On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Imagine the same approach for new projects/features, security reviews, new betas, release plans... This is a good way to scale communications without drowning central spaces like Tech News, wikitech-ambassadors or your nearest Village Pump.
This. Many Village Pumps on smaller Wikimedia wikis are already dominated by untranslated announcements from the WMF. I find it hard to believe newcomers will be convinced that's a place for them to discuss, rather than a graveyard for announcements in a foreign language they might or might not understand. Tech News depends on volunteer translators who make sure we can reach out with with updates in ~20 languages. This is possible partly because the amount of updates they have to translate every week is limited. The vast majority of Wikimedians – focused on editing their home wikis – have limited time and energy to keep up with what's happening in the bigger Wikimedia world; the solution to this is not to turn up the volume everywhere.
(This, too, is not to define whether something mertis review or not, but a general comment on communicating technical changes in the Wikimedia world.)
//Johan Jönsson --