[Wikimedia-l] [WCA] Chapters Portal - Yet another Summary of information on Meta

Everton Zanella Alvarenga tom at wikimedia.org
Thu Apr 25 09:50:11 UTC 2013


Thanks, Manuel. That is useful.

Also I am on of the people who think it is useless to have a chapters
association at this moment (maybe ever?), it is important for us to
organize such kind of information in a more centralized way. :)

We also would need to have  a way to share our best practices and learnings.

Tom

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Manuel Schneider
<manuel.schneider at wikimedia.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> it has been mentioned several times that Meta is sometimes a messy
> place, with information scattered everywhere around.
>
> "It is on Meta" (TM) is one of our most used (and feared) terms.
>
> Also Wikimedia Chapters often have a hard time to keep their info
> updated, provide their reports at the right place. A "Chapters Portal"
> which links all information has been mentioned.
>
> Since Ziko asked to link strategic plans on Meta (yet another place to
> keep updated) and we (WMAT) recently got harrased because we didn't
> publish our office address on a Meta page we never heard of before
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_offices - anyone?), I decided
> now to be bold and go ahead:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Portal
>
> I also linked this page now on {{Chapters association}} and
> {{Chapters}}, so I hope people will find it and from there will find the
> information they need.
>
> Please, this is ongoing work - feel free to add more links, descriptions
> etc. I tried to cluster the links as much as I could and provide a brief
> description so people don't have to follow all the links to find what
> they are looking for but it is not yet ready.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Manuel
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