[Wikimediaau-l] University of Sydney women's #wikibomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb
This is going to be big. There are 39 signed up (mostly female academics
and students), but we are expecting nearer 100.
How Wikipedians can help:
We will have a decent number of experienced editors on site, but we will be
stretched. Anyone who can provide online support 03:00-07:00 UTC tomorrow
(Friday) would be much appreciated. Please add your name to the project
page with a note so that we know who we can call on. Here's some ways you
can help:
1. Any sandbox started by a wikibomb participant should be added to
*Category:University
of Sydney Wikibomb 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb_2014*
so
that we can all find it.
2. Monitor *These Related Changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/University_of_Sydney_Wikibomb*
to
look out for editors having trouble.
3. Write (kind) sandbox_talk page comments if you see *promotional
language*. It seems that some participants are intending to write
articles about their friend/colleague/boss. The organizing team now all
understand how much COI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI editing
is discouraged, but I'm afraid academics are harder to herd than cats. We
are at least trying to ensure that everyone declares their employer on
their userpage, and declares any COI they have on the article talk.
4. Assess articles' *readiness to move into mainspace* (also post a note
on the talk page). Experienced Wikipedians will do these moves, but for COI
and general stress relief, it would be good to have third party eyes over
it.
5. *Categorize, prettify, wikidatify, wikiprojectify* ({{WP Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Australia}}{{WP Biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP_Biography}} etc) any
articles that do make it into mainspace. We will not have time to
concentrate on any of these things.
6. *Ping me (99of9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:99of9)* or
another involved Wikipedian if you spot any problems.
7. Publicise on *Twitter (#Wikibomb)* with a link to the project page
Thanks for helping!
Toby/99of9
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] CSIRO ScienceImage library now cc-by
Hi Peter / Liam, Did anyone make progress on this? I've finally had a look at some of the images, and we *definitely* want them on Commons. If nobody finds 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 liamwy...@gmail.com 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! Ideally they could pro-actively give us a bulk dump with the metadata that they specifically wish - it gives them a greater sense of having contributed to Wikimedia rather than just 'allowing' us to scrape the website. The other thing is that the videos would all need mp4 - ogv conversion. This is not technically hard, but it is annoying. Perhaps you could see if there's someone you know inside the organisation who was responsible for that website who could help? Sincerely, -Liam wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 7 May 2014 09:39, Peter Ansell ansell.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Liam, I am currently working at CSIRO if that helps. Probably quickest to try getting in contact using the details at: http://www.scienceimage.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 liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 our national science/research institute]. This is a fabulous series of images, nearly all of which are useful in WP articles as they are taken for 'scientific' purposes which means they are easily usable as educational images. Take a look: http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/ There's also over 500 documentary video files http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/search/?tags=keyword=library=assettype=videorgb=deviation=30page=1 Here are the subject areas they've divided things up into: Animals birds fish marine life sheep Buildings laboratories radio telescopes Food fruits vegetables seafood Insects arachnids moths termites Landscapes deserts farms mountains People In the lab in the field Plants crops flowers trees Soil Science erosion mining soils Technology computers computer equipment Textile wool and woollen products Transportation boats Equipment industrial equipment laboratories Fire bushfire fire management Water irrigation lakes rivers Could someone on the GLAMWikiToolset users see if you can neatly extract these files to mass upload them to Commons? Equally, we could try to contact CSIRO directly? -Liam wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia in Higher Education Symposium at Sydney University, 2014
Hi All, This event has been postponed because of delays in internal uni advertising. We're checking out alternate dates and will let you know when it's decided. Sorry for the inconvenience! Toby On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A quick announcement of the following event that might be of interest to some of you. It's a miniature version of a similar event run in 2013. Sorry for the late notice, but the international keynote speaker only got confirmation of his fellowship at the last minute, and we're trying to squeeze this in before the teaching term begins. Toby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Wikipedia_in_Higher_Education_.28round_2.29.2C_9am-1pm_Monday_24th_February The Writing Hub at the University of Sydney is hosting a Wikipedia in Higher Education symposium. Associate Professor Robert E Cummings, U. Mississippi, and board member of the WikiEd Foundation, will be the keynote speaker and will address the role of Wikipedia in higher education and offer some successful models for teaching with Wikipedia. This symposium is for people of all levels of interest in and experience with Wikipedia. 9am-1pm Monday 24th February. PNR learning studio 311 *Draft Schedule* 9:00am Welcome, Frances Di Lauro (Writing Hub, The University of Sydney) 9:20am Associate Professor Robert E. Cummings (Ole Miss) 10:00am Pete Forsyth (Wikistrategies) 10:40am Mylee Joseph Kathryn Barwick (State Library of New South Wales) 11:20am Break 11:30am Matthew Todd (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney) (if available) 12:10pm Liam Wyatt (Founder of GLAM-Wiki) 1:00pm Close of conference Possible workshop in OTC 330 from 2-3 (if numbers justify) ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia in Higher Education Symposium at Sydney University, 2014
Hi All, A quick announcement of the following event that might be of interest to some of you. It's a miniature version of a similar event run in 2013. Sorry for the late notice, but the international keynote speaker only got confirmation of his fellowship at the last minute, and we're trying to squeeze this in before the teaching term begins. Toby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Wikipedia_in_Higher_Education_.28round_2.29.2C_9am-1pm_Monday_24th_February The Writing Hub at the University of Sydney is hosting a Wikipedia in Higher Education symposium. Associate Professor Robert E Cummings, U. Mississippi, and board member of the WikiEd Foundation, will be the keynote speaker and will address the role of Wikipedia in higher education and offer some successful models for teaching with Wikipedia. This symposium is for people of all levels of interest in and experience with Wikipedia. 9am-1pm Monday 24th February. PNR learning studio 311 *Draft Schedule* 9:00am Welcome, Frances Di Lauro (Writing Hub, The University of Sydney) 9:20am Associate Professor Robert E. Cummings (Ole Miss) 10:00am Pete Forsyth (Wikistrategies) 10:40am Mylee Joseph Kathryn Barwick (State Library of New South Wales) 11:20am Break 11:30am Matthew Todd (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney) (if available) 12:10pm Liam Wyatt (National Library of Australia) 1:00pm Close of conference Possible workshop in OTC 330 from 2-3 (if numbers justify) ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal
I agree that's the main aim longer term, because it incentivises editing, but I think the April kickoff batch will almost all be existing GAs, because of the short lead time. But there's still big value in the kickoff batch, because it will show editors the potential, we can start collecting statistics, we can start showing off top Australian content etc. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: I think the initial aim is not the existing GA's but rather focusing on bringing additional articles up to a standard that would warrant a plaque. On 3 February 2014 20:08, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.netwrote: Hi, I made a couple of comments on the talk page of the proposal. I'd point out that obviously not every GA has an obvious location for a plaque, and obviously those ones wouldn't be a part of this programme. On the other hand, there are plenty of articles, like [[Banksia oligantha]], that could conceivably have multiple plaques across different botanic gardens, for instance. So long as we're not sticking to every Good Article must have a plaque!, then I think this is a very good idea that's definitely within the chapter's current capacity. Cheers, Craig On 3 February 2014 22:00, wikimediaau-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:00:40 +1100 From: Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com To: Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com,Wikimedia Australia Chapter wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal Message-ID: cab2stcb5gfpgcgk0oet-pu_v-qxho9_4_7w_uqhniwu_gz+...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 But I do agree that it would be nice to work with smaller batches if the cost is not too much worse. Toby On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's a good idea. But then I took a quick look at the list of the GA articles for Australia. Yes, 500+ of them, but an awful lot don't seem to have an obvious place to put a plaque. http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yesprojecta=Australiaquality=GA-Class Just starting with the first on the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher where would we put a plaque for him? He's got a couple of memorials in the UK (where he was born and died) and there is a bust of him in Ballarat (a city with which he does not appear to have been associated). I think we'd face a similar problem with many of the GAs being biographies. Also, in your Freopedia experience, how much time has to go into getting permission from the owner of the place where we want to put the plaque? Again, with Freopedia, you were on the ground and probably well-connected. But Australia-wide it's probably going to be cold-calling in a lot of situations. Did you contact people directly yourself or get introduced by a local historical society or ...? Also, are there any constraints on the number of plaques in a batch? How few could we start with? You mention 100 as a trial in the proposal. Is that the minimum? Or could we run with less? Kerry ___ 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] QR code proposal
Hi Janet, nice to meet you, No, there's no documentation yet apart from this proposal http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:QR_codes_GA_articles I'm not quite sure that libraries are the target audience or stakeholder for this project though. The most common example in the trial phase would be to try to attach a plaque to a building for which we already had a good article, and as far as I know there are no Australian library articles at that level. In the continuous phase, anyone able to edit Wikipedia about an Australian place could undertake the challenge to get an article up to good level. For a library patron the most important thing to learn would be how to edit and how to edit well. Once the article is at Good Article level, it's again a matter of getting permission to install a plaque and asking WMAU to print it. Toby On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Janet Reid lucych...