[Wikimediaau-l] Australian stats, soon to be CC

[Craig Franklin]

I think you'll see "more" of it.  I don't think that anyone is arguing that 
ABS stats are unreliable or anything, and this news is likely to be welcomed 
with open arms by the Australian open source community.  Of course, the 
stats themselves are probably not encyclopædic in their unedited form, but 
this should remove any ambiguity on making graphs or maps with them, as well 
as providing a lot of good publicity.

In short, this is a "good thing"!

Regards,
Craig F.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Hurd" <markehurd at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia-au" <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 PM
Subject: [personal] Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Australian stats, soon to be CC


> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Confusing Manifestation
> <confusingmanifestation at gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> the Australian Bureau of Statistics website, but I figured it's worth
>> bringing to the attention of the relevant parties. ABS statistics on
>> its web site have been free-as-in-beer for a while now, but apparently
>> as an attempt to capture the attention of people searching for
>> free-as-in-speech information, "The ABS is poised to introduce
>> Creative Commons licensing for the majority of its web content." From
>> about two weeks from now, apparently almost everything on the ABS web
>> site will be under a CC-BY-2.5 Australia license.
>
> Will this mean more ABS stats on Wikipedia, or less, because it will
> now be seen as an equal resource and not worth repeating on Wikipedia,
> like imdb, the Channel 9 website (see 20 to 01 episode content list
> deletions), etc?
>
> Regards,
> Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.)
>
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