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From: Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:03 AM
Subject: [wmau:members] Auckland meetup
To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, members(a)wikimedia.org.au
I wanted to thank Wikimedia Australia for sponsoring the Auckland
meetup. Some brief notes from the session can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland_6
In talking with them, I told them about Wikimedia Australia, what the
advantages are for having a national chapters, and what Wikimedia
Australia might be willing to do to help them. My assumptions were
generally that our chapter could help provide some logistical support
and help them with credibility. There are some people in the country
who are interested in talking to organisations about doing something
similar to what the Queensland State Library did. As an individual
editor, they just do not have much credibility. If the individual is
willing to do most of the legwork, Wikimedia Australia may be willing
to help give them a name for credibility's sake. Beyond that, if they
are interested in creating a national chapter and have several people
dedicated to wanting to do that, then help could be provided in trying
to help establish a national chapter. (Which might be the focus of a
one day RCC should it happen or possibly for an independent workshop
with the vested parties to meet to establish that.)
One random idea that came up is the issue of hansard in New Zealand.
One of the Kiwis said they didn't believe it was copyrighted. If that
is true, it might be interesting to see if that couldn't be entered on
to Wikisource.
It was also interesting to discuss issues like political pictures and
editing issues for political people articles.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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