I know not who had the idea of goings-on, but I think that is a *brillant* idea.
Announcements are far too formal. Pumps are totally clogged. Goings-on is a great way to have information made quickly available.
I made one quick goings-on fr a few days ago, in the hope it would relieve our pump. Our pump is so bad, that some people think we should double it with a board. That is a very bad suggestion. You do not make information flow by adding a parallel tube, you make if flow by redirecting the good information to the good people. So the solution is not two pumps, but better structure of the current information network.
Today, I realise that the goings-on could be one of this great solution for easy communication between wikipedias. And especially for wikipedias to know what is going on in the wikimedia community (as all these votes on meta, by laws topic, changes in software).
That is the ring we have been looking for for some time now ! :-)
Each of these goings-on should have one version on each wikipedia, and one central one on meta. In small wikipedias, perhaps there should be a link to the meta one for a while (as long as the community is not big enough to assume updates).
Each should have local community stuff, and wikipedia wide stuff. With the archives, that is the best way we can keep track of information, and make it flows in many directions.
I would dare to suggest that on each pedia, the issues that are wikipedia-wide are visibly separated from issues wikipedia-local, so update from one ring to the other is much easier.
It could be typically the job of an ambassador to update the local or the meta goings-on.
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goings-on
What do you think ?
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