On 08/21/2012 06:29 PM, Ryan Lane wrote:
When I'm doing an ops change that is user facing I write a blog post and I post something to wikitech-l. I don't bother using village pump. There's a reason for that. There's a *lot* of village pumps. Hundreds. In different languages. I can't possibly handle that many different conversations in that many languages. Even if I only post to 2-3 of them, I still have to have the same conversation over and over again with different sets of people.
We need a global system for communication for things like this. Everyone should be a part of a single communication thread about changes. All posts in the thread should be able to be translated in a crowd-sourced manner.
Just a quick note that the wikitech-ambassadors list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors is helping with this, and is going to be helping more -- I'll wait for Guillaume to lead the conversation about this, hopefully in the next 2 weeks.