User talk:Amandajm/Archives/2019/December

Sydney Meetup next Thursday evening
You are invited to the Sydney Meetup!
 * Thursday 15 September at 6PM at Petersham Bowling Club.
 * (a) accessible by train - Petersham station
 * (b) has some nice draught beers
 * (c) has some nice food
 * (d) has some quiet areas outside and inside...so people can chat without getting a hoarse voice by shouting over 100 decibels of muzak etc.
 * (e) accessible by car with straightforward parking nearby
 * This message was delivered to the invitation list - to opt out of future invitations please remove your name from the list. 04:04, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Welcome back. -- Euryalus (talk) 04:17, 29 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:54, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * ... and six! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:15, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gerda Arendt (talk).
 * I haven't been so regular lately.
 * Quite a shame to thin that a regular contributor of major articles felt so pissed off that she needed to take a five year sabbatical from the chauvinism directed at female contributors, but there we are....
 * Amandajm (talk) 23:09, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)