Tom is absolutely spot on.

For instance 'girl geek dinners' is a nationally franchised group with meet ups in most cities.

It ought to be easy to include them.

Most cities have 5 or 6 recognisable 'tech groups'. My own has brrissm social media. Bristol wireless, bristol cooperative, pervasive media studios.

If we had a 'key person' in a city they should be reaching out to these groups every time.

So multi-faceted outreach is more important than 'which wiki'.

One 'wiki'. And several other places too facebook, twitter etc. On twitter let's get everyone using #wmuk on all relevant messages. That way we can all know how to find this stuff easily.

------Original Message------ From: Tom Morris Sender: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org ReplyTo: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeets - best place to organise them online? Sent: 2 Jul 2011 10:39

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:31, James Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:

I think meta is a good place (but then, I did move the London ones there after a complaint from a non-enwiki-er, so I'm biased ;-)). I also think the real value now we have SUL is not in the home but in the advertising for them.

For most WMUK events I try and list them on Lanyrd which is used by the tech crowd. It'd be good if we could list them on Facebook as well. A multi-pronged strategy works best.

It'd be good if we could try hard to work with local geek event communities as well: for the last Manchester meetup, I told my friend Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden on Twitter) and he promoted it to the geek community in Manchester and got it on the Twitter account of some kind of social media thing in Manchester. Let's do more of this.

We should be getting more non-Wikipedia people involved and attending events: because in-breeding isn't healthy.