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Hello Scott, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ...and further
nationalist conquests. Also, I hope to see you at a meetup that needs to be organised! ;) All the best!.... ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket)
06:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Welcome!WikiProject Australia is a
WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of
Australia and
Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.
Australian Wikimedia chapter
Wikimedia chapters are independent organisations run by Wikimedians to further promote the
Wikimedia projects run by the
Wikimedia Foundation, and to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally". This means that we in the chapter can promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis and their contributor's work in our area. Currently, a chapter for Australia is in discussion. If you're interested in helping the Wikimedia Foundation in more ways than just creating articles, and by promoting Wikipedia and other projects so people can start to read your work and become contributors, then consider adding yourself to the interested participants list at
www.wikimedia.org.au
Th
e proposed chapter also has an
IRC channel on the
freenode network: join
#wikimedia-au next time you are online. The seventh IRC meeting for Wikimedia Australia will also be held in this channel at 8 pm (AEDT-UTC+11) on January 6 (WA at 6pm, SA at 7:30pm and QLD at 7pm). For more information, visit
this page.
Recent happenings
2007 has been an excellent year for WikiProject Australia and its members – a sudden rise in article quality (see "
Quality watch"), more article collaboration, portal creation, gap-filling article creation, image requests fulfilled, newsletter writing and award awarding. Success!
Portals and "topics" go hand in hand (not really), and many within the project and throughout Wikipedia aspire to achieve
featured topic status for a particular topic. Goals to promote all
capital cities to featured status, and among others, a
Powderfinger featured topic, and a featured topic on
The Invincibles cricket team. It's for sure that 2008 will be filled with Aussie pride, so hang in there with those flags, everyone! Especially on
Australia Day, *hints
surprises* :)
Of course, writing featured articles and making up clever hooks for use on "
Did you know" isn't the only way to contribute. Many users contribute day-in, day-out, maintaining the project and portals, tagging and assessing articles, making suggestions at
featured article candidacies, coordinating collaborations within the project, responding to
peer reviews, save valid articles in
deletion debates, in short, the stuff that if not done, will cause the whole project as we know it to slowly deteroriate. Many users who don't qualify for awards like
Durova's
Triple Crown award, qualify for others.
Moondyne recognised the users who work tirelessly every day to make sure that every thing is running smoothly by introducing a new award – the
Drover's Award. Initiated in December, eight users have already received an award that is set to become a prestigious award for all Australia-related topic editors;
SatuSuro,
Longhair,
Spebi,
Moondyne,
Grahamec,
Mattinbgn and
ScottDavis and more are sure to be awarded. If you know of any users who work tirelessly behind the scenes and have not yet been recognised for their greatly appreciated efforts, award them the Drover's Award.
This month's newsletter was written by Spebi and published by
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2007 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: one hundred articles were promoted to good article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for the whole of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics from the best of sources available on the Internet. A huge congratulations to all involved. And congratulations to
Underneath-it-All, who wrote "
2 Hearts", which passed as a good article, officially making him WikiProject Australia's "Good Article Centurian" and the article the one hundredth Australia-related article to be promoted to
good article status at any one time.
Speaking of statistics nearing the number 100, WikiProject Australia has also seen an increase of the number of articles being promoted to
featured article status. In November last year, seven articles were promoted, earning the month its official title of "Featured article month" of WikiProject Australia, and making it the month with the highest featured article achievement. Viva la featured article revolution! Also seeing some activity were
featured portals – many have already been promoted, and a wave of excellently-crafted ones hitting our shores very soon.
End of year statistics
Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia produced by
Blnguyen and his
Assessment Monkey of 2007's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 71 featured articles, and 106 good articles.
I cannot count myself in - if you seem my contribs - with son number one inhabiting allnight internet cafes on george street sydney -
SatuSuro 14:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
And as for acotf we missed brisbane - it was perth to gold coast and we are heading south :|
SatuSuro14:20, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Nullabor and places to gold coast - more than a 1,000 jpegs and mpegs but it will take months to sort thanks for the good wishes -
SatuSuro14:25, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
On my last holiday, Wikipedia didn't feature in the planning much. I ended up finding that I had taken mostly photos for articles that already had photos, and looking later found lots of towns and articles without photos, but I hadn't taken one there either :-) --
Scott DavisTalk21:23, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Scott - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time
here. Thanks! ~
Riana ⁂12:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi ScottDavis - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at
Billy Baxter's in
Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the
meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!
