Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew
I don't think it's a good idea to remove it - we want to get more member participation happening in 2010, and there simply wasn't the scope for that in 2009, hence why it wasn't utilised. cheers Andrew 2009/12/11 K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au Yes it is possible to edit it, for details:

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Liam Wyatt
I too would like to see the chapter wiki being used more, especially for planning IRL events. Perhaps the issue is not so much that the Billabong isn't the right place but that (as mentioned) it's not used by many people as yet - this is largely a factor of the relatively low number of people who

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew
Re planning activities - there doesn't seem much evidence of the meetup pages being used for planning of any kind at present. Most of the meetup pages are deadzones, with only Sydney having any recent editing activity whatsoever (Melbourne and Canberra both show their August meetups as being next

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Sarah Ewart sarahew...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Gnangarra gnanga...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/11 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com One disadvantage of this would be that one of the promoted benefits of membership (being able to edit

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread private musings
re : 'I though that Wikimedia is built on a philopsy of anyone can edit, surely promoting that philopsy is the aim of the chapter. Wouldnt it be wise for Wikimedia-Australia to hold that as corner stone of its purpose. Does anyone think that the goals and ideals which we hold dear should not be

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew
At the end of the day, and I think this is a point that isn't well understood because we have a foot on both sides of the border, this is the official wiki for a non profit organisation. The wiki's set up in such a way that those that are willing to support the aims of the organisation can edit

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew
(Note that my comments above are addressed to a hypothetical situation of open editing, not the current situation which is manageable by any objective standard.) 2009/12/12 Andrew orderinchao...@gmail.com At the end of the day, and I think this is a point that isn't well understood because we

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Halasz
Here's my reasons for why ordinary people (i.e. non-members) just might like to edit the site from the last time this discussion was had: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Lloyd Nguyen zero1...@gmail.com wrote: I think I have to ask, what kind of things could/would a non-member edit on

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew
That is called framing the question. Of course *that* kind of participation would be unproblematic. But let's not forget the minutes, resolutions and official activities of the chapter are hosted there, along with our Statement of Purpose and etc. Like I said, as a non-profit organisation we have

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Halasz
So lock those specific pages. Have you ever used Wikipedia? Do you think it would exist if they were worried only about representation? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Halasz
You are charging volunteers to help you. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Halasz
Omg the terrorists are coming! They are armed with web browsers of mass destruction and are going to change our constitution to say jimmy wales is a poo! ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Angela
I'm not sure why there's an assumption that edits by members are trustworthy (and edits by others are not). Since anyone can become a member, it's not reasonable to expect none of them will ever do anything bad on the wiki. And you're going to have a problem blocking them from the wiki if editing

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

2009-12-11 Thread Liam Wyatt
Peter (Halasz), um... your last post is probably not helpful. I happen to agree with you that it is a good idea to make the chapter Wiki more open to editing. However, this is a discussion about the validity/importance/appropriateness of doing so and making inflammatory statements risks you