[ComProj] Community news (was: New project, the Wikipedia Globe)

[Liam Wyatt]

Yes, it would be good if there were a centralised way of speaking to  
all communities rather than an ad-hoc distribution of village pump  
notices, the heavy handed option of a site notice or through the  
Foundation's blog (which is largely aimed at an audience outside the  
community anyway). Presumably this bot could also be asked to deliver  
notices to people's userpage much like the en:wp:signpost subscription.

-Liam

wikipediaweekly.org
Skype - Wittylama
Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]



On 09/10/2008, at 5:36 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:

 From time to time I was asking people to fill the page [1], so we may
be able to make a bot for community news. I think now that better idea
is to make something like "Project:Community news" page (with
translation in all languages) at every project. However, this needs
asking every particular community. And I suppose that this is the part
of ComProj's job :)

I could make a bot which would be used by writing new section at the
Meta page by specific group of people (I suppose, again, by some
ComProj's members). The bot will check every hour is there any news
and is it written by particular user. If so, bot would resend that
message to all (specified) projects.

[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedian_pubs

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From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ComProj] New project, the Wikipedia Globe
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> I've created a new page,
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/logo>, and would like to  
> draw
> attention to it from people who have been active in the discussions as
> well as including anyone who may be interested via the local projects'
> village pumps.
>
> So, this is where Comproj comes in... getting the message out that  
> we're
> looking for interest in this project.  Thanks!

We might want to get some nice bot owner to spam a message to all the
village pumps[1] (but send it to only the Wikipedias), something along
the lines of [2] maybe?

CC'ing to two possible bot owners that could help, Misza13 because of
his MiszaBot and Millosh (this is similar to his "Hello world!"
project).

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By the way,
> I'm interested in doing a roundtable interview episode for the  
> podcast with several people elected to the committees of various of  
> our different chapters - to discuss what issues every chapter is  
> facing, and what is unique about each one.

Might want to ask someone to forward this message to internal-l
(chapters people are on there)[3].

[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/ 
Internal/Distribution_list
[2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification
[3]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l

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