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

2012-07-30 Thread Gnangarra
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.au wrote: Dear City of Sydney CEO

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

2012-07-30 Thread Toby Hudson
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

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

2012-07-27 Thread JF
I'm going to assume sending this to the list eight times was a mistake? ;) Joe On 27 Jul 2012, at 15:04, John Vandenberg wrote: Dear Cr Mallard, 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

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

2012-07-27 Thread John Vandenberg
Hi Joe, This was intentional, done as part of the following proposal http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter There was also a private discussion happening at the same time on the WMAU members mailing list, where it was recommended that we send the email out