Would Mediawiki-l consider syncing with mwusers.com via:
http://www.mail2forum.com/wiki/Main_Page
? (And what do you know, it's a MediaWiki page there. :)
In other words: would we prefer to have to segregated conversations talking about the same thing, or would we like to merge the conversations?
In short, web posts become emails, and emails become web posts. The web-forum threads become synchronized with the email threads, and the users for each vehicle (email list or web forum) don't know the difference, unless they happened to read both communication vehicle.
I use Mail2Forum on my collaboration server, it's probably the most-valuable collaboration tool I have besides MediaWiki and Subversion, in part because GNUMailman's archive interface is just so bad--but now I can have people post via the web forum and have it show up on the email list, too.
Maybe Mail2Forum needs one more rev to get kinks out for a high-volume list like MW-l, but I'd recommend the corresponding webmasters start testing it out in test forums/lists anyway.
I've been saying this all over on other "forum and email list duplicated conversation" internet communities (eg, Subversion), and I've gotten some attention, but I don't yet know of someone taking the bait.
-Matt
This mailing list is an official one maintained by the development team. Those forums are unofficial and not under our control.
Rob Church
On 28/02/06, Matt England mengland@mengland.net wrote:
Would Mediawiki-l consider syncing with mwusers.com via:
http://www.mail2forum.com/wiki/Main_Page
? (And what do you know, it's a MediaWiki page there. :)
In other words: would we prefer to have to segregated conversations talking about the same thing, or would we like to merge the conversations?
In short, web posts become emails, and emails become web posts. The web-forum threads become synchronized with the email threads, and the users for each vehicle (email list or web forum) don't know the difference, unless they happened to read both communication vehicle.
I use Mail2Forum on my collaboration server, it's probably the most-valuable collaboration tool I have besides MediaWiki and Subversion, in part because GNUMailman's archive interface is just so bad--but now I can have people post via the web forum and have it show up on the email list, too.
Maybe Mail2Forum needs one more rev to get kinks out for a high-volume list like MW-l, but I'd recommend the corresponding webmasters start testing it out in test forums/lists anyway.
I've been saying this all over on other "forum and email list duplicated conversation" internet communities (eg, Subversion), and I've gotten some attention, but I don't yet know of someone taking the bait.
-Matt
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