Hoi, The one reason why I read the Signpost is because it posts a table of contents on a blog that is aggregated. <grin> Advertisement works, it gets it more readers </grin> Thanks, GerardM
2009/9/8 Michael Snow <wikipe...@verizon.net> > Sage Ross wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Domas Mituzas<midom.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Gerard, > >> > >>> Remember, the Signpost is an en.wp publication. It is not really the > >>> place > >>> to announce such things. > >>> > >> it is up for Signpost editors if they want to include it or not. Not > >> your business :) > >> > >> BR, > >> > > I guess I shouldn't have stopped reading this thread so early on. > > > > I wrote "News and notes" this week but I didn't end up mentioning the > > sub-lease/move in this week's Signpost because it just didn't seem > > very important. But I do consider it part of the Signpost's mission to > > report on Foundation matters, and more than that, to help push for WMF > > transparency and accountability to the community. > > > > I don't like the idea that what the Signpost does is "our" business > > and not "your" business, for various intracommunity values of us and > > you. Despite being based on en.wp, we're trying to become more useful > > to the broader Wikimedia community/communities. (To that end, > > OhanaUnited is reviving the Sister Project Interviews series: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:OhanaUnited/Sister_Projects_Interview > > . And both news reports from other projects and reflective pieces > > about what it's like to work on individual non-English projects versus > > their English counterparts are very welcome.) > > > > The "we" of the Signpost is anyone from the Wikimedia community who > > wants to contribute. > > > Just to chime in, figuring my perspective from the early days of the > Signpost might be useful. From the beginning I knew that we had people > reading from outside the English Wikipedia, and there's always been > interest in building off that framework for cross-project exchange of > news, whether it's the English-speaking audience learning about the work > in other languages, or getting news from English out to those languages. > That was, is, and should always be encouraged. > > This simply reflects that the Signpost is for the benefit of the > community, however broadly that may be defined, and should look to that > for guidance in its coverage. In that sense, if Gerard reads the > Signpost, it is his business what he wants to hear about. I would hope > that was mostly focused on making it more thorough and comprehensive, > though. Strictly speaking it's correct that the Signpost is not the > place for us (in this case, "us" meaning the Wikimedia Foundation) to > announce things, because it's independent of the foundation, but the > implication that it's not something people should expect to read about > in the Signpost would be a mistake. > > Finally, as valuable as both the Signpost and Wikizine are, along with > this list and all other ways to disseminate information, no single > source can be the magic bullet to reach everyone. In working toward > that, we need to exercise our cultural value of sharing knowledge, so if > you have information that is appropriate to share, pass it on to those > who would like to know about it. > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l