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.
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