This is definitely something we need to start thinking about. Thus far,
whenever I've posted geonotices I've gone for a large area as there haven't
been many events happening in the UK - sufficiently few that I believe some
wikimedians will deem it worthwhile traveling a long way for them (e.g.
On 16 May 2011 21:51, Lewis Cawte wrote:
> I don't know, I'm 14, (15 in September), I live in Brighton, so it
> wouldn't be too hard to get there, but the idea of getting lost in
> London by myself scares me, and going unaccompanied into the pub (the
> regular venue I believe)... I guess I like th
I don't know, I'm 14, (15 in September), I live in Brighton, so it
wouldn't be too hard to get there, but the idea of getting lost in
London by myself scares me, and going unaccompanied into the pub (the
regular venue I believe)... I guess I like the hackathon because theres
a fair amount of time f
I would echo the concerns about Geonotices as I've started to click the X to
get rid of them as soon as they come up.
Also - although I live in Somerset my ISP (plusnet) is based in Sheffield so
would I receive notices about meetups in Yorkshire, but miss out on those in
Bristol or Taunton (no
The reason I'm concerned is that we already use geonotices quite heavily and
will probably use them even more in the future. While there is no financial
cost to the geonotices (obviously) there is an opportunity cost and a cost
in terms of the attention they require - we should bear this in mind. I
Depends on the ISP, and, moreover, it depends on the granularity of
information they provide. Most ADSL ISPs seem to enjoy churning IP
addresses every 24 hours (possibly small hours resets of their exchange
equipment). Many geo-attempts I've seem simply use ISP's registered
addresses (hence
Hi Lewis,
We also have meetups, in London particularly we have a monthly one.
They are good for a range of informal collaborations including showing
people some gadgets they might not have tried yet (and there is
usually one end of the table reserved for copyright afficionados). If
London isn't co
Chris,
Currently geo-targeting is only accurate to country level (due to ISPs
randomly moving IPs around within a country - Magnus, is that correct?), so
the only surefire way of targeting all of Cambridge is to scoop up all of
the UK, unfortunately.
Deryck
On May 16, 2011 2:05 PM, "Chris Keating"
I have implemented my own suggestion and restricted the notice to a box more
defined by Lincoln and Southend - I hope that is OK with people, I'm just a
bit conscious that watchlist notices are quite intrusive and we should be
careful not to tell the whole of the UK about every event happening in t
Can I suggest some rather tighter geotargeting for that notice - at the
moment it appears to aim at every Wikipedian in a box with Belfast and
Calais as its opposite corners
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
> On 16 May 2011, at 08:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
> > On 09
On 16/05/2011 08:55, Michael Peel wrote:
> On 16 May 2011, at 08:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
>> On 09/05/2011 11:05, I wrote:
>>> I have posted a page for the next Cambridge meetup:
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/11
>> A site notice for this event would be helpful.
> I've
On 16 May 2011, at 08:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 11:05, I wrote:
>> I have posted a page for the next Cambridge meetup:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/11
>
> A site notice for this event would be helpful.
I've set up an en.wp geonotice for it (which appe
On 09/05/2011 11:05, I wrote:
> I have posted a page for the next Cambridge meetup:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Cambridge/11
A site notice for this event would be helpful.
Charles
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