Indeed - I'm of the view that meetups of the community are parallel to but not part of WM-AU. There's no harm in advertising them on WM-Au so non-Wikipedians at least see them, but the main interest will come from home projects on WP most likely.
cheers Andrew 2009/12/1 Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> > > > 2009/12/1 Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> > > On 2009-Nov-30 10:42:49 +1100, private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >that here in Sydney, we're shooting for one more mini-meetup before >> >christmas, >> >> I think this might be being hopeful. >> >> > it would be great to get as many folk along as possible, and on a >> >related note, I've just created http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Meetups to >> see >> >if a centralised meetup area on the 'official' wiki might help - please >> do >> >add info. from other states as appropriate :-) >> >> IMHO, the major downside of moving the local meetups page to the >> WM-AU server is that only WM-AU members have editing rights. This >> means that people who aren't members, for whatever reason, aren't >> able to comment. My feeling is that this will discourage people. >> > > Having a meetup page for WM-au organised events is fine but it should not > be seen or promoted as a replacement to/of Wikipedia meetups organised by > local editors > > > > >> >> -- >> Peter Jeremy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> > > > -- > GN. > http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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