Meeting:Public (2013-02-03)/Transcript
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Feb 03 16:01:23 --> You are now talking on #wikimedia-au Feb 03 16:01:23 --- Topic for #wikimedia-au is Welcome to the Wikimedia Australia IRC Channel. Public meeting is today, 2nd December at 5PM AEDST. Logs of the public meetings are published on the Wikimedia Australia website. Feb 03 16:01:23 --- Topic for #wikimedia-au set by Graham87!~BluFudge@....jazi.net at Sun Dec 2 17:05:38 2012 Feb 03 16:01:47 --- Users on #wikimedia-au: jayvdb Amqui p858snake|l peter-} Thehelpfulone Guest19155 snail Snowolf Barras jeremyb Danny_B @ChanServ Feb 03 16:55:09 --> chuqtas (76d0e045@gateway/web/freenode/ip....) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:01:59 --> Peterdownunder (caa111d1@gateway/web/freenode/ip....) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:04:43 <jayvdb> Hi Charles and Peter Feb 03 17:06:54 <jayvdb> chuqtas, did you get those pictures I sent on G+ ? Feb 03 17:07:40 <-- Peterdownunder has quit (Quit: Page closed) Feb 03 17:11:08 --> Peterdownunder (caa111d1@gateway/web/freenode/ip....) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:11:32 <jayvdb> hi Peter Feb 03 17:11:34 <jayvdb> hi Peterdownunder Feb 03 17:11:44 <Peterdownunder> Hi Feb 03 17:13:54 <Peterdownunder> haven't used IRC for ages Feb 03 17:14:32 <jayvdb> ;-) Feb 03 17:14:49 <jayvdb> did you receive any responses from those melb-health users? Feb 03 17:15:16 <Peterdownunder> Nothing yet :( Feb 03 17:15:56 <Peterdownunder> I also posted people who had been to wikimedia meetings Feb 03 17:17:06 <jayvdb> have you, or anyone else lurking, applied to go to Wikimania? (I'm reading Jutta's report now: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Juttavd/Wikimania_2012_report ) Feb 03 17:18:37 <chuqtas> jayvdb: yes, I got them - will be able to document it all soon! Feb 03 17:19:09 <chuqtas> (note: I'm mostly idling during this meeting - 5-7pm is a busy time of day on the home front!) Feb 03 17:19:48 <Peterdownunder> Quiet since we the kids moved away :) Feb 03 17:20:05 --> Pru (~Pru@CPE-....bigpond.net.au) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:24:08 <-- Pru has quit (Client Quit) Feb 03 17:26:28 <Peterdownunder> jayvdb did you enjoy your visit to the Rock Feb 03 17:32:03 <jayvdb> Yea, it was good Feb 03 17:32:43 <jayvdb> We also went out to Leeton and Canberra before landing in Sydney Feb 03 17:32:55 <Peterdownunder> Did you climb it? Feb 03 17:33:09 <jayvdb> We only went part of the way up Feb 03 17:33:13 <Peterdownunder> The rock, not leeton Feb 03 17:33:24 <jayvdb> we went to the base of the main steer rise Feb 03 17:33:27 <jayvdb> steep Feb 03 17:33:41 <jayvdb> in our defense, this was during the heat wave ;-) Feb 03 17:33:43 <Peterdownunder> It looks like hard work from the bottom Feb 03 17:35:36 --> Pru (~Pru@....) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:37:45 <peter-}> Oh. Is it that late... Feb 03 17:39:30 <jayvdb> hi peter-} and Pru Feb 03 17:41:07 <Peterdownunder> Hi Pru Feb 03 17:43:10 <jayvdb> Pru, we wont have much of a presence at Info Online - we've focused our money/efforts on NLS. Feb 03 17:44:44 <jayvdb> Liam will be chairing for Sue's keynote on Wednesday, and he'll be at the social events too. I'll also be at social events and some sessions, but we dont have a stall or similar Feb 03 17:45:27 <Peterdownunder> NLS? Feb 03 17:46:23 <jayvdb> New Librarians Symposium Feb 03 17:46:30 <jayvdb> in Brisbane next weekend Feb 03 17:46:37 <Peterdownunder> ahh Feb 03 17:46:38 <jayvdb> Sue Gardner will be there Feb 03 17:47:38 --> lankiveilmob (~AndChat37@....tpgi.com.au) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 17:48:33 <Peterdownunder> This Sue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gardner ? Feb 03 17:50:24 <Peterdownunder> G'day lankiveil Feb 03 17:51:24 <Pru> Hi back again - thanks for the update John. Sorry I won't be at NLS Feb 03 17:51:36 <p858snake|l> Peterdownunder: Yes, unless she has been cloned these days Feb 03 17:51:59 <Pru> Probably