Dan Rosenthal wrote:
Problem is, we can't disenfranchise the users who
don't use village
pump, IRC, or mailing lists. Email is the only way. Hell, we've
already established that certain users can't see the on-wiki site
notices.
-Dan
That is a problem for en.wikipedia to work out on their own. But
abusing private and personal communication channels to dilute their
effectiveness with common mass mailings is not the way to accomplish
this goal. Mass communications is a huge problem for en.wikipedia,
particularly when something needs to be made known to the body of
Wikipedians as a whole.
But I strongly disagree that e-mail is the only way this can be
accomplished. There are so many methods of doing mass communication to
Wikipedia users that this is a complete fallacy that e-mail is the only
solution. As far as using [[Mediawiki:sitenotice]] and having that
effectively work in all browsers, all skins, and get pressing messages
out, that is something which should be taken to Tech-l or put on the
MediaWiki-Bugzilla, with you adding your own vote to the bug if it is
already submitted. Spam is not the solution here.
-- Robert Horning