[Wikimediaau-l] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 - discount for early birds, scholarships
Are there any Australians who are OSM contributors? -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel Klein meta...@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 foundatio...@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 -- Forwarded message -- 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 -- Organising Committee State Of The Map 2011 http://www.stateofthemap.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ h...@stateofthemap.org phone +31 6 4808 8925 -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Meta2011, May 25-27, Canberra
The following press release has been released by the Institute of Metadata Management. --- Wikimedia Australia announced as sponsor of Meta2011 The Institute of Metadata Management is proud to announce that Wikimedia Australia is now a Sponsor of the Meta2011 Conference. “Wikimedia strongly supports efforts to make information available and usable to all and an integral part of this goal is to encourage the development and usage of free and open Metadata standards. Wikimedia Australia, the non-profit chapter of the global movement behind Wikipedia and other sites, welcomes the opportunity to support and participate in Meta2011” said Liam Wyatt, Wikimedia Foundation Cultural Partnerships Fellow. John Vandenberg, President of Wikimedia Australia, will be presenting a workshop as part of the Professional Development stream at the conference on Friday 27th May, 2011. IMM President Melanie Taylor said that the inclusion of the Wikimedia community within Meta 2011 is a wonderful opportunity to explore the potential to undertake research into emerging issues confronting information management. Wiki is often thought of as a completely unstructured environment, yet there is a wealth of information available about its content and its structure, and we hope that our relationship with the Wikimedia community will allow us to explore the new community based information sharing paradigm. Meta2011 is the fourth conference to be held in Australia and is themed Business Realities and Implications. The 3 days conference will cover topics such as Business intelligence and analytics; Technology solutions; Data integration; Management, governance and stewardship and more. By attending this conference, delegates are expected to go away with knowledge which can be shared and implemented in their businesses. For more information related to IMM and Meta2011 please visit http://www.metalounge.org --- https://institutemetadatamanagement.worldsecuresystems.com/_literature_50729/Wikimedia_Sponsorship I will be there for all three days, and Siska Doviana, Executive Director of Wikimedia Indonesia, will be attending the conference on Thursday and Friday. Wikimedia Australia would like Wikimedians to turn up to build strong relationships with people in this sector. Wikimedia Australia is making available 10 single-day tickets for $50 each. If you would like to attend, or know someone who would, please email commit...@wikimedia.org.au with your details before COB tomorrow. (Sorry for the short notice) John Vandenberg, on behalf of the committee. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Another 400 free Credo Reference accounts have been made available for Wikipedians, kindly donated by the company and arranged by Erik Möller of the Wikimedia Foundation. We've drawn up some eligibility criteria to direct the accounts to content contributors, and after that it's first come, first served. The list will open on Wednesday, March 23 at 22:00 UTC, and will remain open for seven days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CREDO Feel free to add your name even if you're lower on the list than the 400th, in case people ahead of you aren't eligible. Good luck! Sarah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SlimVirgin ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] SLQ donation report 2
As many will be aware, the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) donated 50,000 images to Wikimedia Commons, with Wikimedia Australia responsible for task of uploading the images. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland As part of this collaboration, we promised to provide a regular progress report, providing a lot of raw data that Wikimedia and the library can use in presentations. We provided the first report on February 3: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/1 The second report is now compiled: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/2 There are many contributors to thank for making this partnership a success so far. Here is a list of the contributors who are self-identified as Australian: 99of9 Bidgee Billinghurst Cgoodwin Crusoe8181 Gareth/Gareth_Aus Gnangarra Grahamec Jeff79 John Vandenberg WestyQld2/JRA_WestyQld2 Kerry Raymond Lankiveil Mattinbgn Melburnian Nick-D Rcbutcher Saberwyn SatuSuro Shiftchange Tony1 And self-identified Kiwis, or people residing there: Ingolfson Jeff79 Tony_Wills Do you recognise any additional Australians or Kiwis in the report? Are there any other stats that you think would be useful? If anyone wants to help, and doesn't know where to start, the non-existent categories already containing images is an area that needs humans. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:State_Library_of_Queensland/Reports/2/Red_categories The 'problem' is that those category names were automatically generated based on the subject headings provided by the library, so they might be named incorrectly according to the Commons naming conventions. A mailing list has been created for the SLQ project. The bot account watches every uploaded image, and the Commons server emails the mailing list whenever a watched page is updated. As a result it can be high-volume at times. If you would like to be added to that mailing list, email 'subscribe' to slq-requ...@wikimedia.org.au. The bot will be starting again tonight, and will be focusing on uploading images of ships. You can request a batch of images at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:State_Library_of_Queensland Cheers, John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [LA-Jobs] National Archives of Australia - Contract Development work
