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

[Seth Woodworth]

>
> Not until you provide a page with an alternative clearly explained.


I will remove/archive lists and do my best to provide alternatives.


> -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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Silent Thunder [默雷/शब्दगर्ज] is my name,
> >> And Children are my nation.
> >> The whole world is my dwelling place,
> >> And Truth my destination.
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Silent Thunder [默雷/शब्दगर्ज] is my name,
> And Children are my nation.
> The whole world is my dwelling place,
> And Truth my destination.
>
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