Anthere Anthere wrote:
I know not who had the idea of goings-on, but I think
that is a *brillant* idea.
I'm very glad that you like it. :-)
The following snippets are taken from a chat log of the evening of Sat 6
March, times are in UTC. I believe the idea was originally Pilaf's:
[23:35] <Pilaf> Is there anything like a "weekly digest" in en:?
but people originally misunderstood his vision:
[23:35] <AdamBishop> current events?
but I didn't ;-)
[23:41] <Timwi> No, such a thing does not exist to my knowlege.
[...]
[23:43] <SethIlys> Pilaf: What would go there?
[23:44] <Timwi> I assume just about everything that has some sort of
impact on the community of Wikipedians.
[23:44] <Pilaf> Important and not so important announcements,
important discussions going on, new "featured
articles", statistics, etc.
[23:44] <Timwi> Probably things like the VfD redesign (even if
unsuccessful), the addition of new features to the
software, etc.
[23:44] <Pilaf> Timwi resumes it quite well :)
After a bit of organisatorial pain...
[23:52] <Timwi> Argh.
... as well as some contructive discussion ...
[23:52] <Timwi> I fear that mediation/arbitration info would drown
all the rest of the information...
[23:52] <SethIlys> Oh, I doubt it...
... the decision was finally made:
[23:53] <Timwi> OK, I'll start such a page.
[23:53] <Pilaf> I'll help you if you let me :)
Quick decision upon the name:
[23:53] <Pilaf> What will it be called?
[23:54] <Timwi> Since we've already had confusion problems with
"Main Page"/"Wikipedia:Main Page", I'll call
it
"Wikipedia:Recent happenings" rather than
"Wikipedia:Current events". Is that OK?
[23:54] <Angela> not happenings
[23:54] <SethIlys> [[Wikipedia:Goings-on]] ?
[23:54] <Timwi> Goings-on is very nice!
and later, lo and behold:
[00:03] <Timwi>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Goings-on
[00:04] <Timwi> It does help that it's Sunday 0:00 UTC just now! :-D
The first version of the page which I demonstrated here is now at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Goings-on/March_7%2C_2…
and it already contained the first going-on! :-)
SethIlys and Fabiform kindly helped me collect the goings-on from the
week that had just passed and ended up creating the page that is now
[[Wikipedia:Goings-on/February 29, 2004]].
End of history lesson! :)
Timwi