Rob Church schreef:
I maintain a sort of change log as a sub page of my En
Wikipedia user
page, for the Signpost. It's biased towards English Wikipedia users
but might be of some use.
The are now on my watchlist. Thanks.
Where important planned changes that are going to
affect most users
directly are made, these will almost certainly be announced to this
list.
Yes, but that are announcements about changes that are already done or
will be done in the very near future. A matter of hours or a day or so.
Way to short to be picked up by a weekly news bulletin and find his way
downhill to the projects.
Sending
information directly to the internal news media is also good
of course, especially when it is urgent or really important so that is
not overlooked. But just putting it on a pages is more convenient I
suppose.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media
I thought it was the "ComCom"'s job to handle internal communications,
and our job to get on with running the damn web sites?
Rob Church
This post is by me as the one who primarily makes that newsletter, not
the comcom. I am not asking that you send reports. I only provide a link
to page I made to make in more easy to report quickly a message to the
organized internal news entity's, currently Wikizine and the Signpost.
So that who likes to do so can bookmark it and when there is something
to report and the feel like it the can do it easily.
I am not trying to annoy anybody here. You, Brion, Kate and the others
are trying (and succeeding) to keep the sites online, beside many other
duties.
I am trying to give the community the best possible information about
what is going on in the Wikimedia-projects, including the technical
aspect. And that are not the people who reads this list and possibly can
not even read English and because of that there is a translation delay.
The only thing I am asking is that if is known well in advance about
changes who have an impact how the wiki works for the users to report
that somewhere 10 or 14 days in advance. I am not speaking about small
stuff. But changes to the wikis that gives new functions to
sysops/bureaucrats or like the inclusion of the system that you need to
enter text shown as a image to add an hyperlink to a page or create a
new account.
Reporting that things are changed and how it works now is good. But it
is better if it can be reported before it goes live.
Greetings,
Walter
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