Hi,
I received a complaint today from someone who received a geonotice
regarding the Perth events. Aside from the fact that the geonotice contains
a glaring error, it's raising questions about privacy on Wikipedia. The
last thing we need people to think is that we're some sort of Big Brother
establishment spying on people. As the person raising the issue with me
stated, "I have a login for privacy. How the hell does it know that I'm in
Australia/Perth??"
Could some consideration be given to appropriateness and consultation when
putting these things at the top of every person's watchlist in a given
region? For example, I'm genuinely surprised that the WikiProject Western
Australia talk page was not consulted before placing a notice to all
Western Australian users. As the person running the Joondalup event I knew
nothing about this - I'm quite capable of doing publicity for that event
myself, and I'm concerned that people think that I am behind this!!
While this particular issue affects WA and so the people here are noticing
it, I have been aware for some time of the tendency within WMAu (and
opposed it when I saw it) to just jump straight to geonotice for any and
every event - apart from decreasing the effectiveness if one trains people
to ignore it, it could also have strategic negatives, considering we are
looking to support the Wikimedia Foundation's strategic plan and need to
convince new people that we're not evil, basically. A rethink on promotion
is needed.
kindest regards
Andrew Owens
Hi Sam (and all)
Awesome work regarding getting it into the Fremantle Festival! :) The first
one in September was great fun - I enjoyed being part of the organising
team for the event, and my dad enjoyed being one of its participants. I
wish the Fremantle guys well for next week, and I'll try to be there.
Just so people know, the Wiki Takes Joondalup came out of an opportunity to
work with the Local History Library at the City of Joondalup. To date I've
been running this one as a solo effort, and I'm grateful for their
participation and assistance, including provision of a venue - I had a
meeting with some of their people Friday before last to secure their
support. For those who don't know the Joondalup area, it's a regional
centre in Perth's outer northern suburbs - a place where we have and have
always had very few Wikimedians - and the relative "newness" of the area,
combined with the low commercial/residential density, make it difficult to
photograph. I intend to finish working on the pages later today to bring
them up to date with discussions I've had with them.
One of the interesting opportunities arising from it is the possible
collaboration with Picture
Joondalup<http://www.joondalup.wa.gov.au/Explore/Libraries/LocalHistory/picturejoonda…>,
a CC (restricted :( ) licenced collection of photos - mostly historical -
that they've been building themselves. As they're pretty keen on
maintaining the licencing it already has, I'm not sure where to move with
this one, but would be keen on ideas.
kindest regards
Andrew
On 13 November 2011 08:31, Sam Wilson <sam(a)archives.org.au> wrote:
> On 13/11/11 7:40 AM, Laura Hale wrote:
>
>>
>> Can't set it up but did request it at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Geonotice#Requests<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Requests>. It is very,
>> very last minute. :( No guarantees that some one will see it and post
>> it but the effort was made.
>>
> >
>
> Thanks! There's notices all over the place in Freo, too, and it's in the
> Festival programme.
>
>
>
>> If you want to write a summary of the previous one in there, that would
>> be good too. :) If you can figure out how to do a gallery of pics from
>> the previous meetup, that would be awesome too. :) The GLAM newsletter
>> is read by the WMF and other GLAM organisations. I've started using it
>> in the past two months or so as a quasi way of promoting chapter
>> activities and what Australians are up to. It doesn't have readership
>> as large as the signpost, but the readership it does have is important.
>>
>>
> Writing something now.
>
> Andrew, you've said that the first Wiki Takes Freo was the first photo
> scav hunt in Australia; this *is* correct, isn't it? There wasn't
> something else, to do with TINA in Newcastle or something? I'm probably
> imagining it...
>
> - Sam.
>
>
As neither are chapter events, forwarding to the general list so that more
people are aware of them and can participate if they wish.
If anyone has any questions, please contact Sam with relation to Fremantle,
or myself with relation to Joondalup. The Joondalup page will be finalised
by early tomorrow morning.
kindest regards
Andrew
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From: Sam Wilson <sam(a)archives.org.au>
Date: 12 November 2011 17:37
Subject: [wmau:members] Wiki Takes Freo and Joondalup
To: members(a)wikimedia.org.au
Hi everyone,
Just thought I'd mention a couple of photo scav hunts coming up in WA:
Fremantle (next Saturday), and Joondalup (the week after). There are
notices on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Perth>
Thanks,
Sam.
Sorry to "toot my own horn" but I just found out that an interview I did
ages ago at the National Library has now been shown today on ABC News24!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-20/the-culture-quarter/3581768 all about
GLAM-wiki work :-) I'm very happy with how they put it together - looks
great. It's not investigative journalism so there's no "tricky questions"
or "opposing point of view". One interesting thing is how in the very brief
part where I talk about the problems of copyright they overlay me with
images of someone, presumably pretending to be Cuban, smoking a cigar in
front of a picture of Che Guevara!
First time on TV, woo hoo :-)
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
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From: The Ada Initiative <info(a)adainitiative.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Ada Initiative beginning monthly IRC catchup chats
** Note: this is a one-off announcement. If you want to receive
further updates of the chat times, please see below for where
announcements will go. **
The Ada Initiative would love to be able to have an occasional real
time chat with supporters and fill you in on what we're up to and what
problems you have that we could be helping solve.
