On 16/05/2011 14:39, Chris Keating wrote: > I have implemented my own suggestion and restricted the notice to a > box more defined by Lincoln and Southend - I hope that is OK with > people, I'm just a bit conscious that watchlist notices are quite > intrusive and we should be careful not to tell the whole of the UK > about every event happening in the whole country.
I'm actually a bit concerned about this approach. What other major channel is there for me to publicise a meetup? And are you justified in assuming meetups are only of interest "locally!? At the recent London meetup I met a Wikipedian who lives in Lancashire. > > I've also tweeted about it: > http://twitter.com/#!/wikimediauk/status/70119179818242048 > <http://twitter.com/#%21/wikimediauk/status/70119179818242048> > > There is a good match between the profile of Wikimedians and that of > Tweeters, so Twitter is a very useful tool for us as an organisation. > If there's ever anything that we can usefully tweet about please feel > free to email me, or do a reply to @wikimediauk. > Well, I would say that the profile of those who actually come to meetups is a bit more middle-aged than that. On the general situation: there are few meetups outside London in a year. Meetups are a way of drawing those who "only" edit into other things. I'd like to see WMUK give the running of more meetups maximum support. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
