I read it, and I'm not in the channels.
I use it to have an up-to-moment idea of status.
On 11/29/11 11:25 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've had @wikimediatech accounts on twitter& identica for some time now:
> * http://identi.ca/wikimediatech
> * https://twitter.com/#!/wikimediatech
> that basically broadcast every single action that is logged to the
> server admin log:
> * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log
>
> The account has 78 followers on identica and 430 on twitter (probably
> counting the spammers).
>
> I'm wondering if there are actually people reading all the stuff
> that's pushed through these channels.
>
> My gut feeling is that the few people reading these feeds are also
> those that would know to check the SLA if they encountered an issue,
> or know how to use the RSS feed of the SLA page if they really wanted
> the information in real time.
>
> Meanwhile, we don't really have social media channels dedicated to
> Wikimedia tech stuff, i.e. channels where we can actually post stuff,
> links, blog posts, outage info, etc and engage with a larger community
> of people interested in our tech operations. I feel that the accounts
> would be much more useful if we reduced the amount of semi-random
> information we post there.
>
> So, I'm basically proposing to repurpose the @wikimediatech accounts for this.
>
> Thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? You don't care?
>
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