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

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. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wi

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] NSW State Library

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,

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today deferred

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Apparently corrupt administration of this list

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/wik

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today 4PM AEDST (in one hour)

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 f

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Public meeting today?

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? _

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Graham is famous!

"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 > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] looking for edit training?

>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 confid

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

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 >

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Contracting: procurement subcommittee

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. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists

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

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 __

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

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‽‽ ___

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

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

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

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: --- <-

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

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: > ht

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

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Richard Ames wrote: > > No sound!!! WFM (at the moment). ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

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

Links for everyone to make it easier * Jrg from oz * Slanderqueens * Southwaleslady

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikimedia Australia Public IRC meeting today at 5PM AEDST

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 pl

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

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. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Camera grant update

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].

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] (no subject)

I think you will find that it is spam. -peachey ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

[Wikimediaau-l] [Offtopic - Victoria] Australian Synchrotron Open Day 2010

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/austr

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

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 3:2

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] warning on the wiki

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

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

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] official wiki

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 ." ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] fixing wmau wiki

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 ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https:/

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

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

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

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Open website editing?

> 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 b

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Commons on Picture Australia

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

> 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

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

> 2 problems. Export on Wikipedia only gets about 100 revisions rather > than the full history, Wouldn't that be breaking the GFDL? ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

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 y

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

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 =( ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikim

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

>> 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]]

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

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. ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org ht

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

> 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 Aust

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] free wi-fi

here is a news article about it: http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24566301-15306,00.html ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

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/

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

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!

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Activities & direction

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! ___ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l@lists.wik