Anthere wrote:
I disagree.
I think Wikimedia_News should focus on news about Wikimedia for outsiders. While goings-on should focus on our internal kitchen stuff, which is not the business of outside people.
Outsiders and Wikipedia & co? How can we be more public then we are now? Even this posting will go to several archives for prosperity. Internal stuff does not exist at wikipedia.
Now, if it is only a question of naming, I do not care, but we should have a page giving news for press, for potential donators and similar people, and this page should absolutely not be the goings on as currently are.
I think most firms have internal and external communication. This is what intranet and extranet are about. This is the same idea. Our internal little problems of organisation are not of interest for press people.
The current "Wikipedia News" page is not the good way to go for external communciation.
I suggest for that;
Make a WikiMedia Foundation newsletter. Not to many. 4 or 5 editions a year. Whit to most important news about WikiMedia and its project. It can include once in a year a notice to beg for money.
Put it on the foundation website and include an option to subscribe to the newsletter by email.
But that is more WikiMedia Foundation PR and not about what I care. I care about good internal news distribution and so helping to keep the family together.
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.
We may change the set up of goings on if another is best.
Lets do that. Like you say the name is not important. The basic listing style is the way to do it i find. It is about news not make-up.
Now whit the template system the "WikiMedia Foundation intern all wikis wide news" can be put in specific template. It is the information of that template that can be translated and spread accros the world of WikiMedia wikis.
"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, ..
Actually, this Wikimedia News might be something meant to be on wikimediafoundation site if it is not welcome on meta ?
If Wikimedia News is supposed to be for external readers the Foundation website is the place for it.