[Wikimediaau-l] T133620: Error 404 while updating feed http://blog.wikimedia.org.au/category/wikimedia/feed/

[K. Peachey]

Just a heads up, Mutante (WMF Ops) has filed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133620 due to a 404 issue with the AU
chapter blog and planet.
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

[K. Peachey]

I'm in two views on the subject,

I'm against it for larger organisations that have more funding (state
libraries etc), but in the days of dwindling budgets outsourcing is always
seen as a cheaper and more effective option.

Where as for smaller organisations (such as regional museums, collections,
libraries etc) could certainly be of benefit, due to lack of funding
resources in common cases and space to make the records available easily.

I know for example that a lot of Scout branches have volunteer heritage
teams that look after their collections, Queensland's primary collection is
in a building that appears roughly the same size as many of the larger news
agency outlets where outside support to catalog and make available their
records, photos etc would be most welcome.

There is also unfortunately the view about once something is in a museum
etc, that it will always be protected and available, but could easily be
damaged by nature (wind, fire, water/rain etc) weather accidentally or on
purpose and some of these pieces will never be able to be replaced.
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

[K. Peachey]

I believe Wikimedia AU  did some work with this type of stuff…

On Friday, May 1, 2015,  wrote:

> What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at
> Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to
> have had limited appeal. Noting also that in a couple of cases there were
> controversies.
>
> I tracked down a "Wikitown" email list, but no reply to an inquiry there.
>
> TIA for any info,
>
> Don Osborn
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

[K. Peachey]

Well randomly cancelling them out of thin air and sending reminders a hour
or two before does tend to cause that.

Amongst the other issues of course


On 17 April 2014 14:34, Steve Zhang  wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> We would have someone noting what happens on the hang out in IRC and vice
> versa. The WMF does the same for their monthly metrics meetings with a lot
> of success, it's worth a shot at least - recent public meetings have been
> essentially dead.
>  On 17 Apr 2014 12:38, "Brian Salter-Duke"  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:09:34AM +1000, Steve Zhang wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>>
>> > We're going to do a public meeting on the first Sunday of May (the 4th)
>> at
>> > 4pm AEDST but we're going to experiment with Google Hangouts on Air as
>> well
>> > as IRC, as opposed to just IRC, and see if this improves engagement.
>>
>> Please. please do'nt. It will be chaos. How do people who are not on
>> both know what is going on with the one they do not have? Or are we
>> expected to be on both?
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>> > Steve
>> >
>> >
>> > On 14 April 2014 16:57, John Mark Vandenberg  wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Steve Zhang 
>> wrote:
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > Just a brief note, we will be deferring the public meeting that is
>> > > normally
>> > > > today to another time.
>> > >
>> > > Any update on when the next public meeting will be?
>> > >
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

[K. Peachey]

There used to a be a good document on TS wiki for their mailing lists we
could link to.


On 18 March 2014 21:59, John Mark Vandenberg  wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, David Gerard  wrote:
> > On 18 March 2014 10:49, John Mark Vandenberg  wrote:
> >
> >> While legal threats are banned on the wiki projects, the mailing lists
> >> are managed differently, and there are differences in expectations of
> >> behaviour (and dispute resolution) for the mailing lists.
> >
> > Personally I'd consider legal threats in the general case a kicking
> > offence, for the same reason as on the wikis.
> >
> > (ATM I appear to be the listadmin. Bitten by my own law: "The reward
> > for a job well done is another three jobs." I don't even live in
> > Australia, so I'm probably not the best person to be sole admin - any
> > volunteers? Perhaps you, John ...)
>
> I'd rather not David; I dont think it would help matters.  There are
> active members of our community who are suitable.  Typically it isnt
> much work - usually approving one over-sized email per month is the
> amount of work required, and managing a dispute once a year.
>
> >> I am also scratching my head about whether the WMF mailing lists are
> >> covered by the WMF terms of use.  Perhaps not.
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use#What_services_are_covered_by_the_terms_of_use
> >
> >
> > I'd be amazed if not explicitly listing the mailing lists meant that
> > blatantly antisocial behaviour - such as we're witnessing here - was
> > just fine.
>
> In the paragraph before the one you quoted, I said "I think we should
> note the behavioural guidelines of this list on the mailman listinfo
> page".  Do you have any thoughts on that?
>
> IMO, the terms of use would be an excellent document to refer to as
> the baseline for behaviour on the WMF mailing lists, but only if the
> WMF legal team intended for it to be used in that manner, or at least
> dont object to it, which is why I have asked the question on meta.
> Sorry that I wasnt more clear in my last email.
>
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

[K. Peachey]

On 16 March 2014 17:50, Steven Zhang  wrote:
>
>
> 2. … but actively disrupting the list is against both the rules and spirit
> of the list, and always has been. …
>

[Citation Needed], I see no rules
http://www.wikimedia.org.au//wiki/Mailing_list or
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l.

