Hi, just an update on this.
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/mailing-lists
We are starting with these mailing lists:
* Education (crreated last Friday) * African Wikimedians (created today) * Wikispore (coming next) * WikimediaPT (and next)
This is a real example of an email sent to a mirrored mailing list from an email address (a user) registered in Space: https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/re-wikimedia-education-exciting-update-c...
Such mirrored posts count as contributions from the Space user, and any likes etc are reflected in their user stats.
Here you can see what happens when the email address (the user) is not registered in Space: https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-invitation-for-criti...
In such cases, Discourse creates a "staged account", like a placeholder. If a user registers with such email address, the posts authored by the staged account will be assigned automatically to the new user, together with its related stats.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 6:02 PM Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, I have just published a proposal to start testing mailing list mirroring and emulation at the Discourse instance we have at Wikimedia Space.
If you are interested in discussing and exploring potential post-Mailman scenarios, join in.
Check the proposal at https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/testing-the-path-from-mailing-lists-to-w.... Feedback is welcome there or here. :)
If you want to propose a mailing list to mirror or you are personally interested in testing mailing list emulation, let's talk.
-- Quim Gil (he/him) Senior Manager of Community Relations @ Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF