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,
as you may or may not know, a couple of years ago I was working with the
"Dictionary of Sydney" [DoS] - an digital history project to get recognised
experts to write about all aspects of Sydney's history/people/places etc.
Whilst I was there one of the things I was particularly involved with was
ensuring that each contributing author had the option of licensing their
content under CC-by-SA, and I'm pleased to say that the vast majority did
so.
Just this week saw a new update to the website with a variety of new
articles to add to the existing collection - as described in their blogpost:
http://dictionaryofsydney.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/drumroll/ *You can see
all the articles that are freely-licensed by going here and clicking on the
"sort by license type" button at the top
http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries*
As you can see these articles can be of huge value to WP content about
Sydney - some are even expert peer reviewed and published in the UTS Sydney
Journal <http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/sydney_journal>. Because
they're stable articles by named authors in a government-research-grant
funded publication they are good sources to reference in their own right, as
well as providing many good footnotes within the articles to primary
sources. Of course, being CC-by-SA, they are also able to be copied directly
into Wikipedia and Wikified (something I've previously done with Sydney
artists' Camps <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps>, Glebe
Island <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island> and Hugo
Alpen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Alpen>
.
Is there anyone here who has the time and technical knowledge and would like
to:
a) make a neat attribution
template<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Attribution_templates>for
when content is copy/pasted into WP from the DoS, e.g. the way we do
with Template:Catholic
Encyclopedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Catholic_Encyclopedia>.
You can see the text I've written manually to provide attribution at the end
of the articles mentioned just above?
b) relatedly, make a specific source
template<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Specific-source_templates>for
when we wish to use DoS articles as a citation (to add to the
collection
of other Australian source
templates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_specific-source_templates>
!)?
c) If it's possible, create some kind of checklist where we can mark off
which articles have been imported and integrated, which ones have been used
for footnotes only, and which have done neither?
If people in Sydney are interested perhaps we could ask the folks at DoS or
their partners the StateLibrary if they would like to host an "editathon"
where we can spend some time working on this in person? Anyone interested?
Next time I get a chance I'm going to try and merge their article on
Bungaree <http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/bungaree> into WP's much
less comprehensive article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungaree> though if
anyone wants to beat me to it, go right ahead!
-Liam
p.s. I've crossposted this to Australian Wikipedians Noticeboard
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Australian_Wikipedians%27_notice_boa…>
.
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Dear Australian Wikimedians,
(I'll crosspost this to the Wikiproject Australia noticeboard)
Next week on Tuesday myself alongside Leigh Blackall (User:Leighblackall
from Uni of Canberra), Andrew Garrett (user:werdna dev from the WMF) Jutta
(User:Juttavd from Cancer Council Aust) and Jessica Coates (formerly with
Creative Commons aust) will all be visiting the ABC headquarters in Sydney
to have a meeting with managers of different departments as well as a
lunchtime presentation to a larger group of staff.
As has sometimes been discussed on this list and elsewhere, the
possibilities of Wikipedia/Wikimedia working with the ABC abound but we've
never really been able to make headway in having an actual relationship.
Whilst it's not expected that this meeting will immediately result in the
ABC making their media archive PD, we do hope that this will be the start
of, as they said in Casablanca, "a beautiful friendship"...
The meeting will no-doubt be wideranging but there are a couple of ideas
that I specifically want to raise with the ABC.
1) I'd like to show them how Al Jazeera is publishing some of their footage
under cc-by and see whether ABC could feasibly do the same
http://cc.aljazeera.net/
2) I'd like to see if the ABC News website would like to add in Wikipedia
Citation template code to it's pages, to make it easier for people to
footnote Australian news stories in WP. I'll be showing them how the
National Library of Australia already does this with their digitised
newspaper collection (e.g. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/628050 -
click on the "cite" button near the top left).
3) Point out to them how they can, if they want, use Wikinews content even
more freely that Wikipedia because it is CC-BY.
There are of course, no shortage of other potential things that the ABC and
Wikimedia could do, so if you've got something that you really want "put on
the table" please tell us.
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
Are there any Australians who are OSM contributors?
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From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] [OT: OSM] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 -
discount for early birds, scholarships
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Somewhat off-topic, from one of our awesome cousin projects:
The annual OSM meeting will be in Denver this September 9-11. Early
bird registration ends in two weeks.
Outside of Wikimedia, OSM may be the most successful focused free
knowledge project around, and has revolutionized the culture of
mapping worldwide. I had the pleasure of seeing their LinuxTag booth
the other week, and some of the print maps they are making with their
data are among the best I have seen. I encourage anyone who is close
to Denver to consider going.
They are offering scholarships for mappers from countries with smaller
mapping communities who could not afford to come. They list a few
countries as examples:
Eastern and Southern Europe: Belarus, Kosovo, Bulgaria
Arab States: Tunisia, Bahrain, Jordan
Asia: Nepal, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Indonesia
Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala
Africa: Liberia, Ivory Coast, Swaziland
If you know OSM contributors in these regions who might benefit from
being at this meeting, you can nominate them via email until June 25:
http://stateofthemap.org/scholarships-to-state-of-the-map-2011/
SJ
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Subject: State of the Map discounts
Hello,
As you may have heard, this years main OpenStreetMap event, "State of
the Map", will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA during September
9th-11th. Read more about our event on our website
http://stateofthemap.org/
If you are a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, we can offer you
a $15 discount on the community tickets. This discount is also
available for the early-bird tickets which can still be acquired until
June 15th.
You may want to extend your stay in Denver by also attending FOSS4G
http://2011.foss4g.org/
Let's meet in Denver!
Henk Hoff
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Organising Committee
State Of The Map 2011
http://www.stateofthemap.org/http://www.openstreetmap.org/
henk(a)stateofthemap.org
phone +31 6 4808 8925
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