Wikivoyage talk:Meetups

Meetups
Moved from travellers' pub by (WT-en) Evan

So, Maj and I will be travelling to London and Cambridge this month to do research for a book we're working on, and we'd love to meet up with Wikivoyagers in those towns while we're there. Thinking about this made me wonder if it's not a good idea to do general meetups for Wikivoyagers, like on http://www.meetup.com/. I mean, how fun would it be to go to a regularly-scheduled Wikivoyage meetup in Bangkok or Buenos Aires...?

I think maybe using the meetup.com interface is a fine way to organize the meetings, and they seem to have good karma, although I haven't done any of the meetups there yet. I wonder if anyone has an opinion about this? --(WT-en) Evan 14:37, 5 Feb 2004 (EST)
 * Hi, Great ! If you come to Geneva, I invite you for a cheese fondue. ;o) (WT-en) Yann 15:30, 5 Feb 2004 (EST)


 * That's a deal! By the way, we have two Wikivoyagers I know of on Lac Leman -- (WT-en) Mark and (WT-en) Allegra both live in Lausanne. --(WT-en) Evan 15:57, 5 Feb 2004 (EST)


 * I'll meet anybody who comes to Frankfurt. No problem. I can also easily travel anyplace in Europe that has an international airport -- but even though I have plenty of vacation days left, my work has this tendency to ruin my travel plans whenever I make them. -- (WT-en) Nils 18:17 Feb 18th, 2004 CET

Experienced editors in London for a possible edit-a-thon?
I was talking to someone from Wikimedia UK recently along the lines of "wouldn’t it be neat if we could improve the London Wikivoyage guides before Wikimania 2014." (Most are just useable at the moment.) He suggested running an edit-a-thon but this is where it fell down. He’s run edit-a-thons before but doesn’t know anything about Wikivoyage, while I know nothing about either. After pondering this, I think it would be better to try to pass the idea on to someone else. I’m not sure how it would work, or even if it would go ahead, but, if it did, it would probably be with a mix of new editors and curious Wikipedians. (Wikivoyage policy is apparently a stumbling block for the latter.) So, are there any experienced Wikivoyage editors in the London area who might be available to help run an edit-a-thon? If anyone is interested, I can point both parties in the other’s direction and let them see what they can do. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 13:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Quick question: is an edit-a-thon the same thing as a Collaboration? PerryPlanet (talk) 17:34, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Additionally, you might want to look in to whatever is going on over here. PerryPlanet (talk) 17:41, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * An edit-a-thon is an event in which people work together in person to build content on a wiki. See this. --Saqib (talk) 17:47, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Saqib's link explains it in more detail but, in summary, it is a little like a collaboration except that everyone is physically in the same room and there may be a tutorial element. The last part is why an experienced Wikivoyager would be needed; they might need to teach some or all of the attendees how bits of Wikivoyage works and probably answer a few questions.  (I exaggerated a little about knowing nothing; I just don't know nearly about either, although I have been to one edit-a-thon and I've made it to a mighty triple digits in my Wikivoyage edit count.) - AdamBMorgan (talk) 21:12, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Wikimedia UK has an office in London and would, I am certain be happy to host this, if it happens. Mozilla spaces in central London have hosted these in the past and are another possibility. Alternatively the Wikimania organisers might be able to get the Barbican to act as host. Check out the wikimania wiki Filceolaire (talk) 22:56, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh my, that's quite brilliant! Do let me know whenever you host that if I can participate as a semi-experienced Wikivoyager but not Wikimania participant or anyway else involved in Wikimedia. I would love to come to London and join in the effort and help in any way I could (if I indeed could and if you'd let me know early enough for me to make my bookings). I guess we'd need a workshop or two on district division to start with, but this could be concurrent to other efforts, as it is quite easy to move stuff between districts if arranged properly. PrinceGloria (talk) 06:32, 13 October 2013 (UTC)