And what and which foundation staff members where involved in this?
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today 4PM AEDST (in one hour)

[K. Peachey]

Well the only reminder/notice (at least on the public list) was a hour
before start time, Of course you won't have a lot of buy in from that,
because not everyone sits at home on the weekend in front of the their
systems.


On 2 March 2014 17:29, Gnangarra  wrote:

> we'll able to compete against football as well from next month should be
> fun... we do need to find a better format for talking with members these
> chats arent getting members involved at all. Was only one member active
> today we had already answered most of the questions via email directly
> already.
>
> If the members want these meeting they need to participate in them, we are
> always open to trying alternative formats, times and forums anything that
> will help the member become more involved
>
>
> On 2 March 2014 15:07, Mark Hurd  wrote:
>
>>  You do like to compete against motor racing, don't you :-(
>>  --
>> From: Steve Zhang 
>> Sent: 2/03/2014 2:32 PM
>>
>> To: Wikimedia Australia Chapter 
>> Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today 4PM AEDST (in one hour)
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today?

[K. Peachey]

On 5 January 2014 17:09, Steven Zhang  wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> I'm afraid it wasn't, no. It will be next Sunday at 4PM AEDST (the usual
> time, just a week later.
>
> Steve
>
>
Small question, How do you class something as moved, If no one knew about
it?
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Graham is famous!

[K. Peachey]

"Next on Sick Sad World, The cats who administer Wikipedia"


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Charles Gregory
wrote:

> Well, sort of :)
>
> http://redd.it/1njw6s
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] looking for edit training?

[K. Peachey]

>From my makling list account this.


On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Kerry Raymond wrote::

> http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Tony1/Proposed_membership_table
>
> ** **
>
> and we could certainly do that, but it would need some contact details
> though, which people may or may not be confident about putting on a public
> page.
>
>
> Special:emailuser might work, but wmAu wiki is a bit confines membership
wise I guess

>

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Warning: Visual Editor - turn it on and it seems you can't turn it off!

[K. Peachey]

Can you file a bug about this bugzilla please? Where people that can
actually work on it will see it?

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kerry Raymond  wrote:
> You might have seen the banner across Wikipedia saying:
>
>
>
> VisualEditor is now enabled for all logged-in users. Learn more, help out
> and give feedback.
>
>
>
> If you bother to follow the link above, it says in about the 3rd paragraph:
>
>
>
> That said, if you really can't stand the extra tab, you can completely hide
> VisualEditor from your interface by enabling an experimental gadget: go to
> your preferences, scroll down to "Editing", tick the box labeled "Remove
> VisualEditor from the user interface", then scroll to the bottom and click
> "Save". You can reactivate it at any time by unticking the box.
>
>
>
> Having read that, I thought I’d take the Visual Editor for a spin (you
> enable it in Preferences > Editing). Having decided I didn’t enjoy the
> Visual Editor, I decided to turn it off again. Lo and behold, I found there
> was no Remove VisualEditor option in my Preferences > Editing as promised.
> It seems like it is a one-way trip. Perhaps unsurprisingly people are
> complaining about this:
>
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Visual_Editor_turn_off
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#VisualEditor_going_live
>
>
>
> especially as it appears it was a deliberate decision to not let you turn it
> off in your preferences.
>
>
>
> However, it seems there is a way to turn it off. Go to
>
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets
>
>
>
> and disable it (first entry on the Editing section).
>
>
>
> It has been suggested that this method may not work for everyone (not sure
> why that is). However, it did work for me. The Visual Editor has
> disappeared.
>
>
>
> There is also Plan B. The Visual Editor will not run on Internet Explorer
> and it reverts to the “old” editor if you are using IE. So if all else
> fails, use Internet Explorer for your editing.
>
>
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Contracting: procurement subcommittee

[K. Peachey]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Chris Watkins
 wrote:
> Thanks John,

> Looking at http://wikimedia.org.au I see an IRC meeting on 7 July - is that
> the one you mean?

Yes, first sunday of every month.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Events list on the WMAU website - please help us keep them up to date!

[K. Peachey]

Here is a map based past/upcomming events on the website so if you
notice anything missing (I remember stuff better when I see it
visually) please update the wiki.

http://hostr.co/0tNCJHCYk39z / http://hostr.co/file/0tNCJHCYk39z/WMAU-events.png

-peachey

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] time to join Wikimedia Australia?

[K. Peachey]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Kerry Raymond  wrote:
> …
> you get to spend more time with people who don’t think you are weird for
> editing Wikipedia at 3am in your pyjamas [delete this reason if you don’t
> edit at 3am in your pyjamas]
> …

You mean that isn't normal‽‽

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[Wikimediaau-l] FWD: [---] Missing details: the sanitisation of Tom Waterhouse's Wikipedia page

[K. Peachey]

FWD from another mailing list,

-- Forwarded message --
From: ---
Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Subject: [---] Missing details: the sanitisation of Tom Waterhouse's
Wikipedia page
To: ---


http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/missing-details-the-sanitisation-of-tom-waterhouses-wikipedia-page-20130514-2jjfh.html

> May 14, 2013 - 1:07PM
> James Robertson and Melissa Davey
>
> He claimed vindication in Monday's Racing NSW inquiry, but staff for Tom 
> Waterhouse have sometimes preferred to give the truth a nudge, rather than 
> presume it will prevail on its own steam.
>
> Mr Waterhouse's employees have been sanitising the bookmaker's Wikipedia 
> page, removing references to parliamentary inquiries into the march of sports 
> betting into lounge rooms and even his turn on the Dancing With the Stars 
> program.
>
> While I'm not actually across the page, I know that staff do make changes if 
> there is something defamatory, illegal or not true on there.
>
> Perhaps the most glaring omission, however, is that the More Joyous racing 
> inquiry does not rate a mention on the page.
>
> There is also a warning at the top of the entry.
>
> "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with 
> its subject," a disclaimer reads.
>
> "It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, 
> particularly neutral point of view."
>
> Mr Waterhouse said that he has never directly ordered his staff to remove or 
> edit any content from the page.
>
> "I've only asked them to make sure [the content] abides by what is legal," he 
> said.
>
> "While I'm not actually across the page, I know that staff do make changes if 
> there is something defamatory, illegal or not true on there.
>
> "Of course, in those situations, they have to take that [material] down."
>
> He said there was no specific piece of information on the page that he had 
> seen and asked staff to edit or remove and that they did this of their own 
> accord.
>
> Anyone can use Wikipedia and start editing pages of the site. Other users can 
> discuss, dispute or reverse those edits. And Wikipedians have long held 
> suspicious about the Waterhouse page.
>
> "Sounds like it was taken straight from an advertising brochure," wrote user 
> SpencerCollins last September.
>
> He may have been tipped off by the inclusion of such detail as the fact that 
> Mr Waterhouse was a high school prefect and the following, included under the 
> heading "branding".
>
> "Waterhouse invested considerably in marketing and advertising, adopting a 
> distinct style guide comprising of black and white imagery with splashes of 
> aquamarine."
>
> Those edits were made by the user GChinaP.
>
> "He [Waterhouse] asked me to write up something for Wikipedia," Gilbert 
> Chinapen, who works on TomWaterhouse.com, confirmed to Fairfax.
>
> Another user, Angustommiepragnell, made dozens of edits to the page, removing 
> material that was claimed to be defamatory or incorrect, but in fact had been 
> widely reported. The user removed references to Mr Waterhouse's refusal to 
> appear before a parliamentary inquiry into gambling in sport. The phrasing 
> was later changed to "declined an invitation".
>
> Also left out is that Mr Waterhouse was benched by Channel Nine's NRL 
> commentary team in March, following a public backlash against gambling being 
> incorporated into live sport.
>
> Angus Pragnell, the marketing campaign manager for TomWaterhouse.com, 
> declined to comment.
>
> References to Waterhouse's father, who did six months' periodic detention 
> after being found guilty of false swearing, were also edited by a user called 
> Suzanne888.
>
> The ongoing omissions and changes prompted one frustrated editor to write: 
> "Waterhouse staff such as Angus Pragnell and Gilbert Chinapen shouldn't be 
> editing/'sanitising' this entry!"
>
> Later edits to the page included the removal of references to Mr Waterhouse's 
> highly enthusiastic but ultimately unsuccessful routines on Dancing With the 
> Stars. He was eliminated in the second round of the show's 2006 season.
>
> It's not the first time changes to Wikipedia pages have been linked back to 
> their subjects.
>
> In February Fairfax reported that Occupy Melbourne's official Wikipedia page 
> was edited twice by a person using a City of Melbourne computer to remove 
> contentious words in the lead-up to the re-election of lord mayor Robert 
> Doyle last year.
>
> In August 2007 when John Howard was prime minister, Fairfax reported that 
> staff in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet were caught editing 
> Wikipedia to remove details that might be damaging to the government.
>
> ABC TV's Media Watch then reported that staff at several media organisations, 
> including Fairfax Media, were found editing their own and others' Wikipedia 
> pages, with some edits heaping abuse on rivals.
>
> with Ben Grubb

