hi brion, angela,
On 1/26/06, oscar oscar.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
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?
btw the idea is "bottom up", so wikizine is not an official wikimedia foundation thing, with no official status at all, just supported by some *nerds* such as i am ;-)
* 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'?
let them create a similar *zine* thing if they want, why not? after all, all "more or less reliable communication" will enhance growth of the projects imho.
* 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?
sorry for our insufficient pr... you are imho not asleep at the wheel - lol! - but probably immersed in improving other parts of the car, aren't you? ;-)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
grtz, oscar
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