Past events

This page lists past events. For upcoming events, see Events.

2013

• 28 Jan- 1 Feb 2013 Australia's national Linux conference will be held in Canberra, a great place to meet up with others in the open source community. The conference can offer some financial support (involvement in projects such as Wikipedia is one of the criteria).

• 8 February 2013, Editing workshop in Toowoomba. More information is available on the Toowoomba Regional Council website.

• 9-11 February 2013 ALIA's New Librarians Symposium will be held in Brisbane. WMAU was a sponsor of the event. WMF Exec Director Sue Gardner was a keynote speaker. There was a presentation on WMAU's work with the APC on HOPAU. WMAU had a booth and distributed information and membership forms.

• 12-15 February 2013 ALIA's Information Online conference, also in Brisbane, Sue Gardner was a keynote speaker, introduced by Liam Wyatt of WMAU.

• 21 February 2013, Wikipedia training day in Bendigo. More information is available on Outreach wiki.

• 24 February 2013, Meetup in Canberra. More information is available on Canberra meetup February 2013.

• 13 March 2013, Wiki Masterclass for the SLNSW Innovation Project team.
• 13 March 2013, Open access seminar at the SLNSW.

• 5 April 2013, Wikimedia in Higher Education Symposium: Friday 5 April 2013 at University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus, Teachers College Building (A22)
  • Registration
  • Draft Program
  • Request travel funding assistance.

• 6 April 2013, Perth meetup: 1:30PM Saturday, 6 April 2013 at the State Library.

• 7 April 2013, Sydney drop-in: Sunday 7 April 2013 at Customs House Library, Circular Quay - drop in between 11am and 4pm to meet with committee members

• 2 May 2013: Edit training at Wagga Wagga in conjuction with the Wagga Wagga Library and the State Library of New South Wales, lead by User:Bidgee and User:Peterdownunder. Details here

• 24 May 2013: Wikimedia workshop in Canterbury, New South Wales. (project page)

• 26 May 2013: Official launch of Freopedia in Fremantle, Western Australia.

• 29 May 2013: Wikimedia workshop in Broken Hill, New South Wales. (project page)

• 4 June 2013: Wikipedia training day, Gold Coast Libraries

• Tuesday 25 June 2013: Wikipedia edit training at Gold Coast in partnership with State Library of Queensland - Kerry will present the session and is looking for a volunteer to assist new editors with their first article, contact Kerry if you can help

• Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June 2013: World War 1 edit-a-thon - an online event - all welcome!

• Sunday 7 July 2013 (First Sunday of every month): Wikimedia Australia holds a public meeting, with online participation in the Australian IRC channel #wikimedia-au. Everyone is welcome to join and take part in discussions related to the chapter. - Time: 3pm AEST, 2:30pm ACST, 1pm AWST.

• Tuesday 9 July 2013: Wiki Works: an informal session for practising Wikipedia editing skills after the workshop in June, Gold Coast local studies library 10am - 12noon, RSVP by 5 July to the library

• Monday 15 July 2013: An evening with WittyLama, WMAU member Liam Wyatt talks about Wikipedia at an ALIA seminar at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane

2012

• 18 March 2012: WikiTakes Perth Foreshore photographic scavenger event to record a significant historical site before development of Elizabeth Quay commenced

• 6 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library

• 13 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library

• 20 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library

• 27 November 2012: Freopedia how to edit Wikipedia workshop at the City of Fremantle Library

• 27 November 2012: SLNSW Wikipedia training for all interested SLNSW employees.

• 28 November 2012: SLNSW Wikipedia training for all interested SLNSW employees.

• 1 December 2012: Freopedia edit-a-thon at the Fremantle Local History Library

• 6–7 December: LangCamp 2012, a workshop organised by Wikimedia Australia to support non-English languages in Indonesia and Australia, held at the University of Indonesia

2010

• 6-7 August 2010 GLAM-WIKI: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground, at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra