On 12/05/2013 01:22 PM, Brian Wolff wrote:
On 12/5/13, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Some streamlining of communication processes, and giving consideration to a
> quick and straightforward process to reach information that can be done
> directly from any WMF wiki, would be a really significant outreach to the
> primary users.
Yes, strongly agree.
I think the best way forward would be to more
accurately describe
upcoming changes on tech/news. Once we actually have a user-readable
summary of actual changes that are happening, then we could have a
more reasonable discussion about how to get the information into
people who care's hands, without spamming people who don't. Of course
maintaining tech/news would probably require more effort being put
towards it then is currently done, which requires someone (or multiple
someones) to actually do so.
Indeed, to keep one source information up to date streaming regularly
the interesting bits from many other sources *requires hard work*. We
are lucky of having someone like Guillaume and other contributors
investing many hours on it (today mainly translators, writers are
welcome too).
In community contexts like ours, a good first step is to agree on a
streaming channel. This way everybody interested follows it, eventually
misses an important piece, eventually contributes it.
Once you have One Good Source (e.g. Tech News) it is a lot easier for
others (e.g. The Signpost) to follow and expand on specific stories
that, eventually if they add value, can be featured again in the One
Good Source.
Note also that Tech News not only reaches equally any Wikimedia user and
community page, it also can do it in the local language, as long as
someone provides a translation. The latest Tech News has been
distributed in 15 languages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Latest
A first conclusion of this thread could be an agreement to focus on Tech
News as the one good source to subscribe to, recommend, and contribute
to via content and translations. Many more steps will be needed to
fulfill its mission, but this would be a very useful next step.
What do you think?
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil