Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-10-07 Thread YellowMonkey
Well, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_review/Tasmanian_Devil/archive1 Endangered in more ways than one http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fauna_of_Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australian_Green_Tree_Frog

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-10-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: btw, we don't have a Wikipedia nav template for Zoos; the closest is [[List_of_zoos#Australia]].  That is another task for October ;-) A new article with a lot of red links:

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Halasz
Hi John, I like the idea of having an article about the Brown Mountain crayfish before it's even formally described :) The transcript of the Environment East Gippsland v VicForests court case is online, and it includes testimony and a survey/report from Rob McCormack (Day 8), who's one of the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread Liam Wyatt
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] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: ps. is the small grants program still in effect? I presume so; if not, please assume that any sensible project will be considered by the committee, via this grant scheme or another approach. -- John Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober

2010-09-19 Thread John Vandenberg
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: were I to contact a vague associate at Taronga and perhaps discuss the possibility of them hosting a wiki meetup and perhaps have a small 'get to know each other' type discussion / session a la GLAM - could I be so bold as to mention