(With my apologies for cross-posting to different mailing lists. I wrote a separate message to wikien-l, so some of you will have already read about this, but I thought it would be good to mention this to some of the non-English Wikipedians who don't subscribe there.)
As the English Wikipedia has gotten so big that even the most active and experienced users can't really follow all of the major events there, I've started a newspaper to try and collect that information for people. You can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
Obviously, anyone is welcome to read it, but it's intended to be mostly for and about the English Wikipedia. Collectively (and in some cases, individually), all the other languages could undoubtedly have a similar newspaper, but I don't speak all those languages, and I'm only one person. Anyway, I think this is the sort of thing that we develop according to need, so whenever any individual project thinks it needs this, feel free to use and adapt this idea.
--Michael Snow
Michael, this is a very good idea and I read it with much interest. Several attempts have already been made with the goal of keeping people informed, and most have basically failed becuase of lack of people motivated to keep up with the good work. I hope very very much that you stick to it and find other editors to help you, because the result is very nice.
Anthere
Michael Snow a écrit:
(With my apologies for cross-posting to different mailing lists. I wrote a separate message to wikien-l, so some of you will have already read about this, but I thought it would be good to mention this to some of the non-English Wikipedians who don't subscribe there.)
As the English Wikipedia has gotten so big that even the most active and experienced users can't really follow all of the major events there, I've started a newspaper to try and collect that information for people. You can find it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
Obviously, anyone is welcome to read it, but it's intended to be mostly for and about the English Wikipedia. Collectively (and in some cases, individually), all the other languages could undoubtedly have a similar newspaper, but I don't speak all those languages, and I'm only one person. Anyway, I think this is the sort of thing that we develop according to need, so whenever any individual project thinks it needs this, feel free to use and adapt this idea.
--Michael Snow
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