good not to be trying to get a stall organised in this short timeframe Feb 03 17:53:13 <jayvdb> hi p858snake|l , are you interested in coming to meet her, and us ? Feb 03 17:53:52 <p858snake|l> possibly but i havn't really been doing anything wikiwise for a long time Feb 03 17:53:55 <jayvdb> Pru, yea - once she was confirmed, there were no exhibitor stalls available. Feb 03 17:54:10 <jayvdb> p858snake|l, that doesn't matter. Feb 03 18:03:47 <jayvdb> Pru, are you registered to go to the Wednesday night event? Feb 03 18:05:21 <Pru> John - it has said sold out from the time I first got the message: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/calevents/livestreams/wikimedia Feb 03 18:06:44 --> Bduke (~chatzilla@CPE-....bigpond.net.au) has joined #wikimedia-au Feb 03 18:07:02 <Pru> So I have made other plans. I will hear her at the conference on Wed morning though Feb 03 18:08:00 <p858snake|l> um, the email out for that event said the 11th Feb 03 18:09:37 <jayvdb> p858snake|l, there is a few different events. the meetup for wikipedians is on the 11th Feb 03 18:09:59 <jayvdb> but so far only eight people have registered :/ Feb 03 18:10:35 <jayvdb> all but one of them are WMAU members who are going to be at NLS Feb 03 18:19:15 <jayvdb> Hi Brian Feb 03 18:19:52 <jayvdb> have you caught up with Peter re the seniors strategy? Feb 03 18:21:00 <jayvdb> btw, this proposal is ready for ctte approval. Would be good to get some feedback. http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:2013_Wikimedia_in_higher_education_symposium Feb 03 18:23:10 <Bduke> Seniors strategy? You mean the U3A course? Feb 03 18:23:37 <jayvdb> yea Feb 03 18:24:15 <Bduke> I went to a tutors meeting last Wednesday and the course starts tomorrow morning with Peter and I there Feb 03 18:25:45 <chuqtas> Sorry to jump back a bit - but I could target a FB ad at fans of "Wikipedia" in Brisbane for the Sue Gardner event? Feb 03 18:26:02 <Bduke> It runs for 6 weeks and is at Glen Eira U3A Feb 03 18:26:34 <jayvdb> chuqtas, does it cost money ? ;-) Feb 03 18:26:45 <jayvdb> meh - its worth trying Feb 03 18:27:39 <chuqtas> jayvdb: I'll sponsor the ads :) Feb 03 18:27:44 <chuqtas> its cheap, $2/day Feb 03 18:27:52 <chuqtas> minumum that is Feb 03 18:35:33 <jayvdb> https://www.facebook.com/wikimedia.au/likes says most popular city is Melbourne! ;-) Feb 03 18:36:15 <jayvdb> chuqtas, does it show you how many Brisbane people have hit 'like' ? Feb 03 18:36:47 <jayvdb> I think you may see more detailed stats as the page owner.. ? Feb 03 18:37:46 <jayvdb> We also have G+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/113215008666332832174 Feb 03 18:46:17 <chuqtas> Yeah, the stats are interesting... the top cities at the moment are Melbourne, Cairo, Dhaka, Adelaide, Sydney, Lahore, Karachi Feb 03 18:47:05 <chuqtas> we had heaps of new likes - from outside Australia - when WMF shared a couple of our posts (although geotargetted) late last year Feb 03 18:47:16 <chuqtas> the top cities were all non-Australian then Feb 03 18:48:20 <chuqtas> the percentage of Australian fans has been increasing since then however Feb 03 18:50:13 <chuqtas> as well as "likes" we have stats on "reach" which are the number of people who see any content on the page (people visiting the page as a one-off, or someone sharing content) Feb 03 18:50:53 <chuqtas> the most popular cities are Melb, Syd, Bris, Adel, Perth, Hob, Canb Feb 03 19:02:13 <jayvdb> well its 7pm. time for me to go. Feb 03 19:02:28 <jayvdb> see you on the wiki, i guess Feb 03 19:06:57 <jayvdb> btw, Peterdownunder, we normally post the IRC log of this public meeting onto the wiki. are you happy with that? Feb 03 19:07:12 <jayvdb> i.e. any objections or amendments needed? Feb 03 19:11:56 <-- Pru has quit () Feb 03 19:31:14 <-- Bduke has quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.89 [Firefox 18.0.1/20130117041235]) Feb 03 19:37:05 <-- p858snake|l has quit (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) Feb 03 19:51:16 <-- Peterdownunder has quit (Ping timeout: 245 seconds)