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:

The landing page on Meta is here:

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_board#Fair_Use_campaign_update ) 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:

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.