Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-12 Thread Chris McMahon
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:06 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: There used to be Wiki Wednesdays in London - not just MediaWiki or Wikipedia - but all sorts of wikis. Mostly corporate users. These petered out from lack of general interest, though. It surprises me, as I'd expect a lot

[Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Quim Gil
MediaWiki Groups are now official - and recognized by the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/ Who wants to start one? I just created https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/San_Francisco as a real test of the process and a real example of a local

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread bawolff
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: MediaWiki Groups are now official - and recognized by the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/ Who wants to start one? I just created

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Platonides
On 12/12/12 00:44, bawolff wrote: I'm actually quite curious to see if there are actually enough MW devs in a single city (Other then WMF's home town) to form a group. To be honest though, I kind of feel that if such groups were going to form, they probably would have already. Formality

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Steven Walling
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, bawolff bawolff...@gmail.com wrote: To be honest though, I kind of feel that if such groups were going to form, they probably would have already. Formality rarely makes people come together that wouldn't by themselves. Obviously robust MediaWiki Groups won't

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread Quim Gil
On 12/11/2012 03:44 PM, bawolff wrote: I'm actually quite curious to see if there are actually enough MW devs in a single city (Other then WMF's home town) to form a group. MediaWiki Groups are open to members of different specialties and levels of expertise. The richer and more diverse the

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Groups are official: start your own!

2012-12-11 Thread bawolff
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 12/11/2012 03:44 PM, bawolff wrote: [..] One starting point in your city / region would be to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup , attend the next meetup and start infiltrating the MediaWiki / tech agenda