On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:58 AM, church.of.emacs.ml < church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > I love this idea, and of reviving the Wikipedia ambassadors/embassies idea. One good focus point for reviving them might be to create a language report the way Ziko suggests -- another idea I love. Let's do it! What's the best way to encourage embassies, especially on small projects that may have never had them before? best, phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
