Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy place, with information scattered everywhere around.
"It is on Meta" (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info updated, provide their reports at the right place. A "Chapters Portal" which links all information has been mentioned.
Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided now to be bold and go ahead:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and {{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the information they need.
Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
Regards,
Manuel
Thanks, Manuel, for picking up this topic! Very helpful indeed. I have added a few things and can help updating it regularly.
Best, Nicole
On 25 April 2013 10:22, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy place, with information scattered everywhere around.
"It is on Meta" (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info updated, provide their reports at the right place. A "Chapters Portal" which links all information has been mentioned.
Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided now to be bold and go ahead:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and {{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the information they need.
Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
Regards,
Manuel
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Thanks, Manuel. That is useful.
Also I am on of the people who think it is useless to have a chapters association at this moment (maybe ever?), it is important for us to organize such kind of information in a more centralized way. :)
We also would need to have a way to share our best practices and learnings.
Tom
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy place, with information scattered everywhere around.
"It is on Meta" (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info updated, provide their reports at the right place. A "Chapters Portal" which links all information has been mentioned.
Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided now to be bold and go ahead:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and {{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the information they need.
Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
Regards,
Manuel
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch
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Thank you for that centralitzed page, it is true that many times it is really difficult to find info on Meta.
However I disagree on the name - if it's going to cointain information about Chapters, Thematic organizations and User groups, it shouldn't be named "Chapters Portal" but something like "Movement affiliates Portal" (see Wikimedia affiliation modelshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models ).
*Arnau Duran Ferrero*
*User:Arnaugir (ca-wiki)*
2013/4/25 Everton Zanella Alvarenga tom@wikimedia.org
Thanks, Manuel. That is useful.
Also I am on of the people who think it is useless to have a chapters association at this moment (maybe ever?), it is important for us to organize such kind of information in a more centralized way. :)
We also would need to have a way to share our best practices and learnings.
Tom
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Dear all,
it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy place, with information scattered everywhere around.
"It is on Meta" (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info updated, provide their reports at the right place. A "Chapters Portal" which links all information has been mentioned.
Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided now to be bold and go ahead:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and {{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the information they need.
Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
Regards,
Manuel
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch
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On 25 April 2013 11:07, Arnau Duran arnauduran@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for that centralitzed page, it is true that many times it is really difficult to find info on Meta.
This has been brought up on Meta by Theo at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#.22It_is_on_Meta.E2.84.A2.22_and_.... Please add your comments/suggestions there on how you think we can make things easier to find and organise on Meta.
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