Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney/February 2006/Planning

Meeting up in 2006?

I'd love to come to a meetup - I'll be in Sydney from mid-Jan 2006, till about March, so hopefully something will happen in that time. --Singkong2005 15:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't mind a meetup in Jan or Feb - before uni starts again in March. enochlau (talk) 00:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Available --- Jan 26 - Feb 5. novacatz 01:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be interested - very busy though! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I can't meet-up for the rest of January, but hopefully later. — Zigger «º» 15:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested. How about Sunday the 5th of Feb? From the comments above, that should hopefully get us 6 people including myself (I'm assuming that novacatz's date range is inclusive rather than exclusive), plus any other Sydney Wikipedians that can come along. Thoughts / comments? -- All the best, Nickj (t) 05:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are these meetups Wikimedia-wide? I'd like to encourage some Wikinews folks to come along as well..... - Borofkin 01:10, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't a formally organised one like the previous one, but of course, everyone's welcome :) enochlau (talk) 03:24, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

5th Feb 2006

Put your name here if you can do NickJ's suggestion as above.

novacatz 06:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC) contact: 0413 371 546[reply]
enochlau (talk) 09:21, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If I'm not bushwalking that weekend. -- Danny Yee 02:55, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I assume so. Andjam 10:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Nickj (t) 04:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Newhoggy | Talk 00:05, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Ianblair23 (talk) 00:15, 3 February 2006 (UTC) - The previous meetup on 20 November 2005 was brilliant, can't wait for this one!![reply]
PeterJeremy I'll try to make it (probably with another Wikipedian) but can't guarantee it.
Ian Rose 02:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC) should be able to make it - thanks for organising[reply]

Meeting at Town Hall steps, 11:30 AM, Sunday 5th Feb 2006.

Note: enochlau and I have emailed the people listed at the Sydney Wikiproject, and at Category:Wikipedians_in_Sydney to send the word out. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:42, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the heads-up! I regret I am unable to attend on this occasion, but I'll watch this page from now on. Andrewa 02:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How will we recognise one another? Or do you guys all have Ws tatooed on your foreheads? -- Danny Yee 04:47, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't you? We need someone to hold something that stands out, but is not out of the ordinary... like a red folder or something. In any case, Ianblair23 and Andjam went last time and their photo is at the top of the page. enochlau (talk) 05:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry guys, we'll find each other. Also I spoke to Ta bu shi da yu and he will be coming as well so thats 8 of us now. Cheers -- Ianblair23 (talk) 07:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Location / Time

Any suggestions on location / time for the above? novacatz 14:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A better question is what are we going to do? That will determine location I would think. enochlau (talk) 00:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We're going to demonstrate outside the State Library, carrying banners that say "Your encyclopedias are redundant, join the revolution"... -- Danny Yee 04:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like an exhilarating option. enochlau (talk) 07:05, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My suggestions: city (food, air conditioning, plenty of parks to lounge around and chat), a hike in the Blue Mountains? Wikimedia Australia planning is well under way, and currently the Melbourne guys have gotten their act together and figured things out. Although spending the entire day discussing Wikipedia is not desirable, I think this is something we'll need to put on the table. enochlau (talk) 04:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We do need to sort this out, one way or the other. Basically by Friday midday, we either need to have agreed on a time & place to meet, or to call it off. (To ensure that people have enough notice to plan accordingly). So, ideas: Coffee in Darling Harbour? Screaming in Luna Park? Lunch in Leichhardt? Anything in the Sydney Festival that grabs people? Or the Moonlight Cinema? I'm even prepared to try a game a golf! But whatever we do, we need to agree on a time and place. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 04:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that THS would be closer to yumcha? novacatz 04:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Somewhere in the CBD would be good for me. I'd suggest the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour - they do drinks and yum cha style snacks - but that may not be so good if it's very hot. -- Danny Yee 04:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How about meeting at the Town Hall steps again? Andjam 04:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Town Hall steps is fine by me. And anytime during the day would be ok - I need to do some shopping anyway. -- Danny Yee 06:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds good. The current weather forecast is "Early shower then fine. E/SE winds" and 25 degrees [1] enochlau (talk) 07:03, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is this actually happening? And at what time? Albatross2147 07:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, assuming we can work out what we're doing and assuming the existence of Sydney in 5 days' time, it's happening. Feel free to suggest a time. enochlau (talk) 07:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shall we say 11:30 AM? Would that give some time for a wander around, and then yum cha? I'm pretty easy, so the main thing is just reach agreement on the time. Do we want to meet at Town Hall steps or Darling Harbour? (Those seem to be the two main contenders). Town Hall steps is well-known and is easy to reach by public transport, but there's no/limited parking. Personally, have a slight preference to driving if possible, which favours Darling Harbour, although Darling Harbour is harder to get to by public transport. But I'll go with whatever the general consensus is. Thoughts / preferences? -- All the best, Nickj (t) 03:53, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds great! I think 11:30am is a good time. Yum cha places can get pretty full up after midday so if that's what people want to do, we can try and get to a yum cha place just before midday... --211.31.6.146 05:10, 2 February 2006 (UTC) --Alexxx1 ^{(talk/contribs)} 05:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

11:30 sounds reasonable. If we want yum cha followed by some sitting around, I'd suggest meeting at Central station or outside Market City. But Town Hall Steps is cool for me too. enochlau (talk) 07:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We do need to finalize, and thus far I think everyone has indicated that they can do the Town Hall Steps (plus it's a very specific location, it's well-known, it's easy to reach by bus and train, and it's only a short walk from Chinatown), and nobody has said that 11:30 AM is a bad time. So, given we need to finalize the details, I'm going to just go ahead and add a note above with this time and place. The general idea being that we can meetup and wander somewhere for a Yum Cha lunch, and then play it by ear after that. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 02:59, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some stuff to discuss

Wikimedia Australia planning (first I've heard about it, love to hear more).
Keeping an eye out for copyright violations (seeing more of these lately in Sydney suburb articles).
- I hadn't heard about this. Should it be mentioned on the noticeboard?
  - It's not a huge deal, I've just noticed it occasionally in material added by new users or anons that's not too good (e.g. Concord, Lilli Pilli, Kellyville, and Baulkham Hills are some that either have had copyright violations, or currently have suspicious content which is being investigated). It's more just a note that if you see something that's too good and that reads like copied text, then it probably is, and if you see it you should revert it (if you get a google match), or check it out if you're not sure (e.g. most copyvio content for suburbs is copied from the local council, or occasionally from local community sites). That's all I'm saying.
Removing some of the redlinks from Local Government areas (usually by deleting the suburbs)
Anything from the Wikinews folks?
Do we want to make Sydney meetups a semi-regular occurrence (e.g. once every 6 months?)
Any Sydney-related areas where we feel the Wikipedia is particularly weak / can be expanded upon.
Any particularly unusual articles that people got a laugh out of.
Wikipedia articles we're working on?
... Please free to add more stuff here ...

Homework

I suggest that everyone take a look at meta:Wikimedia Australia, meta:Talk:Wikimedia Australia and meta:Wikimedia Australia/Base. Familiarise yourself with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney and the WP:AWNB if you haven't already done so. Cheers! enochlau (talk) 12:25, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]