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[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [---] Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download

[K. Peachey]

From a private list I'm on, Thought some of you guys may be interested

-- Forwarded message --
From: MW <---@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Subject: [---] Australian Census Data Released Under CC License, But
Official Site Tries To Make It Hard To Download
To: --- <--->


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130421/02575922789/australian-census-data-released-under-cc-license-official-site-tries-to-make-it-hard-to-download.shtml
>
> by Glyn Moody
>
> Mon, Apr 22nd 2013 8:09pm
>
> The whole point about adopting Creative Commons licenses is to make it easier 
> for people to share and use works released under them. Sometimes, though, you 
> get the impression that certain organizations adopting these licenses would 
> rather that didn't happen, as in the following case from Australia, reported 
> by IT News:
>
> The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the latest census data for 
> free under a Creative Commons license but appears to be steering people 
> towards a $250 mailed out DVD rather than making it easy to download the 
> information directly over the internet.
>
> Programmer and freelance journalist Grahame Bowland who first noticed it, 
> said the government agency is going to great lengths to discourage people 
> from downloading the files directly by dint of a convoluted site layout and 
> Javascript functions that obfuscate file paths.
>
> The post then goes on to describe in detail some of the attempts to make it 
> difficult to download all of the census data, including a hard-to-find 
> registration page, a complex matrix of download options, and Javascript code 
> that does stuff like this:
>
> // Function: guidGenerator
>
>
> // Description:returns a pseudo-random GUID
>
>
> //This is appended to a url for 2 reasons
>
>
> //1. to make the URL unique, so that the browser always gets it and doesn't 
> use a cached version
>
>
> //2. to make a URL look like its got a unique key, in a naive attempt to fool 
> a not-so-wily hacker
>
>
> //into thinking they can't download a datapack directly if they know the URL 
> pattern, because they
>
>
> //need a unique key.
>
> Notice how anyone who might want to download datapacks directly is branded a 
> hacker. That's a worrying attitude, since it seems to equate people who want 
> to take advantage of the CC license to explore the census without jumping 
> through the site's hoops as shady subversives (I doubt the comment used the 
> term "hacker" in its more positive sense).
>
> As the IT News story suggests, the motivation for this obfuscation seems to 
> be to encourage people to pay AU $250 (about US $257) for the DVD version 
> instead. To save others from having to deal with the unhelpful Web site, 
> Bowland generously stumped up the $250 himself, and made the full census 
> database freely available as a torrent, as is perfectly legal under the CC-BY 
> license. This shows perfectly why it is pointless trying to make it hard for 
> people to download content that is CC licensed: once anyone has obtained a 
> copy, they can then make it available in a more convenient form, neatly 
> by-passing forlorn attempts to control something that has been set free 
> forever.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

[K. Peachey]

Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If
its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to
commons (in the appropriate format)

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thehelpfulone
 wrote:
> Alternatively you can play back the recorded video on Ustream:
> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29236225

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Deepen the Conversation with Sue Gardner, Wikimedia] If you missed out on tickets you can still lis...

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Richard Ames  wrote:
>
> No sound!!!

WFM (at the moment).

