I have implemented my own suggestion and restricted the notice to a box more defined by Lincoln and Southend - I hope that is OK with people, I'm just a bit conscious that watchlist notices are quite intrusive and we should be careful not to tell the whole of the UK about every event happening in the whole country.
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:
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:
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:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/11
>
> A site notice for this event would be helpful.
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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