I agree with what Peter Jeremy said. I don't mind there being a supplementary meetup page on the chapter site, but it seems rather superfluous, redundant and unnecessary. At present only 22 (or less than half) current members have accounts which means that only a very small number of Australian Wikimedians can even edit the Wiki, so it strikes me as very redundant to be organising anything but official chapter events on the website and I think it is better to continue to focus on organising regular meetups which aren't chapter events on the WP meetup pages (or perhaps meta).
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Andrew <orderinchao...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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