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Training in Toowoomba - help needed

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Links for everyone to make it easier

* Jrg from oz 

* Slanderqueens

* Southwaleslady

* Wallyedwards33

* Twinkle Toowoomba
* Lhsunshine 

* Yokohanan
* BreandaC 

* Pegasus1965 
* REDscottdowns


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> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ANewPages&namespace=2&tagfilter=&username=
>
>
> Please help our trainees creating their first article.
>
> Users
>
> Jrg from oz
> Slanderqueens
> Southwaleslady
> Wallyedwards33
> Twinkle Toowoomba
> Lhsunshine
> Yokohanan
> BreandaC
> Pegasus1965
> REDscottdowns
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia Public IRC meeting today at 5PM AEDST

[K. Peachey]

don't you mean #wikimedia-au?

On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Steven Zhang
 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> The Wikimedia Australia public meeting will start today, 2nd December 2012
> at 17:00 hours (5:00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDST) ) in
> #wikimedia-australia. Come and go as you please. I will be chairing the
> meeting, and there is no set agenda so you are welcome to start a discussion
> about anything related to Wikimedia Australia.
>
> http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/IRC
>
>
> Regards,
> Steven Zhang
>
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

[K. Peachey]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Daniel Zahn  wrote:
> while WMF wikis are currently on 1.20wmf2.

1.20 Isn't a stable release, Don't recommend it to anyone please.
1.19.0 is the current stable.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Camera grant update

[K. Peachey]

If you want to upload the video (above the size limit), It can still
be done, it just needs to be uploaded somewhere (eg: if you have your
own webhosting) then submit a request in BugZilla[1] for it to be
uploaded server side.

[1]. 

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open-Edge (education) conference - Sydney, 9 Oct

[K. Peachey]

Was it in the moderation queues maybe and someone cleaned them out?

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] 50, 000 images donated by the State Library of Queensland

[K. Peachey]

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

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

[K. Peachey]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Angela  wrote:
> Would a separate wiki be a better idea? That way the committee
> wouldn't need to worry about the unofficial content being confused for
> anything they'd approved. And the community wouldn't need to worry
> about their pages being removed for being in violation of a non-public
> policy they weren't aware of.
>
> Angela
(As a non member) I think that would be pointless and possibly worse,
It seems stupid to spread content access two installs just for that
reasons, We could use multipul namespaces then protect a namespace
from editing[1] to anyone apart from a members group.

-Peachey
[1]. 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_editing_of_an_entire_namespace

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] (no subject)

[K. Peachey]

I think you will find that it is spam.
-peachey
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[Wikimediaau-l] [Offtopic - Victoria] Australian Synchrotron Open Day 2010

[K. Peachey]

I just found the Australian Synchrotron[1] is holding their Open Day,
So if anyone in Victoria (or that wants to travel) is interested its
on the 15th of August @ 1000 till 1600[2].

[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Synchrotron
[2]. 
http://synchrotron.org.au/index.php/news/events/australian-events/event/65-australian-synchrotron-open-day

-peachey

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[Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Chapter selected board seats - call for candidates, deadline extended

[K. Peachey]

For those not on foundation-l or announce-l, The deadline has been
extended. (Forwarding this here since it was discussed the other day.
Oh and sorry for the top posting, just seems nicer this way)
-Peachey

-- Forwarded message --
From: Thomas Dalton 
Date: Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:23 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Chapter selected board seats - call for
candidates, deadline extended
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 


To whom it may concern,

All nominations for candidates for the chapter selected board seats
were supposed to be received by the end of today, however only three
have been received. The chapters will be more likely to make a good
selection if they have a large group of candidates to choose from,
therefore I am extending the deadline for nominations by 10 days,
until the 27th May. Subsequent stages of the process will be pushed
back accordingly. Hopefully a decision will still be made in time for
the board meeting at Wikimania, but this cannot be guaranteed.

The original call for candidates, with the new deadline, is repeated
below. Please help us get a large number of nominations by
distributing this call as widely as possible on mailing lists, blogs
and wikis.

Can you, or someone you know, help guide Wikimedia Foundation through
the next exciting steps of its strategic development and growth?

The Wikimedia Chapters are looking for two candidates to sit on the
Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees for 2 years commencing in
July 2010. The new board members will be faced with the challenge of
helping decide the future direction of the only top-10 internet
property that is run by a non-profit organisation. The Wikimedia
websites are constructed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers
world-wide, supported by a small but growing number of staff and an
international network of chapters.

