[Wikipedia-l] A WikiJamSession Fantasy

Fri Jul 23 19:07:48 UTC 2004

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Another way to do it is a la Critical Mass - everybody just show
> up and overrun the library. That will get some publicity too. :-)

Well, I wouldn't recommend that, exactly.  :-) But it might be
sensible to drop the idea of doing it when the library would otherwise
be closed, since that seemed to be the primary "red flag" of
objection.

My guess is that if a library is open to the public, they can't really
say "no" to a ton of people showing up during regular business hours,
but of course we're kind and thoughtful wikilove people, so we would
prefer to schedule this with the library in advance so that they can
be sure to have "all hands on deck", as well as possibly providing us
with some space.

I do have to confess, though, some warm feelings towards the idea of
just surprising them, a la Critical Mass or some freeform Flash mob.
If we were going to do that, I'd propose that we agree to behave very
quietly but very strangely, with secret hand signals (and ENCRYPTED IRC
CHAT ROOMS!).

--Jimbo