Or when I tell people that almost every single mainspace article on Wikinews is permanently locked from editing and they're used to the Wikipedia idea of continual development so they think it's insanity.
On 11/19/06, Damian Finol damian@igluve.org wrote:
Titoxd@Wikimedia wrote:
This could probably be an advisory committee to the Board, someone
through
which the Board could run ideas and ask questions that would affect Wikimedia as a whole. Also, it would be similar to UninvitedCompany's
idea
of "Wikipedia ambassadors", or users who are responsible for spreading Wikimedia-wide messages to their local wikis.
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:39 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikicouncil
On 19/11/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 19/11/06, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.com wrote:
This is about the Wikicouncil, as discussed on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil
Sounds like a useful tool to deal with people who need to be kept busy and well away from anything important.
Do I detect yet another note of pessimism?
No, I'm just not entirely sure what it's for, or what scaling problems it helps solve ... it seems like something to make people feel more involved, which is good; but its useful function isn't elegantly obvious.
- d.
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You have no idea how many times I've tried to explain something to editors (and admins) of Spanish Wikipedia and read "What's the Wikimedia foundation?" "Who's Jimmy Wales, Florence... xxx?", "What's this whole board thing about?".
Raising awareness of what the whole thing is, by inviting them to join a Wiki Council from people of different projects is a great start, and will improve our wikiocracy.
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