Hello all,
I attempt to make a formal request to create a email-list-to-forum "bridge" using Mail2Forum ( http://mail2forum.com/ ) for the MediaWiki-l email list.
I have been using the above software to bridge many different GNUMailman-based email lists with phpBB web forums (on my company's intranet site) for some time now, and this has been immensely useful. I would expect similar results for the MediaWiki-l email list.
Case in point:
I would love to be able to archive a reference to the recent "import-and-export-via-external-editors" thread I started, a portion of which is here:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-August/006455.html
...but I can't reference the entire thread, because frankly, GNUMailman's archive mechanism (pipermail) is rather poor. I can't get one web-link reference to an entire thread, for the pipermail email archive is "all over the place."
This is just one of the many benefits, imho. Additionally, phpBB posters have their posts copied to the email list, all with the proper References: header thread control, thus allowing web-forum users and email-list users to co-exist transparently on the same discussion content. EMail Attachments are automatically inserted as web-forum attachments (if desired). And more.
I can provide a few tips to setup to Brion or whoever admins this site. I contribute a lot of posts to the mail2forum.com discussions as well.
What do you think?
-Matt
I forgot to mention: I helped push for mail2forum.com to use MediaWiki as their documentation source:
http://www.mail2forum.com/wiki/Main_Page
-Matt
At 8/20/2005 10:20 AM, Matt England wrote:
I attempt to make a formal request to create a email-list-to-forum "bridge" using Mail2Forum ( http://mail2forum.com/ ) for the MediaWiki-l email list.
At 8/20/2005 10:20 AM, Matt England wrote:
Case in point: I would love to be able to archive a reference to the recent "import-and-export-via-external-editors" thread I started, a portion of which is here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-August/006455.html
Hmmm, I just discovered a gossamer-threads archive for MediaWiki-l:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/39823
If this mechanism has proved to be reliable, it seems like this addresses the archiving points for now. (And it greatly helps me for my discussion references.)
If anyone wants to use the sync-forum-posts-w-email-list features of mail2forum, let me know.
-Matt
I've used a forum2mail interface on another forum. Main problem that I've experienced with it, no way to thread the forummessages usefully.
Finne
On 8/20/05, Matt England mengland@mengland.net wrote:
At 8/20/2005 10:20 AM, Matt England wrote:
Case in point: I would love to be able to archive a reference to the recent "import-and-export-via-external-editors" thread I started, a portion of which is here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-August/006455.html
Hmmm, I just discovered a gossamer-threads archive for MediaWiki-l:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/39823
If this mechanism has proved to be reliable, it seems like this addresses the archiving points for now. (And it greatly helps me for my discussion references.)
If anyone wants to use the sync-forum-posts-w-email-list features of mail2forum, let me know.
-Matt
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
At 8/20/2005 12:36 PM, Finne Boonen wrote:
I've used a forum2mail interface on another forum. Main problem that I've experienced with it, no way to thread the forummessages usefully.
I'm not sure what you mean by this.
Do you mean tracking the "References:/In-Reply-To:" email headers for thread sorting? Mail2forum does this. See: http://mail2forum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=8376#8376
The latest rev to support this in Beta (1.1.3); the developers are projecting a 1.2 official release "soon". (The previous released rev only sorts on the Subject: header.)
-Matt
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org