Agreed with Sarah. Here in Perth we have just three and I think I'm the only one able to edit the wiki, so it might get a bit lonely :(
Also, re regular meetups - I had the experience with no less than three Perth groups that over time, the meetup becomes unsustainable as the numbers dwindle over time, people have lives and so they assume others will make up the numbers this time because they had something on, then fall out of the habit of going. Also finding a time to have it when everyone can make it is also problematic as people have jobs, families and other commitments. It may be a phenomenon that's much worse in Perth than elsewhere, but it makes sense that it would have at least some universal aspect. The only groups with regular meetings that I know of that work are professional associations as they actually offer something in return, such as "points" which help to maintain one's professional status just for attending. Hence the sort of negotiated timing, while it makes for fewer and more random meetups, does work better as it picks times when people can make it, and gets their commitment ahead of time to it. cheers Andrew 2009/12/2 Sarah Ewart <sarahew...@gmail.com> > 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/Meetupsto 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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