On 3/6/07, Nick Jenkins nickpj@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, I don't know; Sometimes you get some interesting stuff that's not strictly MediaWiki / Wikipedia / Wikimedia - related.
I consider this primarily a strategic tool to improve communication about what we are doing. Wikimedia is not a generic blog host. This tool becomes useless to me, and probably many others, if it includes blog posts about cat tricks and restaurant visits in New Jersey. Not that I have anything specifically against New Jersey. It's just an example. Cats, on the other hand, are evil.
If there is an optional, non-frontpage "See all posts" view, it will not kill me. But please let's try to minimize noise in the default (or indeed only) view. If people really find something they want to share, I'm confident they will incorrectly tag it on a reliable basis. It's the "forward it to a friend" principle. Or, more accurately, "forward it to a person who could have been your friend if you didn't spam them with irrelevant crap."