Sorry for forking this email thread, <rant> but I fear we tend to discuss almost everything from content and form, to procedures and tools together and without awareness of energy drain.
It is a bit frustrating after 9 months on Meta to realize that most UG I joined have no decision making protocols or culture of using dedicated tools-services-methods for decision making processes (and there are few around). This tends to render then hard to follow and grasp dynamics. </rant>
Here I would focus on: #FAQ: Decision-making tools in UGs? Who could help me find support for testing Loomio in any UG?
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 2:20 PM Jamie Flood jamie.flood2@gmail.com wrote:
I’m open to it - it would be a good way to communicate about more passive projects/ideas, I’d think?
I’m not familiar with either but open to checking them out/learning.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:18 AM Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
Yup - if document making is the goal I agree with you (etherpads are still missing commenting and annotating, but excellent at real-time collaboration)...
...but could user group start experimenting with Loomio for decision making and bulletin board like posting anytime soon or in midterm plan?
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 14:10, john cummings mrjohncummings@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, I've tried to do similar things to this on a wiki and it really doesn't work properly, less ability to comment, can't edit at the same time, no suggested edits etc. My suggestion would be to work in the Google Doc and then copy it to a meta page once done and link to the Google Doc and allow people viewing to see previous versions of the page. Really wish wikis would have more features like this....
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 13:24, Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
Sounds OK - accept that we should maybe use Meta page of UG to keep process transparent - no? With these kind of things I would even suggest using Loomio for UGs, but that is not yet adopted anywhere on Wikimedia projects as far as I know.
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