[WikiEN-l] Introducing a new mailing list

[James Hare]

The problem is, I personally believe it's such a condescending name. I
would've gone with something more like wikiwomen-l.

On 12/4/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> This is a positive initiative. I have only one issue with it, which is
> that the mailing list is on Wikimedia's servers, while the wiki is
> not. While we all trust you, of course, to do the right thing, as a
> matter of fair play towards others with similar ideas, it might be
> sensible to either host the list separately, or to move the wiki to
> Wikimedia's servers. Users might also be confused when they subscribe
> to a Wikimedia mailing list but their Wikimedia username doesn't work
> on the wiki (I'm speaking about the hypothetical post-single login
> world ;-).
>
> If I was a woman I would probably start a long thread about being
> referred to as a  member of the genus "chix," but I'm not, so I'll
> leave that to the "chix" to figure out. :-)
> --
> Peace & Love,
> Erik
>
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