[Wikimediaau-l] AGM report

[Pharos]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:50 AM, 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.

I highly recommend inviting the general public and like-minded groups.
 It opens up the perspective, and will also find that you are
recruiting some excellent volunteers for real world local Wikimedia
activities who you would never find otherwise.

It's worked well for us in Wikimedia Neew York City, anyway.

Thanks,
Pharos

> 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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