-- Forwarded message -- From: LA Jobs List j...@lists.linux.org.au Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:53 PM Subject: [LA-Jobs] National Archives of Australia - Contract Development work To: j...@lists.linux.org.au A new job has been posted on the Linux Australia website. http://linux.org.au/content/national-archives-australia-contract-development-work === The National Archives of Australia has a digital repository that preserves government records that are generated in digital form. The preservation process requires a pre-emptive obsolescence strategy of converting files in closed formats, like the Microsoft Word document format, into open formats based on patent-free open standards, like Open Document Format (ODF). This is what occurs using our current in-house developed Xena software platform ( http://xena.sf.net ). The Archives requires an automated quality assurance mechanism that compares an input Microsoft Word document to the same document converted to ODF. The aim is to produce a set of numerical results that quantify how successful (or otherwise) the process of converting a document from Microsoft Word format to ODF is, based on the attributes of the document. The Product will be integrated into the Xena product through the Interfaces described in this RFQ. We are after Java, Python or potentially other open source developers to contribute work for intergration into the GPLv3 licenced Xena product. Experience in Open Document Format and automating tasks would be highly regarded. Work will start soon after the close date of 15th March 2011 (11:01am EDST) and will be required to be delivered before 21 June. This is contract work and the payments will be outlined in your submission. The work can be performed anywhere as the National Archives will not be providing a development environment. Full details on scope of work and how to apply available at URL: http://www.jobstodo.com.au/jobs?id=6A5DC Any questions contact Chris Smart chris.sm...@naa.gov.au === ___ jobs mailing list j...@lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/jobs ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia:Relicensing agreement
Hi, In July 2009 the Wikimedia Australia committee decided that the public wiki for the organisation should be migrated from GFDL to CC-BY-SA.[1] In order to do this, we need permission from all of the copyright holders, which is all previous editors of the wiki. In order to avoid needing to do this again, the Wikimedia Australia committee is also asking for permission to relicense the website again if the need ever arises. A list of everyone has been compiled, and we would appreciate it if everyone listed could sign the following page. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia:Relicensing_agreement Non-members who have previously edited the wiki now have the ability to edit this page, and also their user and their talk page. Once we have completed this exercise, the Wikimedia Australia committee will look seriously at proposals to allow non-members to participate in the wiki. Thank you, John Vandenberg On behalf of the Wikimedia Australia committee. 1. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Resolution:Updating_official-wiki_license ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - mid next week
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:47 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: One of the attendees to RecentChangesCamp 2011, Canberra is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet Footscray offices at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which suits the most people. The Melb RCCx is now locked in for this Thursday, 6PM-8PM. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx/Melbourne If you are in Hobart on the weekend of March 12, please indicate your availability here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx/Hobart -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - next Wed or Thur
Jani Patokallio, one of the participants RecentChangesCamp 2011 @ Canberra, is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet office at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which suits the most people. If you would like to attend on either of these nights, please leave a note at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx/Melbourne Similar meetups are being planned for Hobart (probably on the weekend of the 12th of March), Sydney (venue and date still being finalised), Perth, and Armidale. For more details about these, see: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx There are also two events planned for Canberra in a fortnights time; more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - next Wed or Thur
whoops; sorry for the dup. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:43 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Jani Patokallio, one of the participants RecentChangesCamp 2011 @ Canberra, is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet office at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which suits the most people. If you would like to attend on either of these nights, please leave a note at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx/Melbourne Similar meetups are being planned for Hobart (probably on the weekend of the 12th of March), Sydney (venue and date still being finalised), Perth, and Armidale. For more details about these, see: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/RCCx There are also two events planned for Canberra in a fortnights time; more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Canberra -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] RecentChangesCamp eXpanded - Melbourne - mid next week
