Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice

What's your timescale for the fundraising geonotice?

This is what I'm unsure of. If people are publishing notices for every monthly meetup, we may be ok to have both.

----- "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: wikimediauk-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 00:30:19 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Geonotice
>
> 2009/7/22 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Following a discussion after the Board, someone suggested putting up a
> > "geonotice" on Wikipedia watchlists to advertise the chapter's activities.
> >
> > Looking through the archive they seem quite happy to publish even monthly
> > meetups, so I'd like to suggest that we do one now, along the lines of:
> >
> > "Wikimedia UK are currently recruiting volunteers for three new
> > [[wmuk:Initiatives|initiatives]]. Please help us support open knowledge in
> > the UK"
> >
> > (too long I know - suggestions gratefully received)
> >
> > Is it worth putting in a request like this?
>
> As I said on IRC, hold off on that. We can't bombard people with too
> many notices, so we need to wait and work out what we want to say. I'm
> investigating the possibility of using geonotices for a fundraising
> drive, so let me finish that before you start carrying out conflicting
> plans.
>
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