David,
I can't get on a bus without hearing Polish, Czech, Arabic, and many
more well-known European languages. These people are also 'hardened
regulars' in terms of turning up in local libraries.
The one I count as 'most awesome' is that the library staff, with zero
input from Wikimedians, have figured out the more little [1][2][3] etc,
the more reliable and article is, and those are links to sources that
should be used as references.
I intend to be _particularly_ bold if I properly get some of the
council/library staff onside and ask them to push for all publications
to be put out under CC-BY. I suspect I can do a 'Jedi Mind Trick' on our
couple of Green councillors and get them to agree to such. At-issue is
persuading a few more that using such could cut costs (suckers like me
will take loads of photos for free) and the open-access of the documents
will see the message more widely spread.
Brian McNeil
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lum Hats in Paradise
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 2:12 pm
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
On 22 May 2012 13:03, <brian.mcneil(a)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.
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