[Wikimedia-l] Overloaded with CentralNotices

[ENWP Pine]

For English Wikipedia I also feel that the FDC banner is annoying and probably not very useful for editors or effective for requesting community input. A watchlist notice would be more proportionate but even that is a stretch because FDC is far removed from most editors' on-wiki interests. The FDC's work is important but I think requests for community input should be better targeted. Along the lines of what Nemo said, I think recruiting editors to become active in affiliates would be a better on-wiki action and an indirect way to get more comments on FDC proposals. There could also be work done to have more affiliates do peer reviews of each others' budgets.

Pine

> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:37:18 +0100
> From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Overloaded with CentralNotices (Tilman
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> Jane Darnell, 30/10/2013 09:30:
> > I second your skepticism. Especially since most Dutch Wikipedians have no idea what WMNL is, according to a survey.
> 
> Good point. Maybe all those who care about a chapter and its spending 
> are already members of the chapter so that they can participate in the 
> assembly which decide on it (and related online discussions)? :)
> 
> If we want greater community review of their spending, perhaps it would 
> make sense to run campaigns for community members to join the chapter. 
> Maybe other people have different experiences, but the associations I 
> know of usually try to convince you to join the association ("it's cool 
> for X! you are important for Y!") and then they try to gradually involve 
> you more; I've never seen an association on a street distributing 
> dozens-pages books "hey! do you want to review our budget? it's great 
> fun! we value your input".
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> Nemo
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