On 01/31/2011 08:26 AM, Ted Chien wrote:
Hi Steven,
2011-1-31 下午1:58 於 "Steven Walling" <swalling(a)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:
1. 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.
2. 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