Just to interject here (I've been quietly watching the mailing list for
about a week) I think that's a fantastic idea. I'd be happy to help set one
up in Portsmouth as soon as term starts (roll on October) since uni's have
everything a good WP editor needs; large amounts of free time, vast
libraries, hundreds of computers and a fuck-off good internet connection.
Plus everyone there is studying a particular academic subject, which helps.
Oliver
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas
Dalton
Sent: 01 August 2008 18:15
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] University Wikimedia clubs?
it is indeed a fantastic idea, which I was also
thinking about in the
last
two years during my time at SOAS in London. Even
though every student uses
Wikipedia, actually contributing to it regularly and taking part in events
or administrator work has a geeky sound to it according to most and this
is
one of the reasons, from my personal experience, that
Wikimedia Societies
don't work well at most universities. Sad.
There are several geeky societies at my Uni that seem to cope fine.
They form an ad hoc alliance together against the rest of the world
where needed too, called GeekSoc! (We managed to double or even triple
the usual turnout to Student Union meetings when one of the societies
was threatened - a force to be reckoned with!) I could probably
organise a Wikimedia Soc, book a computer room in the library one
evening a week or something, see what happens... Someone remind me
once term starts again (October for me)!
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