On 3 Jul 2011, at 09:00, WereSpielChequers wrote: > I'd say that meta is the right place for meetup pages, but with > pubilicity from other projects that might be relevant. > > Holding it on Wikipedia might be seen as limiting it to Wikipedians.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. I've moved the Manchester wikimeet page to meta; it's now at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Manchester Please sign up if you're interested in coming along to these meetups. :-) > The drawback of inviting non-wikimedians is that they may not be > interested in wikimedia. So I'd suggest one should proceed with > caution there (that said I'm hoping that one of our GLAM contacts will > be at next Sunday's London meetup.. I have two answers to this. First, that I doubt those that are not interested in some way in Wikimedia would come along to a Wikimeet. Second, that I would hope that those already at the wikimeet could convince the uninitiated that Wikimedia is interesting. ;-) On 4 Jul 2011, at 12:29, WereSpielChequers wrote: > I think that multichannel marketing is the answer here. Watchlisting > and Geonotices may be our most effective way of communictaing these > events, but its important to use other channels as well such as the UK > mailing list. Also I sometimes drop a note on the talkpage of UK or > London based editors who I come across on wiki. Definitely - the more diverse and widespread the advertising of a wikimeet, the better. The problem tends to be identifying the wikimedians in the particular geographical area, given how widespread and anonymous Wikimedians tend to be... On 4 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Charles Matthews wrote: > Just out of interest, what proportion of the WMUK membership is > subscribed to this list? There are currently 186 people subscribed to this list, compared with ~180 WMUK members. I doubt that there will be a one-to-one correspondence, though - although I would hope that everyone subscribed to this list would be interested in joining WMUK (and if you're not already a member, I'd love to hear why not...). Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
