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
I second this.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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Hi all,
I am interested in working on a proposal for WMAU to sponsor the
creation of a 'PersonalWiki' or 'GroupWiki' tool, which I think could
have some interesting and useful applications.
The basic idea is for the tool to be a simple and straightforward way
of creating 'fenced wiki environments' - a collection of content which
can then be worked on / played with / investigated / read by a micro
community of whomever the curator chooses. I hope there are tons of
exciting possibilities, and have detailed a bit more here;
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Journal:A_Wikimedia_Australia_proposal
Please do get involved, or just ask questions, if you'd like to - and
in particular, if you'd like to be involved as a WMAU member in
getting this proposal going, it would be greatly appreciated - per our
rules (below) we need two firmly committed members as a first step :-)
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal_process
best,
Peter,
PM.
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Hi,
I am pleased to announce that the State Library of Queensland has
donated 50,000 public domain jpeg images to Wikimedia Australia, and
we are currently in the process of uploading them.
We are still in the process of launching everything. The central page
for documenting and discussing it is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland
To get a feel for the people at the library behind this effort, and
the library sector here in Australia, I recommend reading this paper
written by Margaret Warren, who is one of the key people we have been
working with at the library.
http://www.nsla.org.au/publications/papers/2010/pdf/NSLA.Discussion-Paper-2…
We will be running new banners every day, and Wikimedians are welcome
to create their own banners and we'll run the best ones. The banners
need to use the SLQ images, and be 3000px by 150-180px.
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John Vandenberg
This link (http://bit.ly/wmau) points to the old memberdb membership signup.
I'm not sure who owns it, or how to change it. Could it be updated to
http://civicrm.wikimedia.org.au/signup.php
The old 'membership' subdomain will be moved to the new server soon.
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John Vandenberg
Hi all,
I am interested in working on a proposal for WMAU to sponsor the
creation of a 'PersonalWiki' or 'GroupWiki' tool, which I think could
have some interesting and useful applications.
The basic idea is for the tool to be a simple and straightforward way
of creating 'fenced wiki environments' - a collection of content which
can then be worked on / played with / investigated / read by a micro
community of whomever the curator chooses. I hope there are tons of
exciting possibilities, and have detailed a bit more here;
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Journal:A_Wikimedia_Australia_proposal
Please do get involved, or just ask questions, if you'd like to - and
in particular, if you'd like to be involved as a WMAU member in
getting this proposal going, it would be greatly appreciated - per our
rules (below) we need two firmly committed members as a first step :-)
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal_process
best,
Peter,
PM.
Thanks for your replies Peter and Adam.
I think WMAU needs to be a lot more open --- this discussion about
having a closed / open wiki has been going on for a long time.
When WMAU first started I sent an anonymous donation of $50 by check....
I did not want to fill out all the details to be a 'member'. It was too
complex... I have no idea what it is like now.
Ideas as to spending the unearned income / windfall:
1) Sponsor people / efforts to open up government information sources.
2) Fight restrictive copyright.
3) Sponsor cheap / free / guerrilla marketing of WP.
4) Deliver 'Briefing on WP' material / presentations to schools.
5) Give support grants to PHD candidates who agree to add their
expertise to WP. Limit to one year... Reward actual contributors with
more grants to support their PHD study.
Regards, Richard.
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> Peter's reply is pretty accurate. :) I'd add, it isn't because of what
> we've done - the change is, as far as I understand, driven by the
> Foundation's wish to move more responsibility to the Chapters to focus
> on grassroots outreach. So a major part of the developing role of WMAU
> is to focus on reaching new people and assisting them to produce free
> cultural content, in whatever form that may take. This, of course,
> means scaling up dramatically, so a lot of current focus is on getting
> policies and procedures in place to allow the Chapter to scale without
> encountering the fundamental problems you tend to hit.
>
> Anyway, I would like to echo Peter's suggestion of more ideas. :)
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.