On 08/14/2011 11:41 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I support the idea of language contact persons, or ambassadors, but > their appointment shouldn't be as rigidly regulated as the appointment > of administrators.
I agree, instead of only two responsible persons there should be a group of people who are A) in intense communication with each other, B) post WMF/foundation-l news on their wiki, C) summarize and post to WMF/foundation-l what's bothering the local community (also positive feedback). If they are volunteers, you can't force them to post monthly reports on foundation-l (encourage them instead) or demand too much of them. And you shouldn't put them through an elaborate voting process, since anyone can help and afaik not much harm has been done in that area. There are already ambassadors, originally for the monobook->vector switch, but not much has happened since then. The mailing list is inactive: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors The ideas of wiki ambassadors (general, not restricted to usability or technical matters) should be revived. I think it worked okay for the usability initiative with much room for improvement. Regards, Tobias
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