Re: [Translators-l] [Wmf-strategy-selection] Wikimedians

Philippe, I know what you mean about posting to VPs being hard. It need not be so difficult, however. We've talked about setting up a global announcement tool that would do the same. Switching to a public forum: this seems like something to bring up on the wikimediameta-l list (and perhaps the translation coordination) list. This is a specific, commonly requested, and rarely accomplished task. In effect: 1. define the ~500 wikis that are 'active' and that we'd like to send messages to 2. define the Village Pump page or equivalent for every page. So if non exist, the main talk page; &c. 3. keep an announcement script running that uses a non-bot wiki user to post updates to these. given an announcement title, it should 3a) know how to check to see if a short announcement with that title exists 3b) default to the closest parent language in a language tree if none exist 3c) auto-inlcude a backlink to a global discussion page (default: on Meta). 4. maintain a page describing this announcement bot, in core langauges. 4a) as part of this process, keep a list of stock phrases translated into every language. "announcement", "a discussion about <FOO> is taking place on Meta", "Thank you, ~~~~", etc. Is anyone working on something like this? Could we implement something like this before the next round of Strategic Planning updates? This seems like a year when we will need such an announce feature - particularly in a fashion that encourages local community discussion, something a sitenotice doesn't easily allow (it is temporary and has no obvious talk page). SJ On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Philippe Beaudette &lt;pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: