Request for discussion ********** This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) about the proposal to use the moderated Wikipedia maillinglist announce-l. http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l

This message is posted on Announce-l and Intlwiki-L. Follow-up to:Intlwiki-L

The discussion time is set on 10 days after publication. This to give the Ambassadors the opportunity and time to ask en recieve feedback.

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PROPOSAL:

* to use the moderated maillinglist "Announce-l" for announcing certain types of information that are important for all Wikipedias.

Those can be;

- formal request for discussion announcement about changes on the software that have a consequence to all Wikipedias

- formal request for discussion announcement about changes on the global policy and legal status of all Wikipedias

- a news letter about the global project

- not listed, but very important for the existing of Wikipedia

PRACTICAL:

- When there is a idea to change somthing on a Wikipedia that has a consequence on all Wikipedias the local Wikipedia community makes a "Formal Request for Discussion". - This RFD must have a structure more or less like this message. - There must be at least 10 days for discussion. This to give the Ambassadors the opportunity and time to ask en recieve feedback. - This message must be send to the moderator(s) of Announce-l for approval. Only messages that are on-topic are posted. A responds to a message posted on "Announce-l" is not allowed on "Announce-l".

- The actual discussion must be done on Intlwiki-l(wikipedia-l) or MetaWikipedia. - After the 10 days there must be a follow-up whit the result, if any.

WHY:

- to prevent that inportant decisions are made very fast on a strange maillinglist, in a strange language, hidden between 60 or 80 messages a day, whitout the possibility of real feedback from all Wikipedians and all Wikipedias.

- if the people can be sure that all inportant things are announced on the very low traffic list "Announce-l" then the do not have to waste a couple of houres a day whit all the other lists and work on there Wikipedia.

END OF RFD ************

Personal notice: The real creation of the maillinglist "Annouce-l" was not expected. Now it existed i give it a fair change to have a usefull live. I am now the "moderator" of Announce-l. I sombody is willing to become co-moderator or even take over the list i have no objection. -- Giskart