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a webpage or description that could be sent to local council libraries or university libraries to explain what would be required? On 4 February 2014 15:33, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Yes from an operational perspective it easy to approach one group to do all the plaques, if that was the purpose of this proposal Freo is ready for another set of plaques Yes we know there will be some additional work involved in the process in looking at it individually, that is weighed against the potential benefits of engaging in a number of these projects in the longer term. Yes a passionate editor will be more successful in getting engagement and thats a good thing as we want to empower our members to be successful and with Wikitowns in Monmouth, Gibralta, Fremantle, Johannesburg, Toodyay, Bremen and couple of other places we have a format that can be replicated. The QR coding has been proven successful in musuems and other places, I even QR coded an art exhibition in Freo. If someone finds a synergy with other things they may be involved in go for it. This is about creating short term measurable successes for WMAU to support, WMAU tried the longer term projects with workshops, while they build good relationships they havent built the flashy measurables that the FDC and WMF want to see. Putting an April time table means we can have a nation wide project thats got them... if those that have already engage with GLAMs want to contact the people they have met I'm sure most of them will have something that could be QR coded like a statue or bust, the person who the place is named after, or some other display. Gideon On 4 February 2014 10:03, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: All true, but, from an operational perspective, it's much more time-efficient to approach 1 organisation in relation to many plaques than vice versa. It think there's at least 3 variations here. 1. WMAU celebrates existing GAs by organising plaques where possible. 2. WMAU organises for plaques at willing locations and then tries to motivate its members or WP contributors for generally to upgrade the corresponding articles (as required). 3. Passionate editor (might or might not be WMAU member) either has a GA article or is motivated to work toward one. WMAU organises plaque. Operationally, 1 is the easiest as it can be done with only WMAU resources (time and effort). 2 may need assistance of folks outside of WMAU. 3 is critically dependent on folks outside WMAU. Both 2 and 3 need communication out to Australian editors, which is an area of weakness for us operationally. Engaging outside WMAU increases risk. 1 and 3 are most exposed to the risk that the article doesn't have a location and that the owner does not give permission for the plaque. That risk is reduced with 2 as you start with locations most likely to be willing to multiple plaques, but increases risk that the articles aren't good enough, which is reduced with 1 and 2. If we are trying to impress WMF in a future FDC application, we need to have projects that are successfully implemented and produce nice metrics. That means we need to consider how to reduce implementation risk. Waiting for hundreds of passionate editors to do something we want them to do ... that's something we can't control ... It's ok to use the strategy but I don't think we can rely on it to give us 100 (or whatever) plaques in 12 months. I'd prefer to see strategies 1 or 2 employed to target the 100 plaques and see any from strategy 3 as bonus extras (or reducing the need to get as many from strategy 1 and 2). Sent from my iPad On 3 Feb 2014, at 10:58 am, Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com wrote: Wait wait ... approach the old Parliament and look to QR code every PM article ... that is a whole separate proposal, it's effectively a mini-wiki-town idea. Maybe ok, but that's quite different to the GA one, mainly because it centralizes the inspiration and motivation: WMAU says prime ministers are important - you
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal
But I do agree that it would be nice to work with smaller batches if the cost is not too much worse. Toby On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.comwrote: I think it's a good idea. But then I took a quick look at the list of the GA articles for Australia. Yes, 500+ of them, but an awful lot don't seem to have an obvious place to put a plaque. http://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/list2.fcgi?run=yesprojecta=Australiaquality=GA-Class Just starting with the first on the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher where would we put a plaque for him? He's got a couple of memorials in the UK (where he was born and died) and there is a bust of him in Ballarat (a city with which he does not appear to have been associated). I think we'd face a similar problem with many of the GAs being biographies. Also, in your Freopedia experience, how much time has to go into getting permission from the owner of the place where we want to put the plaque? Again, with Freopedia, you were on the ground and probably well-connected. But Australia-wide it's probably going to be cold-calling in a lot of situations. Did you contact people directly yourself or get introduced by a local historical society or ...? Also, are there any constraints on the number of plaques in a batch? How few could we start with? You mention 100 as a trial in the proposal. Is that the minimum? Or could we run with less? Kerry -- *From:* wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Gnangarra *Sent:* Sunday, 2 February 2014 7:25 PM *To:* Wikimedia-au *Subject:* [Wikimediaau-l] QR code proposal Hi Everyone During todays iirc discussion its was suggested that WMAU would create QR codes of articles which achieve GA status. This would enable everyone to participate in the WikiTown format without creating a full project, this will work especially well for places where you have a connection and can assist in gaining permission to install the plaque. The proposal is at http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:QR_codes_GA_articles Please join the discussion Gideon ___ 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] Meeting today..?