One of the attendees to RecentChangesCamp 2011, Canberra is going to host a follow up meetup at the Lonely Planet Footscray offices at 6PM next week, either on Wednesday or Thursday night depending on which suits the most people. If you would like to attend on either of these nights, leave a note at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2011/RecentChangesCamp_Expanded/Melbourne For images, video and notes about RCC, see: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2011 Similar meetups are being planned for Hobart (probably on the weekend of the 12th of March), and Sydney (venue and date still being finalised). More info about these can be found here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2011/RecentChangesCamp_Expanded -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] #women4wikipedia chat now
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23women4wikipedia more info at http://women4wikipedia.net/#events -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Proposal to offer bounties for improved OpenDocument support
. * allows individual pages can be linked and viewed using the 'page=x' syntax. An example of a file format handler is PdfHandler. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler An extension that handles only OpenDocument files can provide similar functionality. The renderer needs to accept a large range of files conforming to the OpenDocument standard, however it can gracefully degrade the quality of the output as it is intended for 'screen' rather than 'print'. Again this is not critical, but it is a bit more involved, so I suggest a bounty of $500 on this functionality. == OpenDocument printing == While OpenDocument is supported by a wide array of software packages, requiring users to obtain and install OpenDocument software is a barrier. To remove this barrier, the wiki should provide the user with a PDF version of the document. PDF readers are smaller, and more ubiquitous, and the PDF file format is more readily accepted by printers. The PDF output must be print quality. As this functionality is critical for ease of use and adoption, I suggest a bounty of $1000. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
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-20100809-Public.domain.material.in.Collections.pdf 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. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland
We have a local copy in Brisbane and Armidale. The metadata is in a static XML file. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:32 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I noticed you are using a bot to upload these? are you grabbing them from the SLQ website or do you have local file versions of these, because if its the latter we could just get them archived up and get them bulk uploaded by one of the system admins. -Peachey ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:22 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Laura, I gather I now need to get the nod of a committee member in order to start building the information on the official wiki - I've copied Craig (our treasurer) in on this, because we've had a mini correspondence about this proposal, and hopefully he'll be able to give the nod, and we can get going :-) Obviously the approval of any other committee member would be most welcome at any time also. overall, I like it, however ... the fourth bullet point is your personal view, it judges other organisations (schools and the WMF; partners and potential partners), and states that WMF is being negligent because it isn't doing something that is 'necessary'. That isn't going to be published in a WMAu proposal as written. Your personal views are suitable on your userpage or in discussions, until you have built support within the membership. You can merge bullet two four like so: * Parents and organisations with duty of care for children may prefer to create PersonalWikis, in order to provide a safer wiki environment that they can manage. Moreover, why should *we* do anything to make mediawiki more useful for children/training. Is this a gap? if so, is it a good use of our resources to attempt to fix it? There are a lot of extra considerations for that use-case. I have reservations about WmAu creating wikis for kids on the assumption that their parents are overseeing them. The import/export component of this proposal is the gem. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Interoperability_%28Wiki-to-Wiki_interoperability%29 Also if we are going to have 'fork' wikis, and we ignore the 'wiki for kids' component of your proposal, we would probably want to have 'missing' articles in the PersonalWiki link through to the forked wiki, which is what this proposal is all about. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Wikiversity_%26_Wikipedia_sharing_articles A simple way to set up a 'fork' wiki is to allow users to import into their userspace, and add some security so that users can't edit each others userspace. Then every user has their own personal area to host forks, all in one wiki so that the administrative workload is less . However this can also be achieved on Wikipedia; copy an article into your userspace and it is unlikely to be edited by anyone else. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] A Proposal
