(reposting for Philippe)
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm from Oklahoma, which we colloquially refer to as "South Kansas".... so, yeah. :P What you're getting there is the Sprint Mobile/Broadband center in Topeka. _______________________
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On 5/25/11 12:30 PM, Pharos wrote:
Well, it *would* be awesome if we had a secret wiki-hive in Topeka, anyway.
Who else is trying to build (g)local wiki communities in the US? I think some of these may already be quietly growing beyond the horizon of our attention...
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Guerillero Wikipedia guerillero.wikipedia@gmail.com awrote:
Since thats right in the middle of the country that may be a false reading. I know other mapping programs put all of the hits to a website that come from the united states but they can't tell where from at that location.
-Guerillero
On 5/17/11, Alex Stinsonsadads@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Has anyone noticed the high concentration of editing coming out of Kansas in the United States on the recent bubble map at http://infodisiac.com/blog/2011/05/wikipedia-edits-visualized/? Do we know who/what is going on there? Should we be holding events in Topeka?
Alex User:Sadads
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What if we picked individual active editors from major metropolitan areas, asked them to pick a date when they were free for a local meeting, and posted a geonotice for them... then provided a simple wikiform that they could use [and had a reminderscript leave them talkpage messages three weeks after the last meeting to see if they were interested in another one]?
That seems scalable and a nice way to bring together people proportional to their reading frequency (at least if we can get geonotices that work with the sitenoitice, not with watchlist notices).
SJ
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
(reposting for Philippe)
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm from Oklahoma, which we colloquially refer to as "South Kansas".... so, yeah. :P What you're getting there is the Sprint Mobile/Broadband center in Topeka. _______________________
Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. philippe@wikimedia.org 415-839-6885 x6643
On 5/25/11 12:30 PM, Pharos wrote:
Well, it *would* be awesome if we had a secret wiki-hive in Topeka, anyway.
Who else is trying to build (g)local wiki communities in the US? I think some of these may already be quietly growing beyond the horizon of our attention...
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Guerillero Wikipedia guerillero.wikipedia@gmail.com awrote:
Since thats right in the middle of the country that may be a false reading. I know other mapping programs put all of the hits to a website that come from the united states but they can't tell where from at that location.
-Guerillero
On 5/17/11, Alex Stinsonsadads@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Has anyone noticed the high concentration of editing coming out of Kansas in the United States on the recent bubble map at http://infodisiac.com/blog/2011/05/wikipedia-edits-visualized/? Do we know who/what is going on there? Should we be holding events in Topeka?
Alex User:Sadads
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Awesome, this would be a cool way to systematize the Great American Wiknic effort going forward...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
(Now with 12 confirmed Wiknic cities for June 25, but not yet Boston!)
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
What if we picked individual active editors from major metropolitan areas, asked them to pick a date when they were free for a local meeting, and posted a geonotice for them... then provided a simple wikiform that they could use [and had a reminderscript leave them talkpage messages three weeks after the last meeting to see if they were interested in another one]?
That seems scalable and a nice way to bring together people proportional to their reading frequency (at least if we can get geonotices that work with the sitenoitice, not with watchlist notices).
SJ
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Pharos pharosofalexandria@gmail.com wrote:
(reposting for Philippe)
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm from Oklahoma, which we colloquially refer to as "South Kansas".... so, yeah. :P What you're getting there is the Sprint Mobile/Broadband center in Topeka. _______________________
Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. philippe@wikimedia.org 415-839-6885 x6643
On 5/25/11 12:30 PM, Pharos wrote:
Well, it *would* be awesome if we had a secret wiki-hive in Topeka, anyway.
Who else is trying to build (g)local wiki communities in the US? I think some of these may already be quietly growing beyond the horizon of our attention...
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Guerillero Wikipedia guerillero.wikipedia@gmail.com awrote:
Since thats right in the middle of the country that may be a false reading. I know other mapping programs put all of the hits to a website that come from the united states but they can't tell where from at that location.
-Guerillero
On 5/17/11, Alex Stinsonsadads@gmail.com wrote: > > Hey, > > Has anyone noticed the high concentration of editing coming out of > Kansas in > the United States on the recent bubble map at > http://infodisiac.com/blog/2011/05/wikipedia-edits-visualized/? Do we > know > who/what is going on there? Should we be holding events in Topeka? > > Alex > User:Sadads >
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