I thought this was very smart Idea by the HR department. It would be much easier to follow up on for new wikimedians and prospective hires, rather than going through posting pages on the foundation wiki and the Meta. Its the quickest way of informing the community of new staff hires and introducing them to the community. I thought this was the easiest and the quickest way to provide updates rather than pages on Meta or the foundation Wiki (which I think would still be updated).
If the bone of contention is the choice of media here of Micro-blogging then I think thats another discussion altogether, the foundation and many prominent projects are already very active in the Micro-blogging world. Last I checked Wikimedia tech staff, Wikimedia Mobile, Wikipedia Signpost and others provide regular updates through the same medium.
Regards
Theo
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Daniel Phelps dphelps@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Angela,
This was exactly our hope when creating the feed or "stream" system with Identi.ca and Twitter.
The feeds require minimal time commitment yet get the information out in an easily digestible format that can be used in ways like you mentioned. In cases where more information is necessary we still plan to use and link to our blog, Job Openings page, email welcome announcements to the various lists, etc. In addition the Staff page is constantly updated when new employees are added.
Thanks for the constructive and encouraging feedback. :)
-Daniel
On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Angela wrote:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
If there's an RSS-embedding widget that's up to our standards, it might be a good thing to put on the relevant WMF wiki page.
It may be better to have a bot copy the content into the wiki page instead of only displaying the RSS. That way the history remains on the wiki and you're not relying on a third party to provide a copy of the content. I've found that embedding Twitter feeds in a wiki too often results in timeouts.
Angela
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