[Foundation-l] Re: how you can help

Sun Apr 3 05:38:08 UTC 2005

Erik Moeller a écrit:
 > 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.

Naturally. I totally agree.

 > 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.

Exactly. The two process can meet, but they are different.

 > 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

I hope this just as much as you.