On 01/31/2011 08:26 AM, Ted Chien wrote:
Hi Steven,
2011-1-31 下午1:58 於 "Steven Walling" <swalling@wikimedia.org mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org> 寫道：
That's a positive suggestion, but I don't think it would be
effective in this case for two reasons:
- Most of the shipments were not to people who have access to
Internal. Quite a few of them aren't even signed up for this public mailing list.
Then find some place that all people can have access to host the information. I think the Ten wiki could be a good place.
- The purpose of a wiki is getting input from as many people as
possible, but shipping will always be the responsibility of a just a few particular folks handling the actual products. That doesn't change whether you're communicating via wiki, email, or blog.
I think the purpose of a wiki is not only for people to input but also for people to share information. I agree the shipping is the responsibility of a few folks handling the product, but it would effect people who join our events.
Because I have expected the shipping might not arrive before our event from the Hong Kong case, we didn't tell people about the Party Pack but made our own Wiki-X buttons. We still have a good time in our Wiki-X event.
Alike case here, hr Wikipedia is having second wikimeeting in 17 days, first email is sent some 3 weeks ago and no response from then. It would be nice to have any response - there is no problem if there is no more goods, or not enough time, but we would like to know whichever is the case. I know that it is lot of work to handle a few hundreds locations/requests, and it is lot of work just to let people know who will get something and who will not - and that serves no actual higher purpose, but if that is possible to arrange somehow (via wiki or something) that we all know status of our "orders", I would vote in favor of such solution, because human nature is to be impatient and having information on time helps.
Kind regards
SpeedyGonsales, Wikimedia Croatia