[Foundation-l] Re: how you can help

Sun Apr 3 02:41:31 UTC 2005

I see no reason for the pages not to coexist -- just as we have multiple 
pages on the English Wikipedia pointing out articles in need of help, 
hopefully there will be multiple pages on Meta coordinating work on 
worthwhile projects.

The main difference with the Collaboration of the Week (COTW) idea is 
that it should be featured on the individual Wikimedia projects to truly 
bring out a large number of volunteers working on a single task in 
multiple languages. That high level of exposure makes it necessary to 
have a selection process, and the voting rules as used on Wikimedia COTW 
have proven very successful for the English Wikipedia COTW.

The first WM-COTW will start on Monday; I'll send out a separate 
announcement then and Angela and I will try to get the template into use 
on some more Community Portals or similar pages. Any help is welcome.

Hopefully, if the WM-COTW is successful, this will get more people 
interested in Meta and, hence, in the [[We need your help]] page and 
similar tasklists.

All best,

Erik