Hi Scott - since Sunday is inconvenient for many people due to church, we are rescheduling for Saturday. I hope this will enable you to attend! Best, ~
Riana ⁂11:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello Scott. Thank you for the reformatting you started on this page. However I am surprised you did not first raise the matter on the talk page. I have raised this formatting issue with
WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Would you please now leave the page as it is until the matter has been resolved. --
Geronimo20 (
talk)
19:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not altogether happy about this Scott. You say that the "discussion seems generally in support". Maybe I'm missing something but I didn't see that at all – rather the discussion just seemed to bog. So I'm a little disappointed. However I accept you think you are doing the right thing and appreciate all the time and care you have put into reformatting the coordinates. --
Geronimo20 (
talk)
11:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
"Generally in support" was two that supported using the standard templates (for different reasons) and two others who proposed work-arounds using standard templates but proposing ways of not including the coordinate text in the table. You were the only one who opposed using the templates at all. The suggestion of a template (or perhaps monobook.css - see
Template:Coord#Display) to manage the display seemed like a viable longer-term solution, while maintaining consistency with other articles, printing, etc. Thankyou for your efforts in the projet too. --
Scott DavisTalk13:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
rabbit Flat
Nah no worries - the main thing was to show ref to the map as further reading and the fact that it cited the location (refs for that place are sure hard to find) - and thanks for cleaning up my exposing the main source :) - cheers
SatuSuro09:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I've expresed an opinion and suggested a compromise that addresses our concerns and hopefully goes some way towards appeasing the opposing view, too. --
Scott DavisTalk11:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikimedia Australia incorporation meeting
Hi there ScottDavis! As you may know, the
Wikimedia Foundation has recently
approvedWikimedia Australia as an official chapter. In order to acknowledge this, and to appoint an interim committee, approve our statement of purpose and our rules, and appoint a Public Officer, Wikimedia Australia will be having a meeting at Computerbank in Melbourne. For those of us who are located in other cities, we shall be holding conference calls to the main meeting.
The meeting will be held at 2:30PM on Sunday, 20th April 2008, Adelaide time. In order for us to organise this meeting, we need your help! Please drop by at
our meta subpage with suggestions as to venues, conference calling services, etc. It will be at 2:30 so we can meet up for lunch beforehand if anyone's open for that!
You are receiving this message because you are an active Wikimedian in Adelaide and are on
this list. If you think I've missed anyone out, please feel free to copy-paste this and send it to them too!
The tirari desert art sure brings up some short comings of the sa project arts about the northern part of the state - the classic for me is the
Far North, South Australia - ugh - like some of my very early articles - reference free and subjective :) I realised you started it some time ago - so please do not take the criticsms the wrong way :)
SatuSuro03:44, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
And good to see you at the tirari art - theres been a few of us tinkling away there - some interesting issues have arisen as well
SatuSuro11:58, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
The saga of the art about regions and regionalisation of west oz - would suggest that there are intriguing variations between the state govt, fed govt, abs stuff, electoral stuff and various authorities - the best developed in the west oz lot is the south west so far
SatuSuro12:10, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh well that was better than being poked with a blunt stick in the middle of a dark night (tirari desert) - I had forgotten that I had a weird work experience in the early 80's working for a very short with a land seismic crew west of moomba and took photos (!) problems i dont know where they are.
SatuSuro11:31, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Looking for a friendly admin - Ive just stuffed up a move ten mins ago and cant find anyone obviously active - need help with a tyop during a move - need a page deleted - can you help?
SatuSuro08:51, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
i did not understand the first few sentences of this article. When was Michael Guglielmucci removed from his position at Planetshakers? Was he removed and then became sick? or Did he lie about the illness before being removed? —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
216.167.137.84 (
talk)
16:53, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
It appears that he's been lying the whole time, and finally fessed up at a meeting last Saturday :-( I expect that we'll hear more over time. In the meantime, prayer for him for whatever illness he does have, and for his family and friends who must be devastated by this news too seems to be in order. --
Scott DavisTalk10:09, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Line on Moutn Wellington
Hi Scott
Congratulations on all you work
The line of boulders visible on Mount Wellington from afar.
According to the Hobart City council Wellington park people this is a power line easement. I suspect however that the easement followed the line of boulders not the other way around.
I wondered if you could point me to some authority on this as I need to prove the line was there way before the power easement
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unsigned comment added by
58.6.101.63 (
talk)
00:53, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Scott can you please delete Adelaide_city_centre so Adelaide (suburb) can be moved back there. The rename was without much consultation and doesn't make much sense. See talk page. Thanks! Donama (talk) 03:43, 5 December 2008 (UTC) (already asked Cyberjunkie but she/he claims he's kind of retired so asking you instead)
Hi Scott. Can you please not move it back there. Contrary to Donama, I think it makes a lot of sense, and is a good idea. Surely "Donama" should first state their opinion on the talk page rather than call in "the big guns" as the first move? I will post on "Donama"s talk page. Perhaps you may wish to review the discussion and state an opinion before doing anything? Cheers,
Pdfpdf (
talk)
13:34, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Oh dear. An edit conflict. I was typing
my opinion, which is to put it back how it was, as I got this request. Really, the discussion should be wider than just two or three of you if possible. The convention is to leave the status quo until the conversation is complete, but it seems to me that you and
AtD thought the conversation was over, although less than two days total and less than 12 hours from the last comment is pretty quick for a relatively quiescent article's talk page. --
Scott DavisTalk13:41, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Edit conflicts left, right and centre!
