Greetings,
Following discussions with Wikimedia developers more on the "fringe" and not as
engaged in frequent IRC or mailing list conversations, the request for an
announcements only mailing list came up. I wanted to let folks know that this
list has been created and is ready for membership:
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Following discussions with Wikimedia developers more on the "fringe" and
> not as engaged in frequent IRC or mailing list conversations, the request
> for an announcements only mailing list came up. I wanted to let folks know
On 30/06/12 07:23, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> wikitech-announce will be used for occasional announcements on both MediaWiki
> and broader Wikimedia developer related news items
How does the new wikitech-announce compare with the existing
wikitech-ambassadors?
They both seem to have a similar scope/c
My understanding is that one is meant for internal, vs. external developers,
focusing specifically on WMF projects. The description states: "Coordination
of technology deployments across languages/projects" and looking at the
archives it is mostly about localisation issues. My impression was
On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote:
> On 30 Jun, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Platonides wrote:
>
>> On 30/06/12 07:23, Gregory Varnum wrote:
>>> wikitech-announce will be used for occasional announcements on both
>>> MediaWiki and broader Wikimedia developer related news items
>>
>> How d
Practically, though, the difference is minimal. The "ambassadors" are
just the tech-savvy non-English-only interested users who spread the
word in the non-English Wikimedia world, which is exactly what happens
with any announcement English-only list.
The two differences I see are that wikitech-a
Hi,
[cc:ing wikimedia-l because this message is also for Wikimedia users.]
I've been asked to weigh in on this topic, because this is going to be
an area of focus for me over the coming year. I've been tasked with
improving the 2-way communication between users & developers, possibly
using the wi