Hi,
About some 6 months ago I started with an attempt to bring news with a newsletter "Wikizine". I try to bring different types of news like "Foundation", "Community", "Media" but the section"Technical news" is the most important one.
This list, the server admin log and the diffs of the release notes are the main sources of information. It is not always easy to understand what some rather short technical-cryptic description means but in general most changes can be discovered that way.
But that are all reports about things who are already changed. It would be nice to know in advance about changes to come and the advancement of projects.
Request; can the technical staff make and maintain a page where important planed changes are announced? Changes who have an impact for the user experiences for visitors, users or sysops. And for some large projects, like the universal login, every x weeks an update about how it is going with it.
Sending information directly to the internal news media is also good of course, especially when it is urgent or really important so that is not overlooked. But just putting it on a pages is more convenient I suppose. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media
This way I believe Wikizine, and others like the Signpost, can inform the community better.
Greetings, Walter
The guy from Wikizine http://www.wikizine.org
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