On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Tilman Bayer, 11/02/2012 05:56:
As in recent months, it is planned to announce
the translations (i.e.
those which have been completed at that point) on the general
Wikimedia announcements list Wikimediaannounce-l, on Wednesday
February 15. We have also started to post them as language-targeted
updates of the official Wikipedia Facebook account, which reaches a
large audience.
Now that we have regular updates, it would be nice to
restore the automatic
sync over all wikis of
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_thread> (or whatever
was the title we used, in user space IIRC)
Interesting remark, thanks! Looking
over
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_Page/WM_News&…
, it seems that that space has never been used to announce regular
reports or newsletters (pages such as
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports are used for that). But I'm
open to posting the Wikimedia Highlights there if there are no
objections.
so that information can be
transcluded in the most prominent noticeboard of all wikis,
I wasn't aware that
such an automatic sync mechanism had existed
before. Do you have a link explaining how it worked? (I guess it was
something like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Scripts/Synchbot
, but for project pages instead of user pages?)
to avoid
spamming village pumps and reach people who don't have time for village
pumps.
Just to clarify, there have so far been no systematic efforts to
distribute the Wikimedia Highlights via village pumps, although some
users may have posted a translated version on the village pump of a
project in that language. Personally don't see a huge problem with
that (and I might in fact announce the English original on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum in the future).
This is how most readers of such bullettins are
reached, in my
experience with WMIT bullettin.
I would be interested to learn more about the
distribution of the WMIT
bulletin (
http://wikimedia.it/index.php/Wikimedia_news , I assume). In
my experience with the Signpost, a large part of its readers are
subscribers who have signed up to receive talk page notifications. We
actually set up a similar service for the Highlights
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights ), although it
has yet to be promoted widely and we need to figure out how to
integrate the translations.
Such broadcasting mechanisms are a complicated but very important
topic, and I would be happy to discuss it further, but this list is
probably not the right venue.
Nemo
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