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About Me
Hi, my name's Brianna. I'm not an educator as such, but I'm interested in working with teachers and the various arms of the education system.
I'm deeply involved with Wikipedia -- I've been an editor for several years and I'm on the committee for Wikimedia Australia. I'd like to help educators understand how Wikipedia and similar wikis work, their strengths and weaknesses, and how they might be suitable (or not) in the classroom.
I'm also a big supporter of free/libre & open source software such as Linux.
What I've been doing
25 Jan 2010
Charles Matthews take on recent consternation and recriminiation resulting from mass-deletion of unreferenced BLP s on English Wikipedia.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
07 Dec 2009
Some interesting tidbits from the Government 2.0 Taskforce draft report: Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
06 Dec 2009
GeoScience Australia follows the Australian Bureau of Statistics and makes CC-BY their default license.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
14 Nov 2009
Slides from a presentation I gave at an event called MelHack, about creating mashups from government data sources.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
06 Nov 2009
AntWeb was convinced to change their license from CC-BY-NC to CC-BY-SA. They then uploaded over 30,000 of their own images to Wikimedia Commons. woot!
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
22 Sep 2009
Is confused reporting on Wikipedia due to cynical traditional media journalists, or merely a lack of understanding?
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
14 Sep 2009
A features-based attempt to define WIG s (Wikimedia Interest Groups), such as chapters.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
12 Sep 2009
A vox-pop from The Onion on the only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women stat.
via Wikimedia and free culture blog
03 Sep 2009
31 Aug 2009
Brianna Laughers Whiteboard
25 May 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
The main people, who might change things if they had your perspective, are at aarnet. Probably james or Jason might be the best. You find them reporting here. http://www.aarnet.edu.au/blog/default.aspx
Their contact details are under About Us>Staff directory. I've been suggesting this kind of a wikimania linkup (between NRENs) for a few years now, so it will probably be good timing. Just so you know, the technology, which ties global nodes together, is called accessgrid. http://www.accessgrid.org/home
4 May 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
Hi Brianna,
This is a bit left field but maybe of interest. aarnet are doing a promo for their video conferencing system through monash uni on the 25th. http://its.monash.edu.au/staff/videoconf/aarnet-show.html
Perhaps they may be interested in supporting a linkup from/to BA (uni) to mel for wikimania. No harm asking.
Real time communication is beginning to get a focus in the National Research and Education Networks, to support the groups who are scattered around the institutions/country/world. But they do need some collaborating content managers (like wikipedians) to give them direction about what they need.
I'm hoping that this year I can encourage this groups' forum to look at developing a few solutions for the global groups which run Wikifoundation projects. http://www.sipforum.org/content/view/19/73/
If nothing else it might give liam a chance to broaden his his podcast from a one-on-one to an ABC type qanda. He's today's Parkie. All the best.
17 Jan 2009
Pru Mitchell wrote
Hi Brianna - Congratulations, President Wikimedia-AU, and all the best for Free as in Freedom miniconf. It looks wonderful - I just wish I could be there.
11 Nov 2008
Nathan Carter
Concetta Gotlieb
Darcy Moore
Pia Waugh
Donna Benjamin
Nick Lothian
Pru Mitchell
