OK. Sure. So why is Monmouth so different from.... London (UK)? As a project?<br><br>I&#39;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 &quot;thinking about it&quot; .<br>
<br>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.<br><br>If someone could offer a similar deal in another town then I guess we would be (a bit) interested, however Monmouth will be the first place to try to be 100% Wikimedia (outside of a single GLAM ). If we manage this then WMUK can show that Wiki-pedia/ source/ and commons etc can partner a whole town.<br>
<br>We&#39;ve never done that. We&#39;ve never done anything, this size, outside England. We&#39;ve never tried to involve the Welsh Wikipedia. I&#39;m already thrilled to see that WMUK members outside Monmouth are having a go. I cannot see that a call to arms to focus on any other wikipedia project would be so successful (albeit its early days). People are seeing that this is different ... and challenging. John&#39;s ideas have been reported in several different languages, on TV and radio. I&#39;m hoping this is going to show (e.g.) London (and other chapters) what they could do.<br>
<br><br>happy new year<br>Roger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 January 2012 12:17, Gordon Joly <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gordon.joly@pobox.com">gordon.joly@pobox.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 31/12/2011 21:58, David Gerard wrote:<br>
&gt; On 31 December 2011 21:54, Gordon Joly&lt;<a href="mailto:gordon.joly@pobox.com">gordon.joly@pobox.com</a>&gt;  wrote:<br>
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&gt;&gt; OK. Sure. So why is Monmouth so different from.... London (UK)? As a<br>
&gt;&gt; project?<br>
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&gt; Work down to the borough level. Walthamstow has an active historical<br>
&gt; society, for instance, who have churned out reams of highly citable<br>
&gt; text. Start at the local library and local museums and work outwards.<br>
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&gt; - d.<br>
&gt;<br>
</div>I see...... real people, not Wikipedians!<br>
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