I read it, I like it, and I find it useful - particularly when I'm in transit.
I agree it would be neat to be able to use twitter/identica for actual humans to post stuff, but I don't think these need to be mutually exclusive goals. Would it be silly to have separate accounts? One specifically for bot logging and one specifically for actual human communication?
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm wondering if there are actually people reading all the stuff that's pushed through these channels.
My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also those that would know to check the SLA if they encountered an issue, or know how to use the RSS feed of the SLA page if they really wanted the information in real time.
Yeah, I use it, but really just because it's the laziest way to read the SAL. To be quite honest, my identica noise would be a lot lower without @wikimediatech .
Meanwhile, we don't really have social media channels dedicated to Wikimedia tech stuff, i.e. channels where we can actually post stuff, links, blog posts, outage info, etc and engage with a larger community of people interested in our tech operations. I feel that the accounts would be much more useful if we reduced the amount of semi-random information we post there.
So, I'm basically proposing to repurpose the @wikimediatech accounts for
this.
Thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? You don't care?
+1, let's do it.
Roan
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