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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=046194704-04102008>All
really good ideas, Liam. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=046194704-04102008>BedWiki struck a chord as I thought of the wonderful
Brianna who made her way to Canberra this week to present at the Australian
Computers in Education Conference. It is great to meet face to face, and
providing accommodation assistance is something non-editing members could
contribute.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=046194704-04102008>(Anyone looking for a bed in Adelaide in early January?
Or got a house near Somerville House, Brisbane they want to swap for a
week?)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=046194704-04102008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=046194704-04102008>Developing some presentation and handout materials for
use in schools and universities, plus education conferences is a good first
step.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=046194704-04102008>Cheers, Pru</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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[mailto:wikimediaau-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Liam
Wyatt<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, 3 October 2008 1:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Wikimedia-au<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Wikimediaau-l] More random
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<DIV>Dear all, </DIV>
<DIV>Just because I can, and because ideas are free, I thought I'd write down
some other things that I thought WM-au might be able to do eventually which we
could add to the [[m:Wikimedia_Australia/Activities#Possible_activities]]
list. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Briefings for media organisations on how to use Wikimedia projects for
their journalism. Not just the anatomy of a media-wiki page but also how to
use Virgil's Wiki-Scanner, WikiRage, WikiBlame etc. This would also get us in
their minds as the people to talk to when they're running a Wikipedia story
and would give us a chance to dispel the common errors that appear in print
(e.g. flagged-revs = we are no longer a wiki, or that we think that knowledge
is completely relativistic. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Equivalent briefings for university faculties on how to use wikipedia
in the classroom in order to discuss "how to be skeptical of sources" and
learning how to write neutrally and collaboratively - all skills necessary in
tertiary education. Also, we could teach them how to use our statistics to put
into their own research (I'm thinking about Erik Zachte's discussions
here). </DIV>
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<DIV>- Visit high-schools who are using Wikipedia as one of the texts in their
English Syllabus. I don't know about the other states but in NSW wikipedia can
be studied for the HSC. You can bet your eye-teeth that the high school
english teachers don't know how to deal with that subject as well as we'd
like. This could be an interesting excursion for a team of us, driving around
the countryside for a week to different schools - road-trip anyone!?</DIV>
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<DIV>- mini-Wikireaders of australian content published in collaboration with
different cultural organisations. I'm thinking especially of the wonderful set
of Banksia articles that are Featured on Wikipedia (thankyou Casliber!) I
imagine that the National Parks or the Botanic Gardens might be interested in
covering the printing costs for making a leaflet out of it if we supply the
content formatted nicely for the purpose. These leaflets could be given out at
the relevant cultural institutions to patrons and would therefore get our
content (and logo) in front of some different areas of the public. </DIV>
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<DIV>- "BedWiki" where we can keep a list of people willing to offer their
spare bed/sofa to other visiting wikimedians. There are some privacy issues to
work through (such as not publishing an address but only a general location),
but I for one would like to be able to visit other wikimedians when I go
travelling and the best way to get charity from others is to start at home.
This would be useful not only for Australians travelling interstate but
potentially useful as a worldwide network if it scaled well. It could be good
not only by saving money for the traveller but also to increase the community
spirit of wikimedians. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Cultural tours for WM-au members. That is, we organise a free backstage
tour of some facility such as a gallery, theatre, sports stadium, company in
exchange for sitting down afterwards with some people from that organisation
and spending a couple of hours improving the article on that subject.
Organisations like the National Trust have many properties around the country
and already run tours for members. They would be very valuable contributors to
our projects if we spent the time teaching them how. The benefit for us would
be seeing things that normally are either hidden or cost a lot of money to do.
We would have to work through issues about Conflict of Interest (i.e. we're
not promising to write whatever they want) but I don't see that being a huge
problem once we explain NPOV, NOR and V. The main trick here would be to get
enough wikimedians to come along to justify their time. </DIV>
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<DIV>Waddayarekon?</DIV>
<DIV>Remember, ideas are free - we are not required to do any of this so
please don't flame me for being too optimistic etc. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best, </DIV>
<DIV>-Liam</DIV>
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<DIV>wikipediaweekly.org</DIV>
<DIV>Skype - Wittylama</DIV>
<DIV>Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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