This is a cool idea.
On 05/09/2013 06:19 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
What I currently have in mind is a bot subscribed to
the
wikitech-ambassadors list, that would post every first message of a
thread to the talk page of people who have signed up (like
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…
) or to a noticeboard (that would then be mostly automated).
Let's abstract this a bit more:
A bot subscribed to a mailing list that
* posts the subject and body of a new thread in a wiki page.
* posts notifications to users subscribed to the bot.
Echo seems to be ripe enough to go for it instead of the old system of
populating User Talk pages.
The bot would create a new section, using the
email's subject line as
the section title, and its body as the message. It would ideally link
back to the gmane archive for that thread, so that users can read
follow-up messages there. Messages could be trimmed if they're too
long. The system could possibly also be used for other mailing lists
later.
And a way to archive old posts?
We could also use such bot for posting wikitech-announce updates at
mediawiki.org.
PS: I hope this idea doesn't die after a few days, but if it starts
fading out let's slap it at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil