This is definitely something we need to start thinking about. Thus far, whenever I've posted geonotices I've gone for a large area as there haven't been many events happening in the UK - sufficiently few that I believe some wikimedians will deem it worthwhile traveling a long way for them (e.g. I've attended London wikimeets, even though I'm based in Manchester - although I'm a special case as I'd probably continue doing that regardless ;-) ). With more events, then it does start becoming impractical to advertise them all so widely.
An alternative option to narrowing the geographical range, which particularly interesting if geonotices aren't that specific in location, is to do a summary geonotice, e.g.:
"Meetups this month: London on 8 May, Cambridge on 21 May, online on IRC on 3 and 17 May. More wikimeets and events are listed at [[:wmuk:Events]]. No wikimeets near you? Organise one!"
... this would have to lead to less spontaneous wikimeets, though, requiring about a month's planning - for comparison, the Cambridge meetup planning started on 7 May for an event on 21 May...
Thanks, Mike
On 16 May 2011, at 14:05, Chris Keating wrote:
Can I suggest some rather tighter geotargeting for that notice - at the moment it appears to aim at every Wikipedian in a box with Belfast and Calais as its opposite corners....
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
On 16 May 2011, at 08:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
On 09/05/2011 11:05, I wrote:
I have posted a page for the next Cambridge meetup:
A site notice for this event would be helpful.
I've set up an en.wp geonotice for it (which appears at the top of watchlists). In general, the place to request these is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice and any admin can make them live, by editing the page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js
Thanks, Mike
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