[Foundation-l] Movement Roles: my suggestion of "Language Contact Persons"

[Finne Boonen]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 16:58, church.of.emacs.ml
<church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but
>> their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment
>> of administrators.
>
> There are already ambassadors, originally for the monobook->vector
> switch, but not much has happened since then. The mailing list is inactive:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors
>
> The ideas of wiki ambassadors (general, not restricted to usability or
> technical matters) should be revived. I think it worked okay for the
> usability initiative with much room for improvement.

The idea is older then the useability initiative, amabassador for
language versions is quite old in the context of Wikipedia:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Embassy
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_elections

henna