On Apr 10, 2005 7:45 PM, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
(Re:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-news-l)>
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