

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Are the Wikimedia projects social media

user talk page. > > > > I'd hesitate to call Wikipedia "social media". > > > > Kerry > > > > > -- > > *From:* wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: > wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org

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 Wikimedia seen to be as, if not more, important than other social media platforms but also wary of tying Wikimedia too closely to the term social media because it has a connotation of being

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] opportunity

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 o

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] each state?

eer assistance if necessary? > > kindest regards > Andrew > > > On 3 December 2013 09:16, Liam Wyatt 'cvml', 'liamwy...@gmail.com');> > > wrote: > >> Sats, I'm not sure why you're so cynical about this, but there indeed >> were people

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP training at NLA last week

eportwhich > is due out in 3 days > > Cheers > Gideon > > > On 2 December 2013 12:20, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >> On Friday, user:Aliaretiree and user:Rubicon49bce (Mylee and Katherine >> from the State Library of NSW) and myself did a full-day training >> wo

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] each state?

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 publicat

[Wikimediaau-l] WP training at NLA last week

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 digiti

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] AGM results

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Interesting story in today's press

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 ve

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

m not actually listed on any "contact us" pages (e.g. here https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room ) but I think I must be in "the system" somewhere in the ABC tagged under "Wikipedia" :-) All the best, -Liam wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 25

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

tatement) focus attention onto those parts of WP, which >>>> results in them being updated and improved. In that regard some recent >>>> edits have added information about the relationship between climate change >>>> and bush fires including citations. WP's

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

mmission, Bushfire CRC, > CSIRO, and an article at The Guardian. > - minor copyediting > > > Regards, > > Charles > > > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Liam Wyatt > > > wrote: > >> Good morning :-) >> >> I've just been c

[Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

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 media.

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

free, offsite access too. -Liam -- Forwarded message -- From: Liam Wyatt Date: 24 September 2013 13:06 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: Jake Orlowitz , English Wikipedia < wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org> With rega

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

Nicely spotted Mark. Thanks. wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 7 August 2013 12:48, Mark Hurd 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 > > http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/163116758?versionI

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

On 7 August 2013 10:56, Gnangarra wrote: > as to where the citation needs to available its any where from which > editors draw information from Trove, including, newspapers, magazines, > audio(http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/163116758) > > On 7 August 2013 18:33, Liam Wyatt wrote: &

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

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

[Wikimediaau-l] WP citations in NLA/Trove

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 integratio

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Copyright e-news | Discussion Paper released!

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 ref

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] OSM in Australia

use? > > Regards, > > Charles > > > > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >> I don't suppose anyone can point me to a community leader of Open Street >> Map in Australia (ideally in Canberra)?? >> I'm looking

[Wikimediaau-l] OSM in Australia

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 -- wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata __

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [trove-announce] Trove Evaluation Survey - Your chance to help us improve Trove!

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 use

[Wikimediaau-l] Australian Wikipedian in Residence

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 Canberr

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] State Library NSW website advice

/digital_excellence/index.html Which is great news for people like us :-) wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 25 February 2013 08:08, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Dear Australian lists, and Cultural partnerships list, > > I've been invited to give a presentation to the staff of the State Lib

[Wikimediaau-l] State Library NSW website advice

Dear Australian lists, and Cultural partnerships list, I've been invited to give a presentation to the staff of the State Library of NSW next month, as part of a series of presentations to the (relatively) senior staff by different "key audience groups" about how that group uses the library servic

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

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 app

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Lets talk about the 2013 Annual Plan...

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 privat

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] The lawyer for John's COI

I say again: What is the grant request FOR? So far I've worked out it's a travel grant related to Winter Paralympic sports. It now appears you're saying it was a request for $12,000. Am I to assume that this means you're looking for 12 grand of travel and accomodation expenses, or are there more

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Outstanding grant request

inkage grant, there >>> are no commercial aspects to it and it goes directly to supporting the >>> Foundation's mission. We are supporting on and building on the fantastic >>> work that was done in London. >>> >>> On Monday, December 3, 2012, Liam Wyat

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fellowships

WMF fellowships have been designed so that the proposer suggests their preferred topic, not the other way around. Latterly the WMF reduced the range of possible Fellowships to things that would be more tightly aligned with their 'editor retention' goal, but it was still a matter of "come to us with

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Outstanding grant request

work that was done in London. > > > On Monday, December 3, 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'

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Outstanding grant request

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 Ha

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia

This was just published on the Dictionary of Sydney blog: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/dictionary-of-sydney-wins-continued-support-from-city-of-sydney/ In a unanimous decision of council, the Dictionary funding for the next year was released last night! :-) I made sure the Dictionary staff w

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Request for media contact - Sydney Wikipedian

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 t

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Request for media contact - Sydney Wikipedian

I've tweeted back at him. Love his tweet :-) "Anybody know a talkative Wikipedian from the Sydney area? If you do, may I cordially request you tweet me their handle?" -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 30 July 2012 10:05, Charles Gregory wrote: > Sorry - didn't realised this b

