[Wikimediaau-l] AGM report

[Liam Wyatt]

Another thing is the use of the geo-ip notice. There is no codified  
policy about how/when it should be deployed, but if there's an event  
(e.g. Wikipedia day celebratory dinner) then that should be reason  
enough to justify the use in the Perth IP ranges.

We used it in Sydney to announce the meetup when Jennifer Riggs and  
Mathias Schindler would be there - approximately half of the people  
were longtime wikimedians who didn't know about the chapter/meetup/in- 
real-life activities. Effectively, just the kind of people we should  
be trying to attract to meetups :-)

-Liam

On 02/12/2009, at 22:50, Sarah Ewart <sarahewart at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could also try to link in with other "like minded" groups, other  
> wikis, free culture groups etc.
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Andrew <orderinchaos78 at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> We get an average of 12 turning up these days to our ad hoc  
> wikimeetups... although we've previously attempted to recruit them  
> and failed. With a WM-specific project going in Perth (I'm certainly  
> going to try for it) we may have more success.
>
> cheers
> Andrew
>
> 2009/12/2 Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org>
> On 2009-Dec-02 10:28:29 +0000, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Of course, that's difficult in Perth, whose defining characteristic  
> is
> >that it's 1500 miles from anywhere - and the "anywhere" in question  
> is
> >Adelaide ...
>
> Darwin is in a similar situation if you take 'anywhere' to mean
> anywhere in Australia.
>
> >I'm not sure what to suggest. Advertise more widely? Attract the
> >general public? (That'd be interesting!)
>
> Depending on what is being planned, attracting the general public
> may be useful - you might score a few new editors.
>
> > Do you have a list of
> >Perth-resident Wikimedians, to have some idea of the potential if
> >everyone showed up?
>
> There are 42 names in Category:Wikipedians_in_Perth.  That won't be an
> exhaustive list.
>
> The Sydney page has a section where interested people can ask to be
> contacted for future meetups [1] - there are currently 25 names on it,
> which is 11% of the people in Category:Wikipedians_in_Sydney.   
> Something
> similar might be useful to gauge interest in Perth.
>
> Looking through attendees at the previous meetups could also be useful
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Interested_in_future_meetups
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy
>
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