Hi Paul, welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your recent help cleaning up typos etc on the John Howard and John Farnham articles. I don't know if you're Australian but I thought you might be since you've edited some Australian-themed articles. If you are, there is an Australian notice board here. Also, each of the capital cities have a dedicated project page. For example, this is Melbourne's project page. These pages are usually a good place to connect with other Australians and even non-Australians who just have a particular interest in Australia. If you're not actually Australian, you can just ignore all that! Also, if you would like your username to change from red to blue, just add something to your userpage here: Paul Foxworthy. You can post anything you want there as long as it doesn't breach any Wikipedia policies. There's some more information on userpages and what you can write on them here. It doesn't matter if you don't want to but I just thought I'd let you know because a lot people who monitor recent changes view redlinked names as a sign of "newbiness." In any case, welcome to Wikipedia--it's always nice to have a new editor on board who can actually spell! :). Please feel free to post on my talk page if there's anything I can help you out with. Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 23:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm writing you this followup message, as you took the time to vote in support of a Wikipedia banner campaign for the introduction of Fair Use in Australia.
After much planning and coordination with the WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, and Electronic Frontiers Australia, as of Monday the banner-campaign is active on English Wikipedia to a portion of logged-out readers in Australia ( technical details). The banners direct people to this page on Meta: FairCopyrightOz. That page, alongside lots of information, further directs people towards the campaign website faircopyright.org.au where Australians are invited to write to their local MP to express support of Fair Use. If you are interested in supporting this campaign, please, send a letter yourself using the template letter provided at that link.
Furthermore, and with the support of the ADA & EFA, we have received fantastic media coverage - with article " Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law" appearing on page 2 of the Sydney Morning Herald and page 10 of the Melbourne Age on Monday's edition. It was for a time the 3rd most read article the Fairfax website, and Fair Use was "trending" on Twitter in Australia. We are running the account @FairCopyrightOz on twitter, and we are tracking other press-mentions on the talkpage on Meta.
Today, day 2, we published a detailed post about the campaign on the Wikimedia Blog, ran an "Ask Me Anything" Q&A session on the Australia page in Reddit, and [by happy coincidence of timing] the article History of fair use proposals in Australia appeared on the en.wp mainpage as a Did You Know. [The creation of that "history of..." article was a specific request arising from in the community consultation in which you voted].
And, most importantly, in a little more than a day nearly 800 letters to MPs have been sent encouraging them to support the Productivity Commission's recommendation to adopt Fair Use in Australia. I urge you - please add your own message.
Hi Paul, welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your recent help cleaning up typos etc on the John Howard and John Farnham articles. I don't know if you're Australian but I thought you might be since you've edited some Australian-themed articles. If you are, there is an Australian notice board here. Also, each of the capital cities have a dedicated project page. For example, this is Melbourne's project page. These pages are usually a good place to connect with other Australians and even non-Australians who just have a particular interest in Australia. If you're not actually Australian, you can just ignore all that! Also, if you would like your username to change from red to blue, just add something to your userpage here: Paul Foxworthy. You can post anything you want there as long as it doesn't breach any Wikipedia policies. There's some more information on userpages and what you can write on them here. It doesn't matter if you don't want to but I just thought I'd let you know because a lot people who monitor recent changes view redlinked names as a sign of "newbiness." In any case, welcome to Wikipedia--it's always nice to have a new editor on board who can actually spell! :). Please feel free to post on my talk page if there's anything I can help you out with. Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 23:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm writing you this followup message, as you took the time to vote in support of a Wikipedia banner campaign for the introduction of Fair Use in Australia.
After much planning and coordination with the WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, and Electronic Frontiers Australia, as of Monday the banner-campaign is active on English Wikipedia to a portion of logged-out readers in Australia ( technical details). The banners direct people to this page on Meta: FairCopyrightOz. That page, alongside lots of information, further directs people towards the campaign website faircopyright.org.au where Australians are invited to write to their local MP to express support of Fair Use. If you are interested in supporting this campaign, please, send a letter yourself using the template letter provided at that link.
Furthermore, and with the support of the ADA & EFA, we have received fantastic media coverage - with article " Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law" appearing on page 2 of the Sydney Morning Herald and page 10 of the Melbourne Age on Monday's edition. It was for a time the 3rd most read article the Fairfax website, and Fair Use was "trending" on Twitter in Australia. We are running the account @FairCopyrightOz on twitter, and we are tracking other press-mentions on the talkpage on Meta.
Today, day 2, we published a detailed post about the campaign on the Wikimedia Blog, ran an "Ask Me Anything" Q&A session on the Australia page in Reddit, and [by happy coincidence of timing] the article History of fair use proposals in Australia appeared on the en.wp mainpage as a Did You Know. [The creation of that "history of..." article was a specific request arising from in the community consultation in which you voted].
And, most importantly, in a little more than a day nearly 800 letters to MPs have been sent encouraging them to support the Productivity Commission's recommendation to adopt Fair Use in Australia. I urge you - please add your own message.