On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:58, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com wrote:
On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment of administrators.
There are already ambassadors, originally for the monobook->vector switch, but not much has happened since then. The mailing list is inactive: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
The ideas of wiki ambassadors (general, not restricted to usability or technical matters) should be revived. I think it worked okay for the usability initiative with much room for improvement.
The idea is older then the useability initiative, amabassador for language versions is quite old in the context of Wikipedia:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Embassy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_elections
henna