Try This;     From: Paulo Santos Perneta Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 10:18 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadlineannouncements   Point 3.1.3 of RFC 1855 (Netiquette Guidelines), 1995 [1] :

"- Send mail when an answer to a question is for one person only.       Remember that News has global distribution and the whole world       probably is NOT interested in a personal response.  However, don't       hesitate to post when something will be of general interest to the       Newsgroup participants."

Just replace "News" with Mailing List, and "mail" with personal mail, as this was crafted for long gone Usenet. But it's the same thing.

Also of interest, and in the same line, is the "Me Too" advice just above this one. :)

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

Paulo

Rehman Abubakr < rehman.wikimedia@live.com > escreveu no dia terça, 16/10/2018 à(s) 03:19:

Hello Pine,

Since we're on the topic

of mailing list norms, may I also suggest that we

please do not copy the

entire mailing list for any one-to-one well wishes

as

well?

Example: "Congrats" messages to various topics

like project completed, new

affiliate, edit count, or whatsoever.

Certain times, more than half of my

mailbox are simply a pile-up of

one-to-one congratulatory messages that

really doesn't concern 99% of

the readers. Maybe those can be sent

direct/off-list?

Sorry to somewhat change the topic. But

I feel this needs to be said

somewhere, and it might as well be here.

:)

Yours truly,

User:Rehman

From: Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org > on behalf of

Pine W < wiki.pine@gmail.com > Sent: 16 October 2018

02:19

To: Wikimedia Mailing List; wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline

announcements

Hi Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l,

Keeping in mind the large numbers of subscribers on some Wikimedia email

lists, the endless valuable uses for the time of knowledgeable volunteer

Wikimedians, the significant financial costs for the time of many of the

staff and contractors on these mailing lists, and how packed calendars can

be, I propose that we implement a few social norms/guidelines

for

Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l in particular.

1. When

planning to have a one-time public meeting, announce it at least 14

days

in advance to give everyone who might like to participate that much

lead

time to clear space on their calendars. Rarely is a one-time public

meeting so urgent that it cannot wait 14 days from the day that it is

announced.

2. Send a maximum of one reminder email regarding a

one-time public

meeting, and also send a maximum of one reminder email

regarding events

with deadlines such as Wikimania scholarship

submissions or conference

presentation proposals. More than one reminder

about a meeting or deadline

is excessive.

3. If

extending a deadline, send only an announcement of the extension with

no

additional reminder.

4. Send only one email to announce a

recurring weekly meeting, with no

additional reminders. Meetings which

recur less often, such as biweekly or

monthly, may continue to be

announced with one additional reminder.

At this time these are

proposals only. Comments are welcome. If the

comments become extensive

then I may request that we move the conversation

to

Meta.

Thank you,

Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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