On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2012/8/23 Tilman Bayer tbayer@wikimedia.org:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
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You guys (and by that I mean "anybody who doesn't regularly edit a text-producing project[1], but needs to make announcements from time to time"; this includes most of the WMF employees) seem to have a problem with village pumps and instead invent all kind of alternative communication methods, like mailing lists, IRC meetings, Meta, WMF wiki etc., with the sole excuse being "they're hundreds of them".
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It also sucks because the vast majority of contributors don't know/don't want to use IRC, mailing list or even other wikis [2].
Yes, that's true, it has been a major learning for WMF in recent years that while all these (and also the Wikimedia blog) can be useful channels, many Wikipedians don't leave their home wikis and expect really important announcements to be delivered there in some form. In our Wikimania talk, MZMcBride and I gave an overview of the mechanisms that are currently available to do so.
Can you please point me to the location of the slides (if available)?
They're linked from the abstract: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Movement_Broadcasting_-...