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. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
