On 12/5/13, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5 December 2013 13:08, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The sites are updated weekly, sometimes with additional deployments >> inbetween the scheduled ones. Constant sitenotice would be a bad idea. >> >> I suggest you subscribe to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News , >> which is an also weekly newsletter summarising new features and important >> fixed bugs every week, as well as providing links to the detailed change >> logs. >> >> > > > Not a bad idea, although every time someone says "xx needs to be > communicated better", someone else responds with "there's a mailing list > for that!" So far, based on recommendations from *this* mailing list, I've > subscribed to half a dozen other lists that, generally speaking, didn't > give me any more information than I would have received here. (Wikitech > Ambassadors? Who's sending anything there? Is it useful anymore?) > > Some streamlining of communication processes, and giving consideration to a > quick and straightforward process to reach information that can be done > directly from any WMF wiki, would be a really significant outreach to the > primary users. > > Risker/Anne > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
As it stands we don't really summarize changes very well, which is a prerequisite for telling people about changes. Occasionally changes make it to Tech/news, but that seems sporadic. Posts to wikitech-ambassadors is from what I've seen, really only for changes we expect to cause problems, which is a small subset of the changes people care about. Really the only in-depth list of changes coming to a wiki near you is https://git.wikimedia.org/activity/ which includes a lot of extra stuff, and is mostly far too technical for users to reasonably understand. I think the best way forward would be to more accurately describe upcoming changes on tech/news. Once we actually have a user-readable summary of actual changes that are happening, then we could have a more reasonable discussion about how to get the information into people who care's hands, without spamming people who don't. Of course maintaining tech/news would probably require more effort being put towards it then is currently done, which requires someone (or multiple someones) to actually do so. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
