Erik Moeller wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I think wikimedia-l would work fine and make sense. We probably don't need an additional list, a lot of the lists we have now are lightly used.
Picking this up again .. I'll go ahead and make this change on Saturday 4/7, unless there are strong objections. Moving this list to wikimedia-l seems like the least disruptive change for now, acknowledging that its scope has long expanded beyond WMF matters.
What's involved to implement this? I don't think mailman has a move tab. ;-)
It's a matter of creating a separate list and importing the members from the current list (foundation-l), right? Will foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org continue to function after April 7 (as a redirect/alias) or will only the new address? Will the archives be permanently split? Are there any other consequences of a list rename?
I'll note (again) that in your 2004 proposal to create "foundation-l" you specifically cited the desire to "avoid 'Wikipedia/Wikimedia' style typos" by not choosing "wikimedia-l" as the list name.[1] I'm still not sure a move (from "foundation-l" to "wikimedia-l") has more benefit than cost.
MZMcBride