[OLPC library] [sugar] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

[Seth Woodworth]

On the other hand, there is at least one list that *does* make sense on the
wiki and is well managed tool.  And that's Sayamindu's list on the
[[Pootle]] page.  This list I will not touch.

But from the rest of everyone's resounding lack of response, I declare this
a consensus and will now cleanse the wiki of these monstrosities.

-Seth

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:54 PM, FFM <ffm at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
> >> There are few policies that we've been implementing from time to time on
> the
> >> wiki that I would like to see go away.  It's my belief that these
> policies
> >> are hard to maintain, ill-scalable, and unsupportable as-is.  I suggest
> that
> >> we retire the following:
> >>
> >> == Sign up lists ==
> >> * Lists where people are encouraged to sign up to do a task or
> contribute to
> >> a given project.
> >>
> >> There are several projects and pages that suggest that you sign-up to
> help
> >> do '$variable'.  There are several problems with this idea.
> >>
> >> There is no automatic mechanism in place to communicate to users who
> sign up
> >> on a list.  If I wanted to send a message to this list, I would have to
> wade
> >> through User_talk: pages and communicate with each person individually
> each
> >> time I want to make an announcement.  This is compounded by the fact
> that
> >> many users don't sign the page or add a link to their user page, and
> merely
> >> type their names.
>
> +1
>
> > We can say "sign with ~~~~".
>
> We need a registration page for each of these tasks, one that requires
> entry of contact information in a way that lets an administrator send
> mail to every participant. If we allow people to sign up for different
> roles in a task, we need to have ways for administrators to query a
> database for people of different roles. I want to be able (just as an
> example) to send something to all Opportunistic Localizers for Kreyol
> without extensive manual maintenance and frequent dead ends.
>
> >> I feel that a projects should have open task lists or joining a list or
> some
> >> other mechanism than a sign up list.  Alternatively, if someone were to
> >> create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function
> >> (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be
> ecstatic.
> >
> > Such bots are in existence on the english wikipedia, they are also open
> source.
>
> Link?
>
> > The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start a lists.l.o
> mailing
> > list, we need to make that more obvious. That could fix much of this
> issue.
>
> I would like to see lists right away supporting localizers, teachers,
> students, and OLPC-<country> in each supported language, starting with
> Spanish (where we have OLPC-Sur), French, Portuguese, Arabic, and
> other languages of multiple target countries. Also languages mainly of
> single target countries (Khmer, Kreyol, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Pashto,
> Dari...) but I leave that question to the speakers of those languages.
>
> > -FFM
> >
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