[Wikipedia-l] Communication, being up-to-date and Mailing List issue

Fri Jul 23 14:48:23 UTC 2004

Hello!

When i talked yesterday on IRC with another wikipedian, we had both the 
same opinion that there's a problem with the communication, and staying 
up-to-date.

The problem is that people don't know for example, a feature had been 
enabled or similar (high priority?) news concerning Wikimedia. Also, 
most Wikis aren't up to date: They don't know for example, that it is 
also possible to block logged in people using the IP - Ban interface. 
Another problem is, that Wikis also couldn't know where they have to do 
requests like: Request for Permission, for switching the logo path, for 
queries, for updating a LanguageXX.php. Possibly they don't know there 
are IRC Channels and Mailing Lists, too. I would purpose two possible 
ways to change that, but feel free to purpose other ways :)

1) "Reactivating" the Announce-l Mailinglist. As far, as there are a lot 
of changed going on, (creation of language specific wikibooks, quote for 
  example), it'd be a good idea to have this ML working, as far as 
people could post the announces there and people interested in the 
changes could suscribe to that list and get informed.

2) Creating a new Special page for all wikis (or similar), called 
"Useful_Links" or similar ( I haven't found a good title yet ;) ). 
People could read there where they can found the IRC Chat, where they 
can found specific mailing lists, and where they can post request (for 
permission, logo, query, etc), (Embassies?), etc. As far, people would 
have a good reference page and would fastly find a way where  they can 
report a problem to the community, request and communicate within the 
community and with other users.

These are just ideas how to do that. If you have another idea, feel free 
to add it :).

--

Important issue about the mailing lists:

Are there regular contributors of zh: (!), ar:, ta:, sv: (!), da: (!), 
and pl: who would be interested to do list administrationsfor on of the 
language specific mailing lists for their wikis? I would expain them 
what and how to do. Please contact me at fire at kopfrechnung.de if you 
are interested, thanks!

Sincerly yours,
Ronny