On Apr 10, 2005 7:45 PM, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
(Re: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-news-l)%3E
Hmmm, well, for at least a while, I think this list will only be used to send Quarto, so the sender will be someone from Quarto team.
Now, if we also use this list to send any announcement from the Foundation, it might absolutely be Jimbo, Angela, Tim, Michael, and very likely a couple more people, such as typically Mav. This use has not been discussed (yet ?). As far as I am concerned, if tomorrow, a big stuff show up, if Ang wants to inform people through this mean, this is absolutely okay with me of course. It just has not been discussed for now. I am not sure we want to multiply the number of mean to inform people... however, a rather big number of editors wished to receive the information Quarto was published, or even Quarto itself by mail. I just figured we should not create just a list for Quarto, so chose a rather neutral name which could be used for other announcements from time to time.
Ant
The list came from a request some people had made to receive quarto by email and a draft email is being worked on at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WQ and is currently in need of translation. If this list is going to be more than a purely quarto-related list, it could, and i believe, should be a multi-lingual announcement list. This means as Anthere correctly points out that notices will be delayed due to having to be translated (though maybe it could be prioritised on Meta [[translation requests]] page?). Or maybe we are just duplicating [[:m:Goings on]]? It seems to be a bit strange to be discussing one list on another list so I'm ccing this to foundation-news-l - I think the first post to the list :) Maybe we can use this thread to discuss the list there and what it's going to be used for. I agree that it is difficult to keep up with what's happening and even easy to miss something interesting. Michael Snow's Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost is excellent in this regard (though it is only in English) Cormac