(not so) Advance Notice: Sydney Meetup after work on Monday 3rd Feb... with an international guest in attendance. I'll get onto the Meetup page in the next couple of days. Toby On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote: No worries Steve - there's sometimes a lot to keep up to speed with :-) If you guys need a hand making the log human readable, maybe just whack it on the wiki somewhere as a draft, and I can lend a hand tidying it up as I give it a read either ways, if poss. do try and flick a note to the list just letting folk know messages are getting through oh, and if anyone in Sydney has time or energy to organise something; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney best, Peter, PM. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Steve Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: Sorry for the delay Peter. We have found a log from December and I will be posting it today. Log for Jan will follow shortly, as will the minutes from the December meeting. Steve On 23/01/2014 11:02 AM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: anyone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA (could anyone receiving this just flick me a quick hello to confirm that the problem isn't the nut behind the keyboard this end...) best, Peter. PM. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote: ping :-) Just wondering if I sent this ok? best, Peter, PM. On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote: hi folks, any news on minutes and the IRC log? best, Peter. PM. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Steven Zhang cro0...@gmail.comwrote: Hi John, The minutes of the previous committee meeting are still forthcoming, and as Andrew has previously mentioned he has been unwell. We have not had our committee meeting this month to accept the minutes from the December meeting. Once this is done, they will be posted to the public wiki as is customary. I had a log of the meeting but it seems my IRC client creates it in a way so that converting it to text is impossible. I believe others may have a log and once I locate this it will be posted. Thanks for your patience. Steven Zhang On 12 Jan 2014, at 4:58 pm, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: They havent been posted Steven. :( On Jan 12, 2014 9:27 AM, Steve Zhang steven.zh...@wikimedia.org.au wrote: Hi John, I believe the minutes are in the process of being finalized today and we have a copy of the irc log to post. It will be going ahead as planned today at 4pm AEDST. Steve On 12/01/2014 1:15 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There are at least two items the committee should be attending to before the meeting today. The IRC log from the last public meeting should be published. The minutes from the last committee meeting should be published. fwiw, I am an apology for the meeting today, due to a prior commitment of being facilitator at a Wikidata workshop being here in Jakarta. -- John Vandenberg ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] Wikipedia API
I've used pywikipediabot (also briefly the API, but for queries only). But I've got a few projects going at the moment, so unless it involves images, I probably wouldn't be up for it. Toby On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.comwrote: Is there anyone out there who has used the Wikipedia API or other “mass edit” tools? We have a possible “cultural partner” who is interested in cross-fertilising Wikipedia, but to progress the relationship would probably require some degree of “semi-automation”? Kerry ___ 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] Funding Query
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I also agree that the chapter and its volunteers *have* done a lot of great work over the past few years, and I think you've hit the nail on the head that we've often failed to effectively communicate our successes. Part of any projects going forward will be a need to say here's how we're going to measure success before we actually dive in on any project, so that we can either use that measurement as justification for further funding, or use that measurement to figure out what went wrong and make sure we don't make the same mistake twice. and then: Absolutely, a lot of volunteers have pitched in at some time or another and done some great work that have (in my opinion) led to positive outcomes for the movement. Enough that I'm not going to even try to enumerate them all for fear that I'll leave someone out :-). Hi Craig, Although forward planning of outcome metrics is obviously a good thing for the future, I think we should make an effort now to compile outcomes and metrics for projects, programs and grants that have already taken place. Is there an onwiki page for this, or a table to fill out for each project or grant we have undertaken? I know there are some reports linked from here http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Reports#Small_grants but surely there are more hanging around? Even though you can't enumerate them off the top of your head, we *should* be able to enumerate them if everyone writes up the outcomes of projects we've individually been involved with. I know there are huge outcomes as a result of the SLNSW training and residency.. but maybe they have not been tabulated into reportable dotpoints? Toby ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query
