Hi All While on the subject of doing something I'd like to take this opportunity to announce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Toodyaypedia *Toodyaypedia*our latest WikiTown QR project, this comes as of the result of a lot of hard work by a number of people including our President who spoke with the Shire while in Perth to launch Freopedia, this will include a Wikitakes event on Saturday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_Toodyay_Showwhere SatuSuro, Andrew Owens and myself will spend the day unlocking mysteries of Wikipedia for the public while shire staff will be approaching people with cameras to upload photographs from the Toodyay Agriculture Show, which also happens be celebrating 160 years since its first show(there has been only 4 years where the show hasnt occured). This will be followed up with workshops on 2 November. Shire Museum staff will be using Wikiversity to create a number of exercises for school students to do prior to visiting the museum, while at the museum and follow up projects afterwards, while these will be Toodyay museum specific the formula/formats etc will readily replicable for any museum. Shire Tourism staff will be focusing on developing Wikivoyage content for the region, Library and Community Resource centre staff will be readily available to help the community add content, today SatuSuro and myself spent 4 hours with them working thorugh contributing to Commons, it was a wonderful collaborative effort where we showed one person how to create an account and they then help other participants do the same, then I show walked the group thorugh uploading a photograph using upload wizard they each then went on to upload more photographs and not just ones I had supplied for the workshop but also some of their photographs by the end of the session they were uploading their own photographs, adding categories, then adding content to en.wp articles. Given the small number of regular contributors in WA the 8 new people today are a significant increase in editors over here and definately took the idea of contributing.... Watch this space more exciting things happening soon Cheers Gideon On 9 October 2013 18:04, Craig Franklin <cfrank...@halonetwork.net> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Absolutely, a lot of volunteers have pitched in at some time or another > and done some great work that have (in my opinion) led to positive outcomes > for the movement. Enough that I'm not going to even try to enumerate them > all for fear that I'll leave someone out :-). > > Cheers, > Craig > > > > > On 9 October 2013 12:22, <wikimediaau-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:42:29 +0000 >> From: Nick Dowling <nick_dowl...@hotmail.com> >> To: Wikimedia Australia Chapter <wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query >> Message-ID: <blu173-w384c2d1bcf759720b58a47ef...@phx.gbl> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> Bidgee has also provided excellent outcomes for the photography grant(s?) >> he received. >> >> > Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:38:19 +0800 >> > From: gnanga...@gmail.com >> > To: wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > CC: cfrank...@halonetwork.net >> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Funding Query >> > >> > well some that come to mind >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Freo - Freopedia only cost for >> > WMAU has been Craig to Perth for the Launch, and from reports was well >> > recieved at Wikimania in Hong Kong... >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Waroona, >> > prelude to a Wikitown there. >> > then there 2 of us doign a workshop tomorrow in Toodyay, and 3 of us >> > being part of the Shire of Toodyay demostrations on Saturday for a >> > third WikiTown there -- WMAU approved $200 to cover some expenses but >> > well below the true costs of running the two >> > >> > add to that, the work of SatuSuro >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Takes_Western_Australian_Wheatbelt_Railways_2013 >> > and to that a larger Wheatbelt project... >> > >> > Its not talking about ideas thats going to change things it needs more >> > people to get out there and do things, >> > >> > Gideon >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> >> End of Wikimediaau-l Digest, Vol 85, Issue 14 >> ********************************************* >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Gn. Blogg: http://gnangarra.wordpress.com
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