David, I can't get on a bus without hearing Polish, Czech, Arabic, and many more well-known European languages. These people are also 'hardened regulars' in terms of turning up in local libraries.
The one I count as 'most awesome' is that the library staff, with zero input from Wikimedians, have figured out the more little [1][2][3] etc, the more reliable and article is, and those are links to sources that should be used as references. I intend to be _particularly_ bold if I properly get some of the council/library staff onside and ask them to push for all publications to be put out under CC-BY. I suspect I can do a 'Jedi Mind Trick' on our couple of Green councillors and get them to agree to such. At-issue is persuading a few more that using such could cut costs (suckers like me will take loads of photos for free) and the open-access of the documents will see the message more widely spread. Brian McNeil -- Wikinews, Accredited Reporter. Personal: [email protected] "Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news." > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Lum Hats in Paradise > From: David Gerard <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 2:12 pm > To: [email protected] > > > On 22 May 2012 13:03, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Given the piss-poor representation up here in Scotland, I think that's a > > major win. My next job, as interim 'cowboy liasion' between Wikimedia UK > > and Museums Galleries Scotland is to get a few councillors calling for > > all publicly funded publications to be under a CC-BY license. > > > I think you've just become the local office ;-p > > > > > Fun and frivolity aside, with limited Internet access I've come to the > > conclusion that public libraries are the way to recruit. Brief the staff > > of what makes a good Wikipedia article - half of them know already - > > then a simple static display may encourage locals to try their hand. > > Here in Edinburgh I suspect I can, without too many problems, get > > articles put into about a half-dozen languages with keen help from > > library staff. > > > That is *absolutely brilliant*. Newbies creating Wikipedia articles > with lots of book references? It's hard to get better than that! > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
