[Wikimediaau-l] Proposed wiki workshop: Bendigo, January 2013

Hi folks, I'm asking WMAu to support a wiki eduting workshop in Bendigo Victoria. Exact dates and exact room of venue TBC. Feedback please: http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/User:Leighblackall/Bendigo_Victoria_2013 -- -- Leigh Blackall http://about.me/leighblackall +61(0)404561009

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Foundation Blog post

the whole series of videos called the impact of wikipedia is well worth watching. On Dec 15, 2012 11:26 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: Foundation blog post about an Australian Wikimedian with a Wikimedia Commons/Photographic theme

[Wikimediaau-l] Images of contemporary life for Indigenous Australians

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] large collection of historic Australian photos found by UK archives

Is great to see another load of historical images potentially on their way to Commons, but in the case of Indigenous Australians, they risk not only offending custom but reinforcing stereotypes - because imagery on Commons relating to Indigenous Australians is almost unanimously historical, with

[Wikimediaau-l] La Trobe University for Open Education Week

/Open_Education_Week_2013/La_Trobe_University_Open_Conferenceand small funding to support your attendance may be accessible here: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Volunteer_Support_Programme -- -- Leigh Blackall http://about.me/leighblackall +61(0)404561009 ___ Wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia in Higher Education symposium at The University of Sydney on Friday 5 April 2013

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

[Wikimediaau-l] Wikiblame

who entered the info referring to the 1890s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course#Precursors -- -- Leigh Blackall http://about.me/leighblackall +61(0)404561009 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikiblame

=nextoldid=535498509 -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 20 March 2013 16:21, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks. I tried to use the Wikiblame tool to try and identify who entered the Precursor section content of the MOOC article, but I couldn't nail it.. is anyone

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] FWD: [---] Missing details: the sanitisation of Tom Waterhouse's Wikipedia page

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[Wikimediaau-l] Gold Coast Libraries Wikimedia Training Day

Hi folks, A Wikimedia training day was held at the Palm Beach Community Lounge and Library, Queensland recently. Planning, resources and outcomes are documented here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_training_day,_Gold_Coast_Libraries -- -- Leigh Blackall http://about.me

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 2030 Strategic Plan for Victorian Public Libraries

Thanks Kerry, I'm keen to respond in any way you thought appropriate if it meant realising this potential. I'm based on Melbourne at the moment, happy to run workshops, especially regional Victoria. On 03/07/2013 5:51 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raym...@gmail.com wrote: ** ** For those of you

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 2014 Annual Plan

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 2014 Annual Plan

And some case study or exemplar for an appropriate and informed relationship between a university marketing department, and the ethos of the wiki projects. Ie, remove the barrier that marketing would place on faculty engagement with the project On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Leigh Blackall

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 2014 Annual Plan: international events ...

Agreed. Also, at least one of the International events: Wikimania, offers support for travel already. But targeting funds for the purposes you outline seems a good idea. Speaking of Wikimania... and linking to the WAJER idea, but ignoring the chinwagging perspective, how about ab annual event

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Annual Plan 2014: instructional videos and the larger question of SMART-vs-BHAG

Is this suggestion because we are dissatisfied with the dozens if not hundreds and thousands of instructional videos already available? Maybe the suggestion is for Australian accent and language versions? A series in an Indigenous language would be remarkable! Or perhaps the suggestion is to

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] Re: 2014 Annual Plan: international events ...

, and then fill it with various programmes, but to decide what it is we want to achieve as an organisation, and then hold an event if that is the most sensible way to achieve those goals. Regards, Craig Franklin On 21 July 2013 08:43, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. Also

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Annual Plan 2014: instructional videos and the larger question of SMART-vs-BHAG

Another idea for the list. .. sorry if this is already in there. Australian Response to WMF campaigns. Riding on the shoulder of relative giants, when WMF run something like Wikimedia Loves Monuments, WmAu somehow knows in advance and runs WmAu Loves Monuments. Same for the video series Impact

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Annual Plan 2014: instructional videos and the larger question of SMART-vs-BHAG

not be proposing to reinvent the wheel if there was perfectly good material already there. There might be some minor “Australian” content we could add but it would be very minor (mainly about referencing key Austrlian resources) ** ** Kerry ** ** -- *From:* Leigh

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wmau:members] RE: Annual Plan 2014: instructional videos and the larger question of SMART-vs-BHAG

Kilner k.kil...@uq.edu.au wrote: Thanks for this reference, Leigh! Kerry Kilner On 21/07/2013, at 3:59 PM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few on the Wikiversity page I maintain for workshops: http://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikipedia_editing_workshops http

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] looking for edit training?

