[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

Sat Jan 12 20:33:09 UTC 2008

Hoi,
Ok let met spell it out.. How many projects do you see ?? Do you really
believe that the developers are willing to spend their time on this ?
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 12, 2008 9:29 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If the feature is possible, then use the site-notice
> to ask b'crats to opt-in for it.  With such a feature
> even if they ignore/can't translate that site-notice,
> every wiki will only have one experience trying to
> make a complaint before being directed to the sign-up.
>
>
> I wouldn't expect devs to go through the userrights
> logs and track down email addresses for all of the
> b'crats.  But I don't know if it is even possible to
> do if we had all the e-mail addresses.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
> --- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Have a look at this
> > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix>
> > and
> > then ask yourself if your request can be
> > implemented. It sounds nice though.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
> >
> > On Jan 12, 2008 7:35 PM, Birgitte SB
> > <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > --- Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > > And we would do well to refuse doing such
> > thing.
> > > > Foundation would
> > > > > become
> > > > > a huge bottleneck and community will then
> > begin
> > > > complaining that we
> > > > > are
> > > > > hindering the development of the projects.
> > > >
> > > > Well understood and appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Yesterday I tried to do one tiny tiny change
> > > > (es.wikipedia wanted to
> > > > switch their timezone).
> > > > Of course, after last flames it was fun to make
> > a
> > > > circus out of it
> > > > (forced few people - sysops and bureaucrats to
> > 'sign
> > > > in blood'), but
> > > > here again, accurately interpreting votes and
> > > > resolutions in other
> > > > languages, where there were multiple votes on
> > same
> > > > page, as well as
> > > > Great Walls of Text, was nearly impossible.
> > > >
> > > > Lots of things can be rolled forward and
> > backwards,
> > > > so usually no
> > > > harm is done - except that it takes time and can
> > > > cause some
> > > > frustrations, if caught in the middle of heated
> > > > debate.
> > > >
> > > > So, we usually have just to trust that people
> > who
> > > > come and ask for
> > > > things can really represent community, and are
> > not
> > > > going to undermine
> > > > something in evil ways.
> > > > Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But
> > > > sometimes a single
> > > > campaign against can shatter it all.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ --
> > [[user:midom]]
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Is there any way for b'crats to automatically put
> > on
> > > the e-mail list for any bug filed for their wiki?
> > > This combined with a 5-day mandatory waiting
> > period
> > > between filing and fixing a bug without the
> > express
> > > support of a b'crat should be able to keep things
> > > running smoothly.
> > >
> > > Birgitte SB
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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