> > Not until you provide a page with an alternative clearly explained.
I will remove/archive lists and do my best to provide alternatives. > -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. >
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