Hi Kerry, My preferred model would be that each project/editathon/grant leader should report their results in this tabular format, (perhaps as a partial replacement for the written reports we've previously submitted). We are usually pretty proud of our how our events go, so I expect individuals would often be happy to formally report that back to WMAU if there's a procedure in place. To kick the process off, I've copied the WMF spreadsheet Whiteghost linked to, and have started adapting it for her suggestions and for the Australian context (e.g. Aussie dollars and Photographic Equipment Grants). I've also added complete current data from my 2011 small grant, and links to the reports from some others I know about. Everybody should feel free to start adding data on programs they know about, and changing field titles to suit the programs we run. I'll start adding some of the SLNSW and QSA stuff I know about. Here it is in all it's glory - it is open for anyone with the link to edit: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvHbaGUCSbP9dGppX1dhOWxka1I5MTdhMEJHcU9ILUEusp=sharing Toby On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: Toby You make an excellent point and I doubt anyone will disagree that it would be a Good Thing to do this. Would those volunteering to do it please put their hands up now? [Pauses, cups hand around ear listening ...] Therein lies the problem that most volunteer organisations face. Volunteers do the tasks they enjoy (or at least derive satisfaction from), because they do it for free in their leisure time. Now sometimes a volunteer organisation is fortunate that there are different strokes for different folks and someone else will be quite happy to pick up the tasks another person didn't want to do. But sometimes there is nobody to pick it up some tasks (I recollect another incorporated association that endlessly tried to establish a roster for cleaning the toilet -- which was doomed to failure because nobody wanted to do it, even though everyone was in favour of a clean toilet) and I fear that metrics may be in that category in WMAU. If so, this is when we need to look at outsourcing that task. As you will all know (but maybe don't remember) we do now have a contracting policy http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:Contracting and, any moment now (drum roll), John V will be outlining the arrangements for the contracting subcommittee so we can get outsourcing happening. If there are tasks we need to outsource, we need to do this now while we still have funds to pay for the work that needs doing. If we delay until we have no funds, then we are in a serious catch-22 situation. I note that a number of the chapters who receive FDC funding appear to use at least part of those funds to employ project management staff, suggesting that this is the kind of thing that is hard to resource with volunteers in most chapters. Kerry -Original Message- From: wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaau-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Toby Hudson Sent: Thursday, 10 October 2013 4:16 PM To: Craig Franklin; Wikimedia Australia Chapter Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote: I also agree that the chapter and its volunteers *have* done a lot of great work over the past few years, and I think you've hit the nail on the head that we've often failed to effectively communicate our successes. Part of any projects going forward will be a need to say here's how we're going to measure success before we actually dive in on any project, so that we can either use that measurement as justification for further funding, or use that measurement to figure out what went wrong and make sure we don't make the same mistake twice. and then: Absolutely, a lot of volunteers have pitched in at some time or another and done some great work that have (in my opinion) led to positive outcomes for the movement. Enough that I'm not going to even try to enumerate them all for fear that I'll leave someone out :-). Hi Craig, Although forward planning of outcome metrics is obviously a good thing for the future, I think we should make an effort now to compile outcomes and metrics for projects, programs and grants that have already taken place. Is there an onwiki page for this, or a table to fill out for each project or grant we have undertaken? I know there are some reports linked from here http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Reports#Small_grants but surely there are more hanging around? Even though you can't enumerate them off the top of your head, we *should* be able to enumerate them if everyone writes up the outcomes of projects we've individually been involved with. I know there are huge outcomes as a result of the SLNSW training and residency.. but maybe they have not been tabulated
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Workshop in Wagga Wagga
Thanks for the update Craig. I'll join you in thanking them. When I saw the huge list of libraries who wanted our help, I was worried that we would be no match for the demand, but it's great to see these getting off the ground. Toby On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.netwrote: Hi All, Just a quick note to highlight that Wikimedia Australia recently organised a workshop in the New South Wales town of Wagga Wagga, in conjunction with the Wagga Wagga Library and the State Library of New South Wales. Attendees were guided in their first steps on Wikipedia by [[User:Bidgee]] and [[User:Peterdownunder]]. I hope you'll all join me in thanking Bidgee and Peterdownunder for so kindly donating their time and expertise to make sure that this session happened. A brief report, including a summary of the article drafts created and content uploaded to Commons is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales/Wagga_Wagga The next step from here will be to polish the content already created, wikify the articles, categorise the Commons images, and assist the trainees with getting their first articles into the mainspace. Just as a reminder, we have two more workshops coming up in New South Wales this month, in Broken Hill and Canterbury, and a further workshop on the Gold Coast in June. We're hoping to schedule additional workshops in the second half of this year, and if you're interested in helping out, or if you think your local library or community centre has the equipment (internet access, computers, and a projector) and would be interested in hosting their own workshop, we'd love to hear from you! Cheers, Craig Franklin Wikimedia Australia ___ 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] Fwd: [---] Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download
