Rob Church schreef:
I maintain a sort of change log as a sub page of my En Wikipedia user page, for the Signpost. It's biased towards English Wikipedia users but might be of some use.
The are now on my watchlist. Thanks.
Where important planned changes that are going to affect most users directly are made, these will almost certainly be announced to this list.
Yes, but that are announcements about changes that are already done or will be done in the very near future. A matter of hours or a day or so. Way to short to be picked up by a weekly news bulletin and find his way downhill to the projects.
Sending information directly to the internal news media is also good of course, especially when it is urgent or really important so that is not overlooked. But just putting it on a pages is more convenient I suppose. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media
I thought it was the "ComCom"'s job to handle internal communications, and our job to get on with running the damn web sites?
Rob Church
This post is by me as the one who primarily makes that newsletter, not the comcom. I am not asking that you send reports. I only provide a link to page I made to make in more easy to report quickly a message to the organized internal news entity's, currently Wikizine and the Signpost. So that who likes to do so can bookmark it and when there is something to report and the feel like it the can do it easily.
I am not trying to annoy anybody here. You, Brion, Kate and the others are trying (and succeeding) to keep the sites online, beside many other duties.
I am trying to give the community the best possible information about what is going on in the Wikimedia-projects, including the technical aspect. And that are not the people who reads this list and possibly can not even read English and because of that there is a translation delay.
The only thing I am asking is that if is known well in advance about changes who have an impact how the wiki works for the users to report that somewhere 10 or 14 days in advance. I am not speaking about small stuff. But changes to the wikis that gives new functions to sysops/bureaucrats or like the inclusion of the system that you need to enter text shown as a image to add an hyperlink to a page or create a new account.
Reporting that things are changed and how it works now is good. But it is better if it can be reported before it goes live.
Greetings, Walter