The successful candidates will most importantly be committed to the
Wikimedia mission and willing to work with the various stakeholders of
the Wikimedia movement, including the volunteers and the chapters that
provide essential support for the movement. They will have the time to
do this, with the appropriate communication skills (including a good
standard of English) and ability to work as a team. They will also be
able and willing to travel, and have an international attitude.

The candidates will ideally be open-minded with experience of
international affairs and governance techniques. They will have good
communication skills, as well the ability to think strategically and
to work independently as well as part of a team.

The process that will be followed for this selection can be viewed
here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process

All nominations must be sent to the moderator (Thomas Dalton from
Wikimedia UK) and deputy moderator (José Spierts from Wikimedia
Nederlands) by 23:59 UTC 27th May. If you would like to nominate
yourself or someone else, please see the instructions here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Nominate

The chapters wish to locate truly excellent board members and believe
that can best be done if there are a large number of varied and
quality candidates to consider. Therefore, the chapters ask that
everyone that thinks they, or someone they know, would be a good board
member submit a nomination. They also ask that this call for
candidates be distributed as widely as possible on mailing lists,
village pumps, blogs, etc..

Best regards,

Thomas Dalton,
Moderator

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] warning on the wiki

[K. Peachey]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Craig Franklin  wrote:
> I believe that the chapter wiki uses a third-party extension so that we can
> access Commons.  In my experience, this extension is a bit flaky and
> sometimes causes problems.  I don’t have access to the code, but I’d say
> it’s trying (and failing) to open a connection to Commons to load the image,
> and it’s waiting until the remote call fails before it serves the page
> (which explains the lag).
>
> If the problem is on Commons’ end, it should hopefully clear itself up, if
> it’s on our end though it might be something for Werdna to have a look at.
Well I don't see any extension on [[Special:Version]] so I would be
assuming we are using "Foreign File Repos"[1] which is the standard
method that all the WMF wiki's are using so it shouldn't be a issue
with that.

[1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgForeignFileRepos

-Peachey

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Foundation-l] open wikis for chapters....?

[K. Peachey]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Geoffrey Plourde  wrote:
> There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do 
> believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk 
> of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do something and being 
> stifled.
Those should be protected anyway, stuff like bylaws shouldn't be
getting touched without consensus from a AGM. But there are methods to
protect "important" pages like that, for example standard page
protection methods or the flagged rev system for another example.

-Peachey
(Also gah at cross posting to multiple lists via cc'ing, seems to
cause some issues in gmail =( so this may not be in/on all the correct
lists/threads.)

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

[K. Peachey]

Yes it is possible to edit it, for details:
" To edit the navigation menu on the left, edit
[[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] using its special syntax. For more details, see
."

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] fixing wmau wiki

[K. Peachey]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Tim Starling  wrote:
> I bet I could fix it in under 5 minutes if I had shell access.
>
> -- Tim Starling
Bug andrew and tell him what to do then :p

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] schools - a post-glam movement ;-)

[K. Peachey]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM, private musings wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just created this page;
> http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools
> with the intention of encouraging all those interested in liaising with
> educators / schools directly to jump in and whip up a few project pages
> formalising what we might do / info. we can share etc. etc. (it's a wiki
> process, of course, so please get involved!)
> Liam's a constant source of inspiration to me, and I've recently been
> involved in correspondance with a few other wiki folk all over the globe
> about furthering the 'glam' approach to include schools - ie. talking with
> them about what schools' needs for wiki projects are, how we're currently
> doing at meeting them, how we as a project (wikimedia, not just wikipedia)
> fit in to their programmes etc.
> I've spoken at medium length to one head teacher and one head of department
> on a personal level which has further convinced me that it would be both fun
> and useful for a cadre of volunteers to consider preparing a few talks /
> workshops etc. etc. to take to schools in the vicinity of wherever
> volunteers happen to be! - This project is intended to get that ball rolling
> :-)
> Whilst the mailing list is a fantastic platform for sharing news - it's
> probably not quite as good as a wiki for actual development work, so please
> consider just diving in at http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools or
> http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Talk:Schools - my vague, and quite likely to
> shift, intention is for this to be in shape to follow 'GLAM' - so we'd be
> looking offer some workshops to schools by September... help!
> best,
> Peter,
> PM.
> ps. an online donation service would still be a 'good thing' :-)
> pps. I'd like to offer teachers the opportunity to edit the wmau pages
> related to schools work - would that be cool?
> ppps. I also just put the fantastic wikisource book
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland as our
> 'featured content' - check it out!
Maybe we could discuss what "content" we have on the wiki and how it
ties in with their teaching curriculms or what has to be improved. The
collection feature would be a great help there because we could on
mini collections that are tailored for the courses and such.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

