[Foundation-l] [FR07] Communication with projects

[Jerome Banal]

Sabine,

Have you thought about using each project's embassy (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Embassy)? I believe they are the
structure you are looking for, as they exist in part for doing missions that
are made problematic due to language matters. Volunteers will gladly take
your request and act it (in a way that will be seen with a more positive eye
as pasting a message in English in a non-English Village Pump is not always
much appreciated, hence the "Village Pumps for foreign language speaker"
that you can find here and there).

Regards,
Jerome


2007/9/8, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella at yahoo.it>:
>
> For those who don't read my blog - just forwarding to various lists in
> English and if needed, please forward it to the various project lists.
>
> Thank you!!!
>
> Sabine
>
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>
> Well, dealing with the Fundraiser 2007 I am trying to involve the whole
> of the communities. But that seems easier that it really is ... one
> things: oh well, there are the village pumps and you just go around them
> ... or you go through the mailing lists (but not all projects have one)
> ... or in the worst case you use the various chat rooms ... well no, it
> does not really work ... a really well structured communication in this
> specific moment is not possible - and in some way we should think about
> a solution.
>
> Village pumps:
>
> I am getting step by step to them - there is no all comprehensive page -
> but even if there was there is one huge problem: they are structured
> very different from one project to the other. Often I posted "somewhere"
> without even understanding if it was the right place ... some have extra
> pages for messages written in a different language from theirs (but then
> again: there you don't reach a maximum number of people who maybe would
> help). Some have different sectors for different themes ... but again:
> there you don't reach all potential people, just the part of them that
> goes to the "general" village pump page. Uhmmmmmm ...... not sure how to
> sort this out ... and no: I would be agains a page for special
> "foundation information" since again it would be read by only a part of
> the users/editors and these would probably be more or less the same ones
> who read foundation list ....
>
> Now I asked for a bot that can help us to add new sections to specific
> pages within the pywikipediabot framework - this would at least make one
> part of it easier, not having to go around all projects, but still the
> "how to communicate effectively" problem remains ....
>
> For now, until we maybe get a better solution, I would like to ask
> people from the various projects to check the page where I list the
> village pumps
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2007/Village_Pumps> and
> change the links I have there to the page where they want to have the
> messages added - for all projects please - this will help all of us to
> live an easier wiki-life. During the next days I will then make another
> round around the various Village Pumps asking people to correct the link
> on the page above if necessary.
>
> I am sorry, but for now I don't see a different way to get this on the
> way.
>
> And please: all links to all projects are needed - also the smallest
> ones ... they all have the same relevance.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> --
> Posted By Sabine Cretella to words & more
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> http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2007/09/fundraiser-2007-communication-with.html
> >
>
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> at 9/08/2007 02:35:00 PM
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