The Push extension looks very cool, but will it be enabled on WMF servers? If not, I dont think it is useful for Privatemusing's proposal. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: snip The import/export component of this proposal is the gem. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Interoperability_%28Wiki-to-Wiki_interoperability%29 Also if we are going to have 'fork' wikis, and we ignore the 'wiki for kids' component of your proposal, we would probably want to have 'missing' articles in the PersonalWiki link through to the forked wiki, which is what this proposal is all about. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Wikiversity_%26_Wikipedia_sharing_articles A simple way to set up a 'fork' wiki is to allow users to import into their userspace, and add some security so that users can't edit each others userspace. Then every user has their own personal area to host forks, all in one wiki so that the administrative workload is less . However this can also be achieved on Wikipedia; copy an article into your userspace and it is unlikely to be edited by anyone else. -- John Vandenberg I'm not sure, but is this MediaWiki extension called Push that was announced just yesterday relevant to that issue (or even supersedes it)? http://blog.bn2vs.com/2010/12/15/new-mediawiki-extension-push/ From the announcement: ...Push, it enables you to push content of wiki pages to one or more other MediaWiki installs. The main features are: Pushing page content to other wikis via a tab on the page. Bulk push via Special:Push. Remote authentication support. Automatic transfer of included files. Support for ApprovedRevs. If there is an approved revision, it will be pushed, if not, the latest one is pushed. AdminLinks integration. Usage of the new MediaWiki Resource Loader when available with backward support for MW 1.16.x. Best, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] http://bit.ly/wmau
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. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] http://bit.ly/wmau
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: OK. Angela's solution is the best that we can do then. All sorted. Thanks everyone. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Michelle Gallaway mgalla...@gmail.com wrote: I was more interested in seeing if this could be enforced by technology, maybe so that unconfirmed users simply didn't get an edit button on other name spaces. This would be my preference as well, at least for the time being. It can be enforced by technology as it is a standard part of the software. There are quite a few aspects that have not been adequately discussed yet. Everyone on the Wiki is currently a member, so the wiki falls under the Rules of the organisation, including how disputes should be resolved, and every edit is by a member whose name can be obtained from the register, which means JoePublic can see who said something and take them to court. If we are going to allow non-members to edit, we need : a) different admins Currently the sysops are Sarah and myself. Until someone puts up their hand to be an admin, open editing proposals will likely be rejected by the committee. The committee already put many hours into WMF projects and WMAU committee work, and I don't think any committee member wants to manage the wiki as a 'project'. OTOH, we would love for members to run the wiki as a project, provided they manage it as an _official_ website, which does require more professional behaviour of participants and admins. b) to consider what happens when non-members and members have a dispute. We don't need to be a strict policy that covers all situations, but we do need to have thought about it, and have an appropriate way of escalating it. I think the simplest approach is for one member (again, not a committee member) to be appointed as a 'bureaucrat' (crat), and they make the final decision on any dispute involving a non-member that doesn't resolve itself. c) identify, assess and prepare for legal risks We do not have the ISP immunity that is available to the WMF, so someone needs to look at the Australian laws that are applicable to us. We would need to enable revision deletion in order to swiftly deal with any libelous content and privacy complaints. d) decide on a username policy We run a separate wiki from WMF, and our non-member participation is most likely to be from WMF contributors. How do we confirm that wmau user JoeBloggs is wmf user JoeBloggs, in order to prevent silliness? I think the 'crat should be responsible for confirming the identity of new non-members accounts. This confirmation could be _before_ the account is confirmed in the 'ConfirmAccount' extension which we currently use. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount Or the account could have a permission set afterwards. The permission would have no actual effect, other than recording that the given identity has been verified. On this point, new user accounts are often privacy violations and libel. It is not uncommon for a libelous username to go unnoticed for years because it is written in a script we don't understand and because it slips under the radar. Somewhat related, heaven forbid, how would we deal with a member who creates a second account which is assumed to be operated by a non-member, and therefore operating free of the organisations Rules? Are there any other potential problems we should discuss before we start open editing? Another option is for us to host our official wiki on the WMF servers, as a 'project' which I assume means the stewards can step in and perform oversight checkuser when required. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Newspaper cites from Trove
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/
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListMetadataFormats
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/oaicat/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Rodney Brown rdbr...@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_Metadata
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[Wikimediaau-l] WMAu IRC discussion tomorrow night
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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?
