I'm just the messenger :-) I've had some people write back offlist who are interested to work with the curators on improving the quality of the articles (irrespective of national pride :-) ) so we'll see how that pans out. -Liam
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 16 May 2012 04:26, <[email protected]> wrote: > Liam if you had of looked at the history and talk page of the CSIRO, you > would find that there has been disputes over WiFi due to US editors wanting > to be US centric. It isn't going to change while you have editors who > object to the fact. Not a simple issue of adding the content. > > > On Tue, 15 May 2012 03:02:59 +0000, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I've been informed by the National Museum of Australia that they're >> really interested in helping to make sure that the important >> Australian connection to the history of Wireless LAN [1] and IEEE >> 802.11 [2] is covered - because currently it's not mentioned at all. >> There's a little bit in Wifi#History [3] and also a section at >> >> Commonwealth_Scientific_and_**Industrial_Research_** >> Organisation#802.11_patent >> [4] but I'm not sure that's sufficient. Basically, I reckon that the >> >> WLAN and 802.11 articles seem to be overly US-centric. >> >> Please advise if you'd like me to put you in touch with a relevant >> person at the NMA to help gather sources, but for a start here's their >> "collection highlight" record about CSIRO's contribution to the >> development of WLAN see: >> http://www.nma.gov.au/**collections/highlights/csiro_**wlan_collection<http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/csiro_wlan_collection> >> [5]. >> >> Sincerely, >> -Liam >> wittylama.com/blog [6] >> Peace, love & metadata >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wireless_LAN<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_LAN> >> [2] >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**IEEE_802.11<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11> >> [3] >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wifi#History<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wifi#History> >> [4] >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Commonwealth_Scientific_and_** >> Industrial_Research_**Organisation#802.11_patent<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation#802.11_patent> >> [5] http://www.nma.gov.au/**collections/highlights/csiro_** >> wlan_collection<http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/csiro_wlan_collection> >> [6] http://wittylama.com/blog >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l> >
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