On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
That's the one I most often have trouble with. > 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. Not until you provide a page with an alternative clearly explained. > -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. > > -- Silent Thunder [默雷/शब्दगर्ज] is my name, And Children are my nation. The whole world is my dwelling place, And Truth my destination. _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