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

Awesome realisation Liam. I'll ask my health colleagues to check out the access to health journals through this avenue. Do you have a url to this story, so that I may relay it outside email? On 24/09/2013 11:35 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding a conversation thread (below)

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query

Could I get the link to the take again please? On 12/10/2013 8:52 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: I've also started adding info, but the last few days I've been sidetracked, and need to spend time chasing down the details :) Cheers Gnangarra On 11 October 2013 21:07, Craig

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bushfire Wikipedia interview

While I wouldn't advise mentioning it in a media interview, if there were someway to remind people that Wikipedia is ultimately political, and deeper analysis of the edit history and userbase reveals this wonderfully. If you did venture into this topic Liam, you might point to the profile that the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] each state?

Regarding the NT, I noticed in my time there, Tourism NT photos on Commons. What surprised me the most was the date of upload. Someone there was ahead of their time. On 03/12/2013 12:16 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: Sats, I'm not sure why you're so cynical about this, but there

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] opportunity

Perhaps those of us who can't go could help complete the application for others. .. On 13/01/2014 9:49 PM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: There is an opportunity for someone to spend time in Antartica, as photographer I love to be able to do this, as Wikimedian imagine what content you

[Wikimediaau-l] Are the Wikimedia projects social media

As someone who coined a phrase socially constructed media back in 2004 when everyone was using Web 2 I've been more than a little agitated by the use of social media at the exclusion of the Wikimedia projects. Either ask the stats, commentary and infographics are based on a poorly defined

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Wikiversity- University engagement with Wikimedia projects

Leigh Blackall, 28/05/2013 11:18: Hi folks. Who can point me to or suggest a process for a university wishing to engage Wikimedia projects? By that I mean initial consultation to get advice on how to consider and formulate an appropriate plan encompasing the alignment of policy

[Wikimediaau-l] Impact Story

I'm casually lobbying a webservice for researcher impact factor to add functionality around Wikimedia Contributions and other alternative venues. Perhaps you could help vote the suggestion up?

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Impact Story

: http://au.linkedin.com/in/alexanderhayes Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/alexanderhayes Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexanderHayes/posts On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: I'm casually lobbying a webservice for researcher

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

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wiki Loves Monuments

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but we just don’t have the ability to construct such a database without a massive manual effort. Is it possible to pin the monuments on a collaborative google map, then export the data needed? On 19/05/2014 11:04 AM, Kerry Raymond

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wiki Loves Monuments

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wiki Loves Monuments

. Funding range of grant Grants up to $20,000 per project are available On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.comwrote: Anzac Centenary Major Grants Programhttp://www.dpc.vic.gov.au/index.php/veterans/veterans-grants/anzac-centenary-major-grants-program http

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

Given that each University spends a great deal of money for subscriptions and the like, is it a reasonable to think that they should instead pool that money into the National Library so that everyone can have access, and the universities can save money? On 06/11/2014 7:37 PM, Liam Wyatt

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

The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the least used subscriptions. If they pooled to the NLA, they'd be preserving those niche or historic subscriptions, and increasing the diversity of options across the board. How real

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

, and will no doubt try again next time they have to renegotiate... On Thursday, 6 November 2014, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the least used subscriptions

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

triggers a lot of damage to the community and individuals regardless of standing. On 1 May 2015 at 14:44, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gnangara, Is there any possibility or objection to paying someone project manage a Wikitown project? Am thinking that some local

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Melbourne meetup Jun 28

Any chance for a weekday next one? On 21 Jun 2015 11:57 am, Michael Billington michael.billing...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, For those Wikimedians based in Melbourne, there will be a meetup on Sunday June 28, 2015 1-3pm at Library at the Dock. This is a short walk or tram trip (11, 42, 48

[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [HOPAU] 11/13/2015 06:40:00 PM

Here's an update posted recently to the History of Paralympics Australia project blog. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Blogger" Date: 13 Nov 2015 6:40 pm Subject: [HOPAU] 11/13/2015 06:40:00 PM To: Cc: We're back! And the plan is to

