Re: [Wikimediauk-l] An alternative type of meetup?

Hi all, Would anyone be interested in trying a different type of wikimeet? The idea would be to meet at a museum (presuming that I can get one interested in hosting this), and have a meet-up with both wikimedians and also museum people present. People would bring along laptops (or use provided computers) to collaboratively work on articles related to the museum or its collections, potentially with the aim of getting at least one of them to GA quality (possibly FA quality?) by the end of the day. It's a way of bringing experts on the objects, and experts on Wikipedia (who also have an interest in the objects), together and doing something very constructive. It wouldn't be necessary to be a member - it would be open to all - although people would probably need to sign up beforehand, and it would likely be restricted to a certain number of people depending on the capacity of the location (hence members would have priority). This would be similar to the Backstage Pass that WMAU have done with the PowerHouse Museum. I guess that the most appropriate place to try this would be a museum in London on a different weekend from the regular Wikimeets. I mooted the idea with a couple of people yesterday at the London wikimeet, and the response seemed positive. Obviously, before I start asking museums if they're interested, I need to know whether sufficient numbers of people would be interested. So please, reply to this email if you're interested (either on the mailing list, or just to me if you want). Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org