Hello list, especially Sydneysiders,
A friend of mine, Donna Benjamin, is organising an event in Sydney in
October called "Open-Edge" (as in education I think).
http://open-edge.info/ They have relatively short speaking slots
(15-30 minutes) and I think it would be great if there was a
Wikimedian presentation there.
Does anyone feel up for it? She is looking to finalise the line-up
relatively soon.
If you have never presented before, those of us who have can give you
some tips for what to cover, common questions etc. There are also
quite a few existing slide sets etc you can draw on. It's quite a
short time so you don't need to present the comprehensive thing ever,
and the audience should be quite friendly.
Anyone keen?
thanks,
Brianna
Hi all,
I've written a proposal on the official wiki to allow registration,
and hence editing, by non-members. It's here;
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:Open_WMAU_Wiki_editing
I (obviously!) support such a move, and feel it would bring
considerable benefits to us as an organisation. There are various
models out there (some approaching 10 years old) which demonstrate the
success in principle of an open editing model, and I hope you might
agree that we should give it a go :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
Thank you very very much for this Rose,
I'm forwarding it to the Australian mailing list from where the request originated. Hopefully someone with more technical understanding than I have will be able to work some wiki-magic with that information.
Sincerely,
Liam
(I'm sending this from an iPad and i'm not sure if the original attachment will be sent with this email. Please advise if it doesn't and i'll send this again from a desktop computer).
Wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On 30/11/2010, at 6:12, Rose Holley <RHOLLEY(a)nla.gov.au> wrote:
> Dear Liam
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> I attach a document outlining how some of the NLA services can be harvested. Our plan for Trove including Newspapers is to provide an API so people can download records. We think more people want an API than OAI so are looking at that first. In the meantime you can screenscrape.
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> Records in Trove that are in MARC have a download MARC xml record from the ‘cite this’ box. That is mainly for books. The newspaper articles are in ALTO schema (not MARC or DC). Hope that helps.
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> Rose
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
> Date: 22 November 2010 22:52
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Newspaper cites from Trove
> To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>
> NLA is exposing DC records va OAI, however I don't think the
> newspapers are yet available via OAI.
>
> http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/oai/
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> http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListMetadataForma…
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> http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets
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>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Rodney Brown <rdbrown(a)pacific.net.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:55 +0800, Moondyne wrote:
> >
> >> http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10055249
> >
> > I see it is working now, though I'm not sure about the publisher term in
> > this context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news
> >
> > Wikipedia citation
> > {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10055249 |
> > title=SHIPPING. |newspaper=[[The_Mercury_%28Hobart%29|The Mercury
> > (Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954)]] |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=7 March 1910 |
> > accessdate=23 November 2010 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of
> > Australia}}
> >
> > If you talk to the NLA person again you could ask them to consider
> > providing PRISM or Dublin Core metadata, which could be more directly
> > mined for citation data.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing_Requirements_for_Industry_Standard_…
> >
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> <How to harvest data from National Library of Australia Discovery Services.doc>
Hi all,
By way of a mini fundraising update, per
http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics - it would
seem likely that by now (these stat.s go to the 25th only) we've over
the $200K mark, which means an incredibly healthy $100K+ balance for
WMAU - at this rate we could well be looking at a $250K+ balance, and
we should probably begin serious discussions about where to get the
best advice on investment / interest baring accounts etc. to manage
those numbers professionally and responsibly.
I'm sure the committee will be looking at this sort of thing, and once
again, the more discussion / updates that you (the committee, or
treasurer etc.) feel you can share with the membership, the better :-)
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au
is shortly moving to Trove -- http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=
In Trove, after finding a page I want to cite in Wikipedia, I can click on
More options, Cite, and a window pops up with pre-formattted MLA and APA
cite texts. Example below
CiteArticle identifierhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10055249Page
identifierhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page876271 APA citationSHIPPING. (1910,
March 7). *The Mercury *(Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954), p. 4. Retrieved November
16, 2010, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10055249 MLA
citation"SHIPPING."
*The Mercury *(Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954) 7 Mar 1910: 4. Web. 16 Nov
2010.Harvard/Australian
citation1910 'SHIPPING.', *The Mercury *(Hobart, Tas. : 1860-1954), 7 March,
p. 4, viewed 16 November, 2010, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10055249
WP uses a hybrid of these formats. I was wondering if WM-AU could
officially approach NLA to see if a Wikipedia cite could be added to that
window.
Just an idea...
Regards
Ian
Hi,
The committee will be available for an informal meeting on IRC
#wikimedia-au tomorrow evening to discuss how we are going with the
fundraiser, and anything else of interest.
As this is late notice, a subset of us will be around from 6pm until
10pm AEDT in order to cater to both US people staying up late, and
Western Australians who are a few hours behind.
The best times to come will be 6:45pm-7:45pm and 9pm-10pm AEDT.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-au
from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-au as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
--
John Vandenberg
Hi guys,
The Featured content panel (and specifically, *Songs of a Sentimental Bloke*),
links to wikisource.org, not en.wikisource.org
Could that be fixed?
All the best,
Ian
G'day all,
You may be aware that Wikipedia turns 10 on Sunday 15th Jan, 2011 -
see http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more details :-)
Australia is not currently represented in the 'planned events' bit -
although there's one rather lonely attendee signed up here;
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikipedia_Day
Are you interested in coming to a planned event? Should such an event
be local to you, or should WMAU consider a centralised Australia-wide
do? Would you apply for a transport / expense covering grant to such
an event if the committee supported such a notion (and of course had
the funds to cover it!)? Obviously time is rather against us, but with
some nimble feet we could get something organised - and who doesn't
love a 10th birthday party!
cheers,
Peter,
PM.
Wikimedia Australia has launched its first proposal for the coming
year, supporting Wiki*edia collaboration with historical societies.
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:WikiAcademy_program_-_Regional_hi…
This program is only a proposal at this stage. We are looking for
people in our community, members and non-members, to let us know how
it can be improved in order to be applicable to real world scenarios
that will benefit our community.
Once the initial round of improvements have been made, the
organisation will approve it, and groups across Australia can begin
planning.
We hope that there will be many of these WikiAcademy events occurring
in 2011, hopefully in many states.
--
John Vandenberg, WMAu president