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Cary Bass

22 Jul 22 Jul

2:28 a.m.

Andrew Turvey wrote:

Following a discussion after the Board, someone suggested putting up a "geonotice" on Wikipedia watchlists to advertise the chapter's activities. Looking through the archive they seem quite happy to publish even monthly meetups, so I'd like to suggest that we do one now, along the lines of: "Wikimedia UK are currently recruiting volunteers for three new [[wmuk:Initiatives|initiatives]]. Please help us support open knowledge in the UK" (too long I know - suggestions gratefully received) Is it worth putting in a request like this? Andrew

It is my belief that it generated some interest on the Wikimedia-SF list when we did such a thing; so yes, I think it's probably worth it. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Andrew Turvey

8:38 p.m.

What's your timescale for the fundraising geonotice? This is what I'm unsure of. If people are publishing notices for every monthly meetup, we may be ok to have both. ----- "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:30:19 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice 2009/7/22 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com>om>:

Following a discussion after the Board, someone suggested putting up a "geonotice" on Wikipedia watchlists to advertise the chapter's activities. Looking through the archive they seem quite happy to publish even monthly meetups, so I'd like to suggest that we do one now, along the lines of: "Wikimedia UK are currently recruiting volunteers for three new [[wmuk:Initiatives|initiatives]]. Please help us support open knowledge in the UK" (too long I know - suggestions gratefully received) Is it worth putting in a request like this?

As I said on IRC, hold off on that. We can't bombard people with too many notices, so we need to wait and work out what we want to say. I'm investigating the possibility of using geonotices for a fundraising drive, so let me finish that before you start carrying out conflicting plans. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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Casey Brown

2:47 a.m.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Turvey<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

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Is it worth putting in a request like this?

Just make sure that you *request it* so that enwp doesn't get into one of its moods and is like "omg, a chapter thinks they have a say on wiki, heads will roll". Having a paper trail that you followed protocol/filed a request is a good thing. :-) That being said, seems like a good idea to me. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

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Andrew Turvey

8:36 p.m.

Indeed - it's up to them whether they publish it or not. We're just asking like any other editors - they're free to say no. ----- "Casey Brown" <lists(a)caseybrown.org> wrote:

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From: "Casey Brown" <lists(a)caseybrown.org> To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:47:33 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Andrew Turvey<andrewrturvey(a)googlemail.com> wrote:

Is it worth putting in a request like this?

Just make sure that you *request it* so that enwp doesn't get into one of its moods and is like "omg, a chapter thinks they have a say on wiki, heads will roll". Having a paper trail that you followed protocol/filed a request is a good thing. :-) That being said, seems like a good idea to me. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org

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