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

Sat Jul 24 09:26:37 UTC 2004

Hi Fire,

Le Friday 23 July 2004 16:48, Ronny Raschkowan a écrit :
> 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.

The problem is not to create new places because people won't come there more 
than they do now. It is to bring the information where they are and where 
they look for it. So there is no miracle solution.

> Sincerly yours,
> Ronny

Regards,
Yann
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