On 1/24/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
It seems a couple folks took over the abandoned announce-l mailing list a couple months ago, sending community updates branded as "Wikizine" on it. The domain name wikizine.org is being used to redirect to the list subscription page, and some links & an email address at that domain are used.
http://wikizine.org/ http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/announce-l http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikizine
well, walter had the idea of launching a wikizine on announce-l, i supported the idea and asked elian for permission. she changed the list-owners to the current situation fyi.
grtz, oscar
Now, having some actual Wikimedia info on a mailing list is pretty cool. :)
But I've got a couple organizational questions I want to toss out to the broader community:
- It looks like Walter Vermeir owns this wikizine.org domain himself.
What's the status of it? If Walter loses interest will it continue? Who'll be responsible for renewing it?
- I received a request to make a mailing list for a Romanian-language
Wikizine. Are we going to add more such lists, and if so should we do so under the 'announce' name set or 'wikizine'?
- Some 'marketing' ;) This has been going on for two or three months and I
never noticed. Was I just asleep at the wheel, or are a lot of people missing out who might be interested?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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