[Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

Sat Nov 11 07:27:39 UTC 2006

Your right, There's probably not going to be any technical
enhancements anytime soon. So basically what of this can be
implemented  without software changes?

for the make I'm on another wiki messages standardized you could do:

A redirection template, could be included in the editintro for all new
user pages (i think its something like mediawiki:userpageintro ).
something along the lines of:

just writing here, to go to other wikis to talk to you? please just
use <charinsert>{{redirMessage|wikiquote:fr:user:foo}}</charinsert>.

This way its in a standardized format, and if someone comes along to
make a bot to copy *important* messages over there, it'd make it way
easier for them.

-bawolff

On 11/11/06, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/06, bawolff <bawolff+wn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps have some sort of optional field in the registration form,
> > that says: I come from this wiki project. and if they fill it out, a
> > bot will copy automatic deletion notices over there too. If they come
> > to commons:special:userlogin/create_account (or whatever the link is)
> > from another wiki well logged in, this part of the form can be passed
> > with get arguments e.g
> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/special:userlogin?from=user:enwiki
> >
> > of course single user login is a better solution, but I see that
> > happening a long time form now (If it ever happens)
> > -bawolff
>
> OK, that would be brilliant, but I see SUL being implemented before I
> see specialised signup pages being written just for Commons!
>
> Anyway, I made a bug request that Commons get email notification (
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7870 ). I also notice
> there is an open request to enable it on basically all the wikis (
> http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5505  - well, if they do
> it for the "major wikis", I don't understand why they wouldn't do it
> for all).
>
> Anyway, one problem (again) is the technical, of getting Enotif, the
> second is the social problem of training people to actually turn it on
> and use it. (Unless we turn it on by default for new accounts, that
> would be awesome...)
>
> From the other discussion -- I am not to keen on the idea of switching
> warnings to email only. For one thing, they're /invisible/ to the
> wiki. No one else can tell if a person has already been warned or not.
> For another, I don't really feel the need to reveal my email address
> to every jerk copyright ignorer on the planet :P although I could get
> a Wikimedia only one, but eh... hassle!
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
>