On 16/05/2011 14:39, Chris Keating wrote:
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.
I'm actually a bit concerned about this approach. What other major channel is there for me to publicise a meetup? And are you justified in assuming meetups are only of interest "locally!? At the recent London meetup I met a Wikipedian who lives in Lancashire.
I've also tweeted about it: http://twitter.com/#!/wikimediauk/status/70119179818242048 http://twitter.com/#%21/wikimediauk/status/70119179818242048
There is a good match between the profile of Wikimedians and that of Tweeters, so Twitter is a very useful tool for us as an organisation. If there's ever anything that we can usefully tweet about please feel free to email me, or do a reply to @wikimediauk.
Well, I would say that the profile of those who actually come to meetups is a bit more middle-aged than that.
On the general situation: there are few meetups outside London in a year. Meetups are a way of drawing those who "only" edit into other things. I'd like to see WMUK give the running of more meetups maximum support.
Charles