Yes, it would be good if there were a centralised way of speaking to all communities rather than an ad-hoc distribution of village pump notices, the heavy handed option of a site notice or through the Foundation's blog (which is largely aimed at an audience outside the community anyway). Presumably this bot could also be asked to deliver notices to people's userpage much like the en:wp:signpost subscription. -Liam wikipediaweekly.org Skype - Wittylama Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]] On 09/10/2008, at 5:36 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: From time to time I was asking people to fill the page [1], so we may be able to make a bot for community news. I think now that better idea is to make something like "Project:Community news" page (with translation in all languages) at every project. However, this needs asking every particular community. And I suppose that this is the part of ComProj's job :) I could make a bot which would be used by writing new section at the Meta page by specific group of people (I suppose, again, by some ComProj's members). The bot will check every hour is there any news and is it written by particular user. If so, bot would resend that message to all (specified) projects. [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedian_pubs ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [ComProj] New project, the Wikipedia Globe To: Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group <comproj(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: misza1313(a)gmail.com, millosh(a)gmail.com On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: We might want to get some nice bot owner to spam a message to all the village pumps[1] (but send it to only the Wikipedias), something along the lines of [2] maybe? CC'ing to two possible bot owners that could help, Misza13 because of his MiszaBot and Millosh (this is similar to his "Hello world!" project). On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote: Might want to ask someone to forward this message to internal-l (chapters people are on there)[3]. [1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/ Internal/Distribution_list [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification [3]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 --- Note: This e-mail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to this address will probably get lost. _______________________________________________ ComProj mailing list ComProj(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/comproj

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Milos Rancic wrote: Does this mean that you'll have your bot spam the notice [2] on all Wikipedias (only, no Wikibooks, Wiktionaries, etc.) listed here[3] ? [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Logo/Notification [3]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_subcommittees/Internal/Dist… Thanks :) - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 Fax: 415.882.0495 E-Mail: cary(a)wikimedia.org