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Melbourne meet-up Tue Oct 20, 6pm

got ideas for the next meet, please share. Most places within cooee of a > city train/tram stop should be suitable, in theory. > > The vibe I'm getting is that we should try to keep up a good mix of > weekend/weekday social/workshop meetups. > > -Michael > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Melbourne meet-up Tue Oct 20, 6pm

Gosh Michael, expensive taste for a venue - or am I losing touch with what things like beer and chips cost? On 5 Oct 2015 9:07 pm, "Michael Billington" wrote: > Hello, > > A few of us are organising a Melbourne meet-up for Tues Oct 20. It's > somewhat opportunistic,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Family History related Australian biographies on Wikipedia

experience finding obituaries and other sources in Trove that >> appeared to justify an article, or allowed significant expansion of a stub. >> Often for politicians and sportspeople there is already a stub that can be >> filled out. >> >> - finding that a number of the articles

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

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. On 21/12/2015 6:45 PM, "Robert Myers" wrote: > Hi Gideon, > > I've missed the other emails, only have received this one. Thought your >

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

Doesn't Archive.org digitized for free if it's going on their site as Commons? They were is 2006, I know that. On 09/04/2016 1:46 PM, "Sam Wilson" wrote: > The argument for Ancestry is maybe slightly stronger, I reckon, in that > often they're digitizing collections that

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

have the resources to take on a project this big. Who > knows though! Would certainly be cool. > > On 09/04/16 15:54, Leigh Blackall wrote: > > Doesn't Archive.org digitized for free if it's going on their site as > Commons? They were is 2006, I know that. > On 09/04/2016 1:46 PM, &

[Wikimediaau-l] Citizen Science Grant

Anything happening in Wikimedia Australia around this? https://www.business.gov.au/assistance/inspiring-australia-science-engagement/citizen-science-grants -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009 ___ Wikimediaau-l m

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

Hi folks, Since hosting Andy Mabbett to talk about Wikidata at RMIT Uni, we've been percolating a possible project involving Australian public art to Wikidata for (among other things) geolocated data and information... is anyone working much with this sort of thing?.. -- -- Leigh Blackall <h

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

is reasonably possible to keep both aligned and join (in the > database sense) the information in both directions without having to put in > a huge amount of effort into comparing the two data sets > > Alex > > > On 12 Oct 2016, at 3:39 PM, Leigh Blackall <leighblack...@gmail.com&g

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

thon-tickets-28493013370 All welcome Regards, Leigh > My general feeling is that spatial data in OSM is more likely to be kept > up to date than that in WD, whereas *other* metadata is vice versa. > > —sam > > On 28/09/16 10:00, Leigh Blackall wrote: > > Hi folks, > > S

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

or GLAMs. > You can read about this on the EFA's press statement: > https://www.efa.org.au/2017/06/15/copyright-amendment-bill/ or the ADA's: > http://digital.org.au/media/australia-leads-disability- > access-thanks-copyright-changes > So that's pretty damn cool

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

23 people short of a satisfactorily round "10,000" so, any late sign ups > are welcome :-) https://www.faircopyright.org.au/take-action/ > p.p.s. My submission to wikimania on this campaign has been accepted, so > we'll be producing some pretty graphs on the stats of pageviews/emails

[Wikimediaau-l] Free culture as infrastructure

mediascape as an infrastructure. https://leighblackall.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/notes-on-elearing-korea2017.html Regards, Leigh -- -- Leigh Blackall <http://about.me/leighblackall> +61(0)404561009 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimed

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Free culture as infrastructure

I posted a few things to the "Australian Digital Strategy" consultation. Wikimedia Australia is mentioned in "Content as Infrastructure". Maybe some folks want to give it a vote up :) https://engage.industry.gov.au/author/LeighBlackall On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Leigh

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

Seems reasonable to me, but if it's proving difficult to get Trove to update their citation formatting, then best to at least demonstrate it on the Wikipedia et al side of things. Is it possible to create a bot that goes back through all Trove references, check the URL and add the catelogue? Or to

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

e able to note that a source is PD > or CC-whatever. But again I have asked and told that readers have no need > for such information, which I think is batshit crazy. If we believe in free > knowledge, surely we should want to draw attention to sources that are more > open than plain