I am slightly bugged about this. Local history, local geography, down to
very small granularity was frowned upon in years past...
Onwards and upward?
Gordo
On 30/12/2011 17:14, Roger Bamkin wrote:
Hi Tom,
I'm feeling good as I just had a press release from Monmouth County
Council and I made the point that it was "Wikimedia UK" they were
partnering with - a*nd we should be mentioned*. I agree that John
Cummings comment is spot on. He isnt a Wikipedia old lag but quite a
new Wikipedian. He is the only wikipedian as far as I know in
Monmouth. We are going to try and pull off an amazing stunt of taking
one Wikipedian and creating 1,000 QR codes in a town that has no other
known editors. John cannot do this .... Monmouth and Wikimedia UK can.
Lots of coverage to day from The Next Web et al, BBC Wales Radio and
TV and we're on Radio 4 next week. We also have "promises" of longer
features. My own target is that we get a TV programme out of this. The
story "broke" because John got a bit published in the Monmouth Beacon
and the press ran with it. I'm not surprised, this a "meme" of an idea.
The project has not been hidden but I guess it has not occupied much
board time as the idea is so simple and everyone I've spoklen to just
says "got it .... lets do it". The only investment so far has been
persuading "the town" that they want to do it..... and we have had no
one say No, nearly everyone has said "yes ... how can we help". We
have had a few who wanted to think about it, but we made it clear that
this wasn't an option. We already have a university, several
societies, 2/3 museums, councillors and civic societies etc committed.
Initial funding is agreed.
This is a great chance for Wikimedia UK to show what it can do. It
would be great if some of our members searched out some Monmouth
articles or looked at the Monmouthpedia project pages and started
helping./I would request however that people resist giving "a quick
lesson in what you are doing wrong" to a newbie until we have helped
them four of five times. /
Anybody got some time to assist? It would be great to demonstrate how
we collaborate to create something better then any of us can do alone.
I'm (desperately) hoping someone surprises me
Roger
On 30 December 2011 16:10, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
<mailto:thomas.dalton@gmail.com>> wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-16359364
I've just seen this article. I'd somehow missed this is the
planning stages (I was vaguely aware of some discussion about qr
codes, but hadn't realised anything had progressed this far) - it
looks like a great idea.
It's a good article too, I particularly like the quote from John
about being told he should implement his idea himself - that's
exactly the attitude wmuk should have and we should make everyone
aware of that.
The only thing I don't like about the article is that it makes it
sound like a Wikipedia project, rather than a Wikimedia UK
project. It's not a big deal, but we should try and get the
chapter's role more emphasis.
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