I find the ABS better than most government departments. Although I haven't found stable deeplinks to census data, I'm reasonably happy with everything else. Just a reminder that every timeseries the ABS makes available (all 64293 of them) has been plotted, is available on Commons, and gets updated to incorporate additional datapoints and new datasets: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_using_data_from_the_Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statistics_of_Australia About one hundred of these are in use on en-wiki, but I think there's potential for plenty more. Also, if it's census data you want, I have written the scripts to make maps like these for any census question (in the Basic Community Profile so far) for any geographic subdivision method: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_using_data_from_the_Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics I'd like to improve them before doing a mass upload, but if you want anything in particular, let me know. Toby / 99of9 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Queensland State Archives images
Hi Kerry and all (esp Queenslanders), I've now done a batch upload of everything marked as copyright expired (~4600 images). The Commons category is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographic_material_from_the_Queensland_State_Archives I'd appreciate any help in categorization. Toby On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Kerry, The full image collection looks consistently formatted, so might be easy enough to import as a batch upload: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading (checking for copyright expiry each time). Let me know if anyone wants to pursue this. Toby On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.comwrote: Queensland State Archives are putting some of their image collection on Flickr: ** ** http://www.flickr.com/photos/queenslandstatearchives/ ** ** The good news for us is that many of the older ones are CC-BY (newer ones are “All rights reserved”). ** ** And there is a much larger image (and other digitised documents) collection on the QSA’s website: ** ** http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Image/ImageBasicSearch.aspx ** ** where it seems the older photos are labelled “Copyright expired” without any requirement for attribution being mentioned. Not sure why there would be this difference, but I guess it doesn’t matter too much either way for loading onto Commons. ** ** Tip for the novice on the QSA website, there are 2 types of searches: one on the catalogue and one on the digital collection. Make sure you are using the “image search” (digital collection) and not the “archive search” (paper collection), unfortunately the way they do the linking between pages can sometimes switch you back into “archive search” mode and you wonder why you can’t find something you found earlier. ** ** Kerry ** ** ** ** ** ** ___ 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] Sydney stuff
Hi Peter, These are planning meetings. Although there are a couple more, it's probably not worth joining them at this stage. Instead just come along on the day and join the discussion (I see you've already listed your interest). Toby On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just popping in to see what's happening around Sydney, and noticed the Uni symposium - I also noticed this bit; 'In the lead up to the symposium, Frances Di Lauro will host a few meetings in the Old Teachers College.' - with apologies that I may have missed further info, does anyone have any info. on these? ta! cheers, Peter, PM. ___ 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] Wikimedia in Higher Education symposium at The University of Sydney on Friday 5 April 2013
Hi Leigh, Submissions got extended until the 5th anyway, so you're definitely in time. Frances, any idea why your email bounced? Toby On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.comwrote: I sent this big noting myself, but it only went to Kerry and bounced from Francis: I'm on a mobile, composing this abstract, under the impression that you may not have received many abstracts owing to a probable lack of resources in getting the call out. Either that, or my 6 long and exhausting years working full time in educational development across 4 educational institutions, where I used WMF projects for education, as well as drafting policy and supporting hundreds of academic staff to use the projects, has gone unnoticed to the organisers of the symposium. I would like to be a part of any development in this space, and would be more than prepared to detail my work - some successful, most failures, and I would like to explain why. These include: 1. Writing the Wikibook, Open Educational Practices: a user guide for organisations (Otago Polytechnic) 2. Managing the Wikibook project: Sustainable Business (Otago Polytechnic) 3. Co managing the Wikibook: The Anatomy and Physiology of Animals (Otago Polytechnic) 4. Instigating and managing Otago Polytechnic's use of Wikieducator (with intention to migrate all work to Wikiversity) 5. Instigating and initially managing the History of Paralympics Australia project across Wikiversity, Wikipedia, Wikinews, and Commons (University of Canberra) 6. Instigating and managing a submission to Uni Canberra's review of Intellectual Property Policy in Wikiversity 7. Co managing 2 Recent Changes Camps at the Uni Canberra (2010 and 2011) 8. Now instigating and managing a pilot of open educational development using the WMF projects, primarily WV at this stage, at La Trobe University There's more, including the PhD project space on Wikiversity, but will this do as an abstract? On such short notice I won't be able to secure funding from La Trobe, but if WMAu could fund my travel by land, I will look into a minibus hire and try to convince my workmates to come with me. On Feb 28, 2013 6:27 PM, Chris Watkins chriswater...@appropedia.org wrote: It's probably worth contacting them - if submissions have fallen short of expectations, they'll probably be very happy to have a submission by Monday, say. On 28/02/2013 6:17 PM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: last night! Jesus. I would have, but not last night, not tonight even. I must have missed the news confirming this symposium. On Feb 27, 2013 2:10 PM, Toby Hudson tob...@gmail.com wrote: In case anyone is not yet aware, there is going to be a Wikimedia in Higher Education symposium at The University of Sydney on Friday 5 April 2013. Both Wikimedians and Educators are welcome. If you are interested in presenting a paper, the call for papers closes tonight, so please be quick to at least indicate that you're interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/5_April_2013 ___ 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 ___ 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] Queensland State Archives images
Thanks Kerry, The full image collection looks consistently formatted, so might be easy enough to import as a batch upload: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading (checking for copyright expiry each time). Let me know if anyone wants to pursue this. Toby On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.comwrote: Queensland State Archives are putting some of their image collection on Flickr: ** ** http://www.flickr.com/photos/queenslandstatearchives/ ** ** The good news for us is that many of the older ones are CC-BY (newer ones are “All rights reserved”). ** ** And there is a much larger image (and other digitised documents) collection on the QSA’s website: ** ** http://www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/Image/ImageBasicSearch.aspx ** ** where it seems the older photos are labelled “Copyright expired” without any requirement for attribution being mentioned. Not sure why there would be this difference, but I guess it doesn’t matter too much either way for loading onto Commons. ** ** Tip for the novice on the QSA website, there are 2 types of searches: one on the catalogue and one on the digital collection. Make sure you are using the “image search” (digital collection) and not the “archive search” (paper collection), unfortunately the way they do the linking between pages can sometimes switch you back into “archive search” mode and you wonder why you can’t find something you found earlier. ** ** Kerry ** ** ** ** ** ** ___ 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] Support the SLNSW training session
Hi All, Just a quick note to say there's a GLAM training session on now (Liam / Whiteghost.ink / myself), and tomorrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/SLNSW If you can help out over lunch, please pick a sandbox at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinkedlimit=500days=3target=Wikipedia%3AGLAM%2FSLNSW and help out with a few edits. Thanks Toby ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Expression of support for Dictionary of Sydney from Wikimedia Australia
Good letter people. I've just bulked up our article on Annie Wyatt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Forsyth_Wyatt with the DoS article on her http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/wyatt_annie It's an amazing resource, I think perhaps we should do something about utilizing it more systematically. Toby On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: 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 were aware of our supporting letter and, in a nice gesture, they made mention of this in their post. Thank you everyone for supporting this proposal! If you're ever looking for some freely-licensed content to integrate to Wikipedia (not to mention lots of Reliable Source references - with an inbuilt cite this page on Wikipedia tool), go to their list of entries and click sort by license type http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries Sincerely, -Liam On Monday, July 30, 2012, Gnangarra wrote: Congratulations to Dictionary of Sydney 20 minutes ago they posted on facebook https://www.facebook.com/dictionaryofsydney that they have secured continued funding from the City of Sydney Council On 29 July 2012 11:26, John Vandenberg presid...@wikimedia.org.auwrote: Dear City of Sydney CEO Monica Barone, On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the Dictionary of Sydney due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind Wikipedia and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the Dictionary of Sydney project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The Dictionary of Sydney provides the vast majority of its content with a Creative Commons copyright license that ensures the material can be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the Open Educational Resources and Open Source Software communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled MNOpedia http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the Dictionary of Sydney as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. The strong stance of the Dictionary of Sydney on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with Wikipedia, the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to: Florence Violet McKenzie (Australia's first female electrical engineer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie ) Glebe Island (a crucial part of Sydney's economy for centuries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island_%28New_South_Wales%29 ) Sydney Artists' Camps (one of the most significant art movements in Australia's history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps ) We draw your attention to the comprehensive acknowledgement of the Dictionary of Sydney at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the Dictionary of Sydney, and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the global appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer. If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. Sincerely, John Vandenberg President, Wikimedia Australia ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com -- wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Linux-aus] FYI: GovHack 2012 - Over $30, 000 worth of prize money :)
