On 12/5/13, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5 December 2013 13:08, Bartosz DziewoĆski
<matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The sites are updated weekly, sometimes with
additional deployments
inbetween the scheduled ones. Constant sitenotice would be a bad idea.
I suggest you subscribe to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News ,
which is an also weekly newsletter summarising new features and important
fixed bugs every week, as well as providing links to the detailed change
logs.
Not a bad idea, although every time someone says "xx needs to be
communicated better", someone else responds with "there's a mailing list
for that!" So far, based on recommendations from *this* mailing list, I've
subscribed to half a dozen other lists that, generally speaking, didn't
give me any more information than I would have received here. (Wikitech
Ambassadors? Who's sending anything there? Is it useful anymore?)
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.
Risker/Anne
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As it stands we don't really summarize changes very well, which is a
prerequisite for telling people about changes. Occasionally changes
make it to Tech/news, but that seems sporadic. Posts to
wikitech-ambassadors is from what I've seen, really only for changes
we expect to cause problems, which is a small subset of the changes
people care about. Really the only in-depth list of changes coming to
a wiki near you is
https://git.wikimedia.org/activity/ which includes
a lot of extra stuff, and is mostly far too technical for users to
reasonably understand.
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.
--bawolff