O citizens of Athens,
nope
sorry to all about mistake.
hello all and let me apologize to make a so late apology on my January test;
1) it is always a bad manner to make a test on maillist
2) and gave no reply, because it succeeded on a half, but failed on
another half; I failed to subscribe this list, hence this is my first
substantial post.
3) according to the custom of my ethnic, every greeting should start
from apology.
my fellow ci^h^hWikipedians, expectedly you are so friendly to bear a
series of newbie's questions; I was on a wikibreak since last year,
and everything is new to me on this brave new world.
Well, where is the translators, more precisely, organizers? And where
can I know what they (sorry for my own absence) have been doing until
now? What kind of schedule we have now and who manage the necessary
deadline(s), if necessary? (and from my experience, it should exist).
It is not a criticism, but I really want to know it to avoid wasting
time & work, not to put my feet on other's toe, and I find
difficulties to track others' work specially in this sphere.
*CFP announcement distribtion
Spring has come and we set a special wiki already (thanks for devs and
all involved editors), and CFP has already been announced (thanks for
Sj, Angela and all who helped to distribute this information on their
favorite projects). Ideally CFP would distribute on every major langs,
their maillists, their pumps: is there anyone who tracks either the
whole or parts of distributions? AFAIK, March 30 or 31 might be the
submission deadline for workshops and tutorials, so if some big
projects still lack such information, they are better to be informed
as soon as we can.
Another thought: the recently created communications committee has a
special subcommittee for informing local projects on foundation
matter. Wikimania CFP could be one of such information which those
people are interested in caring for. Or not? (Of course, before they
distribute, translation should have been done. But if we find helps,
it is great).
*Website
Website has been set with some contents. Though I wrote on the
foundation-l that translators would work on meta, but now I'm not
sure. On the current wiki, everyone can create their account. Is there
any policy on account and workplace among involved people already?
*... and its langs
We need to translate some pages into various languages. Is there any
fixed policy which languages are must, strongly expected, welcomed but
not necessary (i.e. we needn't go to mad, if no translator to this
target lang is available)? If not already, who can determine? (I have
my own idea, but it is another matter).
*Volunteers, teams and organizer(s?)
sorry for my lengthy talk and thank you for your patience, that is my
last section of questions.
Do we have one main organizer about this year's conference? In other
words who is now playing the role of Elian in the last year?
I heard somewhere Delphine was appointed to be the organizer, but at
the same time the community decides still their matter - she would
care for finantial matters on the behalf of WMF at least according to
my understandings (your correction will be appreciated, if wrong). Or
in my own case, as one of volunteering translation coordinators, with
whom I should talk when I need to make a decision whose effect is
somehow unignorable? As for coordinators, who is responsible in the
last minute? All of five (Sj, me, Dpalma01, Solensean, Wikipedius
according to the page) or none? We need a communication channel if we
work as a team, but as far as I know, there isn't such. We are hoped
to have it within team, or allowed to use this list to communicate
with other coordinators? (As for one of those, I have no idea where
s/he comes from. There is no user page on meta, so I hope s/he is
already on this list).
Thank you for your patience again and sorry for boring you. Nope I
have one another question still - why is this list so hidden? It
doesn't appear on
http://mail.wikimedia.org and that is one reason I
couldn't reach for a long time.
Apologies is there are unappropriate questions to this list.
Suggestions of alternatives will be welcome.
Now it is already late, we must to go.
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Aphaea(a)*.wikipedia.org
email: Aphaia @ gmail (dot) com