Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Events calendar

2019-09-04 Thread Sam Wilson
t;mailto:gnanga...@gmail.com>> wrote: yes, even by state for the more active locations On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 08:09, Sam Wilson mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> wrote: I’ve recently started adding WikiClubWest events to the new Wikimedia Space calendar <htt

[Wikimediaau-l] Incubator space at the State Library of Western Australia

2017-04-10 Thread Sam Wilson
(Apologies for cross-posting.) Hi all, I've started a page documenting our up-coming residency at SLWA: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_Western_Australia Please add anything that's missing, or ask whatever questions on the talk page. @Gnangarra, JarrahTree: sorry if I missed

[Wikimediaau-l] Perth event: MediaWiki with Stevo

2017-01-29 Thread Sam Wilson
The Information Technology Professionals Assn. (which used to be called SAGE-AU) is organising a presentation about installing and configuring MediaWiki: https://www.meetup.com/SAGE-AU-WA/events/237040192/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Signpost interview

2017-01-17 Thread Sam Wilson
: > Thanks Sam for the kind words and the note here. > > Graham > On 18/01/2017 9:33 AM, Sam Wilson wrote: > > Great interview Graham! > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-01-17/Interview > > > > ___

[Wikimediaau-l] Signpost interview

2017-01-17 Thread Sam Wilson
Great interview Graham! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-01-17/Interview ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] Wishlist Survey — please vote for things

2016-12-01 Thread Sam Wilson
Hi everyone, It's not really Australian-related, but I thought I'd just remind you to come and vote in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey Thanks! :-) ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] GLAM to Wikidata to OpenStreetMaps to GoogleMaps

2016-09-27 Thread Sam Wilson
I've done a small amount of mapping sculptures and the like in OSM, but mostly have been feeling a bit confused about the current state of the art of linking Wikidata coordinate info and OSM features! :-( It's certainly not limited to artworks. It seems the best route is to put the WD ID into

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

2016-04-09 Thread Sam Wilson
, "Sam Wilson" <s...@samwilson.id.au <mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> wrote: The argument for Ancestry is maybe slightly stronger, I reckon, in that often they're digitizing collections that are smaller and unlikely to have much funding (e.g. local government areas

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

2016-04-08 Thread Sam Wilson
The argument for Ancestry is maybe slightly stronger, I reckon, in that often they're digitizing collections that are smaller and unlikely to have much funding (e.g. local government areas and smaller, even single churches sometimes). So it sort of makes sense to pay for that (because the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] WMAU blog feed broken?

2016-02-05 Thread Sam Wilson
Still kaput. On 11/01/16 13:15, Sam Wilson wrote: Is the blog feed working for anyone else? It did work once... :) http://blog.wikimedia.org.au/feed/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikidata Tour Down Under meetups

2016-02-04 Thread Sam Wilson
On 2016-02-05 11:05, Robert Myers wrote: Perth 20 February 2016 1pm State Library of Western Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Nebraska/2016_02_Black_History_Month That link should be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth/24 (unless we're going on an

[Wikimediaau-l] WMAU homepage caching?

2016-01-25 Thread Sam Wilson
Hey, does anyone know why https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia is being annoying about caching the coming events list? It's been ages since the Upcoming Events page was updated, but it's not reflected on the homepage. :( ___

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata training in Oceania, SE Asia (Was: Quality issues)

2016-01-19 Thread Sam Wilson
On 2016-01-20 14:53, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Leigh Blackall wrote: I'm pretty sure I could raise some interest in this at RMIT. At the very least attendance, but perhaps venue and video documentation if needed. My guess is that

[Wikimediaau-l] WMAU blog feed broken?

2016-01-10 Thread Sam Wilson
Is the blog feed working for anyone else? It did work once... :) http://blog.wikimedia.org.au/feed/ ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Freopedia map

2014-07-07 Thread Sam Wilson
I'm not sure it can be put on Commons, Gnangarra. The BID logo can't, nor the underlying map data (which has no specified source, but these things are usually Google or some other proprietary source, unfortunately). The plaque location data is all CC-BY-SA/ODBL so that's fine. :) -sam. On

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

2014-03-16 Thread Sam Wilson
Yeah, Hanlon's razor perhaps should be remembered here! :-) Not that I mean to imply any incompetence on the part of the list administrators, but I do imagine that it's more likely that someone's made a mistake here and is not being actively mean. And Toby, I do recall reading an email from

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Toodyay

2014-01-10 Thread Sam Wilson
The fieldpapers.org service is pretty great: people can contribe to OSM with only a printer and digital camera. It's a matter of printing multipage maps of whatever area at whatever scale, then walking around and drawing on them by hand to add whatever features (roads, buildings, vegetation,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Takes Toodyay Show

2013-10-14 Thread Sam Wilson
Sorry to have missed the stall! I can't believe I managed to walk around the show all day (well, when not ensconced in a café down the road) and missed the WMAU stall! Oops. :-( Anyway, I've uploaded a few photos. - Sam. On 10/11/2013 09:18 PM, Craig Franklin wrote: Hi All, If you're in

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Transcript of today's public IRC meeting

2012-12-02 Thread Sam Wilson
On Sun, December 2, 2012 8:04 pm, John Vandenberg wrote: The transcript of today's meeting is available online. http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Meeting:Public_%282012-12-02%29/Transcript I just added a note about Freopedia to the talk page of the above's parent. Meant to come to the