On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/8/23 Tilman Bayer <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > ... > >> You guys (and by that I mean "anybody who doesn't regularly edit a > >> text-producing project[1], but needs to make announcements from time > >> to time"; this includes most of the WMF employees) seem to have a > >> problem with village pumps and instead invent all kind of alternative > >> communication methods, like mailing lists, IRC meetings, Meta, WMF > >> wiki etc., with the sole excuse being "they're hundreds of them". > >> > ... > >> > >> It also sucks because the vast majority of contributors don't > >> know/don't want to use IRC, mailing list or even other wikis [2]. > > Yes, that's true, it has been a major learning for WMF in recent years > > that while all these (and also the Wikimedia blog) can be useful > > channels, many Wikipedians don't leave their home wikis and expect > > really important announcements to be delivered there in some form. In > > our Wikimania talk, MZMcBride and I gave an overview of the mechanisms > > that are currently available to do so. > > Can you please point me to the location of the slides (if available)? > They're linked from the abstract: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Movement_Broadcasting_-_%27Stop_Spamming%27_vs._%27Nobody_Told_Me%27 -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
