https://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&feed=atom&action=historyProposal:Dictionary of Sydney support letter - Revision history2024-03-29T01:56:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.1https://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6689&oldid=prevWitty lama: changing status to approved2012-07-31T04:56:30Z<p>changing status to approved</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Dictionary of Sydney] is currently under funding threat from the City of Sydney council (who provide most of the funding) who are considering ON MONDAY whether to withhold this year's previously approved budget. This would shut the project down completely. All the details are here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/funding-hiatus-threatens-dictionary-2/</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Dictionary of Sydney] is currently under funding threat from the City of Sydney council (who provide most of the funding) who are considering ON MONDAY whether to withhold this year's previously approved budget. This would shut the project down completely. All the details are here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/funding-hiatus-threatens-dictionary-2/</div></td></tr>
</table>Witty lamahttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6681&oldid=prevWitty lama at 00:15, 26 July 20122012-07-26T00:15:54Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may </del>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </ins>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Witty lamahttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6677&oldid=prevWitty lama at 00:13, 26 July 20122012-07-26T00:13:46Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </del>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may </ins>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td></tr>
</table>Witty lamahttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6673&oldid=prevAustwithlove at 09:07, 25 July 20122012-07-25T09:07:53Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may </del>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as a national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can </ins>be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the global appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the global appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or related matters, </del>or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters we would welcome your enquiry. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(we?) </del>write to express <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><s>my</s> </del>our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express our concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Please note </del>the comprehensive acknowledgement of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the ''Dictionary of Sydney'', and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We draw your attention to </ins>the comprehensive acknowledgement of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the ''Dictionary of Sydney'', and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">world's </del>appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">global </ins>appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">please do not hesitate to do so</del>. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or related matters we would welcome your enquiry</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Witty lamahttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6663&oldid=prevMarkhurd: Seeing as this will be on behalf of WMAU, and the rest of the letter is in terms of WMAU, I think the first line should too. The first "we?" depends upon how the letter is signed.2012-07-25T05:05:45Z<p>Seeing as this will be on behalf of WMAU, and the rest of the letter is in terms of WMAU, I think the first line should too. The first "we?" depends upon how the letter is signed.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express my concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(we?) </ins>write to express <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><s></ins>my<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></s> our </ins>concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as the national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recognised as the national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has used the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
</table>Markhurdhttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6659&oldid=prevGraham87: copyedit, regular HTTP URLs should be used as Wikimedia's HTTPS server generates errors on Internet Explorer2012-07-25T03:20:12Z<p>copyedit, regular HTTP URLs should be used as Wikimedia's HTTPS server generates errors on Internet Explorer</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{proposal|member1=Liam Wyatt|member2=Mark Hurd}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{proposal|member1=Liam Wyatt|member2=Mark Hurd}}</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Background===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Background===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Dictionary of Sydney] is currently under funding threat from the City of Sydney council (who <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provides </del>most of the funding) who are considering ON MONDAY whether to withhold this year's<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>previously approved<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>budget. This would shut the project down completely. All the details are here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/funding-hiatus-threatens-dictionary-2/</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Dictionary of Sydney] is currently under funding threat from the City of Sydney council (who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provide </ins>most of the funding) who are considering ON MONDAY whether to withhold this year's previously approved budget. This would shut the project down completely. All the details are here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/funding-hiatus-threatens-dictionary-2/</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think this project has enormous potential for preserving and sharing knowledge of greater Sydney's history and is a significant example of the flexibility of Creative Commons and the advantages of free-licensing in Australia, education and the humanities.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think this project has enormous potential for preserving and sharing knowledge of greater Sydney's history and is a significant example of the flexibility of Creative Commons and the advantages of free-licensing in Australia, education and the humanities.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think Wikimedia Australia should too.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I think Wikimedia Australia should too.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aside from the various reasons listed on their blog, the most important point from Wikimedia's point of view is that the vast majority of the professional historians who were commissioned to submit text<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>chose to do so under the CC-BY-SA license. While I was working there I helped them institute their copyright policy which allows all authors to opt in this free-license - as part of the Dictionary's broader plan to work with, rather than compete against, Wikipedia. You can see the vast amount of content available freely by going here http://dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries and clicking "sort by license". </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Aside from the various reasons listed on their blog, the most important point from Wikimedia's point of view is that the vast majority of the professional historians who were commissioned to submit text chose to do so under the CC-BY-SA license. While I was working there I helped them institute their copyright policy which allows all authors to opt in this free-license - as part of the Dictionary's broader plan to work with, rather than compete against, Wikipedia. You can see the vast amount of content available freely by going here http://dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries and clicking "sort by license". </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Details===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Details===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Budget Implications: none. <br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Budget Implications: none. <br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Timing: City of Sydney Council meeting is Monday <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">20 </del>July. This letter should be sent first thing Friday 27th to have a good chance of being read. This gives half of Wednesday and all of Thursday for comments.<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Timing: City of Sydney Council meeting is Monday <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">30 </ins>July. This letter should be sent first thing Friday 27th to have a good chance of being read. This gives half of Wednesday and all of Thursday for comments.