Hi, Earlier this month the Wikimedia Australia website was migrated from GFDL to CC-BY-SA, and new editors of the wiki will now be required grant WMAU the right to migrate their contributions to another free licence, so we wont ever be stuck on an old licence again.
With this done, we are now ready to open the wiki to non-member participation, and in August the committee approved this proposal: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:Non-member_participation Accounts on the WMAU wiki are managed via the ConfirmAccount tool, and we are delegating this account management task to people outside the committee. Anyone who would like to help is invited to apply for this role prior to 5PM this coming Thursday evening. A short email to commit...@wikimedia.org.au is all that is needed. On Thursday evening the committee will appoint a few applicants as account approvers. Non-members are more than welcome to apply - we hope to appoint at least one non-member. Please be aware that the new account approvers will be required to provide their real name on our wiki. Finally, we are aware that this is not as "open" as some would like. It is a first step. It is an important step, as this will allow us to plan the next steps on the wiki, with non-members able to participate in these discussions. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l