Prior to conflict:
a) I see you and Donama have indeed done what I suggested. b) I'm not sure what I think the best solution is, but clearly, the CBD is only a small part of "the square mile", not to mention "the square mile plus the Parklands".
Pdfpdf (
talk)
13:47, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Welcome!WikiProject Australia is a
WikiProject, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of
Australia and
Australia-related topics. This newsletter exists simply to notify Australian Wikipedians of ongoing events within the project and relating to Australia on Wikipedia.
Last year, an informal pact/commitment was made late in the year to aim for 100 good articles by the end of the year. As a result, a net increase of 24 GAs was achieved in December 2007 and the GA count hit triple figures, ending the year on 106 GAs. This year seasonally adjusted, the GA production has been slower than in last during the May-November periods (see graphs below). At the start of the month, our WikiProject had 178 good articles. Another GA Drive has been organised, with the hope of reaching the double century by the end of the year or Australia Day 2009 at the least. As of 16 December, there are 180 GAs and 15 currently nominated, primarily in response to the GA appeal. Everyone's help is requested to make the drive a success.
Following the
2008 Summer Olympics, some Australian Wikipedians attended the various welcome home parades for the athletes, with one objective being to help create free images of the athletes. Previously, less than ten had photos. However, there are now over 100 athletes that do have photos, but unfortunately in some cases, they have not yet been identified. Help is requested for this purpose at the link above.
Wikimedia Australia
After much hard work in slogging through paperwork and government regulations, Wikimedia Australia was incorporated on 6 August, and membership was opened on 12 November. Its
stated purpose is to be "an independent, not-for-profit organisation, whose primary aim is to promote equality of opportunity to access and participate in the collaborative creation of Free Cultural Works, especially educational works, and works about Australia, its culture, natural environment, and Australian news and media". It will be developing a joint publication with Creative Commons Australia, and members are in the process of spreading the Wikipedia message, with Wikipedia being introduced into the curriculum in some courses in Australia next year. The first AGM is planned for 11 January 2009.
Well known Australian Wikipedian and polyglot FA writer Casliber, known for his writings on Australian wildlife among other things, has placed first in this year's arbitration election and appears certain to be appointed.
Quality watch
2008 saw a major feat for WikiProject Australia: 100 articles were promoted to featured article status. This is huge not only for the project's individual members and those who helped achieved such an impressive statistic, but for all of Wikipedia. Everyone involved has given readers from all around the world a chance to learn about Australia and relevant topics online from the best of sources. Congratulations to
Mattinbgn, who wrote the 100th FA,
Harry Trott. Also of note was the promotion of national icon Sir
Donald Bradman, which then appeared as the main page FA on his 100th birthday. WikiProject Australia's maiden
featured topics arrived early in the year, with
Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and
Powderfinger albums, both about the band
Powderfinger.
New South Wales and
Music of Australia became featured portals. A further 13
featured lists have been produced.
Recent events
January-February: The first two Australian
featured topics promoted.
This month's newsletter was written by YellowMonkey and published by
TinucherianBot. If you wish to stop receiving it, receive it in a different format, or submit items for consideration next month, see our co-ordination page.Issue 2, Volume 2, December 2008. See
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Here are some statistics for WikiProject Australia in terms of 2008's good article and featured article promotions. Summing it up: 116 featured articles, and 178 good articles. So far this year, a net 36 FAs and 72 GAs have been added. The areas of FA growth were cricket (+12), military history (+7), swimming (+5), Powderfinger (+4), birds (+4), Silverchair (+2), Holden (+1), Wiggles (+1). These areas have been traditional strengths of the project, and this year,
Abraham, B.S. has started another strong tradition, with a series of articles on Australian
Victoria Cross awardees (1FA, 8GA). It would be great to see a wider range of Australian topics represented at FA in future. Two FAs were sent to
Featured article review, but
Bilby was instrumental in renovating and saving both
Shrine of Remembrance and
Waterfall Gully, South Australia.
I would have, but
Nick-D has beaten me to it. Thankyou to you both for picking it up. I'm afraid my life has become rather busier and I have more things outside of Wikipedia than I had a few years ago. It isn't likely to settle down significantly in the foreseeable future. --
Scott DavisTalk04:55, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
I have written a nineteen page histography about California wrongly claiming a Drake landing but I don't how to post it.
My book "Franics Drake in Nehalem Bay 1579, Setting the Historical Record Straight" was printed in late 2008. The Oregon Archeological Society review the book in the December 2008 Newsletter. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
137.118.203.246 (
talk)
22:15, 27 August 2009 (UTC)