an english list to reduce traffic at wikipedia-l
some guys from the de.wikipedia want to discuss the project
without hearing about TMC and related stuff in 95% of the mails...
there are a lot of us that think that such a list should exist,
and should take most of the traffic from <wikipedia-l>
Please try to decide if your message is of concern for wikipedia as a
whole (all language wikipedias) or if it concerns the English Wikipedia
only (problems with users or articles, projects, internal organization
etc.) and send your message accordingly.
You will help the foreigners a lot, who are struggling with the English
language and desperately trying to filter out the relevant stuff for them
on wikipedia-l ;-)
wikipedia-l should be about the
"project as whole", while wikien-l is specifically about the English
wikipedia.
Since the list is not moderated, it's just normal list-administration -
choosing taglines, settings and so on, but it is better if a
native-speaker does them.
All we need are the language-specific lists and a meta-list for
coordination. The meta-list should be wikipedia-l. Oh, and of course
wikitech-l.
Traffic on wikipedia-l is currently high because stuff related to the
English wiki only, esp. admin requests, goes there as well as policy
discussions. If we separate the two, traffic should be manageable.
I will stay on the en.list btw. I strongly support
this change to help the international ones to get more
involved, plus to make it clear what is a english
concern, and what should be a whole community concern.
The question was about administration, not moderation. Choosing
taglines, defining welcome greetings and all the technical stuff.