Ok, well I'd obviously be interested, and at this stage that weekend is reasonably clear. For those not in the loop, the basic idea of this project is as follows: * The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes raw time series data of all kinds in excel files that get updated every month/quarter/year. * They have a reasonably consistent data format, so can be dealt with using a script. * Wikipedia can make use of graphs (e.g. I've put a few test samples in here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Australia) * I estimate that plotting every time series they publish will amount to 50-200k files in about 50-100 script-assigned broad subject categories (e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charts_of_the_Current_Account_of_Australia). I have an idea for how to make more specific categorization easy for the Wiki community. * In the first instance the script will only plot one time series on each graph, although I realize that comparisons would be a useful addition. * Reasonable starting descriptions and wiki markup also need to be script generated. Here's the best example of where I'm up to. This file and description was generated amongst a batch of 2727 files relating to the population statistics of Australia and the states by age. Did you know about the baby boom in NSW? Here's proof - the population of age 0 boys in NSW over the last 30 years: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ABS-3201.0-1-2-Estimated_Resident_Population-Male-0.svg (let me know of ways the graph or description could be better presented) If ABS stuff is nearly ready to go by the time of GovHack, I'm sure we could also get some good stuff out of applying this to the data that the Bureau of Meteorology are bringing to the table. Toby On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: At the Sydney meetup we talked about Toby (99of9)'s use of ABS data to visual economic factors. Maybe we could submit that, or something similar, to be in the running for the prize. Winning would be great exposure. -- Forwarded message -- From: Pia Waugh gre...@pipka.org Date: Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:18 AM Subject: [Linux-aus] FYI: GovHack 2012 - Over $30, 000 worth of prize money :) To: LA List linux-...@lists.linux.org.au Hi all, Thought this might be of interest to some people. I'm one of the organisers. Should be fun ;) Hope to see a bunch of you involved! Open government and open data ftw. *GovHack 2012 - June 1-3, Canberra Sydney* GovHack is inviting teams of programmers and designers to invent new and better ways of delivering government data to Australians and will be rewarding the best apps, data mash-ups, and data visualisations with a share of $30,000 in prize money. The event is being held in Canberra and Sydney from 1st - 3rd June and will challenge teams to answer the question and develop solutions for 'how can government data be better used to benefit Australians?' GovHack is being organised by volunteers froom the Gov 2.0 community, Rewired State and the eGovernment Technology Cluster, and is supported by organisations including Adobe, MailChimp, Palantir, Google, NICTA, Cisco and some of the biggest data holders in the Australian Government are providing prize money and data, including the National Archives of Australia, the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), and the Bureau of Meteorology. You can register to participate, review the competition rules, or see an outline of the data to be made available on the GovHack site ( http://www.govhack.org). Prize categories will be announced at the event 's opening on Friday 1st June. Cheers, Pia ___ linux-aus mailing list linux-...@lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Vital articles
Actually Platypus (155737) and Kangaroo (156548) slightly outhit it in January. WP Australian biota has about 6000 articles without an importance rating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australian_biota but the top ones have a fairly impressive quality profile (7/31 featured) http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yesprojecta=Australian_biotanamespace=pagename=quality=importance=score=limit=31offset=1sorta=Importancesortb=Quality Toby On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Peter Halasz qub...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking at species articles. Maybe it's not listed in WP:VITAL, but [[Koala]] is Australia's most popular species article. 150,748 views in January. B class. Peter Halasz. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a quick look through WP:VITAL to see if there are any topics which we might want to bring up to featured article status. I can only spot two articles relating directly to Australia, and not many others with Australian components, so options are limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VITAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia - FA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef - GA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook - C class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania - C class The history section doesn't include any article about the history of this region of the world. * History * Civilization * History of the world * History of Africa * History of the Americas * History of China * History of Europe * History of India * History of Japan * History of the Middle East [[British Empire]] is a vital article with a paragraph about this region of the world. The Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans are all vital topics - they are B,B C respectively. We could claim [[cricket]] as our own .. ;-) -- John Vandenberg ___ 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