<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ideally, the letter should be send as an email from an official WMAU address<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>to each of the City of Sydney councillor's addresses listed at the bottom of the Dictionary's blogpost [http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/letter-writing-campaign-2/]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ideally, the letter should be send as an email from an official WMAU address to each of the City of Sydney councillor's addresses listed at the bottom of the Dictionary's blogpost [http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/letter-writing-campaign-2/]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express my concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express my concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">recongised </del>as the national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">copied </del>the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">recognised </ins>as the national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used </ins>the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Florence Violet McKenzie" (Australia's first female electrical engineer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https</del>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie)<br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Florence Violet McKenzie" (Australia's first female electrical engineer <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</ins>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie)<br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Glebe Island" (a crucial part of Sydney's economy for centuries <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https</del>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island_%28New_South_Wales%29) <br></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Glebe Island" (a crucial part of Sydney's economy for centuries <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</ins>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island_%28New_South_Wales%29) <br></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Sydney Artists' Camps" (one of the most significant art movements in Australia's history <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https</del>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*"Sydney Artists' Camps" (one of the most significant art movements in Australia's history <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</ins>://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Please note the comprehensive acknowledgement of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the ''Dictionary of Sydney'', and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Please note the comprehensive acknowledgement of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the ''Dictionary of Sydney'', and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>the world's appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which the world's appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Witty lamahttps://wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Dictionary_of_Sydney_support_letter&diff=6655&oldid=prevWitty lama: creating proposal for Dictionary of Sydney support letter - as per member's list discussion2012-07-25T02:54:22Z<p>creating proposal for Dictionary of Sydney support letter - as per member's list discussion</p>
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===Background===<br />
The [http://home.dictionaryofsydney.org/ Dictionary is currently under funding threat from the City of Sydney council (who provides most of the funding) who are considering ON MONDAY whether to withhold this year's, previously approved, budget. This would shut the project down completely. All the details are here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/funding-hiatus-threatens-dictionary-2/<br />
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I think this project has enormous potential for preserving and sharing knowledge of greater Sydney's history and is a significant example of the flexibility of Creative Commons and the advantages of free-licensing in Australia, education and the humanities.<br />
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The Dictionary is asking people to write to the City of Sydney Councillors to express their support for the continuation of the project in advance of the budget meeting on Monday. Lots of details about this are listed on their blog here: http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/letter-writing-campaign-2/<br />
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I think Wikimedia Australia should too.<br />
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Aside from the various reasons listed on their blog, the most important point from Wikimedia's point of view is that the vast majority of the professional historians who were commissioned to submit text, chose to do so under the CC-BY-SA license. While I was working there I helped them institute their copyright policy which allows all authors to opt in this free-license - as part of the Dictionary's broader plan to work with, rather than compete against, Wikipedia. You can see the vast amount of content available freely by going here http://dictionaryofsydney.org/browse/entries and clicking "sort by license". <br />
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===Details===<br />
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Budget Implications: none. <br><br />
Timing: City of Sydney Council meeting is Monday 20 July. This letter should be sent first thing Friday 27th to have a good chance of being read. This gives half of Wednesday and all of Thursday for comments.<br><br />
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Ideally, the letter should be send as an email from an official WMAU address, to each of the City of Sydney councillor's addresses listed at the bottom of the Dictionary's blogpost [http://trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/letter-writing-campaign-2/]<br />
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===Proposed Text of Letter===<br />
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Dear Councillor,<br />
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On behalf of Wikimedia Australia, I write to express my concern about the imminent closure of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' due to the City of Sydney's delays in releasing sponsorship funds. <br />
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Wikimedia Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, officially recongised as the national Chapter of the Wikimedia movement - the volunteer community behind ''Wikipedia'' and other online educational resources. We would like to express our support for the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' project not only for the quality content that it has produced but also for the globally pioneering role it has played in its use of free-licensing. The ''Dictionary of Sydney'' provides the vast majority of its content with a "Creative Commons" copyright license that ensures the material may be used by third parties under very open terms. This is considered world's best practice and is consistent with the principles espoused by the "Open Educational Resources" and "Open Source Software" communities globally. It should be noted that the official State history project of Minnesota in the USA, entitled "MNOpedia" http://www.mnopedia.org/ has copied the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' as the inspiration for their comparable copyright policy. <br />
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The strong stance of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' on open access and collaboration with historians both locally and further afield has ensured that the content it has created is both legally and practically compatible with ''Wikipedia'', the world's fifth most visited website. As a result, many of the Dictionary's articles about important people, places and events have been integrated into Wikipedia, including but not limited to:<br><br />
*"Florence Violet McKenzie" (Australia's first female electrical engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Violet_McKenzie)<br><br />
*"Glebe Island" (a crucial part of Sydney's economy for centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Island_%28New_South_Wales%29) <br><br />
*"Sydney Artists' Camps" (one of the most significant art movements in Australia's history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_artists%27_camps)<br />
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Please note the comprehensive acknowledgement of the ''Dictionary of Sydney'' at the bottom of each Wikipedia article that uses Dictionary material as the source of its content. Without the ''Dictionary of Sydney'', and without its pioneering efforts in open access, this content simply would not have been available to the online encyclopaedia and its wider audience. It would be a great shame to see this outstanding collaborative digital history project fold. <br />
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Wikimedia Australia urges the City of Sydney to ensure the continued funding and support for this project, without which, the world's appreciation of Sydney's history would be very much poorer.<br />
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If you would like to contact Wikimedia Australia or one of our Sydney based members for further information on this or related matters, please do not hesitate to do so. <br />
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Sincerely, <br />
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......</div>Witty lama