Sj wrote:
Related to this, just want to make sure everyone knows about these two pages for announcements and goings-on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Goings-on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Goings-on
Not to mention the other sidebar-linked page, Wikimedia News!
That is part of the problem. When there are several WikiMedia news channels the compete whit there self. There should be one source page whit WikiMedia wide news. That page can be translated by all the WikiMedia wikis who care.
That page should be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News
It's setup is easy. A date and some news. That is easy to translate. I do it for NL. The setup of "goings-on" is not so good for translating. To complicated.
"Wikimedia News" should include to news no on "Meta goings-on". Also now there is a lot of non-news on "Wikimedia News". Wikipedia is now so big it is no news anymore that some wikipedia now has X articles. That type of news should be limited as much possible to big steps of a wiki. A new wiki, the first 10 000 articles, 100 000 articles, 500 000 arcticles, ..
The Announce-l list is a good idea. I (know as "Giskart" in those days) have done a attempt to use it some years ago without succes.
See; http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/announce-l/2002-November/thread.html
Maybe the time is there now for this. But but for it to work people need to be disciplined enough to send the information to the correct list the correct way.
Now I see on Wikipedia-l still a lot of postings that should be on WikiEN-l. Even this tread does not belong here. The stuff about the Arbitration Committee is for wikiEN-l and talk about inter WikiMedia communciation is for Foundation-l