As a one-off, the first chat will be held next week, then after that
they will be held on the first Thursday of the month (UTC time). The
chats will be advertised in the Ada Initiative calendar (
http://adainitiative.org/calendar/ ) and the supporters list (
http://lists.adainitiative.org/listinfo.cgi/supporters-adainitiative.org
)
= Location of the channel =
Network: Freenode
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more info: http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml )
Channel: #adainitiative
A web chat interface is available at http://webchat.freenode.net/
Enter a nickname of your choice in "Nickname" and "#adainitiative" in
"Channels".
= Next chat time =
The next chat will be on Thursday 17 November at 2330 UTC, for your
local time please see Time and Date's listing.
If you want can you may join the channel now if you want to make sure
you see the meeting.
= Note on channel moderation =
We're not up to following or moderating a fulltime chat channel, so
the channel will be set to voice-only (which will mean most people
can't communicate with the channel) when a public chat isn't taking
place. You're welcome to lurk in there fulltime if that's easier for
your IRC client, but there won't be activity there outside regular
meetings.
If you have any concerns about the channel or anything that happens in
it, contact info(a)adainitiative.org.
= Note on times =
The time of the meeting may change depending on local daylight savings
time. We will update the calendar and the announcement appropriately
when it does.
Also, because of Valerie's and my physical locations, these are being
held at relatively good times for the US (and the Americas) and
Australia (and New Zealand, Pacific and East Asia). We apologise to
people in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and much of Asia: we may at
some point hold a meeting more conveniently for you.
"...This analysis will focus on characteristics of female participants on
English Wikipedia. The analysis will look to see if these participants are
representative of the female English speaking population. The analysis will
also explore, through some existing literature and in the conclusion, the
question of whether these potential differences could matter when planning
strategy to target the gender gap. …"
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Australia monthly IRC meeting for Sunday 6th November starts today at 17:00 hours (AEDST). All welcome to join in and help make this a terrific meeting.
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/IRC
Thank you,
Anne
We have a very important death in 1941...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_Paterson
However, his works arnt public domain in the US, so this has limited
usefulness on Wikimedia.
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From: geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in
the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and
suchlike.
My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly
focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit
before the new year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths
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From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Fwd: AdaCamp Melbourne (Australia): Saturday
January 14, 2012
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
<gendergap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone -
Ada Initiative is planning AdaCamp and the first will take place in
Melbourne in January 2012. See below for more information on
participating. If I was in Melbourne - I know I would!
-Sarah
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From: Mary Gardiner <mary(a)adainitiative.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:29 PM
(This is a short version of the full announcement at
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Dear all,
One of the major goals of the Ada Initiative is to organize a series
of meetings of women in open technology and culture around the world,
which we’re calling AdaCamp. As Ada Initiative directors Valerie
Aurora and Mary Gardiner will be attending linux.conf.au 2012 in
Ballarat, Australia, we intend to hold our very first AdaCamp the
weekend before, as a one-day event on Saturday 14th January 2012, in
Melbourne, Australia.
Attending AdaCamp Melbourne
Approximately 30 to 40 women will be invited to attend AdaCamp
Melbourne. Invitations will be based on an open application process;
that is, women interested in attending submit a short application, and
attendees will be selected from among the applicants. Attendees will
be selected based on leadership in open technology and culture, and
interest in contributing to supporting women in the community.
Expressions of interest
Applications for AdaCamp Melbourne will open shortly. However, we’d
like to gauge interest in the community so that we can plan a better
event, and to attract sponsors to offset the cost of the event, so if
you are interested in attending, please fill out this form and we will
contact you when applications open.
https://docs.google.com/a/adainitiative.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&f…
Q&A
How much will AdaCamp cost? Will you offer travel or accommodation subsidies?
AdaCamp Melbourne will have free admission. We would like to offer
travel and accommodation subsidies, if our budget permits. If so,
these will be announced in due course. Not that it is very unlikely
that we will be able to offer subsidies that will greatly offset the
cost of an international flight to Australia.
What do you mean by a leader in open technology and culture?
We include activities like:
substantial amounts of openly available creative work, such as open
source software and freely licenced educational or artistic works
project leadership or substantial volunteer community work in a open
tech or culture project
involvement in outreach for open technology and culture, such as
running programming workshops or photowalks or mapping drives
involvement in or leadership in women’s groups related to open
technology and culture, like Wikichix, Geek Feminism, GNOME Women and
so on.
When will there be an AdaCamp in my country/region?
Depending on funding, the Ada Initiative intends to run a few AdaCamps
every year, likely shortly before or after major open technology and
culture conferences. Watch our blog for other AdaCamp announcements.
We also hope and expect that other events and summits for women in
open technology and culture will continue to be run by other groups:
let us know if you’re running one and we’ll be happy to help you
spread the word.
Contact us
If you have further questions, please email info(a)adainitiative.org.
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Sarah Stierch Consulting
Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.
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