<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Another thing is the use of the geo-ip notice. There is no codified policy about how/when it should be deployed, but if there's an event (e.g. Wikipedia day celebratory dinner) then that should be reason enough to justify the use in the Perth IP ranges. </div><div><br></div><div>We used it in Sydney to announce the meetup when Jennifer Riggs and Mathias Schindler would be there - approximately half of the people were longtime wikimedians who didn't know about the chapter/meetup/in-real-life activities. Effectively, just the kind of people we should be trying to attract to meetups :-)</div></div><div><br></div><div>-Liam</div><div><br>On 02/12/2009, at 22:50, Sarah Ewart <<a href="mailto:sarahewart@gmail.com">sarahewart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>You could also try to link in with other "like minded" groups, other wikis, free culture groups etc.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Andrew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orderinchaos78@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:orderinchaos78@gmail.com">orderinchaos78@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We get an average of 12 turning up these days to our ad hoc wikimeetups... although we've previously attempted to recruit them and failed. With a WM-specific project going in Perth (I'm certainly going to try for it) we may have more success.<br>
<br>cheers<br>Andrew<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/2 Peter Jeremy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peterjeremy@acm.org" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:peterjeremy@acm.org">peterjeremy@acm.org</a></a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div>On 2009-Dec-02 10:28:29 +0000, David Gerard <<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
>Of course, that's difficult in Perth, whose defining characteristic is<br>
>that it's 1500 miles from anywhere - and the "anywhere" in question is<br>
>Adelaide ...<br>
<br>
</div>Darwin is in a similar situation if you take 'anywhere' to mean<br>
anywhere in Australia.<br>
<div><br>
>I'm not sure what to suggest. Advertise more widely? Attract the<br>
>general public? (That'd be interesting!)<br>
<br>
</div>Depending on what is being planned, attracting the general public<br>
may be useful - you might score a few new editors.<br>
<div><br>
> Do you have a list of<br>
>Perth-resident Wikimedians, to have some idea of the potential if<br>
>everyone showed up?<br>
<br>
</div>There are 42 names in Category:Wikipedians_in_Perth. That won't be an<br>
exhaustive list.<br>
<br>
The Sydney page has a section where interested people can ask to be<br>
contacted for future meetups [1] - there are currently 25 names on it,<br>
which is 11% of the people in Category:Wikipedians_in_Sydney. Something<br>
similar might be useful to gauge interest in Perth.<br>
<br>
Looking through attendees at the previous meetups could also be useful<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Interested_in_future_meetups" target="_blank"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Interested_in_future_meetups">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Interested_in_future_meetups</a></a><br>
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