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From: Sean Whitton <sean(a)silentflame.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: [Foundation-l] ComProj needs your help - call for volunteers
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia <
wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
The Communication Projects Group or ComProj was set up some months ago
to provide a venue for collaboration between Wikimedians who want to
help with communication work. We do all sorts of things: preparation
of PR material, reaching out to specific groups to get them involved
in our projects, and encouraging inter-project communication.
While the group was started up by Sandra Ordonez, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Communications Manager, it could in its present form have
been started up by any Wikimedian - Sandy is always there to offer
guidance but she has made it clear she is not in charge and wants the
group to run itself. We do that.
How we work is that communication projects are put forward on our
mailing list, and people can volunteer to take them on in groups or
individually. These can come from all members and, unsurprisingly,
Sandy and Cary Bass, Wikimedia's volunteer co-ordinator at the office.
We also have weekly IRC meetings to discuss our projects.
At the moment we are struggling for members due to August dragging
many people away. Projects are not getting done as fast as they should
be and we could really do with more members. So, if you have an
interest in communications, please drop by
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Membership>.
All that we require is that you are willing to put a decent amount of
time into our projects, prioritising it amongst your other valuable
work.
Please distribute this to individual project mailing lists that I may
not be subscribed to, as ComProj is not just for Wikipedia.
Yours,
Sean Whitton
ComProj chair
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Let's see if this does anything!
Noticing the Spam blacklist requests were piling up Aphaia & I started
working on the backlog and have got quite a bit done.
However we have encountered two issues which we would appreciate other
views on.
The use of the blacklist by non foundation wikis
This is probably best looked at/described here -
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ASpam_blacklist&diff=6521…
Views welcome?
The use of local blacklists & particularly en wp.
There is quite a bit of (valid) pressure to place some persistently
spammed domains into the Meta list. It appears en wp admins are
reluctant to use the local blacklist (why?). However - equally - the
validity of some of the domains is more than a little questionable.
Will brass-fittings-brass-fittings.netfirms.com, suntanning.com or
uk-metal-detectors .co.uk be likely to be useful to the foundation?
Before I find myself in a(nother) argument views would be welcome or
equally a better place to post? Giving this list a "start" seemed an
idea!
Cheers
Herby
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Yay! We're an official mailing list now on lists.wikimedia.org! :-)
Most of you may need to change your password, because a random was created
during the moving process (just hit the "remind" button on
http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/options/wikimediameta-l after you enter
your e-mail address).
Let's hope that this lists will become used well in the future. :-) Anyone
have any meta topics that we need to discuss? :-)
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