Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Ireland

Maritime Museum
If you missed the last meeting of 6 October and would still like to visit the Maritime Museum then do contact me ClemMcGann (talk) 16:21, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I will be in Ireland throughout September and wonder if there could be an opportunity to meeting some other Wikipedians in Ireland during that time. --AFBorchert (talk) 17:59, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

This weekend in Dublin: the Wikipedia Free Travel-Shirt
Hello to the irish wikipedians! From friday, 25 september to sunday 27 september, I'll be on a short visit in Dublin (my first time ever in ireland). I'm travelling together with my brother and a friend of mine (unfortunately they are no wikipedians...). In my luggage I will have one of the two WP-T-Shirts (the white one), wich are travelling around the world for one year (march 2009 until march 2010). I would be happy, if someone of you -the irish wikipedians- is interested and would like to support this idea. I like to give the shirt to you and it may travel around in ireland for some days. Visiting and meeting some interesting places and supporting people would be wonderful - documented by photo. Please contact me if there's someone interested in. We can arrange a short meeting in the city of dublin to hand over the shirt. Greetings from germany - --Sir James D (talk) 06:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

This weekend in Dublin: the Wikipedia Free Travel-Shirt
Hello to the irish wikipedians! From friday, 25 september to sunday 27 september, I'll be on a short visit in Dublin (my first time ever in ireland). I'm travelling together with my brother and a friend of mine (unfortunately they are no wikipedians...). In my luggage I will have one of the two WP-T-Shirts (the white one), wich are travelling around the world for one year (march 2009 until march 2010). I would be happy, if someone of you -the irish wikipedians- is interested and would like to support this idea. I like to give the shirt to you and it may travel around in ireland for some days. Visiting and meeting some interesting places and supporting people would be wonderful - documented by photo. Please contact me if there's someone interested in. We can arrange a short meeting in the city of dublin to hand over the shirt. Greetings from germany - --Sir James D (talk) 06:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Personal invitations...
I'm almost insulted that everyone so far other than Rashers it seems was personally invited by yourself RA lol. Personal invite or not, i must make an apology for my future absence, its a little out of my way lol :-P Mabuska (talk) 18:15, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Personal invitation or not, its very clear that all and sundry are welcome. Kudos to RA and the others for taking the initiative. RashersTierney (talk) 18:43, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. C U Hohenloh + 01:24, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Heh.
Would love to come, but just got back from (Northern) Ireland. Oh, well. Do me a favour and see if you can match this 19th-century shot? Adam Cuerden (talk) 23:27, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Fascinating shot, Adam. Sorry I didn't see your post before, I would have taken it for you. I think maybe User:ClemMcGann is your man, if you want to ask him. --RA (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

September 2010 meetup
Thanks everyone who came to the meet-up on Saturday. It was a really positive experience and great to meet others of similar mind and with a similar experience of working together on Wikipedia and other projects. I know there were many more who sent their apologies and I hope even more can make it next time around (see further down)!

I think what came out the most was just how down-to-earth the whole thing was. I think there was initially a bit of nervousness about revealing our "real" identities. (I know secretly that's how I felt.) In fact, it quickly became obvious that the meet-up was simply a coming together of people who already collaborated over the internet and see the limitations of only working together online as well as the benefits of occasionally meeting up in person.

It was great just to sit around a table to talk about common efforts, to get others' perspective on this-or-that and to throw about ideas for collaboration in the future. The informal nature of the whole thing was definitely a plus. After a few minutes of polite conversation the "meet-up" felt like work-mates sitting 'round a bar table talking shop. And it was great that everyone was so natural and enthusiastic.

There's no way that I can remember everything we talked about but (as examples) here's a few conversation points that I can remember coming up:


 * The problems of incivility/poor collaboration on WikiProject Ireland-related articles and the benefits that face-to-face meetings can have in promoting a better culture amongst Irish collaborators (by simply knowing other contributors are "real" and not just as a screen name).
 * How off-line networks can help collaboration (e.g. photo requests) and examples of how editors have collaborated like this in the past by simply emailing each other.
 * What benefit would a Wikimedia chapter in Ireland bring and whether to set the establishment of Wikimedia Ireland as a definite goal. There was consensus to set Wikimedia Ireland as a goal but no time-line was made.
 * The possibility of regular social occasions, perhaps combined with a charity fund-raising element.

The "meet-up" part of the day lasted around two hours in the restaurant of the Kingston Hotel until about 4:00 then Clement kindly gave us a personal tour of the National Maritime Museum. (The museum is not officially open yet, so we felt particularly privileged to be given genuinely exceptional access.)

Before we left the hotel, we discussed a future meet up. It was universally agreed that this one was so beneficial that we really should schedule regular ones. The consensus was to keep a similar format: a private meet-up around some tables in an public place like a bar or hotel lobby followed by an "event". Don generously volunteered to host the next meet-up at the start of December and to provide free entrance to a gig as the "event". It was generally thought that Dublin was the most convenient location for the greatest number of people but meet-ups outside of Dublin were certainly not ruled out.

--RA (talk) 22:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the trouble to write this up RA. Looking forward to our next get-together in the not-too-distant future. Special thanks to Clem for all the trouble he took with the hotel and tour. A very enjoyable day. RashersTierney (talk) 23:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks RA. Very informative and enjoyable, looking forward to the next meetup. Hohenloh + 12:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry I missed it! Sounds like a blast and I was looking forward to the tour of the National Maritime Museum.  Good write up - very professional!  If ever you give up the day job RA..:-)! --HighKing (talk) 11:22, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

15 Jan 2017
The day is a Sunday and apparently it's the WikiBirthday. I was wondering if anyone in the region of Cork - or willing to be in the region of Cork (city) - would like to get together for Wiki themed coffee (or tea/chocolate/hot drinks/cold drinks) and plotting?-  &#9749;  Antiqueight  haver 16:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)