w00t!

Perhaps we can do a data dump of .au localities as well to be combed through by en:wp editors ...

(no, NOT making rambot articles automatically, human consideration ;-)

- d.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jessica Coates j2.coates@qut.edu.au Date: 2008/12/23 Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] CC licensing implemented for the ABS To: "cc-au@lists.ibiblio.org" cc-au@lists.ibiblio.org, "cc-community@lists.ibiblio.org" cc-community@lists.ibiblio.org, "cc-nz@lists.ibiblio.org" cc-nz@lists.ibiblio.org, "cci@lists.ibiblio.org" cci@lists.ibiblio.org, "asia-commons@googlegroups.org" asia-commons@googlegroups.org, "wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org" wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Those following the post a few weeks ago about the announcement by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that they were going to release their material under a Creative Commons licence will be pleased to know that it's happened.

All content on the ABS website (other than logos and other trade marked content) is now marked as CC BY - including all census data, economy data, fact sheets, analysis, press releases etc.

Hopefully this will just be the start of a general move towards open access by the Australian public sector.

For more information see http://creativecommons.org.au/node/207 _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l