Just to clarify, Phillipe expressed concern that there were only 4 people listed as potential participants. The main objection was from MZMcBride (who is not associated with the WMF), who expressed concern that the list would be used for POV-pushing. Subsequently, Sébastien Santoro and two WMF staff members offered to help moderate the list to insure it would be neutral, and Varnent clarified that there were several other people interested in the list. Phillipe withdrew his objection and the list was created forthwith. Of course since this all transpired over Bugzilla, it took a week to play out, which is longer than normal, but I'm not sure it's fair to say that it was "difficult to bring WF to allow the list to be created".

Ryan Kaldari

On 7/1/12 10:24 PM, koltzenburg@w4w.net wrote:
Hi Tom, hi @all


Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created 

since we are addressing not only one gender gap but, seemingly quite a few, including those that come alonf 
the lines of what has come to be called sexual orientarion, I have a question about the creation process of 
the new list. I recently heard elsewhere that

it was difficult to bring WF to "allow" the list to be created in the frame of lists.wikimedia.org?
how come?

thanks
Claudia

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 00:09:19 +0100, Tom Morris wrote

On Sunday, 1 July 2012 at 22:30, Tom Morris wrote:

I'm happy to announce that a new Wikimedia LGBT mailing list has been setup. For the time being, it is 

being hosted on lists.wikiqueer.org (http://lists.wikiqueer.org).

http://lists.wikiqueer.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lgbt

The list is for discussion of possible future LGBT outreach and partnership work, increasing the coverage 

of LGBT history, issues and culture, and any other issues that specifically affect LGBT editors.

You don't have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to join.

A barely discernible amount of time after Gregory launched it on the 
WikiQueer servers, Wikimedia have decided to allow the list to be created 
on lists.wikimedia.org instead.

Please feel free to join here instead:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/lgbt

Sorry about the confusion.

-- 
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>

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thanks & cheers,
Claudia
koltzenburg@w4w.net


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