Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
-- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?
Cheers, Kirill
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville,
Bloomington,
and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
-- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
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I was thinking that we could differentiate the two by developing the 'WALRUS' branding more as a wikiproject-type campaign on enwiki, while reserving the "official unofficial" name of 'Wikimedia United States Coalition' for the more bureaucratic niceties of meta (widespread use of the latter name outside of meta without explicit WMF go-ahead might also be problematic).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.comwrote:
The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?
Cheers, Kirill
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville,
Bloomington,
and Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of
one
another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic.
Bob (Evansville)
On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
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I'm not sure we can really separate the branding that way, since our en.wiki activity mostly consists of advertising for off-wiki events. If someone from en.wiki shows up at a "WALRUS" event and starts talking to someone from meta who believes it to be a "Wikimedia US" event, there's still going to be some degree of confusion (and resulting brand dilution).
Personally, I think we're at the point where we need to select a single brand and stick with it everywhere, rather than trying to maintain multiple competing brands.
Cheers, Kirill
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
I was thinking that we could differentiate the two by developing the 'WALRUS' branding more as a wikiproject-type campaign on enwiki, while reserving the "official unofficial" name of 'Wikimedia United States Coalition' for the more bureaucratic niceties of meta (widespread use of the latter name outside of meta without explicit WMF go-ahead might also be problematic).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.comwrote:
The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?
Cheers, Kirill
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination would be natural with the cities of Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY again (enclaves 2 and 3) Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY)
That covers about half of the country.
SJ
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote: > > Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville,
Bloomington,
> and > Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of
one
> another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic. > > Bob (Evansville) > > > On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote: > > Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local
Wikimedian
> efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program... > > Think of it: > > Cascadia and New England! > > Minnesota and Colorado! > > LA and Atlanta! > > Thanks, > Richard > (User:Pharos) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaus-l mailing list > Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaus-l mailing list > Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l >
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I lean towards dropping the WALRUS name, and sticking with the more legitimate-sounding Coalition.
Jason / Another Believer
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.comwrote:
I'm not sure we can really separate the branding that way, since our en.wiki activity mostly consists of advertising for off-wiki events. If someone from en.wiki shows up at a "WALRUS" event and starts talking to someone from meta who believes it to be a "Wikimedia US" event, there's still going to be some degree of confusion (and resulting brand dilution).
Personally, I think we're at the point where we need to select a single brand and stick with it everywhere, rather than trying to maintain multiple competing brands.
Cheers, Kirill
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
I was thinking that we could differentiate the two by developing the 'WALRUS' branding more as a wikiproject-type campaign on enwiki, while reserving the "official unofficial" name of 'Wikimedia United States Coalition' for the more bureaucratic niceties of meta (widespread use of the latter name outside of meta without explicit WMF go-ahead might also be problematic).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin@gmail.com
wrote:
The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?
Cheers, Kirill
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.comwrote:
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.comwrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P
Bob
On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination > would be natural with the cities of > Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, > IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. > Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY > again (enclaves 2 and 3) > Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY) > > That covers about half of the country. > > SJ > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian > bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville,
Bloomington,
>> and >> Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of
one
>> another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic. >> >> Bob (Evansville) >> >> >> On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote: >> >> Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local
Wikimedian
>> efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program... >> >> Think of it: >> >> Cascadia and New England! >> >> Minnesota and Colorado! >> >> LA and Atlanta! >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> (User:Pharos) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaus-l mailing list >> Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaus-l mailing list >> Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l >> > >
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I second Jason, as WALRUS has never really sounded professional in my opinion, and I know there was talk at Wikimania in 2012 about finding a name to replace it. Right now, competing names don't help us, and I doubt most active Wikimedians could describe the function of each group mentioned below.
Kevin Rutherford
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On Aug 13, 2013, at 11:13 PM, "Jason Moore" anotherbelieverwp@gmail.com wrote:
I lean towards dropping the WALRUS name, and sticking with the more legitimate-sounding Coalition.
Jason / Another Believer
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure we can really separate the branding that way, since our en.wiki activity mostly consists of advertising for off-wiki events. If someone from en.wiki shows up at a "WALRUS" event and starts talking to someone from meta who believes it to be a "Wikimedia US" event, there's still going to be some degree of confusion (and resulting brand dilution).
Personally, I think we're at the point where we need to select a single brand and stick with it everywhere, rather than trying to maintain multiple competing brands.
Cheers, Kirill
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
I was thinking that we could differentiate the two by developing the 'WALRUS' branding more as a wikiproject-type campaign on enwiki, while reserving the "official unofficial" name of 'Wikimedia United States Coalition' for the more bureaucratic niceties of meta (widespread use of the latter name outside of meta without explicit WMF go-ahead might also be problematic).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
The template looks good, but shouldn't we be using the same "Wikimedia United States Coalition" terminology that we use in the meta version of the template, so as to be consistent?
Cheers, Kirill
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
Following up on Bob's idea of regional "sister cities" cooperation, I've grouped together some of the more active cities on the new enwiki template, by the Northeast, Midwest, South, and West:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WALRUS
Maybe it could be a good idea in future to have an on-wiki noticeboard for each of these four very rough chunks of the country, just to help with regional communication and scheduling of events (and especially as a way to reach out to some of the smaller / less active cities, and e.g. help the Texans settle on a meetup location).
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
(yet!)
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote: > But none of those cities have a WALRUS chapter. :P > > Bob > > > On 7/13/2013 11:35 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >> Boston is engaged in sibling rivalry and virtual event coordination >> would be natural with the cities of >> Boston and New Boston in NH, NY (an enclave of Red Sox Nation), IN, >> IL, OH, MI, KY, MO, AL, GA, and TX. >> Cambridge in PA, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MN, NB, VT, and WI... and NY >> again (enclaves 2 and 3) >> Brighton in CO, OR, and TN (and enclaves 4-6 in NY) >> >> That covers about half of the country. >> >> SJ >> >> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian >> bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Actually, we're already doing this in Indiana. Evansville, Bloomington, >>> and >>> Indianapolis are sister cities since we're within several hours of one >>> another. We've been taking turns hosting the annual Wiknic. >>> >>> Bob (Evansville) >>> >>> >>> On 7/12/2013 9:40 AM, Pharos wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian >>> efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program... >>> >>> Think of it: >>> >>> Cascadia and New England! >>> >>> Minnesota and Colorado! >>> >>> LA and Atlanta! >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Richard >>> (User:Pharos) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaus-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimediaus-l mailing list >>> Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaus-l mailing list > Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
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Howdy, I have recently moved to lawrence and am willing to retry some event coordination, just have contacted the city library and will be starting with a firefox day, after that would do a wikipedia day. mike
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
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Lawrence, Massachusetts?
Kevin Rutherford
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On Aug 8, 2013, at 10:33 PM, "Mike Dupont" jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
Howdy, I have recently moved to lawrence and am willing to retry some event coordination, just have contacted the city library and will be starting with a firefox day, after that would do a wikipedia day. mike
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps it might be a good idea to connect different local Wikimedian efforts through an informal sister cities / regions program...
Think of it:
Cascadia and New England!
Minnesota and Colorado!
LA and Atlanta!
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
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On Aug 8, 2013 11:31 PM, "Kevin Rutherford" ktr101@hotmail.com wrote:
Lawrence, Massachusetts?
my first guess was Kansas…
Sorry, Kansas.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Aug 8, 2013 11:31 PM, "Kevin Rutherford" ktr101@hotmail.com wrote:
Lawrence, Massachusetts?
my first guess was Kansas…
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