On 2 Jul 2011, at 10:31, James Forrester wrote: > You missed out that it will only be seen by people that already know > that the wikimeets exist, or that Wikimedia UK does. We very > frequently get new people at the London meetups who had no idea that > the meetups existed, and certainly no idea that WMUK (or any chapters) > do. I think it would be a mistake to ghettoise the meetups into a > non-community wiki. however much we happen to love WMUK. > > I think meta is a good place (but then, I did move the London ones > there after a complaint from a non-enwiki-er, so I'm biased ;-)). I > also think the real value now we have SUL is not in the home but in > the advertising for them.
I think you're right that the real value is the advertising - which can be done in the same way regardless of where the meetup pages are (e.g. point the geonotices to a different URL, add links into en:Wikipedia:Meetup/Calendar, :meta:Meetup/UK/Footer_list etc.). As Tom points out, doing more social networking to encourage people from different backgrounds to come along would be good. Part of what I'm trying to figure out is the incidental benefits/drawbacks of having the pages on specific wikis - does it potentially help the community to have them on meta, or would it help more if they were on the WMUK wiki due to the links with other events? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
