Hi all
during wikimedia germany's brithday party yesterday, I was asked to look into improving the communication between toolserver folks and the wiki communities using the toolserver. We have become an important part of their infrastructure, and when things break, they notice - but often don't know who to ask about it.
So, I would like to propose a few things to improve this situation.
1) There should be a short description of the toolserver, with the relevant links, in the project namespace of each wiki that us the toolserver significantly. That page should be maintained by the local community of course, but I think it would be ideal if a toolserver user who is also a member of that community would help with that, or even start the page. I will do this for the german wikipedia soon.
2) we, the toolserver admins, should use the toolserver blog more to communicate what's going on with the TS. I guess several of the messages I posted here lately should have gone to the blog too. Maybe blog posts could be forwarded to toolserver-l automatically? posting the same thing to several places is annoying...
3) we should incurage people to describe their tools on the toolserver wiki, kind of like the description pages for extension on mediawiki.org. Perhaps we should have a guideline for this?
The idea is to promote some more information about who we are, what we do, and how the toolserver works. And we should also help people to find the right person to contact when things break. What do you think?
-- daniel