This is a cool idea.
On 05/09/2013 06:19 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
What I currently have in mind is a bot subscribed to the wikitech-ambassadors list, that would post every first message of a thread to the talk page of people who have signed up (like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassa... ) or to a noticeboard (that would then be mostly automated).
Let's abstract this a bit more:
A bot subscribed to a mailing list that * posts the subject and body of a new thread in a wiki page. * posts notifications to users subscribed to the bot.
Echo seems to be ripe enough to go for it instead of the old system of populating User Talk pages.
The bot would create a new section, using the email's subject line as the section title, and its body as the message. It would ideally link back to the gmane archive for that thread, so that users can read follow-up messages there. Messages could be trimmed if they're too long. The system could possibly also be used for other mailing lists later.
And a way to archive old posts?
We could also use such bot for posting wikitech-announce updates at mediawiki.org.
PS: I hope this idea doesn't die after a few days, but if it starts fading out let's slap it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects