On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org wrote:
The full proposal is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l_proposal
I think there's another way we could slice the cake:
(a) a mailing list for discussing Foundation, chapter and management ... Maybe just rename Foundation-L to "movement-l", and perhaps encourage people to take stuff from internal and use movement.
This could include other issues related to the movement: publicity, outreach to new communities, ambassador programs, related research. Inclusive of what is discussed on internal, but not just governance topics.
(b) a more practical discussion related to content issues, cross-wiki issues and so on. Perhaps we could call this "projects-l".
In the venerable tradition of intwiki-l and (early on) wikipedia-l... We haven't really had such a list for a long time, though f-l has been used as a substitute.
I associate wikimedia (and being a wikimedian) with the projects, so I would be inclined to call the latter list "wikimedia-l". Anyone who identifies with the projects should be interested in discussions that take place there. "movement-l" seems like a fine name for the first list.
Whatever they are called, I agree that these two topics and audiences are easy to separate; most long threads would clearly fall into one or the other.
Sam.