Sorry folks. That page has been deleted. Wikimedia Australia has been working on a process for proposals, and this proposal did not follow the process. The committee has talked a lot about allowing non-members to edit the wiki, and I would love a good proposal, but the one that privatemusings put up was an empty proposal. Non members can explain here why they want to be able to edit our wiki; we are listening. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:35 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: 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. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Peter Halasz qub...@gmail.com wrote: Non members can explain here why they want to be able to edit our wiki; we are listening. I'm not engaging in this debate again. It's been argued to death already. It's ridiculously obvious to me why it WMAU should be editable, and the fact that it still isn't tells me that WMAU is either moving at a glacial pace or is being run by people who simply do not share my values. I agree it has been discussed to death. Almost everyone agrees that it should be open, so discussing that again is pointless. However use-cases are not pointless; knowing what non-members what to do *now* means we focus on permitting those things *now*. If non-members just want to comment on proposals, we can work out how to allow talk page access. If non-members want to develop proposals, we can give accounts to non-members we trust for this purpose. A more basic question is why are non-members still non-members? If it is cost, perhaps we should change our membership fees. In the past there has been disagreement about how open our website should be, and how we administrate being open. Being 'open' introduces new problems and new workloads, and we need to have a solution to those problems. My biggest concern is that open editing is going to be left for the committee to administrate. The committee should not be doing this; it will result in us being dragged to court. The membership has not shown a great deal of interest in helping build the wiki over the past few years. If a member steps up and _commits_ to be the 'crat' / 'webmaster', and that person asks for open editing, the committee *will* vote on it. Another option is for the committee to hand over the responsibility of managing the website to one of the ordinary members, and to allow them to manage it how they see fit. Do we want new non-member accounts to continue to go via ConfirmAccount? [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount IMO, the answer is yes; we definitely do not want unhappy Wikipedia subjects to be allowed to have accounts and be able to rant on our website. If so, what is our policy on who can have accounts and their usernames? Who is going to decide what content is acceptable or not? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Billabong
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Moondyne moondyne...@gmail.com wrote: 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? I have fixed it. 'wikisource' now goes to en.ws, which could break some existing links. 'mulwikisource' and 'oldwikisource' have been added to access the multilingual/main wikisource project. The interwiki table can be viewed here http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Special:Interwiki Quite a lot of them appear to be useless for our purposes. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] WikiAcademy program - Regional historical societies
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_historical_societies 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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] fundraiser - IRC
Hi everyone, I will be idling out in the freenode IRC channel wikimedia-au for the majority of today. If Australians have issues with or suggestions for the current trial fundraiser banner, thats the best place to go. irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-au -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Internet filter back in the news
Some recent news about this. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Julia+Gillard+Queensland+Media+Club+internet+filter It looks like this was the speaking engagement where the issue was raised: http://www.queenslandmediaclub.com.au/qmc/01_cms/details.asp?k_id=249 Is there a video of it somewhere? My understanding is that an internet filter is unlikely now due to the makeup of the lower house. The restricted content list is worth a look; I like how a date descending list ends at 1984. http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/classificationsbydate?SearchViewsearchorder=4searchmax=2000searchwv=1query=%28%28[cat]=Publication%29%29AND%28[rating]=RC%29 Items like this stand out: http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/d853f429dd038ae1ca25759b0003557c/b39146a11506b851ca257671007b327d?OpenDocument While this issue doesn't fit squarely within the statement of purpose of Wikimedia Australia[1], if someone is feeling particularly motivated about it, and broad consensus can be found among the members, WMAu could participate in the public debate via the blog and publish a position statement, perhaps highlighting the disruption already experienced in the UK[2], and raising the issue of images on Wikimedia Commons. 1. http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/SOP 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australia#UK_IWF_blockage_of_Wikipedia -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: btw, we don't have a Wikipedia nav template for Zoos; the closest is [[List_of_zoos#Australia]]. That is another task for October ;-) A new article with a lot of red links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zoos_in_Australia And here is another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatened_fauna_of_Australia I've created a page on meta where we can put our ideas, record our achievements, etc. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia/Zootober_2010 -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
October is Zootober. http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/zoo/ Is anyone involved in an Australian zoo? If so, how can we help? Wikimedians could go to Australian zoos armed with camera's, and we could create a Commons page including our images collected in October. Or we could improve the Wikipedia articles about Australian zoos... Any other ideas? -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: ps. is the small grants program still in effect? I presume so; if not, please assume that any sensible project will be considered by the committee, via this grant scheme or another approach. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Zootober
