On 28/06/06, Walter Vermeir <walter(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
This list, the server admin log and the diffs of the
release notes are
the main sources of information. It is not always easy to understand
what some rather short technical-cryptic description means but in
general most changes can be discovered that way.
I maintain a sort of change log as a sub page of my En Wikipedia user
page, for the Signpost. It's biased towards English Wikipedia users
but might be of some use.
Request; can the technical staff make and maintain a
page where
important planed changes are announced? Changes who have an impact for
the user experiences for visitors, users or sysops. And for some large
projects, like the universal login, every x weeks an update about how
it is going with it.
Where important planned changes that are going to affect most users
directly are made, these will almost certainly be announced to this
list.
Periodic updates might also be forthcoming in some cases. To take the
example of single sign-on; I am 90% certain there will be an
announcement from Brion when the code's complete, tested, and when
we're ready to start the migration/conflict process.
Sending information directly to the internal news
media is also good
of course, especially when it is urgent or really important so that is
not overlooked. But just putting it on a pages is more convenient I
suppose.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media
I thought it was the "ComCom"'s job to handle internal communications,
and our job to get on with running the damn web sites?
Rob Church