On the other hand, there is at least one list that *does* make sense on the wiki and is well managed tool. And that's Sayamindu's list on the [[Pootle]] page. This list I will not touch.
But from the rest of everyone's resounding lack of response, I declare this a consensus and will now cleanse the wiki of these monstrosities. -Seth On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:54 PM, FFM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote: > >> There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on > the > >> wiki that I would like to see go away. It's my belief that these > policies > >> are hard to maintain, ill-scalable, and unsupportable as-is. I suggest > that > >> we retire the following: > >> > >> == Sign up lists == > >> * Lists where people are encouraged to sign up to do a task or > contribute to > >> a given project. > >> > >> There are several projects and pages that suggest that you sign-up to > help > >> do '$variable'. There are several problems with this idea. > >> > >> There is no automatic mechanism in place to communicate to users who > sign up > >> on a list. If I wanted to send a message to this list, I would have to > wade > >> through User_talk: pages and communicate with each person individually > each > >> time I want to make an announcement. This is compounded by the fact > that > >> many users don't sign the page or add a link to their user page, and > merely > >> type their names. > > +1 > > > We can say "sign with ~~~~". > > We need a registration page for each of these tasks, one that requires > entry of contact information in a way that lets an administrator send > mail to every participant. If we allow people to sign up for different > roles in a task, we need to have ways for administrators to query a > database for people of different roles. I want to be able (just as an > example) to send something to all Opportunistic Localizers for Kreyol > without extensive manual maintenance and frequent dead ends. > > >> I feel that a projects should have open task lists or joining a list or > some > >> other mechanism than a sign up list. Alternatively, if someone were to > >> create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function > >> (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be > ecstatic. > > > > Such bots are in existence on the english wikipedia, they are also open > source. > > Link? > > > The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start a lists.l.o > mailing > > list, we need to make that more obvious. That could fix much of this > issue. > > I would like to see lists right away supporting localizers, teachers, > students, and OLPC-<country> in each supported language, starting with > Spanish (where we have OLPC-Sur), French, Portuguese, Arabic, and > other languages of multiple target countries. Also languages mainly of > single target countries (Khmer, Kreyol, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Pashto, > Dari...) but I leave that question to the speakers of those languages. > > > -FFM > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > > > > -- > Silent Thunder [默雷/शब्दगर्ज] is my name, > And Children are my nation. > The whole world is my dwelling place, > And Truth my destination. >
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