On 9/20/10, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: were I to contact a vague associate at Taronga and perhaps discuss the possibility of them hosting a wiki meetup and perhaps have a small 'get to know each other' type discussion / session a la GLAM - could I be so bold as to mention WMAU as part of the proposal? I'd like to say something like 'we from Wikimedia Australia would like to organise something like this' - I'm hoping that my role as simply a member sufficiently empowers me to take such initiatives? Roll over GLAM, WIZOO! here we come. I doubt we could achieve anything even vaguely resembling GLAM in October. A Backstage Pass to any zoo would be great, and is more achievable. http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Backstage_pass Feel free to get the ball rolling with Toronga Zoo. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Slashdot asks for our assistance; conscience votes in Australia
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/09/17/0428224/Conroy-Still-Hell-Bent-On-Internet-Filter ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default
Woo hoo! This is fantastic news. A big thank you to all involved. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jessica Coates j2.coa...@qut.edu.au Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:54 AM Subject: [cc-community] Australian Federal Government commits to CC BY as default To: cc...@lists.ibiblio.org cc...@lists.ibiblio.org, cc-commun...@lists.ibiblio.org cc-commun...@lists.ibiblio.org, c...@lists.ibiblio.org c...@lists.ibiblio.org Big news from the Australian Government on the issue of access to public sector information. In an official response released yesterday, the Federal Government has agreed to 12 of the 13 recommendations to come out of the Government 2.0 Taskforce report released last December – including Recommendation 6.3, which states that Creative Commons Attribution should be the default licensing position for PSI. In addition, the government has also agreed that the new Information Commissioner currently being established will issue guidelines to ensure that: § by default PSI is free, open, and reusable; § PSI is released as quickly as possible; § PSI may only be withheld where there is a legal obligation preventing its release. § when Commonwealth records become available for public access under the Archives Act 1983, works covered by Crown copyright will be automatically licensed under an appropriate open attribution licence. The response also includes an undertaking that the Attorney-General’s Department will examine the current state of copyright law with regard to orphan works (including section 200AB of the Copyright Act 1968), with the aim of recommending amendments that would remove the practical restrictions that currently impede the use of such works. This is the single biggest commitment to CC licensing and open access principles by Australian government, and should mean that the majority of Australian government material will soon be available under a CC licence. The fact that both the response and the announcement have been released under CC BY is a good start. The assignment of responsibility for implementation of the commitment to the new Information Commissioner is also an encouraging move, and will hopefully see a more coordinated approach to IP policy across the Australian government as a whole. The response is available here and a blog post from Finance Minister Tanner is available here. Jessica Coates Project Manager Creative Commons Clinic and Creative Commons Australia ___ cc-community mailing list cc-commun...@lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] The A E Bert Roberts photograph collection
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Craig Franklin cr...@halo-17.net wrote: Hi Peter, Unfortunately the physical objects that the collection is based upon (the glass plate negatives) are in a locked cupboard somewhere in the QM warehouse, so the possibility of getting our hands on them and making our own copies are fairly remote. I've deliberately worded the info in the infobox to be slightly ambiguous - QM *claim* copyright on the digitisation (much the same as the NPG in the UK), but there has not been a legal case here in Australia to my knowledge or the knowledge of QM's copyright people to confirm whether the sweat of the brow doctrine would hold up in an Australian court. We only say that QM assert copyright over the digitisation, not that we recognise that particular claim. And because the digitisation part is then released under a free, acceptable licence, the whole shebang is fine to go on Commons. the template is here: [[commons:Template:QM_Infobox]] watchlist it! ;-) The images are tagged PD because they are unquestionably PD in the United States, which is what really matters in this case, but it's worth mentioning that there is a possible bit of CC-BY-SA-3.0 in there just so that nobody in Australia or the UK gets caught out. A similar example of a claim like this is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phineas_Gage_Cased_Daguerreotype_WilgusPhoto2008-12-19_Unretouched_Color.jpg and the derivative http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phineas_Gage_Daguerreotype_WilgusPhoto2008-12-19_CroppedInsideMat_Unretouched_BW.jpg Legally we are better off having a CC image than a PD image - the definition of the latter can change. For cases like this, it would be nice to have a CC-0-digitised-attribution license which requires attribution of the digitiser, but does not assert copyright over it. nice work Craig! -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Bringing the wiki model to digitisation
