Sorry to ask such a tangential question, but what is WMUK's position
on non-English wikis that might be suitable for a Scottish audience
(e.g. Scots)? Will it seek to actively promote interest in them?
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Harry (User:Jarry1250)
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
I've created [[Wikimedia in Scotland]] on the WM
UK wiki, and would
really appreciate if someone could create a specific Common.css page for
it.
Required is [[MediaWiki:Common.css/Wikimedia in Scotland]] with the
following content:
#p-logo a
{ background-image:
url('http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Wikimedia…
!important;
}
Once a hard refresh is done, this should then cause the Wikimedia in
Scotland graphic I've created to be displayed as the Wiki logo for that
page only.
Ideally, we then 'tart up' this page a little and have the new
scotwiki.org domain point to it. With help from Peter Weiss, I've a
QRcode which includes a Saltire and points to
scotwiki.org.
If we're to make use of this, then I believe one of the key functions of
the page should be to encourage people to create accounts to upload
images, and to perhaps join WMUK.
Scotland is, largely, in need of a drive to recruit contributors who
venture outside when the daystar is visible; or, tap into the wide
international visitor base, get them improving the quantity and quality
of images, then expand coverage across multiple languages.
I'll be discussing this further with Fae on Friday and Saturday, but my
gut instinct is to start with images. The number of people I see -
apparently on holiday - and lugging round £4K+ of camera equipment in
Edinburgh is almost-frightening. Bringing such people into the WMF fold
just seems sensible. rather than a photo they share with friends and
family for 20-30 views per month, they can end up with thousands of
views and encourage others to build and translate content around quality
images.
Brian McNeil.
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