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Creative Commons Australia update

so, Cas Liber - your 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 upda

[Wikimediaau-l] Creative Commons Australia update

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO and Wireless LAN

a simple 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 >> Australi

[Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO and Wireless LAN

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 and IEEE 802.11 is co

[Wikimediaau-l] AFACT v iiNet high court appeal delivered - iiNet WINS

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

[Wikimediaau-l] Release of archival video from the ABC

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: http://blog

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Tambo wikipedia training

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 wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 15 March 2012 11:07, Liam

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Tambo wikipedia training

of the article about Quilpie? We'd love to surprise the group by showing them how the article has developed over the course of the day. We've got it up on screen right now - so... go! :-) Sincerely, Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 13 March 2012 13:01,

[Wikimediaau-l] Tambo wikipedia training

Hi all, user:whiteghost.ink and I are currently in Tambo - a very small town in Central QLD - giving some Wikip/media training to the local heritage group, librarians, and other interested folks from the district. This is part of Wikimedia Australia and the State Library of Queensland's partnership

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Stakeholder meeting to coordinate response re proposed football codes' amendment to Copyright Act

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australians in the Elsevier boycott

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

[Wikimediaau-l] Sydney wiki dinner on Wednesday?

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, so:

[Wikimediaau-l] New roles - Creative Commons & National Museum

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

[Wikimediaau-l] English Wikipedia blackout in protest of SOPA

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: htt

[Wikimediaau-l] GLAM on TV

Sorry to "toot my own horn" but I just found out that an interview I did ages ago at the National Library has now been shown today on ABC News24! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-20/the-culture-quarter/3581768 all about GLAM-wiki work :-) I'm very happy with how they put it together - looks great

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

August 2009 03:24, Brianna Laugher > wrote: >^^ > > On 2011-Oct-21 06:51:29 +, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >Are you sure it's for October? THat seems a bit of a short lead-time given > >it's already the 21st! :-) > > Have a closer look at the

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

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia at This Is Not Art

Just to bump this one up again :-) I'm going to be there too - looks like we've got four folks attending. Any more takers? -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 2 September 2011 04:17, John Vandenberg wrote: > This year Wikimedia will be at TINA, Newcastle, on October 3, the long

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: The Digital Culture Public Sphere

Hi all, forwarding an email from Pia Waugh who is the ICT advisor to Senator Kate Lundy about a forthcoming consultation into Australian digital culture. I will be attending the event in Sydney on October 6 and encourage others to attend either in-person or via the live stream on the day, or via th

[Wikimediaau-l] Dictionary of Sydney has new free-licensed content

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 wi

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Meeting with the ABC next week

Dear all, I'm just writing as a bit of a followup on our meeting with the ABC last week (copying in the other participants who may wish to elaborate or answer any questions). The day was in two parts - boardroom meeting and staff presentation. The meeting was packed with about 20 people from mid-

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Meeting with the ABC next week

On 2 June 2011 02:02, Nick Jenkins 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 this pa

[Wikimediaau-l] Meeting with the ABC next week

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 Coates

[Wikimediaau-l] Sydney RecentChangesCamp x, 16 March 2011, 6-8pm

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

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2011 to end on January 31st

Forwarding from foundation-l, A reminder that scholarship applications for Wikimania are closing soon. As a past recipient of this scholarship I would like to strongly recommend that anyone who has been thinking that going to wikimania would be good - apply! Attending wikimania is like nothing

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal

> > The import/export component of this proposal is the gem. > > > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Interoperability_%28Wiki-to-Wiki_interoperability%29 > > Also if we are going to have 'fork' wikis, and we ignore the 'wiki for > kids' component of your proposal, we would probably want

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Newspaper cites from Trove

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 iPa

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WMAu IRC discussion tomorrow night

not being party to the fundraising discussions, but being involved in the general area of things It has been conclusively shown by the WMF's own testing of banners, landing pages and payment systems that the more things that are on the landing page, the less likely people are to donate. This g

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Newspaper cites from Trove

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 wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 16 November 2010 01:55, Moondyne wrote: > http://newspapers.nla.gov.au > is

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WikiAcademy program - Regional historical societies

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 in

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australian GLAM policy and public domain

On 11 October 2010 23:42, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Teofilo wrote: > > I remember that about one year ago it was reported that Wikimedia > > Australia had an interesting event called "Galleries, Libraries, > > Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common gro

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence

Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we can follow suit someday. -Liam Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Coombe > Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST > To: wikimediauk-l > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence > Reply-To: wikimediau...@li

[Wikimediaau-l] Queensland museum & commons

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 will

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Wiki 10th planning

On 15 August 2010 05:24, Pru Mitchell 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 the project here: htt

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Wiki 10th planning

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? :-) -Lia

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] education projects and suitability of wmf projects in schools

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 t

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Chapter selected WMF board seats

On 17 May 2010 00:23, Sarah Ewart 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 appropriate >

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Regular Sydney Meetups

On 19 March 2010 15:09, Andrew Garrett wrote: > Hi all, > > In London, we had a successful monthly meetup, which was held on the > second Sunday of the month, in a particular pub in London's legal > district, at a particular table, at a particular time. > The Wikipedians in Bangalore, India also

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Should we petition the pollies on copyright law?

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"

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