I am a Wikipedia user who has made an occasional edit, but I don't spend a lot of time on it and I have never visited the Village Pump. I get the impression that it is a message board. If that is correct I think this mailing list is better. It is more convenient to read posts when I am checking my email on a daily basis anyway as opposed to remembering to go to a certain site and perhaps logging in and then sorting through the posts. I will add that it was not hard at all to sign up for this mailing list. The only problem was finding it. After scouring the FAQ I was trying to find some place on the Open Library site that could give me tips to help me make better use of the search feature. In that process I came across the information about subscribing to this list. I never did find the information I was looking for on searching for books. I now think that is because the search engine is not sophisticated enough to do much fancy with it anyway, but it still might be a good idea to make the information on the two email lists easier to find.
_ _ _ "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Coyle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:00 PM Subject: Re: [ol-discuss] User interaction > Quoting Alex Stinson <[email protected]>: > >> In regards to the comments on user interaction, something in the way of >> the >> Wikipedia Village pump >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump) >> or the Wikipedia Help Desk >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk) would >> be useful > > There's also the way that LibraryThing does it: it lets people set up > "discussion groups" based on any topic that people want. So that way > the Romance novel people and the Urdu poetry people can have their own > places. If there are general cataloging issues, there could be a > general cataloging discussion group where people talk about "best > practices" or discuss a non-obvious fix for a problem. > > kc > > instead of several layers of form's you have to fill out before >> getting on this discussion mailing list. It makes the whole discussion >> process more transparent and will likely get more thoughts from more >> casual >> observers who don't want to comit those extra steps to get here. I almost >> walked away from this mailing list because it was taking a little while >> and >> I couldn't access the Archive of the discussion at >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/ol-discuss/ . I stuck >> around >> because I realized that this could be a serious problem for you all in >> engaging your contribution community and really support what you are >> doing >> with this project. >> >> Alex >> > > > > -- > Karen Coyle > [email protected] http://kcoyle.net > ph: 1-510-540-7596 > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
