[Foundation-l] Re: Wikimedia meeting today

Nathan Reed nathanreed at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 20:58:52 UTC 2005


So will http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/License be updated to
reflect the September 17 closing date... along with perhaps some new
thoughts on licensing from the meeting?

Before we post to the water cooler, it would be nice to have a current page.

Perhaps an addition to the site notice would be helpful too.

-N.

On 8/28/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dan Grey wrote:
> 
> > So if you want to ask every Wikinews community about something, you
> > post on the wikis. You go to the Water cooler on en. and post your
> > query, and you repeat that exercise on each language edition.
> >
> > Otherwise you *will not* reach the people who actually contribute. You
> > may _wish_ that posting to the mailing list is sufficient to do that -
> > BUT IT IS NOT.
> >
> >
> > Dan
> 
> 
> Hi Dan.
> 
> I'll be frank. I think your request is not really reasonable. We have
> more than 100 languages. 8 projects. Thousands of editors. You can not
> expect Angela to go put messages one by one in possibly 300 village
> pumps. If you do expect that we do that, I suggest that we add a couple
> of full time employees to do so on the Foundation budget.
> 
> The "cheap" option is that everyone here makes an effort to ensure the
> information is spread everywhere.
> 
> Editors are not informed ? {{sofixit}} Here is the link to do so :
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler
> 
> Please help.
> 
> 
> Anthere
> 
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