On 22 May 2012 13:03, <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org> wrote: > Given the piss-poor representation up here in Scotland, I think that's a > major win. My next job, as interim 'cowboy liasion' between Wikimedia UK > and Museums Galleries Scotland is to get a few councillors calling for > all publicly funded publications to be under a CC-BY license.
I think you've just become the local office ;-p > Fun and frivolity aside, with limited Internet access I've come to the > conclusion that public libraries are the way to recruit. Brief the staff > of what makes a good Wikipedia article - half of them know already - > then a simple static display may encourage locals to try their hand. > Here in Edinburgh I suspect I can, without too many problems, get > articles put into about a half-dozen languages with keen help from > library staff. That is *absolutely brilliant*. Newbies creating Wikipedia articles with lots of book references? It's hard to get better than that! - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
