Posting it to a blog would save you the trouble of manually announcing the mailing list, and would be easier to check in general. Reguarly checking a blog is also easier than checking a wiki page.
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2014/1/25 John Lewis johnflewis93@gmail.com
The point of posting here is purely to inform people who don't check MetaWiki or aren't subscribed to the talk page notifications.
John
On Saturday, 25 January 2014, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Because that's precisely what blogs were invented for. Mailing lists are for discussions and announcements. Updates like this one are more comfortable to read in an RSS reader.
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2014/1/25 Sven Manguard svenmanguard@gmail.com
Why? I don't see a benefit to that.
Sven On Jan 25, 2014 10:38 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi Lydia,
These updates are a lot like a blog. Can it be a real blog? WordPress should be fairly easy to set up :)
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2014/1/25 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de
Hey folks :)
Here's what's been going on around Wikidata this week: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Status_updates/2014_01_24
Cheers Lydia
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