Hi Neal,

The best way to contact lots of local editors that I know of (other than combing through categories like "Wikipedians in Colorado", which isn't all-inclusive) is to use a watchlist geonotice.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:29 -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote: 
I posted this at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump
but haven't gotten any replies there, so thought I'd try here.

Contacting local wikipedians

What are good and appropriate ways to contact local wikipedians? I
guess the watchlist notice
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Watchlist-details#10th_anniversary)
may be the best (that's how I learned about this). But I wonder what
other options there are. A geographical watchlist seems possible:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js though caching may
make that slow to take effect.

Is there a way to automatically process user ids in relevant
categories
(e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Colorado)
to find prolific active contributors so we can invite them on their
user page? Are there bots suitable for this?

Also, are there any good templates on en.wikipedia to use for
advertising local events, or advice for making them?

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

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