Mary,
Everyone is in agreement that it is good for organizers to post notices to
users who want to receive them. Wiki-etiquette is that if someone has
indicated that they are in a certain demographic, and an event targets that
demographic, then it is good to send them event notices. However, this has
only worked historically because there are so few events being advertised,
and if it happens at some point in the future that there are lots of events
then this unwritten rule may be clarified.
It is good for you to post this to project talk pages. Most project pages
often do not get updated with news notices, but some are, and if you add
your notice to an appropriate one then that is fine also.
To post on user talk pages you should be diligent in posting to users who
have opted-in somehow. Historically, the precedent for opting in might
include posting to people have made it known that they are in the event's
geographical region or people who have a history of publicly participating
in a relevant wikiproject. Signing up as a participant of a WikiProject is
also taken as consent to receive relevant notices.
I played around with invitation templates some time ago and made
[[:Template:Invite]]. I doubt that anyone has ever used it, but I used the
template to get feedback on the legitimacy of spamming people to visit
wp:meetup pages. What I found was that there were no guidelines in place
but people liked knowing about relevant events.
Cool? Good luck.
yours,
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Mary Mark Ockerbloom <
celebration.women(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Lane,
I hope you won't mind a quick question:
I've put together a possible invitation box for the Edit-a-Thon in my
sandbox,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Mary_Mark_Ockerbloom/**sandbox<http:…
and I just want to check out the etiquette for putting it up on people's
pages,
since I haven't done that before.
Is it appropriate for me to put it on :
1) user talk pages
2) project talk pages
3) project pages
Any advice is welcome, always happy to be able to improve things,
Thanks again, Mary
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