On 22 May 2012 13:03, brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org wrote:
Given the piss-poor representation up here in Scotland, I think that's a major win. My next job, as interim 'cowboy liasion' between Wikimedia UK and Museums Galleries Scotland is to get a few councillors calling for all publicly funded publications to be under a CC-BY license.
I think you've just become the local office ;-p
Fun and frivolity aside, with limited Internet access I've come to the conclusion that public libraries are the way to recruit. Brief the staff of what makes a good Wikipedia article - half of them know already - then a simple static display may encourage locals to try their hand. Here in Edinburgh I suspect I can, without too many problems, get articles put into about a half-dozen languages with keen help from library staff.
That is *absolutely brilliant*. Newbies creating Wikipedia articles with lots of book references? It's hard to get better than that!
- d.