[K. Peachey]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM, private musings wrote:
> oh... ok!
> carry on :-)
How about we run a poll on the wiki.. oh wait, then the non
members can't vote (aka me)


Maybe you could try a flagged rev/protection type scheme where
everything is protected to the "member" group by default and then
certain pages could be unprotected?

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

[K. Peachey]

> If spam is the main reason to have accounts, would using a CAPTCHA for
> non-confirmed accounts help? (is that a simple option in Mediawiki?)
> Otherwise I'd recommend nothing more restrictive than "confirm email address
> to edit"
> Peter Halasz
> [[User:Pengo]]
I believe, although maybe wrong but its part of the core until a user
is autoconfirmed.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Commons on Picture Australia

[K. Peachey]

Wouldn't number three already be covered by the API system?

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

[K. Peachey]

> I am surprised that NSW schools have unreliable net connections. By
> Australian standards the internet connections are really good unless
> you are out west somewhere. I know in public schools Wikimedia sites
> aren't blocked and DET and the Board of Studies are slowly having a
> "culture change" about Wikipedia.
Its the connections that are the problems in most places, its
basically the speed issue espically when theres a whole class looking
at something and the school either has no local caching proxy or a
badly set one, thus putting a huge dint into the speeds.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Special:Import on the au wiki?

[K. Peachey]

> 2 problems. Export on Wikipedia only gets about 100 revisions rather
> than the full history,
Wouldn't that be breaking the GFDL?

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[K. Peachey]

2008/12/14 Nathan Carter :
> Still, it will all help.
> Cheers!
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:41 PM, K. Peachey  wrote:
>>
>> 2008/12/14 Nathan Carter :
>> > Which state did you undertake your education in?
>> QLD, but i might only have some stuff from last year and this year
>> (11/12) left and i didn't do that many OP courses =(
I found everything i could in my digital collection and filing
cabinet, some of it is a tad too detailed, some could possibly never
be covered ect but i just stuck it all up at
[[User:Peachey88/Sandbox/009]]

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[K. Peachey]

2008/12/14 Nathan Carter :
> Which state did you undertake your education in?
QLD, but i might only have some stuff from last year and this year
(11/12) left and i didn't do that many OP courses =(

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[K. Peachey]

>> Still, doing this groundwork can be useful for
>> other things, namely, identifying that the articles on some of our earlier
>> Prime Ministers could use a bit of spit and polish.
Here is a table of all their current rankings
[[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australia/Australian_Schools_Selection]]
It lists their WP Aus, WikiProject Australian politics and their WP Bio rankings

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[K. Peachey]

I could probably dig out some of my past school work and make a list
of what i did and we could expand on that and use that as a basis,
although i didn't do that much "Australian" stuff.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[K. Peachey]

> Anyone for a mini-project then? =).  The existing SOS selection looks like
> it'll be a good base, but adding more "Australian" themed articles to it
> would probably be a nice attention grabber when we go talking to schools.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
I would be! maybe a task-force for WikiProject Australia?
And we would have to decide what "Australian" contents gets in, eg:
iconic/well known tv shows/what history content gets in.

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] free wi-fi

[K. Peachey]

here is a news article about it:
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24566301-15306,00.html

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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

[K. Peachey]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:53 PM, K. Peachey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, K. Peachey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another
>> reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin
>>
>> It will most likely need some work done to it but its something!
>>
>> Even better, i just found one marked as stable,
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IRC_Chat
>
Last one http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mibbit and it uses Mibbit
which i generally find nice looking/better than PJIRC, and i have also
finished reading the table so this is the last message from me about
extensions *runs and hides*
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

[K. Peachey]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, K. Peachey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another
> reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin
>
> It will most likely need some work done to it but its something!
>
> Even better, i just found one marked as stable,
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IRC_Chat
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Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

[K. Peachey]

I noticed this while looking at the MediaWiki Extenstion table for another
reason; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CgiIrcLogin

It will most likely need some work done to it but its something!
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