Hi I realised a while back that I have in the past written to the Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List and to the Wikimedia Mailing List without een realising that I was writing to more than one list. I do now vaguely recall once getting a response saying that what I wanted discusses would best be discussed on the Foundation List. And I see there is also a Wikipedia information team. And how do these, if at all, overlap with the Village Pump? And the Portals?
Where could I find out more about what exactly is the purview of each of these forums? Examples of the kind of issues and where to discuss: 1. A simpler (automated) merge proposal template 2. A simpler deletion proposal process 3. Content issues that affect many articles (therefore talkpages are not efficient) Some of these I have brought up before on one of the lists. Right now I would like to make two further suggestions even if after this it turns out that I must do this on a different forum: 1. A source ranking system - edit summaries are full of "not a reliable source" justifications. Can we not create a ranking system where editors rank each source on a scale of 1-10 and a programme automatically calculates that source a reliability value? 2. a) "Keep me informed on this" - often one issue is discussed on a multitude of pages (Bushmen/ Khoisan/ Khoi and San, is such an example) and it is difficult to keep track. Using any of the existing systems that group pages together - such as categories - could we not create a "theme/ issue watchlist" similar to the page wattchlist currently available? 2. b) As an add-on to the above, an actual means of communication to contact all editors working on a specific these - Asian languages, or prehistoric art, for example. Best regards, Rui -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
