I wanted to thank Wikimedia Australia for sponsoring the Auckland meetup. Some brief notes from the session can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland_6
In talking with them, I told them about Wikimedia Australia, what the advantages are for having a national chapters, and what Wikimedia Australia might be willing to do to help them. My assumptions were generally that our chapter could help provide some logistical support and help them with credibility. There are some people in the country who are interested in talking to organisations about doing something similar to what the Queensland State Library did. As an individual editor, they just do not have much credibility. If the individual is willing to do most of the legwork, Wikimedia Australia may be willing to help give them a name for credibility's sake. Beyond that, if they are interested in creating a national chapter and have several people dedicated to wanting to do that, then help could be provided in trying to help establish a national chapter. (Which might be the focus of a one day RCC should it happen or possibly for an independent workshop with the vested parties to meet to establish that.) One random idea that came up is the issue of hansard in New Zealand. One of the Kiwis said they didn't believe it was copyrighted. If that is true, it might be interesting to see if that couldn't be entered on to Wikisource. It was also interesting to discuss issues like political pictures and editing issues for political people articles. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- mobile: 0412183663 twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com
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