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Bainstephen.b...@gmail.com wrote: ... My own use of archival collections for research has recently got me thinking: why don't we bring the wiki model to digitisation? 3) Taking the photos and transcribing at Wikisource. As far as I am aware, all the various state archives are free to use (if you don't use the copying services) so all participants would need would be a camera and some spare time. Thoughts? ... In short, we dont need more content; we need more people. Even if contributors don't stick around on Wikisource, we need more people who have participated in one Wikisource digitisation project ... so that they have an appreciation of what Wikisource is doing. e.g. DarkFalls, Daniel, Giggy, privatemusings - these guys have all come over and done a bit of work, and can now evangelise. ;-) The core of the problem is that very few people are: 1) aware of Distributed Proofreaders and Wikisource, and especially the potential of Wikisource, 2) interested in transcribing PD works, or 3) competent in identifying PD works (i.e. copyright) Adminiship is a fairly good indicator of serious Wikisourcerors, as it is liberally granted to anyone who has significantly contributed to the project - e.g. I nom. people who have 1000 edits, no major issues, and have touched a few namespaces. I have successfully nominated Poetlister, an IP address, and a person who appears to not like responding to questions on their talk page. They have all done fairly well as admins. Most people accept RtbaAs (requests to be an admin :-) ) because anyone with 1000 edits has probably sat in despair watching a vandal go crazy when no admin is around to stop them. We have had vandals do there magic for hours. In 2007 and 2008, the vandals usually became bored before they were blocked by an admin or a steward was fetched. I watched that happen two or three times before deciding that it would be wrong for me to _not_ offer my services to be an admin. So we have very few non-admins-by-choice, and very few ex-admins. btw, Australians I count 7 Australian admins, of a total of 39 admins, so we are doing our fair share. ;-) The en.WS community is probably about 40-50 odd people 'strong' in a given month, excluding the people who pop in for a visit. Stats here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/Sitemap.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansEditsGt5.htm We are gradually catching up to the output rate of Distributed Proofreaders, however that is largely due to the French and German projects. http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:ProofreadPage_Statistics The above charts show that there are plenty of pages in need of proofreading/validating. Our monthly proofreading project doesnt always finish a work in the month: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:POTM An example of an Australian work scanned overseas: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:An_Australian_language_as_spoken_by_the_Awabakal.djvu In a few minutes we can import and initialise a djvu from Internet Archive ready for transcribing or OCR proofreading. Here is a list of the main ongoing transcription projects, most of which are barely started, and almost all of them are incomplete. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:TP In summary, a large percentage of works are available at the Internet Archive. And if a work is not there now, it will properly turn up in a year or two. So it is more economical to focus on the works that are already on IA, except where a specific work is likely to bring in new contributors and readers. -- John Vandenberg (hopping of hobby horse...) ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
[Wikimediaau-l] Wikisource features New Holland flora
A few days ago, the first Australian content was promoted to the front page of Wikisource, where it will stay for a month. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page The project was started two years ago by Hesperian, who has done the majority of the work, with Moondyne validating the transcription, and Cygnis insignis has done some as well. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland It is available as a PDF using the new Book tool: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Books/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland Also worth a browse is the species index pages that this team have been creating as a bibliography of works related to the flora of Australia. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Wikisource_species_index_pages The page scans for this work came from the National Library of France ([[w:Gallica]]). http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Specimen_of_the_Botany_of_New_Holland.djvu A list of all featured texts can be seen here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Featured_texts -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?
2009/1/21 private musings thepmacco...@gmail.com: mornin' all it's great to see people talking about this - and I particularly agree with Andrew that there's a good chance we could do something great here :-) So far, I've been more interested in giving people 'bite size' wikipedia's to play with / learn from from the angle of learning about wiki, and developing 'wiki skills', more than driving the quality of the article, or even the content delivered - I see this as strongly in synergy with the HSC syllabus for example - although it's important to note that this isn't at all in tension with also delivering top draw quality of content. The technical problems angela raised are easy enough to check out, I hope - I don't really know what 'API' means I'm afraid, but the screen on wikipedia says that it exports 1,000 revisions, so I'm wondering if it's wrong, or if Angela left out a 0? Further, the whole 'only 2MB will work' thing is a bit of a bummer, and I thought I'd take up James' (or any sysop on the WMAU wiki who's up for it) offer to try out the Special:Import function. I've created two 'XML Dumps' - one of the capital cities of Australia, and one of the Prime Ministers of Australia - I think I may have accidentally clicked some sort of 'grab the whole entire wiki' button yesterday, because I cancelled the download at some 300+ Megs when I wanted to turn off the machine - doing it from home has resulted in a far more friendly 15 Meg for each file - far more than the 2 mentioned, but let's see if it works! Any helpful sysop can download the dumps from here; http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f526a76ad2e1a96291b20cc0d07ba4d2637696439eb61065 Although give it a few mins - it's still uploading as I type :-) As I (think) I mentioned, I'm still very much at the feasibility stage, but would invite everyone interested in developing this idea to sign up, and 'dive in' helping it take shape; http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools%27_Wikipedia_Australia I've not been following all of this, but ... I dont think it would be appropriate to import Wikipedia articles into the organisation wiki, which should be used for ... *organising*. If we need to build a resource that isnt a collection of encyclopedia articles, it should be developed on Wikibooks. -- John Vandenberg ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
