On 28/06/06, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
This list, the server admin log and the diffs of the release notes are the main sources of information. It is not always easy to understand what some rather short technical-cryptic description means but in general most changes can be discovered that way.
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.
Request; can the technical staff make and maintain a page where important planed changes are announced? Changes who have an impact for the user experiences for visitors, users or sysops. And for some large projects, like the universal login, every x weeks an update about how it is going with it.
Where important planned changes that are going to affect most users directly are made, these will almost certainly be announced to this list.
Periodic updates might also be forthcoming in some cases. To take the example of single sign-on; I am 90% certain there will be an announcement from Brion when the code's complete, tested, and when we're ready to start the migration/conflict process.
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