Ciao all again,
Quick update on the Fair Use advocacy campaign in Australia.
[If you don't know what I'm talking about - see
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2017-March/001601.html ]
This is now set to launch on MONDAY morning, Australian Eastern time [this
Sunday night UTC]. It will correspond with some mainstream media articles
that notable friendly journalists have - we hope - filed for publication
that day.
WMF-legal, Comms, the ADA, EFA and some other local organisations are
aware/ready. We have some pre-announce embargoed press releases going out
as well as things on the day (including a post on the Wikimedia blog).
The banner texts are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia/Banners
The landing page on Meta is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use_in_Australia
The 'take action' campaign site (which will have a life longer than the
wikipedia campaign) is here:
https://www.faircopyright.org.au/
The social media account is
https://twitter.com/faircopyrightoz and hashtag
is #FairCopyrightOz Please follow that and retweet things :-)
Following some technical changes to the banner requirements (see here for
details if you're interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_bo…
) we will be launching with 50% visibility of the banners on Monday,
dropping back to a low percentage for the following few weeks.
Also of note, the mainspace wikipedia article on the general issue is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Fair_Use_proposals_in_Australia
Sincerely,
-Liam / Wittylama
p.s. I am not on the ComCom list, but could someone please share this info
with them so they're aware.