The Kitchen Sink/Sources
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Results of deliberations & process
[edit]- The Board - many decisions get announced once made; some need quick action, others need relevant parties and policies to be updated.
- Standing committees - the ArbComm, for instance. again, decisions or works-in-progress often imply changes in certain policies, and that certain users should be notified.
- Bureaucracy - polls, RfCs, many-stage developments : some should be broadcast to the whole community (from pages like "Polls in progress"), others should be communicated to people working on certain subjects or in certain wikiprojects; often on relevant talk or policy pages. Many of these have delayed-action announcements that should be followed on a calendar.
- Wikiprojects - decisions about style, formats, etc; sometimes on their Talk pages.
- Meetings - on-wiki, on IRC, in person; anything with a transcript or summary should be announced beforehand once it is planned, and afterwards once the transcript/summary is available (some meta-lists of such meetings should exist for tracing these sources)
Places to look for ungathered announcements
[edit]- Mailing lists - many minor and major announcements come through the mailing lists; some on smaller foreign-lang lists.
- IRC - discussions, ad-hoc votes, topic announcements, etc should be propagated from here to more public places on-wiki
- Recentchanges - some announcements first appear here; not everyone sees them
- Private email - Jimbo, board@wikimedia, de-press, etc. get lots of mail. Some of it bears rebroadcasting.
- The media - Reports, interviews, reviews, and more should be repeated through the community, gathered on-wiki, and announced when appropriate.