On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Tilman Bayer, 11/02/2012 05:56: > >> As in recent months, it is planned to announce the translations (i.e. >> those which have been completed at that point) on the general >> Wikimedia announcements list Wikimediaannounce-l, on Wednesday >> February 15. We have also started to post them as language-targeted >> updates of the official Wikipedia Facebook account, which reaches a >> large audience. > >
> Now that we have regular updates, it would be nice to restore the automatic > sync over all wikis of > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Information_thread> (or whatever > was the title we used, in user space IIRC) Interesting remark, thanks! Looking over https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_Page/WM_News&action=history , it seems that that space has never been used to announce regular reports or newsletters (pages such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports are used for that). But I'm open to posting the Wikimedia Highlights there if there are no objections. > so that information can be > transcluded in the most prominent noticeboard of all wikis, I wasn't aware that such an automatic sync mechanism had existed before. Do you have a link explaining how it worked? (I guess it was something like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Scripts/Synchbot , but for project pages instead of user pages?) > to avoid > spamming village pumps and reach people who don't have time for village > pumps. Just to clarify, there have so far been no systematic efforts to distribute the Wikimedia Highlights via village pumps, although some users may have posted a translated version on the village pump of a project in that language. Personally don't see a huge problem with that (and I might in fact announce the English original on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum in the future). > This is how most readers of such bullettins are reached, in my > experience with WMIT bullettin. I would be interested to learn more about the distribution of the WMIT bulletin (http://wikimedia.it/index.php/Wikimedia_news , I assume). In my experience with the Signpost, a large part of its readers are subscribers who have signed up to receive talk page notifications. We actually set up a similar service for the Highlights (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights ), although it has yet to be promoted widely and we need to figure out how to integrate the translations. Such broadcasting mechanisms are a complicated but very important topic, and I would be happy to discuss it further, but this list is probably not the right venue. > > Nemo > > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Translators-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l
