Another thing is the use of the geo-ip notice. There is no codified
policy about how/when it should be deployed, but if there's an event
(e.g. Wikipedia day celebratory dinner) then that should be reason
enough to justify the use in the Perth IP ranges.
We used it in Sydney to announce the meetup when Jennifer Riggs and
Mathias Schindler would be there - approximately half of the people
were longtime wikimedians who didn't know about the chapter/meetup/in-
real-life activities. Effectively, just the kind of people we should
be trying to attract to meetups :-)
-Liam
On 02/12/2009, at 22:50, Sarah Ewart <[email protected]> wrote:
You could also try to link in with other "like minded" groups, other
wikis, free culture groups etc.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Andrew <[email protected]>
wrote:
We get an average of 12 turning up these days to our ad hoc
wikimeetups... although we've previously attempted to recruit them
and failed. With a WM-specific project going in Perth (I'm certainly
going to try for it) we may have more success.
cheers
Andrew
2009/12/2 Peter Jeremy <[email protected]>
On 2009-Dec-02 10:28:29 +0000, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>Of course, that's difficult in Perth, whose defining characteristic
is
>that it's 1500 miles from anywhere - and the "anywhere" in question
is
>Adelaide ...
Darwin is in a similar situation if you take 'anywhere' to mean
anywhere in Australia.
>I'm not sure what to suggest. Advertise more widely? Attract the
>general public? (That'd be interesting!)
Depending on what is being planned, attracting the general public
may be useful - you might score a few new editors.
> Do you have a list of
>Perth-resident Wikimedians, to have some idea of the potential if
>everyone showed up?
There are 42 names in Category:Wikipedians_in_Perth. That won't be an
exhaustive list.
The Sydney page has a section where interested people can ask to be
contacted for future meetups [1] - there are currently 25 names on it,
which is 11% of the people in Category:Wikipedians_in_Sydney.
Something
similar might be useful to gauge interest in Perth.
Looking through attendees at the previous meetups could also be useful
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney#Interested_in_future_meetups
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