We're waiting on a reply from the WMF, as it's their list, not the chapters. We asked them to delete a couple of posts before everything goes fully open. No response from them yet, but once the WMF deletes those posts, we can move forward :-)
Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 July 2012 01:21, John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It isn't public. The software considers it private. Emails to the
>> list can be claimed to have been sent under the assumption that it
>> isn't going to be published on the web.
>
> Who cares what the software thinks? Anyone can subscribe and get
> instant access. It's public
>
>> This was previously discussed in thread "List archives" from March 29
>> to April 11
>
> I suggest you take a look at who started that thread...
I'm more interested in why, three and a half months later, the list is
still private?
And when this will be rectified?
Andrew Turvey quit as list admin on 31 May, according to thread
'Listadmin wanted for wikimediauk-l', making the list admins David
Gerard, James Forrester, Mike Peel and Richard Symonds.
thehelpfulone replaced Andrew Turvey as list admin.
Between 31 May and today, Mike Peel has also stopped being a list admin.
The list admins are currently James Forrester, David Gerard, Richard
Symonds and thehelpfulonewiki. At least one of them hold a full time
position to tackle tasks that benefit the UK chapter, and I think that
fixing the private status of this list should be considered one of
them.
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John Vandenberg
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