On 01/31/2011 08:26 AM, Ted Chien wrote:

Hi Steven,

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> That's a positive suggestion, but I don't think it would be effective in this case for two reasons:
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> 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