Platonides HYPERLINK "mailto:comproj%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=%5BComProj%5D%20Mixing%20Direc tories%20and%20Comms%20Tools&In-Reply-To=6g89nt%242dtngn%40smtp05.syd.iprimu s.net.au"platonides at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 19:17:17 UTC 2007
There mail readers allowing conversation threading (which has the little problem that you need to have received the emails). There's also gmane, providing a news interface for email lists. Your news client *will* support threading. And as the mails are stored on the servers, you can access to threads no matter how old. Alas, this list is not in gmane (other wiki*edia lists are) but it could be added. Consider if that fills your expectative.
Thanks. It’s like everything these days. So much choice. I hate emails die to the spam it creates, and am used to threads that aren’t cut into months or into separate lists. I guess people get used to anything. I’ve just seen forum work to include newbies and help them get orientated, esp good for a place like Wikipedia where lots goes on (across threads).
The other stuff, the real time stuff, like IRC has come an aweful long way since IRC. I'll point you at the big daddy - the accessgrid HYPERLINK "http://www.accessgrid.org/%22http://www.accessgrid.org/ - which
could be used for (as I've suggested)
tying together the Alexandrian Wikimania site with the runners up in different countries.
At least it's easy to find out how to entern on an irc channel (you know there're web gateways you could use, do you?). Arriving to that page i don't see what i'm supposed to find nor how to get to it.
No, didn’t know there was a Web gateway to the IRC. Did I miss something here? HYPERLINK "http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComProj%22http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComP... oj
The accessgrid is primarily for larger groups. I suggested it as it’s at the fat end of the IRC skinny. Operator intensive, but I’m trying to get some unis to buy into tying some sites together for Wikimania.
Maybe this would be more relevant. HYPERLINK "http://forums.mebeam.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2%22http://forums.... m.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2 I’m sure they’d be happy to partner with Wikipedians.
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Simon,
Thank you for your thoughts. I agree that participation in Wikimedia still has a reasonably steep learning curve, and this is not a good thing. However, we already have a large contributor base centered around the means of communication we already use, that is mailing lists and IRC channels, and thus I think that if we were to introduce a board as you suggest it would split things and it would not end up being used.
What would you say to better volunteer information? This is something Sandy has been working on. A guide for Wikimeda volunteers in general, regardless of project, is something that I think ComProj could work on.
Sean
On 12/6/07, simonpedia simon@cols.com.au wrote:
Platonides platonides at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 19:17:17 UTC 2007
There mail readers allowing conversation threading (which has the little problem that you need to have received the emails). There's also gmane, providing a news interface for email lists. Your news client *will* support threading. And as the mails are stored on the servers, you can access to threads no matter how old. Alas, this list is not in gmane (other wiki*edia lists are) but it could be added. Consider if that fills your expectative.
Thanks. It's like everything these days. So much choice. I hate emails die to the spam it creates, and am used to threads that aren't cut into months or into separate lists. I guess people get used to anything. I've just seen forum work to include newbies and help them get orientated, esp good for a place like Wikipedia where lots goes on (across threads).
The other stuff, the real time stuff, like IRC has come an aweful long way since IRC. I'll point you at the big daddy - the accessgrid http://www.accessgrid.org/ - which could be used for (as I've suggested) tying together the Alexandrian Wikimania site with the runners up in different countries.
At least it's easy to find out how to entern on an irc channel (you know there're web gateways you could use, do you?). Arriving to that page i don't see what i'm supposed to find nor how to get to it.
No, didn't know there was a Web gateway to the IRC. Did I miss something here? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComProj
The accessgrid is primarily for larger groups. I suggested it as it's at the fat end of the IRC skinny. Operator intensive, but I'm trying to get some unis to buy into tying some sites together for Wikimania.
Maybe this would be more relevant. http://forums.mebeam.com/view_topic.php?id=2&forum_id=2 I'm sure they'd be happy to partner with Wikipedians.
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