Something like that seems a very good idea to me. We need to keep the number of deletions, reversions, etc. to a minimum so we don't get a lot of complaints. Doug
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/01/2012 15:25, Roger Bamkin wrote: >> OK. Sure. So why is Monmouth so different from.... London (UK)? As a >> project? >> >> I'm not sure I can compare Monmouthpedia with Project London. I only >> know about the former. Monmouth County Council have agreed to do this, >> every museum, every society we can find in the town. They are finding >> money and people to help us. The town councillors, the museum >> employees are doing stuff without being asked. John finds his way >> blocked by bureaucracy and we have people to phone to give us help. We >> have previously pitched a similar idea to two cities ... they are both >> still "thinking about it" . >> >> We chose Monmouth at random cos someone suggested we do something >> novel in that town and wanted us to either do it or back them to do >> it. WMUK likes doing the latter... its what we do. > > I think I had this in mind (and maybe not a close concept?) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_London > > which I perceive as a "pure" Wikipedia project, like the Beer Project. > > "New users should note that Wikipedia articles must have notability. > (i.e. neither my mum, my dad or the house where I was born has a > Wikipedia article). If you do write an article on something which the > community decide is not important (ie not notable) then it will be > deleted and this project can only offer sympathy. If you choose people > from Who's Who and places that are on maps then you are O.K. Old > important churches yes, any old church built in the 1960's .... probably > not. That said .... have a go! BE BOLD!" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA/Planned_Articles > > Let us hope the good people of Monmouth (and beyond) will "em" bold > "em", and not be put off Wikipedia for a few weeks/months/years (as I > was).... > > Gordo > > -- > > Gordon Joly > [email protected] > http://www.joly.org.uk/ > Don't Leave Space To The Professionals! > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org -- Doug Weller http://www.ramtops.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
